Grrrrrrr.
DH planned a weekend away for us, DM and DD (7mo). We've just got back. I say for us, but it was arranged around a sporting competition he took part in today. I was fine with that, DM DD and I just went and explored the local town, everyone enjoyed themselves, all fine so far.
We dropped him off at the comp this morning and he said "my phone battery is nearly dead, if I haven't called you then please be back at 2pm as it's likely to finish around then".
So we came back at 2, bear in mind the meeting place (makeshift carpark) is a muddy field in the back end of beyond and the comp itself is a few fields away. The comp obviously hasn't finished as the carpark is still full, no sign of DH. We wait 30 mins, still no sign, and no-one about (they are all at the comp). I have no idea where the actual comp is. So we continue to wait, thinking he'll be along shortly. By 3.30 I'm getting really annoyed, DD is tired and hungry. We eventually find the comp by wandering about a bit and asking some locals in a caravan, turns out it was at the bottom of a valley hidden from view.
By 4pm
I find DH, ask him what he thinks the time is, he says "about 3?"
Ha. So I told him I was leaving NOW, with or without him as DD was tired and hungry and I was v annoyed. I should say I wouldn't have minded him being late if I had known about it. It was the hanging around in a field for 2 hours that was really crap.
He then tries to justify his 2 hour delay with all sorts of stuff including:
he couldn't leave the comp early for safety reasons (this is true but there is a break half way through)
phone was dead (knew that already)
couldn't borrow anyone else's phone as there was no signal (true, but there was signal in the carpark)
...and the best one:
well you shouldn't have waited, why didn't you just leave and come back an hour later?
Apparently I should have waited no longer than 30 mins, then immediately found the comp (how??), walked down there, spoken to the organisers, found out how long they were likely to take and then made my own plans accordingly. Bear in mind that the comp was a 15 min walk down a v steep muddy track, I had DD on my back and was wearing trainers.
I think the onus was on HIM to let me know he would be very late, not on me to go and find out. We have been arguing about it ever since and it has put a dampener on an otherwise rather enjoyable weekend.
So please tell me who is BU to end the argument.