In thinking they can sodding well drink water for the week?

[VikingVagine]

I'm on holiday with the inlaws for the week (no comment). Anyway, we are splitting the cost of everything 3 ways (three families, makes sense). We did a huge shop on Sunday morning (ie less than 48 hours ago) for the whole week and agreed that we would try and not buy anything else (it came to ?350).

Come this morning, DH serves himself a glass of coke and I ask if I can have a glass too, he gives me his glass saying that there's no more left . I say we'll just be drinking water for rest of the week then, queue MIL starting a new shopping list with coke at the top. I say to both DH and MIL that it's not really a basic necessity and I'm sure we don't need to go shopping again so soon for coke (knowing full well the bill will end up being another hundred ? or so). So MIL adds fruit juice and coffee to the list too.

DH is constantly nagging me about not being able to afford things, AIBU in telling him if we buy more bloody coke, I do not want to hear any more comments about not being able to afford things when we're in the chocolate isle at the supermarket ?

Suggest each of you has a few euro a day 'discretionary spend' to get what the heck you want with.

Sounds like you are not allowed because you would dictate what people are to be allowed to have.

It is their holiday too. If someone told me that I would have to drink water for a week while I was on my holidays, they wouldnt be sitting by the pool, they would be getting pushed into it.

Do you not have money of your own to wander down to the shop and buy your own chocolate, and let them get on with enjoying their holiday?

OP if you really are not allowed to go the shop to buy some chocolate then you have issues far greater than too much coke being drunk by the family.

If you got up and went to the shop and bought the biggest, ponciest bar of Belgian chocolate you could find, what, honestly, would happen?

Yeah there is tea and coffee and milk, no squash though, don't think people drink squash here like they do in the UK. I'm sure if I sulk long enough DH will get me some decent chocolate.

Why don't you not sulk and buy your own?

Yeah there is tea and coffee and milk, no squash though, don't think people drink squash here like they do in the UK. I'm sure if I sulk long enough DH will get me some decent chocolate

Have I missed something!? Whey can't you go to a shop and buy some chocolate now? Stop being so petulant; it sounds like you are trying to ruin everyone's holiday!

Do they do a French version of Tesco value? If so, I'd just get heaps of that for everyone for the week

OP have you not got any access to money?

I think the point isn't clear.

I don't see why I should have to get off my deck chair, get in the car, go to the huge supermarket to buy one bar of nice chocolate, drive back again, lie back down on my deck chair and eat my bar of chocolate when my perfectly capable DH can pick it up with the rest of shopping (coke) he will be doing later on. I don't think IABU to expect him to deliver it to me on a silver platter, with a glass of ice cold coke.

viking you've clearly been on the sunlounger too long - silver platter indeed

I really do think your family should grab an arm and a leg each and throw you in the pool right now OP.

It's going to be a bloody long holiday for them....

Agree with Worra

Hang on, you aren't allowed to go to the shop? Do you buy the stuff jointly and you aren't allowed anything else? Are you on Big Brother?

Maybe you could ask in the diary room.

If nothing else, the holiday will go down in family lore, as the others reminsce when you are not there OP, about what an absolute pain in the arse you were that time in France.

Er there are loads of French fruit squashes - and they taste a lot better than the UK ones!

I think you should be made to sit in the pool and drink wine/cola mix, through a straw, whilst watching the rest of the family eat chocolate.

I want to go on holiday to France/live in France

There is so much nice chocolate in France. I would buy a bag full, and nobody would dare stand in my way. I wouldn't even begin to strike up bargains about it over other people's coke consumption.

I really wish I was in France right now, eating cheese, baguettes, chocolate tarts, those giant Suchard chocolate things that are the size of a walnut whip and a pitcher of rum and coke.

I am having to content myself with eating the end of term chocolates I bought for DD's teacher.

Yeah the squashes are much much nicer here, but they're not as popular as Ribena is in the UK.

All is well, DH has agreed to add nice chocolate to the list, although the silver platter was pushing it apparently .

Now if you'll all excuse me, DS is about to massage my feet while I doze off to the sound of the cicadas. I might go for a dip later on, but the water is still a bit chilly (26°)...

Is there no shop nearer than a huge super market you could take a gentle walk to and buy several bars of chocolate to save you the effort of returning?

Will they really not buy it for you while they're there? can you not just shout out to them as they leave "oh and can I have a couple of bars of nice chocolate while you're there please?" If really won't get you some you've clearly got more serious problems than coca-cola to contend with and I hope it works out for you

sorry cross posted - enjoy your chocolate - I'd hold out for the silver platter though

Yes they're not squashes but syrups (same concept though) and they have a gazillion lovely flavours.

Why don't you offer to do the shop later and get yourself some chocolate?

And if your husband complains, tell him you're not 12 years old and he can fuck off with his opinions on what you eat.

DH is right about me spending too much on food; we can go to the same shop, with the same list and I'll end up spending much more than him. For this week I agreed to let him and SIL do the food, even if it does mean eating frozen or canned veg, mashed potato and hamburgers all week. But I draw the line at being told no nice chocolate when they are getting through two big bottles of Coke (no supermarket own brand) a day.

Oh and best squash/syrup has to be grenadine or peppermint, mmm.

The coke is irrelevant. Going to France and not eating chocolate is like the time my sister was taken to Disney in Florida by my aunt but not allowed on any rides.