AIBUs your Grandma might have written...

[lakeofshiningwaters]

Not sure if this has been done before, but just thinking about a famous-in-our-family story when I was reading the baby names thread made me wonder what if mumsnet had been around when our grandparents were parents...

AIBU to be cross with my DH for giving ds2 a completely different name to the one we had chosen. I packed him off to register little one this morning calling baby Alan. He came home telling me 'This isn't Alan, I've picked a new name'. A name he'd found in a book someone left behind on the bus! Noone's going to be able to spell it either . Do I need some mumsnet perspective here, or AIB reasonable to want to string him up by his winkle tie?

PS Use of word winkle to stop Nana spinning in her grave. In RL she would've used a much much different one

[maytheoddsbeeverinyourfavour]

Paternal grandma:- AIBU to pop my newborn premmie twins in the oven to keep them warm? I've switched it off first and I don't want to lose anymore babies ( it worked )

Maternal grandma:- AIBU to have several abortions because I already have a boy and a girl and I just can't bear to see my beautiful home and white carpets get even more messed up ( she did and she stills thinks it's a funny story )

[popsypie]

AIBU to perm my two year old dd's hair cos I was always wanted a curly haired girl and was very disappointed with her straight hair?

[VodkaJelly]

From my Paternal Gran - WWYD? My brother married a local woman and I married her brother, I have got 4 children and my poor brother and sister - in - law cannot have kids and on at me to adopt my pfb.

I am now pregnant and have promised this baby to them, my mil says I am mad but i have promised them now.

My Gran did indeed give the baby to her brother and sil. Her MIL treated this baby like the golden child and my dad and his siblings like street urchins.

[Sunnywithachanceofshowers]

Maternal Grandmother

WIBU to ask DH to get rid of his aviary, as it affects my breathing? [She died at 48 following years of asthma and chest problems)

AIBU to be bloody furious at DD2 for getting pregnant at 17!

Paternal Grandmother

AIBU to be sad that DH has gone to fight in Palestine, even though DS1 is only a toddler and he has already been away for years fighting in Burma?

AIBU to want to know what herbal cigarettes DS1 and his hippy friends are smoking in his bedroom?

[CaseyShraeger]

Bellyjaby, that happened to my paternal grandfather. His mother, my GGM, died when he was young leaving three small children and my GGF couldn't remember their names or birthdays so made them up as he went along. It wasn't until after my grandfather died that anyone realised that his "first" name was actually his middle name, he had a completely different legal first name and his "middle" name appeared to be a complete figment of my GGF's imagination, as did his date of birth. I guess my GGF just wasn't a details sort of guy...

[PurplePidjin]

PGM: I'm 21. My Mum died, and my Dad's new wife is a complete bitch - she's already packed my annoying kid sister off to boarding school. AIBU to piss off to the big city and get a career?

One 50 year rift with said sister and 40 years of primary teaching (including some hair raising tales of SN provision in the 60s) and she's still going strong at 91

MGM: AIBU to be slightly relieved my misogynistic and controlling H has died? Now i can finally, at the age of 64, have friends and travel the world

She bloody did as well, up until her death at 80. Rock on, Nana :o

[OrangeKipper]

My friend's GPs:

We've managed to get DS a place on the Kindertransport. AIBU to lie and tell him we'll follow shortly when his mother's health is better?

[Mama1980]

My nan might have said: Aibu to keep him waiting at the church for 3 hours? Something of a family legend grandparents had a huge row about nothing (they both had tempers ) on the eve of their wedding grandad threatened not to show up......so nan made him wait at the church for 3 hours, no phones this was the 1940 s, half the guests left... She rolled in 3 hours late my Grandad had had to beg the vicar to stay and was a wreck grandad always said she was worth it though

[OrangeKipper]

My GPs:

AIBU to be very disappointed in DS for dropping out of law at uni and going to college to learn electronics. He keeps talking about these new machines they have called computers, but I can't see them ever catching on.

[thingamajig]

My maternal GM: I know those poor evacuees need to get out of London, but suddenly I have three boys from the slums in my tiny cottage. They have impetigo and lice and wet the bed, and I am worried about my PFB. Not to mention all the boil washing of sheets and towels by hand.

[ValiumQueen]

Paternal Grandmother:

I have just had triplets, two girls and a boy. The midwife told me to just let the little boy die as he is so very small, and concentrate on feeding the other two. AIBU to not want to do that, even though I already have two boys?

The little boy is my dad, and is going to be 80 next year. She gave him extra feeds. He has always been a weedy thing, but has done pretty well! I miss my Grandmother x

[QueenofJacksDreams]

MGM - WIBU to be so fuming at DD2 for getting pregnant at 15 I told her she had to give the baby up for adoption then changing my mind when I saw the baby?

AIBU to drive so fast down country lanes that one womans false teeth flew out and hit the windscreen when we went over a bump? They've taken to calling me mad max now!

[neuroticmumof3]

These are amazing, some are laugh out loud funny, some make your heart break.

[ontheedgeofwhatever]

AIBU to expect my dh to have the common sense not to use the clothes pegs as fire kindling when we've just had a new baby - how am I supposed to hang up the nappies?

[ontheedgeofwhatever]

maytheoddsbeeverinyourfavour - my nan used to put premature lambs in the bottom oven with the door open which i suppose was the same idea.

[VoldemortsNipple]

Aibu to not want to put my cousin and her husband up in my front palour when we have a tiny two up two down and 4 dcs.

Also Aibu to begrudge being told that I owe it to my cousin to put her up in my front palour because her father put me up for a few weeks when I became ophaned aged 8, before dumping me in an ophanage.

[Lolwhut]

Paternal Grandfather

AIBU to resent being sent to boarding school from age 5 and to only go home for a couple of weeks at Christmas. Easter and summer hols are spent at school. Matron is nice but it feels like my parents don't want me.

[hermionestranger]

Paternal Grandfather. Relationships/AIBU to say to my family I will wait for the girl I love until I'm 30 because DM/DF said if I still love her then they'll agree to my marrying the girl.

Paternal Grandmother. AIBU to think my MIL is going to be a nightmare? I can't help being illegitimate and in love with their son.

Paternal GGM - Let's raise eldest daughterss baby as her youngest sibling instead of turfing them out.

[Lolwhut]

What a great thread, so funny and so sad.

lakeofshiningwaters

[Tigerbomb]

AIBU to agree to marry my GI boyfriend now that I am pregnant, even though my DH is in Burma fighting the Japanese.

AIBU to just present my six month daughter to my DH when he comes home from the war after 3 years, now that my American GI fiancee is dead

[NamesKerry]

True story. Not my GM, but a friend:
AIBU to be majorly pissed off that my DH came back from the registry office and proudly declared that our DS would forever more be known as Rocky Craig Ali. (They both agreed on Craig beforehand)

[Shagmundfreud]

Paternal GM: AIBU to unscrew the lightbulbs to stop my ds's reading at night? My older sons all went off to work in the car plant as teenagers.. Can't see why it's not good enough for the other three who are wasting time and money going to night school and then jacking up my leccy bill by reading all night.

(note: 3 youngest ended up as an engineer, a diplomat and a nuclear physicist. Older three stayed in manual work).

[lovesmellingthecoffee]

Paternal GM posting in Homes and Gardens,
We have just had electricity installed in our house and the DC's keep switching the lights on and off for fun, I keep telling them that this will wear the electricity out and make it tired, but they just carry on. What do i do.

[bionicmummy]

maternal GM:

AIBU to lie to the Gestapo about my employer badmouthing der Fuhrer? It would mean a lesser punishment and I'm prepared to look after her children and her husband whilst she's in jail, even though I'm only 15.

Paternal GM:

AIBU to have left school at 8 years old to look after my drunk father and two younger brothers because my pregnant mother jumped off a bridge?

AIBU to fall pregnant at 13 and give that baby and another up for adoption and not tell any future children I may have?

AIBU to never show affection to my other children? I do feed and clothe them and I married my BIL after my DH died so they do have some sort of father figure mug to do all the childcare and run around after me.

AIBU to refuse to ever speak again to my eldest son who emigrated? And to throw out his 16 year old brother who saw him off onto the plane?

AIBU to wonder why only one child now speaks to me?

[Jenstar21]

PaternalGM - WIBU to tell my husband my 2 month old baby is a miracle, as he's been away at sea for 15 months?
(She tried it, but funnily enough, he divorced her.)

Also - WIBU to not see my 3 children for 5 years even though they are only 11, 8 & 6, because my mother doesn't like the man I'm pregnant to, and won't let me take them with me?
(She ran off to Canada, and had 4 more children by 2 more men. Means my Dad is one of 7, with 5 different fathers. I think she was a desperately unhappy woman, searching for love and approval.)


MaternalGM - AIBU to tell my husband no more babies? I've had6 in 8 years and am worn out?!
(She had a miscarriage which resulted in a hysterectomy because of a nasty haemmorage, and sadly died 3 years later, when my mum was 8.)