So my DH thinks telling his family OVER LUNCH that we get worms every 2 weeks is ok...

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... and Im dramatic for telling him (albeit in a half laughing half horrified way) that I cant believe he said that!

My lovely son gave me worms recently. I treated the whole family, bleached and boiled the house yada yada.

A month old, his brother, his wife (who's never had children), his other brother (no kids) and his mum take us out to lunch today.

Lovely, it was except I hear DH suddenly say (about kids being messy) "Thats why we have worms every 2 weeks"

First off, we've had them ONCE.

Second of all, SIL hasnt has kids, I dread to think what she thinks of us.

He said 'its my mum, she had 3 kids weALL had worms!'

I said 'I dont care about your mum' yes I fucking do 'but your brother and SIL have never had kids,THEY wont under stand!'

His reply?

'OH dont be so dramatic!'

I said every other Mum would agree with me.

AIBU or is he?

But having them once isn't very exciting Arf so he embellished it a bit with a total lie.

Its up there with my husband telling his most boorish friend that id lost my mucous plug. Cue horrifyi g message in my fb inbox....i kicked his ass big ti e. Some thinfs are private.

yes OP i believe you

it's just the amount of people saying everyone gets them. i don't know anyone who has had them, that's all. i also have grown up with pets and they haven't had them. am i odd then?

Yanbu! What an inept thing to say anyway, but so gross when people are eating.

ewww we have had scabies, headlice, buttworms the lot - love the term 'livestock'!

I'm sure we have been lucky but we have never had them either. But that is kind of irrelevant really. We are plagued by headlice due to dd's amazingly beautiful super-thick hair.

This thread is making me laugh.

Spuddy yes you are of the few then. Its vay vay common dahling.

Not a lunchtime conversation. Only reason to mention it would be if others had been exposed.
Spuddy, not a rural thing. Grew up in the countryside, never had them. So no, not everyone gets them.

oh lord, I would be mortified. YANBU

And to say that you get them every two weeks when you have only had them once

DH once told a room full of people that we had only cleaned the kitchen floor once that year. I had cleaned the kitchen floor often. I have no idea why he would have said that. I was mortified. But the worms are worse

oh god, my ring piece is itching just thinking about it. ds is only young but i'm dreading all these delightful experiences.

how come no one i know has had them either? are they lying to not scare me? like childbirth?

That is just grim - and at lunch too!

I never thought I'd be having the Which Is Grosser - Worms or Headlice? convo with my Dsis - I wouldn't have it with any childless people, that's for sure.

For the record, I had neither as a child...

I hate it, hate it, hate it when we are in a restaurant or macdonalds and some loudmouth starts talking about their teeth, their feet , toilet activities or whatever.

Last time we were out for a meal a loud woman on next table was describing in graphic detail how much plaque build up the dentist had got rid of during her scale and polish.

It's just gross - l would have pulled your DH up if l'd have been within earshot and eating and said 'Do you mind ?'

Spuddy apparently under 40% of under 10's have them at any one time.

I hissed 'shutup' at him...

right that's it i'm sealing the house and home schooling. sorry ds, no friends for you...ever

I used to be a nanny and have a 5 year old ds, no- one I know has ever had worms ( well not that they've told me) and I had no idea it was a common childhood thing ?

Well it's not something you need to tell people, is it? One Ovex, gone!

Yep, 40% of under 10s have them at any one time, which is pretty horrible. Our soft toys are still in worm-related quarantine after a recent bout if worms.

I'd just counter that with a comment about his painful anal warts...