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To have a (long) moan about something I can't do anything about?

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madonnawhore · 11/01/2013 11:52

It's my day off today. There's a builder here doing up the bathrooms. He is a very, very nice man but I am having a grump about it all the same.

First of all, I couldn't have a lie in this morning because he arrived at fuck o clock and wanted to start working on the en suite. So i had to get up at normal work time, boo.

Secondly, i just want to have a poo in peace! Am waiting for him to go out so I can reclaim the bathroom for a bit.

Also I can't watch shit telly like Jeremey Kyle repeats (i know, i KNOW) because he's set up a bloody workbench in the front room (flat is quite small, nowhere else for it). There is literally nowhere in the flat where I can go to be away from him. I'm sat on the sofa on my iPad while he's sawing tiles :(

He's a family friend of DP's so I feel obliged to make him drinks and snacks. Every time I fancy a couple of biscuits or a cup of tea I have to make him one as well. I feel like saying 'just help yourself' so that I don't have to do it every time. IAprobabiyBU about this bit, but I really wanted an egg sandwich this morning and in order for me to have one I had to make one for him too which along with the stupidly early start and total lack of privacy/space/intrusion on my day off it just felt like too much.

I feel really mean because I'm slightly avoiding getting into conversation with him because he's a big talker. Once he's off I get the whole life history of him and all these other people I don't know and will never meet. In any other situation it would be okay but I'm standing there listening to him and all the time thinking 'DP is paying you a lot of money and you're just standing here talking away, not working'.

I'm sure I'm being an unreasonable B, but I just needed to vent! Feel like my lovely day off's been ruined.

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IceNoSlice · 11/01/2013 11:55

Boo! That would annoy me too. Take yourself off for a posh coffee and a gossip mag?

Crinkle77 · 11/01/2013 11:57

YABVU. He has a business to run and can't wait until you get otu of bed and it's not his fault you live in a small place that does not have much space

GuffSmuggler · 11/01/2013 11:58

I really really really hate having work people here, I feel your pain OP.

madonnawhore · 11/01/2013 11:59

I'm off out later this afternoon. Thing is I'm now in a bit of a stand off situation because he mentioned he was going out for a bit later on too. So now I'm thinking I want to wait until he's gone out so that I can have a poo in peace.

But since saying that he's now showing no signs of being about to go anywhere. So I don't know whether to wait a bit longer and see of he does go out, or just concede defeat and go out myself and have to have a poo in Starbucks or something. Which I really don't want to do.

Fucks sake, I cannot wait until these bathrooms a finished.

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Tigresswoods · 11/01/2013 11:59

Go out?!?!?!

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 11/01/2013 12:01

Yanbu what bad timing, though tbh I'd rather have a nice chatty workman in than a miserable git. Can you get out for a bit and get yourself a treat?
Try and think of lovely new bathrooms nearly finished Smile

madonnawhore · 11/01/2013 12:12

He's gone out!

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HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 11/01/2013 12:13

Hallelujah!

Poo in peace!

Fakebook · 11/01/2013 12:15

Open the window afterwards.

littlewhitebag · 11/01/2013 12:15

I too have a workman in doing my en-suite bathroom. I am fortunate that my house is fairly large and i have other bathrooms i can use. I can also hide away a fair bit but he keeps tracking me down to ask questions then talking on and on for ages. So far not had to make him any drinks or food as he nips to his van for these. My pup is benefitting from the long walks i keep taking her just to get peace from the banging and sawing. I just keep reminding myself how nice the bathroom will be once it is done!

IceNoSlice · 11/01/2013 12:17

Grin at Fakebook

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 11/01/2013 12:19

Lol @ Fakebook I was going to suggest take a box of matches in with her uncouth

madonnawhore · 11/01/2013 12:28

fakebook Grin

I feel much happier now. To be fair the bathrooms do look wicked. The en suite's being turned into a wet room and I can't wait to try it out.

It's hard when someone's in your face all day though. It's difficult to do chores and stuff while trying to work around him.

Hope it doesn't take too much longer.

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HappilyUnhinged · 11/01/2013 12:46

Umm, watch tv on your iPad..?

madonnawhore · 11/01/2013 17:14

I'm back and he's still here. And I'm really starving but I know that if I go and make myself something to eat, I've got to make something for him too. So either I go for something really simple and quick (which isn't what I want) or I basically have to cook tea for him; and I simply can't be fucked.

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