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to be furious with dh for eating cakes he knew were destined for the bin!

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alfrex · 21/01/2013 14:57

OK. I bake a lot. And sometimes my cakes are beautiful, and we all enjoy them. But sometimes it does not go so well and the cakes come out sunk or burnt or still wet in the middle (if dh would get the fan fixed on the oven this would happen a lot less often, but that's another thread)

There is a system, dh and the children are well aware of it. If the cakes are good to eat, they either go in a freezer bag for later use, or in a sealed tin for use over the week, or on a plate on the side so that they can be eaten now. DH knows this and I never complain about him "sampling" even if th cakes are meant for after dinner or whatever. I bake a lot so there is usually something there if he fancies a nibble.

If the cakes are not up to scratch, they go in the bin as soon as they are cooled (or as soon as dh empties the bin - there's another thread there!)

so this morning dh saunters into the kitchen to get himself breakfast. I come in and find him cramming his mouth with the burnt, crappy cakes that were sitting in the bun tray by the bin. I was really pissed off and had a go at him for it. I can make really nice cakes and I make plenty of them, so he has no need to wind me up and embarrass me by eating the ones that have gone wrong. He know it is a pet hate of mine.

so he strops off to work having called me a "control freak" in front of our children who were sitting having their breakfast. I am Not Happy.

OP posts:
valiumredhead · 21/01/2013 17:21

Clearly you Do have problems if he thinks you are controlling!

TwoKidsAndCounting · 21/01/2013 17:21

Erm, major control freak alert!

MurderOfGoths · 21/01/2013 17:21

Yay! Nice to see another Manics fan Seeker! I've got Mausoleum going round and round in my head now Grin

seeker · 21/01/2013 17:21

Please tell me why he shouldn't eat them if he wants to. Please!

alfrex · 21/01/2013 17:22

Yes thank you LadyFT I could do that, but I really don't have time to be running up and down with trays of cakes just because my dh can't be trusted not to act like a greedy pig!

OP posts:
MurderOfGoths · 21/01/2013 17:22

TheOriginalLadyFT Apparently not, there are no. birds.

DreamingofSummer · 21/01/2013 17:22

"..we really don't have any problems" except for your control freakery about cake.

Your surname isn't Kipling is it?

PacificDogwood · 21/01/2013 17:22

You support him unless he does not do as you wish??
Good luck to you and your DH, honestly.

SuffolkNWhat · 21/01/2013 17:23

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MurderOfGoths · 21/01/2013 17:23

So the higher up you live the less birds there are? Um.. are you thinking of fish?

LadyBeagleEyes · 21/01/2013 17:23

But...but there must be birds, even on the third floor.
You could put the cake on the windowsills, couldn't you.
Do you have windows?
Because if you don't that would explain why you never see any birds.

Greythorne · 21/01/2013 17:24

Out if interest, is there anyone at all on this thread willing to say they agree with the OP on any of her points?

KatieScarlett2833 · 21/01/2013 17:24

Are your words going to be " sorry, I was hormonal and being a complete arse?"
If not, you really need to book that GP appt ASAP OP Confused

TheOriginalLadyFT · 21/01/2013 17:24

You know that globally we throw away 10 billion tonnes of food annually

At a time when 870 million people in the world don't have enough to eat

Just saying, maybe something to think about when you throw away perfectly edible food

PacificDogwood · 21/01/2013 17:25

Murder 'are you thinking of fish' ROFL Grin

LadyIsabellaWrotham · 21/01/2013 17:25

This is the second "unusual" thread in a row where KateMN has vouched for the OP. I thought it was National Invade MN for a Laff Day, but apparently the downtimes today have driven the regulars to drink.

Mind you, KateMN seems very unfamiliar. Do you think some particularly technically adept invaders could have hacked their postings blue?

And I have horrible visions of the OP's DH as a cackling PACE gaslighting villain rubbing his hands because everyone now thinks she's a controlling loon.

Kormachameleon · 21/01/2013 17:25

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HerRoyalNotness · 21/01/2013 17:26

Your DH ate the cakes to recreate the freedom of his youth. I bet they even tasted BETTER than your "perfect" cakes as they were forbidden, so to speak.

I suggest before you start blaming the oven fan for your cake failures, you employ Six Sigma and find out the true cause. For all you know, it could be substandard ingredients, a dodgy thermometer, out of date baking powder, or in fact the baker.

Dawndonna · 21/01/2013 17:26

I feel really sorry for dh. You call him a greedy pig, and all sorts of other things because he ate a bit of cake not up to your ridiculous standards. Poor sod. Go get a grip/life or give the poor sod a break.

QuickLookBusy · 21/01/2013 17:26

You must have been up very early to have made a cake before breakfast.

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 21/01/2013 17:28

That's the weirdest OP I have ever read.

True fact.

QuickLookBusy · 21/01/2013 17:28

Sorry missed out 14 pages.

Is it worth reading?

MurderOfGoths · 21/01/2013 17:29

QLB Yes Grin totally

HerRoyalNotness · 21/01/2013 17:29

You don't need to take them down the stairs, hoick them out of the window, but be sure there are no passersby underneath, lest they catch it and take it home for supper.

usualsuspect · 21/01/2013 17:29

What's with all the deletions on this thread? It's obviously a wind up.