AIBUs from parents of fictional children

[ProudAS]

AIBU to be concerned about what DCs are up to? Since we moved to Yorkshire they've been hanging around the railway line most days and not made friends with the local children.

DS came home with a bag of coal which he said was "mined" and whilst he looked like he'd been down a coal mine I suspect it was stolen.

And then there's the station porter who seems to be getting very friendly with them - he's a nice man by all accounts but I can't help feeling suspicious.

is finally here!

I dont know what's got into my DCs, they have always had a good upbringing, been loved and never wanted for anything but they have become a load of hooligans lately. Last week they nearly burned the house down, they had been storing fireworks and decided to let them off in the house ffs. Fortunately, all that was damaged was an old rug which I have replaced but the whole house could have gone up. Now they have found a pet from somewhere (god knows where), its a straggly parrot type thing which they insist in keeping in the family room where it makes a right fecking mess and wont move out from in front of the woodburner.

AIBU to ground DCs indefinitely and call the bloody RSPCA or the pest control people?

Might have nasty consequences BlazinStoke. I know a family this happened to, one of the sons ended up murdering the other.

CAKE IS HERE

I've just brought my "D"S back from the police station, he was caught stealing books from Waterstones.

We live in a really rough area and I think his friends have got him into drugs, one of his mates is OK but has a bit of a tendency to have little "accidents" in bed - I mean really, at his age!. The other is more of a worry, I dont think he is in to drugs but has real violence issues and beat up someone with a broken pool cue last week.

I'll be mortified when DS comes up in Court. AIBU to move to another area to get DS away from these deadbeats?

AIBU to be so happy that I am FINALLY getting out of this household?

I've been looking after this precocious brat ever since her mother died. Her father is a right hypochondriac and nothing his darling daughter does is ever wrong.

She really likes to meddle, I mean, REALLY likes to meddle in other people's love lives (I pity the poor orphan girl from the select girls school who has been around lately) Me and the widower from down the road have been shagging for years, but I couldn't ever just leave and marry him because the old git thinks that getting married is a horrible and sad state of affairs. It took some hefty hints to the daughter to get her to start thinking about setting me up with my beloved, of course, once it was his beloved brats daughters idea, it was all good and I could get married.

Anyway, they both properly ruined my wedding day by sighing and wallowing amd exclaiming how sad a day it was.

FairPhyllis, I don't think it's really your captain's "support" that you're interested in...

I'd worry that your DS could be subject to some nasty Internet bullying. And he'll probably turn out OK when he grows up.

Fifilosttheplot, once you've got the RSPCA to take the parrot I think you need to keep a closer eye on your DCs. Leaving them more-or-less unsupervised to roam the junk shops of London, for example, could lead to more issues. Why don't you encourage them to play with those nice Bastable children instead?

I think UnitedZingdom is getting a tad over-excited by cake.

Pachacuti - Yes I thought about that but caught one of them digging up the lawn the other day and, if I can be a little bit judgey, their father doesnt seem to do much all day and isnt a very good judge of character IMO.

Nevermind, there is a family with six children moved in next door. One of the Children seems to like playing in the sandpit a lot but looks very small and I think it might have special needs. I'll send the DS's and DD's round to make friends, what could possibly be the harm in that.

AIBU about my adult DD? She has been working in India and is coming back home, DH and I are of course delighted. However she told us that she is planning to come back to England by train and will be joining a group of old friends in Istanbul so they can all travel back on the Orient Express. She says it will be fun to catch up and on one evening one of the women has organised a murder mystery party. DD is a sensible young lady but her friends are a very mixed bunch, DH says this won't end well. WIBU to give her the money for the boat fare back to England?

My 'DH' is a surgeon, he claimed that he was late home last night because he was called on to perform emergency surgery at our daughters school.

WIBU to LTB and his beetling brows? I'm concerned about the effect on DD1 - she has the most fearful temper.

ariadneoliver YANBU to be concerned, but don't you have a French (or possibly Belgian) friend who has some sort of association with the police? Short chap with a bald head? Why don't you see if he can catch the same train, I'm sure you'd have nothing to worry about if he was keeping one eye on your DD.

*My teenage DS lives with me aboard the ship I am serving on. He is a child prodigy who seems to save the ship from some predicament every single week.

However he is very, very smug and annoying and wears really revolting jumpers. WIBU to dump him at the nearest base and only have him back aboard when he is done with the Academy? I think I would have my captain's support on this as he is uncomfortable with having children on the ship*

Just tell him to "shut up DS" every five minutes, encourage your crew mates to do the same and watch out for the very peculiar "traveller" who's going to show an unholy amount of interest in his "development"...

Or, y'know, you could always leave him on the ship while you take up a job back home for an entire season. That way at least he's not your problem

Great idea Woodhead I'm probably worrying about nothing and DD will never find out. One doesn't want to be an 'airship' parent, but I do worry so.

Pachacuti DiseasesOfTheSheep

It's true that I am struggling with my feelings for my captain. I'm very conflicted about the fact that DH died under his command. I think that if I packed DS off to space borstal to an environment where his educational and social needs were met then the captain and I could work on what this simmering sexual tension between us means.

It's funny but sometimes when I look at DS he seems not so much a real boy as an idealised stand-in for some sort of creator figure ...

FairPhyllis, you and the Captain need to loosen up. If synthehol isn't working, try some infected water which mimics the effects of intoxication - that should have you practically draped all over each other.

And if all else fails, give up on Jean-Luc and have a play at the android instead - I hear he's programmed in many different methods of "pleasuring"...

Just mind DS doesn't destroy the ship while you're "otherwise engaged"

Grubbybrat. I think, with your DS's trigger-happy tendencies, the lest said about killing, the better!
I know he thinks he's first line defence of the Nation, but shooting a German naval officer is taking things rather far, don't you think?
I don't want him giving my DS any more ideas - bad enough that he pirated his own father's boat!