AIBU to use hubby's bollocks as a speedbag?

[notenoughwine]

Well he came in on Monday with a runny nose and scratchy throat which was very surprising given that he never gets a cold.

I said he should sleep on the couch because I catch the cold so easily, but he insisted it was nothing and he would have fought it off by the next morning. Skip to last night and I'm dying of the cold, got a blocked nose, headache and I've practically lost my voice. Now it's an absolute certainty I'll be passing it on to DD's (4&6).

So it wouldn't be too harsh if I told him I was right all along, borrowed his boxing gloves, made him assume the position and started swinging away at his danglers, would it?

Well, it would be kind of unreasonable, seeing as you only have a cold.

And I don't think having him sleep on the couch would have stopped you catching it either

Drown yourself in Lemsip, and man up!

Its a cold, not the bubonic plague.. Get over it!

That would be assault which is wrong and unreasonable even if you do have woman flu.

Boots sell a nasal spray called First Defence or something like that, it's very good at stopping colds from starting. It's made a big difference to our household this past winter AND it's safe for kids to use.

If you live in the same house the chances are you'd get the cold if he slept on the couch or not. The germs don't come out at night (my nan honestly believed germs were nocturnal & that sunlight killed them).

I know, I know. I just need some light hearted venting since I hate having the cold.

YABU to have tried to make him sleep on the couch while he wasn't feeling well. If you wanted to avoid his germs, you should have been on the couch.

And you'd still have caught it anyway, given that it's airborne.

YABU on every level

I was thinking the same catlady

Sickys get the bed

OP has now clarified that she is not being entirely serious.

Maybe you should have slept on the couch if that was your thinking. He's ill but rarely by your own admission, why should he be punished and cast out of the bed?

Also, he's a man and we get colds a million times worse than women

God some people are humourless fuds. (Good scottish word)

YaNBU

Fuds? As in Elmer? I like it. I shall henceforth refer to humourless people as Elmers.

Thank you fanjo and iklboo, I thought it was pretty obvious I wasn't being serious.

I have on occasion called DH an Elmer.

I don't hold with the "it's only a cold" thing, I can feel totally shit when I've got a bad 'un.