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AIBU?

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To want to eat my own birthday chocolates

49 replies

Toastandstrawberryjam · 16/05/2014 22:08

I admit I got a few boxes for my birthday. Nice ones so I intend to make them last and the type of box with only a few chocs in each. However I've been happy to share them with DH and have even given him his favourite ones that are my favourite too.

So I go in the kitchen just now and he's scoffing something. He's opened a new box and is on his third one. Just standing there throwing them into his mouth. And he's eaten all of my favourites.

Aibu to think he could have asked before opening a new box? Asked me which one I might like first? And sat his arse down to eat and enjoy them rather than barely tasting them?

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LettertoHerms · 16/05/2014 22:11

YADNBU

Those are YOUR birthday chocolates!

LTB. Or demand new chocolate.

PitchSlapped · 16/05/2014 22:12

No yanbu he needs to buy you a new box and leave them alone unless hes offered some

pinkyredrose · 16/05/2014 22:12

Hide the chocs abd shove the box up his arse.

Mim78 · 16/05/2014 22:55

The barely tasting things gets on my nerves too!

BrokenToeOuch · 16/05/2014 23:02

What chocolates are they?

DejaVuAllOverAgain · 16/05/2014 23:05

YANBU

FastWindow · 16/05/2014 23:07

Find his cheque book. Replace chocolates. Hide them in your mouth wardrobe.

squoosh · 16/05/2014 23:07

Lace the remaining chocs with arsenic.

AgentZigzag · 16/05/2014 23:08

How come you got tons of chocolate for your birthday?

I hint that I'd love a box of chocs when asked but I end up having to get them myself it's always ignored

How many boxes did you get?

How many have been scoffed so far?

Was there a chocolate alternative he could have had?

Were they soft or hard centres?

AgentZigzag · 16/05/2014 23:10

Too obvious in court squoosh, laxatives would be much more entertaining.

ShadowFall · 16/05/2014 23:10

YANBU.

Your DH should of course offer to buy you a new box of chocolates to compensate for this loss.

I'd also hide the rest of the chocolates. And any future chocolates. Maybe you could fit a lock to one of your cupboards for extra security?

AgentZigzag · 16/05/2014 23:11

Especially if you hid all the bog roll as well

AdoraBell · 16/05/2014 23:11

YANBU.

these are not general chocolates for general consumption, they are your birthday chocolates. And it wouldn't matter if it was a bar of Dairymilk, it's your birthday chocolate.

Agree he needs to replace the box, just in case he's thinks he can replace three chocolates.

WorraLiberty · 16/05/2014 23:14

YANBU, it's thoughtless and greedy of him.

CoffeeTea103 · 16/05/2014 23:20

Do people really treat each other like this? Surely it's shared? And so what if he ate them? It's only chocolates, you sound mean.

squoosh · 16/05/2014 23:21

Chocolates that she really likes and wanted to make last.

FastWindow · 16/05/2014 23:26

Coffeetea is a bloke, clearly.

ZenNudist · 16/05/2014 23:27

My dh is a terrible scoffer of all things sweet and even he wouldn't do this. It drives him nuts that I can save chocolate!

I always share my stuff but I'm allowed to do with it as I want. If he gets a box of chocolates it's gone in 60 seconds.

Just flipped out at him eating bars of Aldi chocolate I bought for baking. I will now get some perspective.

AgentZigzag · 16/05/2014 23:29

They're only shared if the OP offers them coffeetea.

CustardFromATin · 16/05/2014 23:29

YANBU. So long as if you opened them first, you would have offered some to him (and he would have politely chosen a rubbish one that you hate, like a dark chocolate violet cream). There are RULES.

Shocking behaviour and he needs to give you a back massage / make you toast / buy more chocolate. It's people like these that start land wars.

AdoraBell · 17/05/2014 01:39

I'm also a scoffer. Chocolate doesn't last 5 seconds in this house but I don't eat someone else's. In fact there was a box in the fridge last week with 2 Chocs left and I left early for school in order to get chocolate because I thought that box was DH's. I'd forgotten that it was mine from one of the DDs, at Christmas.

In this house general chocolate that is bought in with the shopping is anyone's and everyone's. Chocoate bought specifically for 1 person is their's.

Isabeller · 17/05/2014 01:48

What Fast said but remember DH owes you a compensation sized box (for injury to feelings etc)

Lijah · 17/05/2014 02:16

Just had a similar thing happen to me, It was my birthday recently and my lovely mother bought me two boxes of Lindt chocolates, one coconut flavour and one strawberries and cream. My dp originally turned his nose up at both flavours but after sampling the strawberry ones, he must have got the taste for them and half the box was missing in about 20 minutes.

I took the box off him and he now keeps asking after them, I've told him I've hidden them, what I haven't told him is that I've hidden them in my belly. I'm on a what feels like a permanent diet and never buy chocolate but when someone buys it for me it does not last long, so weak willed!

NatashaBee · 17/05/2014 02:22

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squoosh · 17/05/2014 02:29

'In this house general chocolate that is bought in with the shopping is anyone's and everyone's. Chocoate bought specifically for 1 person is their's.'

That should be enscribed on your family coat of arms. Words to live one's life by.

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