to think DH should be able to take DD school shoe shopping without me and get the right size shoes?

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coz apparently I am, DD's come back with shoes that are the wrong width and too big, you would think the fact DD can't walk in them would have given him a clue wouldn't you?

Bastard won't even take them back so I've got to try and find time to do it before DD goes back to school and DD is all tearful because she loves the shoes Daddy bought her, I've tried to explain I'll get her exactly the same style just in the right size but 'they won't be the same coz they aren't the ones Daddy got.'

Its not that bloody hard to get shoes that fit, she doesn't even have awkward size feet

Why is he refusing to rectify his mistake?

because he can't be bothered to walk back into town (we don't have a car) and because he's having a strop because apparently he'll only get it wrong again anyway.

What age is she? Did they not get fitted at the shop?
DH used to work in a shoe shop and is passionate about shoe fitting, so if I were to give him this task he would excel. Although come to think of it it always appears to be me that takes DS .

HTf did he manage that? Did no o email measure hee?

Her

Oh fg. Did no one measure her

Why didn't the shop fit them?

Not excusing him by the way, it's just unusual.

Of course he should go back and get the right size. Tell him DD is the child, not him. Apart from it being the 'right thing to do' he is upsetting DD because she wants ones Daddy has bought - how could he refuse that when it's him that's fucked up?

Are the open tomorrow?

How did a shoe shop let her leave in the wrong size shoes. Didn't they check the fit?

And by the way. He should be fixing this, not being a baby

Yabu to be so angry. Surely the fitter should have got it right anyway?

she's 5 and he says the shop assistant fitted them but they are definitely not the right size.

If they were measured by an assistant maybe her size has changed since you last took her?

How truthful is your dd?

I'd ask her as those shoes shouldn't have even been brought out. Sure he didn't go " fuck it she likes those ill take whatever size you have" and assumed he'd get away with it so to avoid a tantrum?

Well if she was fitted then it's not his fault. I tend to believe what the shop assistants tell me.

TBH I wouldn't trust DH to get the right shoes. If you want something done properly do it yourself. But her feet should have been measured by the shop assistant but even they can get it wrong sometimes. I don't think it was his fault.

If she can't wall in them then surely that was obvious. My mobile eye is on them.not having any in her size, him.not being arsed to go anywhere else and took the pair she liked closest to her size. Or he'd be pissed off at her not throwing a tantrum like a baby

Ffs new phone

My money is on

Giles - can I ask what phone you have, I think I'd like to avoid getting that one

BB - it wont be the first time a shop has fitted shoes incorrectly and if it's not a task he often does, then it's not really surprising he didn't know he needed to check what the assistant gave him or didn't trust his own judgement to override what he was told. I'd cut him a little slack on that, but not on acting like a prat now.

yes the shop assistant should have got it right, but then he should have noticed that they hadn't, its more DH's attitude I'm annoyed about than the actual mistake.

Tea, yeah her size has changed, which is why she needed new shoes but the shoes he got her are miles too big as in you can see them slipping as she tries to walk.

Giles, that sounds like something DH would do, i will ask DD later.

The phone is fine I just have only had it a couple of days and it's not learnt my "mn" words yet.

Dp hates shopping. He'd have probably come home empty handed after one shop or told me to go back some other time.

I think your dh should take her back to the shop and get the replacements shoes so she won't be upset.

Or, you could tell her you put away the shoes her daddy got her until her feet grow and she can fit them. by the time she needs new ones she'll have forgotten all about it

I'd blame the shop assistant.
DH took DD on his own, last week for the first time as I was lounging in a hospital bed.

Any chance you could get away with fitting insoles?

They don't fit, he needs to return them and get the right size, it is as simple as that. Please don't give into his little tantrum and try and fix this, just keep insisting he does it.

DH is currently out getting school shoes right now as the lovely ones MIL got are too big, it didn't stop him putting up a fight though.

DH: 'My index finger fits in between the shoe and his heel, that's how Clarks measure them!'

Me: ... Shaddap, they are flopping off his feet and you've never been to Clarks.'

DH: '...'

Don't you take them back!