to think dp should not have offered to help

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Just mentioned to dp that we need to go to the supermarket at some point today. He says OK, but we have to pop into town to help x jump start her car. But we don't have jump leads? "We'll have to call in and buy some". I ask him if he knows how to jump start a car, " No, that's why you're coming ". But I don't know how to??? " yes you do ", no really dp I don't have a clue how to. So I ask dp why x has asked him? Because he's the only one she knows with a car????

Wibu to get him to call her back and tell her to call RAC?

Is your dh not very shaggable then? ;)

ExH did manage to bugger up the car by not connecting the right bits to the right terminals, Hakluyt. Blew the alternator.

I didn't find it disconcerting - I found it hilarious as he was always telling me how useless I was at doing practical things. Luckily I had stayed in the house otherwise it would have been my fault.

Oh Lordy, my Dh is exactly the same. Someone might ask him something - do you have any jump leads for example- and before you know it he'd have some cunning convoluted plan that was way more confusing than the original problem. Can't tell you the number of times I've sat here with my jaw on the floor before asking something like 'cant she phone the RAC?'. He generally has a belated light-bulb moment, agrees & we roll onto the next one.
I think it's some sort of I'll save you/panic response before sense prevails & he 'finds' a simpler solution. I don't think it's necessary to drop everything and run to rescue on every occasion, nor do I necessarily think anyone is out to shag dh - and if they are, good luck, he's unlikely to spot it as would be too busy trying to start the car - or whatever.

"Sunday is family time"

Oh, purhlease!!!!!!!! Do people actually say things like that?

Hakluyt - ha ha, yes, they certainly do! It's why many people who don't have partners feel so fucking lonely at weekends!!