AIBUs from the world of fiction

[ProudAS]

WIBU to report neighbours to social services. Their DS (11yo) is a spoilt brat quite frankly. He's been clinically obese since he was a toddler and thinks the world revolves around him.

Their DNephew (also 11yo) has lived with them since he was a toddler and his parents died. He is quite the opposite of their DS and appears malnourished. I'm getting even more concerned as I haven't seen him for several months and they say he's away at some institution for incurably criminal boys. I can't believe that such places exist and he has always seemed to be a nice boy albeit slightly strange. I've also heard that they lock him in the cupboard under the stairs and make him sleep there even though they have only the one DC and a 4 bed house.

I've a feeling they may be keeping him permanently in the cupboard or worse. Do you think I should contact SS?

[feckitall]

WIBU to let my 3 elder DC go and camp on an island on the Lakes? We are on holiday. There is a dinghy they can use, no life jackets though and the youngest boy can't swim yet. I have written to DH but he hasn't sent a telegraph back yet and DC are pestering me to let them go.
Youngest DD, the nanny and I will stay at the farmhouse while they go off to camp.

[ArsenicSoup]

I'm following you Maid All of it, even the Danny reference Have a me dear

[Thehedgehogsong]

AIBU to leave my father and take the only horse, to live in a castle with a verbally aggressive, rather hairy large chap who I have fallen in love with? He has some very unusual members of staff and there are parts of the castle I am not allowed in, but he does have a huge kick ass library!

[JainaProudmoore]

This afternoon there was a really odd looking bloke stood outside my neighbours door and I saw him carving on odd looking symbol on neighbours beautiful green door with his walking stick.

WIBU not to mention it to the neighbour? It looks like it might be important...

[ArsenicSoup]

I can't get yours Jaina

[MuttonCadet]

I'm becoming increasingly suspicious of my great aunt Jane. She lives in a small rural community but her friends and acquaintances are dropping like flies, under strange circumstances.

This "bad luck" follows her around, even on holiday in the Caribbean...

Should I tell someone?

[AcquiredTaste]

Jaina its The Hobbit isnt it?

[LaurieFairyCake]

lol - the thread title never came up when I posted, thought the OP might be serious

[StillSquirrelling]

AIBU to want to go NC with my little sister. She's such a diva and has my parents, particularly my stupid blithering idiot of a mother, wrapped around her little finger. She flirts with anything in trousers and is completely selfish and uncontrollable.

What really took the biscuit is the fact that, recently, she was allowed to go on holiday with some family friends but whilst she was there she ran off with some bloody army bloke who was at a camp nearby! No-one knew where she was, she didn't bother letting anyone know she was ok. Eventually she was found but the someone who found them whom I fancy a lot but haven't told yet ended up giving the bloke loads of money to marry my sister. I'm just so ashamed and can't bear to even look at her anymore. I don't know how I can talk to the man who came to our rescue again either - I just want to disappear into a big hole. What shall I do? Just swallow my pride?

[FoxgloveFairy]

Was my friend unreasonable to marry the milksop in the walled house rather than the brooding fellow on the moor? Is she being stalky by hanging around his window in a ghostly way at night? Should I confront her and tell her she's dead and the narrator staying in the house was really freaked out?

[HowsTheSerenity]

AIBU to report my neighbours to SS? The teenager daughter obviously doesn't want to be a girl. She wears shorts, cuts her hair short and has shortened her name so it's like a boys name. Her father, who is a famous scientist, refuses to acknowledge her decisions.
Don't get me started on the obsession with her dog too and the three cousins that visit. They are always getting caught up in crimes involving smugglers or evil enemies of England.
What kind of life is this for a child?

[RhiWrites]

WIBU to hire this nanny? My DH works long hours at his job and I don't work but I'm pretty busy with volunteering for the local feminist organisation. We have two DC under 10 so DH advertised for a nanny. I thought there'd be lots of applicants but we've only had one so we took her on for a month's trial.

The DH love her and their rooms have never been tidier but I feel weird about her. She came with one bag but I popped into her room yesterday and it's full of furniture I've never seen before. I've caught her snogging the bloke who came to sweep the chimney and she's been giving the DH 'medicine' and when I tasted it it was just like a vodka martini!

Should I keep her on or get rid?

[Wherediparkmybroom]

Ainu the girl next door is unkept, I'll clothed and treated terribly by sm and her two dd, I think she mY actually live in the cellar where rats that want things to eat, just may nibble at her feet!

[Amethyst24]

I was physically abused by my cousins who I lived with, and ended up in a care home that has since been closed down by SS. I've turned my life around and now have a job helping my employer to home educate his DD. She is a bit of a brat and the house is seriously creepy. Also, my boss keeps hitting on me, even when his GF was visiting. WIBU to walk out?

[WyldChyld]

AIBU? My two twin daughters were head girls at their junior schools but now they're 14, I'm very worried they're spoiled and big-headed. I want to send them to a nice sensible school where they will board and play lots of sports and go on rambles and things - the Head is my friend? They want to go to another boarding school where they wear EVENING dress to dinner - I'm not made of money!

Plus their cousin is a total airhead and idiot and I'm sort of hoping if DTwins go to the school then DSis will stop being a ninny and send bratty DNiece to board and hopefully stop her bleating so much!!

[FoxgloveFairy]

Don't get me started on those raggedy 40's evacuee children who keep jabbering about world's at the back of a wardrobe and how they're royalty and know a huge and Christlike talking lion! They should shut up and eat their whale stew and stop finding excuses for mucking around when they should be doing chores -quietly!

[RhiWrites]

To the lady who's boss is hitting on her, that's seriously inappropriate! Do you have no other family that you can stay with except for the abusive cousins? Any other cousins who might take a more Christian approach to family?

I got DH and DC mixed up in my post, too much of the nanny's 'medicine'. She's taken the DC out to tea with her uncle today so at least that's normal behaviour and I think she's been polishing the bannisters. But if she doesn't work out what are your rates? My two are nice normal non bratty children. The other day my DS gave all his pocket money to a homeless lady with bird poo all over her.

[skylark2]

DD has been very ill and still spends all her time in bed. She has a tutor who comes in, but she's bored and is becoming obsessed with particular items of stationery. I'm also very concerned that she's fantasising about a boy who she has never met.

AIBU to want to get a second medical opinion - surely she would be better off having some rehabilitation and getting back to school? All the doctor ever says about her illness is that it's not polio.

[MaidOfStars]

Rhi, you are waaaay invested in this!

[StillSquirrelling]

skylark If that's the book I think it is, I adore that story! Took me years to track it down but am pleased to say I finally have a copy again!

[hellohelloididntseeyouthere]

I'm newly married and my husbands housekeeper is being a right bitch to me. We had a fancy dress party and she made me dress up in his ex wife's favourite outfit. Everyone seems to prefer his ex wife but in not sure she was as perfect as everyone is making out.....

[Amethyst24]

I got married a few months ago to a guy I'd only just met. I should have seen red flags waving all over the place but I thought his behaviour was just a bit odd because his first wife died not long ago and he was still grieving. But he treats me like shit - we had a party recently and he completely freaked out because he didn't like my dress FFS. And he has this bitch of a cleaner who hates me, but he won't let me sack her. This morning the police knocked at the door and he's told me he actually KILLED his first wife. Should I ring Women's Aid?

[AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves]

AIBU to think my DB is the most beautiful man I'll ever meet and to have a torrid affair with him? All three of my children are his but naturally I've not told anyone else as my DH is the King and my son must inherit the title.

[Amethyst24]

Haha, x-posted hello

[ghostyslovesheep]

AIBU to eat a green leaf when I have already had 1 apple, 2 pears,3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges, 1 piece of chocolate cake, 1 ice cream cone, 1 pickle, 1 slice of Swiss cheese, 1 slice of salami, 1 lollipop, 1 piece of cherry pie, 1 sausage, 1 cupcake, 1 slice of watermelon?

I am still very hungry