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?

[CadburyTime]

Thanks cricketpitch (I actually am the vegetarian with the extended family but completely forgot my manically depressed other neighbour so can see the confusion ) Hope the conversation goes ok.

Amethyst - I think you need to sort your own house out before you get your judgeypants on for his family. Get your DH to read a few parenting books instead of flying off the handle all the time and perhaps suggest both families go for a drink sometime, or preferably mediation. The other young man yo like might be a bit of a wet blanket though, best dd makes her own mind up before it all ends in tears.

[Andrewofgg]

I need a quick loan for a sure fire investment (it involves a lady friend who is loaded, but there are others sniffing around and I have to look the part) but my credit is shot. Even Wonga won't look at me.

An old friend will but he is having cash flow problems too. He knows a rathet dodgy type, a bit paranoid I think, and no Consumer Credit Act licence - but he will lend my pal the money to lend on to me.

Trouble is the terms are peculiar. The interest rate is fair enough, but he wants a rather peculiar penalty for late payment.

I think I'll run with it. The lady knows a shit-hot lawyer who can probably sort it out if it comes to it. She says the lawyer is a woman too but hey, it's three hundred years too early for that!

[sassytheFIRST]

I am a very caring type. I have a natural curiosity about people but it stems from my desire to keep everybody happy.

Recently I've been bullied for it. Someone even clipped a peg onto the end of my nose! Sitting here in tears, tbh. WIBU to report them for assault? Or should I just let my friend with unfeasibly long arms tie hem up in knots as revenge?

[sassytheFIRST]

Amazed people struggled with my post from yesterday btw. Thought it was too obvious myself.

[RabbitsarenotHares]

AIBU for wanting my daughter to have a wee bit of consideration for my job?

I know she's had a hard year, what with her dad dying in a car crash together with the bitch he'd been having an affair with (I'd been keeping the details from DD but it all had to come out then). And I know she didn't want to move and leave her friends, but this new post came up and it's perfect for me. It's a new start and just what we need IMHO.

So why does she have to start taking an interest in all things Pagan, when I'm trying to establish myself as being a highly respectable CofE vicar? It's hard enough trying to persuade the locals that having a female priest is a good thing. Having DD saluting the moon on a nightly basis is not helping matters.

WWYD?

PS I've been asked to consider taking up extra duties regarding the paranormal. Do you think I should?

PPS There's a really cute musician in the village, recently single. WIBU to see if he fancies keeping me company in the vicarage at night? I really don't like being there with just me and DD. It's far too huge and scary.

[FranklyMedea]

AIBU to have slaughtered my two DS, because bastard DH ran off with a Corinthian princess wearing Poison (well she is now). May be fiction to you..

[Andrewofgg]

FranklyMedea Best yet. Could be one of a series . . .

[BelleOfTheBorstal]

Did anyone get mine?

[Shahrazad]

BelleOfTheBorstal
Gone with the Wind?
Scarlett and Frank Kennedy?

[AshesOfRoses]

I got yesterday's Sassy, it was rather good, old sport

[AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves]

By dint of googling a few key words, Sassy, I'm wondering if your name is Daisy.

[AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves]

My DH has recently died and I am struggling to run our pub while also looking after our young DS. AIBU to let him go off with the local squire on an expedition to the West Indies to look for treasure? I can't quite put my finger on it, but I just feel there might be something dodgy about the one-legged cook the squire has hired.

They're planning to take a barrel of apples to prevent scurvy, so that's something, though.

[MotherBluestocking]

DH's SIL (a jumped-up little baggage if ever there was one) has run off to Turkey with some fancy-pants in a leopardskin jacket and BIL is insisting that DH goes with him to haul her back. Could get very ugly - I don't think she's going to come back any time soon. I'm quite chill about his going, tbh - I've been secretly having an affair with his cousin and it will all be a lot easier with DH out of the picture. But what really bothers me is that I think the stress of the situation is causing him some serious mental health issues - he went out for a run yesterday saying he'd seen an eagle eating a pregnant hare and this means he has to kill DD1, who is my favourite - DD2 is a right moany cow. WWYD? LTB, or wait until he comes back in ten years' time, run him a bath, put a specially-woven robe with no neck hole over his head and stand by laughing as my lover murders him with an axe? (Will have to get DS off the scene first, though.)

[zukiecat]

AIBU to send DD1 (12) off to boarding school?

I've recently had DD2 and it really is too much trouble to look after DD1 too, especially as the new baby is rather delicate and needs all my time and attention, DD1 also seems jealous of her new sister and I've seen her nipping her!

Surely it's ok to send DD1 away?

[Andrewofgg]

MotherBluestocking he may have to make many sacrifices and could be away for years - ten years, I wouldn't wonder.

It could make a great story. Quite an epic!

[MimsyBorogroves]

AIBU? My brother and I offered to take on an orphan boy to help out on our farm. When my brother went to meet the boy off the train, he was met by a waif of a girl instead. And rather than putting her straight back on the train, he's brought her home and got rather attached. We need a boy, to do manly things, not a girl to irritate me.

And not to drip feed, but does she ever stop talking? No. She's in a dreamland. And her hair is as red as fire! WIBU to return her without him knowing?

[AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves]

MotherBluestocking, I think your DH and mine may know each other! Mine's also decided to go off on this wild goose chase. I don't mind too much as it gives me a chance to get on with my weaving. I'm currently planning to make a very large web which could take 20 years+ to complete. DH is currently turning the house upside down looking for his kit. He's just asked me where I've put his book on Wooden Horse-making, which he thinks might come in useful at some stage. I ask you! Men, eh?

[AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves]

[Oh gosh, it's happened at last - two Mimsies on one thread! Hello, Mimsy, and apologies for nearly copying your name.]

[shellistar]

Mimsy I think you may be talking about the friend I had posted about earlier, you know the red head who insists on being called Cordelia.

[FranklyMedea]

Hate to say I told you so, MotherBluestocking, but when your lover's his own DS' DS and after your DFIL fed his DB his own DCs before DB slept with his DD, it was either going to end in tears or a Jeremy Kyle special

[drwitch]

AIBU to just want a messy house without it being organised by Messers Neat and Tidy from SS?

[drwitch]

Would I BU to want to have a dramatic haircut that revealed my elfin features and then to drown myself in Fracas - that heady scent that sends him reeling

[drwitch]

My darling sisters little girl has just moved in with me. She is so bloody cheerful all the time, drives me mad. What's worse is she has assembled a fan club of all the nutters in the town

[AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves]

I travel the world collecting fossils. My niece and her old nanny look after my house and my fossil collection in my absence. It can't take up that much of their time. WIBU to send back the occasional orphaned baby girl I find to give them something to do?

[cricketpitch]

Agree drwitch it is your house and you are entitled to have it the way you like it. ( PS like your new hairstyle by the way). Slick