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AIBU?

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WIHBU to reach across the table and slap her?

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Numtum · 17/06/2015 20:07

Well not literally her but the knife and fork...

Cooked dinner for an ex colleague and his wife and when I put the food down she picked up HIS knife and fork and cut up his food.

He has no physical problems which would stop him being able to do it his damn self. I've seen him a million times cut up and eat his food.

What the actual fuck did I just witness?! He's 41! I would ask if IABU but quite honestly I simply wouldn't accept such a statement.

I'm

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DextersMistress · 17/06/2015 20:08

NorbertDentressangle · 17/06/2015 20:08

haha did she forget she was with her DH and not a toddler DC?

FenellaFellorick · 17/06/2015 20:09

Do they have small children?

It's the sort of thing I would do when my children were toddlers.

Start to cut up an adult's food, realise what I'm doing then decide that it's simply less embarrassing to pretend it hasn't happened

I used to point out interesting things on buses.

My toddlers weren't there.

I blame the sleep deprivation.

Roomba · 17/06/2015 20:10

Whaaaat? How on earth did you not say something?

They don't have a toddler, do they? That's the only excuse I can think of - if she just cut up his food on auto pilot. Mind you, I assume he would have said 'Er, what are you doing?' in that instance...

Oldraver · 17/06/2015 20:15

Did he just let her ?

chocomochi · 17/06/2015 20:16

I do point it airplanes and trains to my DH even when DCs are asleep in the car, forgetting that he's not as interested as they are So maybe she did it on auto-mode?

partialderivative · 17/06/2015 20:16

I would have found it hard to not giggle and then start crying with snorting and other tongue biting embarrassing noises.

TheHobbit · 17/06/2015 20:19

My DP cuts my steak for me in neat little blocks! If I cut it the meat goes flying off the plate and makes a mess everywhere im a very messy eater so its easier if he does it and he's a chef so does it quickly. Maybe he's thexsame and didn't want to make a mess as its embarrassing when everything flies off your plate.

BlackeyedSusan · 17/06/2015 20:20

I nearly tried to strap my friend inot the car when I was giving her a lift. I am not used to having competant passengers in the car.

ChrisMooseAlbanians · 17/06/2015 20:20

ChrisMooseAlbanians · 17/06/2015 20:21

I called my grandfather "a very good boy" for eating all his dinner today. He is 64 tomorrow

RackofPeas · 17/06/2015 20:23

Said 'Ooh look a Porsche!' in a car park recently. Then remembered I was with friends and not my car mad son.

Most likely its toddler autopilot. Dh came over to me and wiped my nose once, wandered off and then I heard him say 'What the hell did I just do?'. I was too shocked to speak, then I was laughing too hard!

I would have said something to her, along the lines of 'Are you ok? Has your dh picked up a wrist injury?'

RackofPeas · 17/06/2015 20:23

Said 'Ooh look a Porsche!' in a car park recently. Then remembered I was with friends and not my car mad son.

I would have said something to her, along the lines of 'Are you ok? Has your dh picked up a wrist injury?'

ollieplimsoles · 17/06/2015 20:23

What the actual fuck op.

Just get up, calmly walk over to the front door, open it, and say 'get the hell off my property'

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Numtum · 17/06/2015 20:23

No children and he moved his seat back slightly to accommodate her elbows. I sat with my mouth open and just watched with morbid fascination. He thanked her...

I was more I'm not quite sure what I just witnessed.

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MyNameIsInigoMontoya · 17/06/2015 20:24

There is probably a thread somewhere on here, or about to be written, saying something like "Please tell me your most embarrassing moments to help me feel better. I was just out for dinner at ex-colleague's house and suddenly realised for no reason whatsoever I had cut up my DH's dinner for him. She will think we are both a pair of weirdos. Help!!"

SiobhanSharpe · 17/06/2015 20:24

Perhaps he has awful table manners, holds knife like a pencil etc so it is fairly useless as a cutting implement, and she was fed up with him looking like a knob? Although he still looks like a knob, tbh and so does she

m0therofdragons · 17/06/2015 20:28

How did you not ask? I don't think I could have stopped my question coming out.

ollieplimsoles · 17/06/2015 20:28

What was for dinner OP?

Eigg · 17/06/2015 20:28

I think I would have stayed silent but shared a twinkly look with my DH

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Numtum · 17/06/2015 20:36

I couldn't ask. I couldn't speak. I don't think I ate mouthful until 5 minutes later!

I want to bleach my eyeballs! I'll never look at them the same again

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Numtum · 17/06/2015 20:38

It was spicy chicken korma. It was cut pretty small...

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TheReluctantCountess · 17/06/2015 20:40

That's really weird and not at all normal.

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Numtum · 17/06/2015 20:44

I'm going to have to ask.

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DumbledoresKnobblyWand · 17/06/2015 20:44

Do you reckon she shaves him and pats his dick dry after a piss too?

That is so bloody weird.

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