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Original poster

A thread for teeny weeny AIBUs that are too trivial for their own thread...

76 replies

AlisonWunderland · 26/08/2015 18:02

Whinges that don't need an entire thread of discussion because we KNOW that TADBU (They are definitely being unreasonable)

Waiting for pay for parking at Shopping centre...
Both pay machines of Lower Mall are out of order, so is one of the 2 on the Upper mall, so there is a queue of about 15 people waiting to pay.
So it would be a good idea to pay promptly.

So it that really the time to hoist your 2 year old so that he can drop half of it put the money in the machine, coin by careful coin?

Over to you for your mini-whinges...

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AmpleRaspberries · 26/08/2015 19:52

I am pregnant and not responsible for my food cravings. Tonight I wanted pasta, bacon and carbonara sauce. Really naughty comfort food.

However, I feel like crap so asked DH to make it. He added mushrooms (acceptable), spring onions and red pepper and cooked the pasta fairly Al dente. This meant the sauce was just a thin covering over fairly hard pasta and crunchy veg and I didn't get the gloopy, creamy stodge I was after.

Aibu to think he should have known exactly what I was expecting him to cook?

whattodohatethis · 26/08/2015 19:55

To be pissed off that I got dumped so am sat doing absolutely nothing on a rare child free night instead of being out having fun

Suppose you can't really even call it dumped. We only had a few dates. But still

ElderlyKoreanLady · 26/08/2015 19:55

MrsH...did she then call her parents and explain that stay and play isn't childcare? I bet she thought it was, poor cow.

The woman who tried to do it a few months back actually tried to argue with me about it. Asked what exactly I was going to do if she left her son with us. Wasn't best impressed when I told her I'd report an abandoned child to the police. Quite the scandal for stay and play!

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AlisonWunderland · 26/08/2015 19:56

ample that was NOT pasta carbonara.

If you weren't pregnant, i'd be telling you to LTB

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fastdaytears · 26/08/2015 19:57

Ample spring onions and peppers in carbonara? Can I be the first to say LTB please.
Carbonara should be all about the stodge.

MrsEvadneCake · 26/08/2015 19:57

Thin sauce is very unreasonable as is non stodgy pasta!!

fastdaytears · 26/08/2015 19:57

Ugh it turns out that I can't be the first to say LTB

itsazoohere · 26/08/2015 19:58

Ample...LTB.

dementedma · 26/08/2015 19:59

To the cyclist doing 4 miles a fortnight on a very bendy road with traffic snaking back for about a mile as no-one can get past! YOU might want to travel at that speed and have all the time in the world to do it, the rest of us would like to travel faster and get to meetings, appointments and schools in time!
Take your puffing Lycra-clad self off road and go ride round the park!

SerenaJoy · 26/08/2015 20:07

My mother in law has been here today and she has left my scatter cushions at an angle as she does every week. I prefer them to be on the perpendicular.

(MIL is lovely, I'm just fussy)

Pico2 · 26/08/2015 20:08

I want a button on FB to hide all of the dog posts. Except the videos of cute ones doing something funny.

I don't want to see posts asking me to keep an eye out for a dog lost on the other side of the country to me. I don't want to see a warning about potential dog-nappers on the other side of the country to me. I don't want to see dogs needing rehoming on the other side of the country to me. In fact, I think that rehoming a dog should be a carefully considered decision, not based on seeing a random dog on FB. And if you are one of my dog owning friends on FB then I'm happy to see posts about you and your dog, but not if you refer to yourself as mummy or daddy or to the dog as your baby. That is weird.

BurnBabyBurn · 26/08/2015 20:14

This one has just dawned on me, after festering unarticulated for years!

My brother repaid some money with the words, "And I've taken out £50 for your contribution to mum's birthday, because she asked for money."

When I'd just lost my job through illness, was unlikely to work in the foreseeable, and DM only wanted money because her luxury cruise was her second big luxury spend that year (she's very comfortably off).

AIBU to think if I hadn't given her £50 myself (and how did he know?), it wasn't up to DB to decide how to spend my money? Worse, I'd actually bought her a budgeted-for present, so I coughed up twice.

DoingTheGardening · 26/08/2015 20:28

Grin four miles a fortnight! I am going to use that!

FadedRed · 26/08/2015 20:32

The spell -checker on MN drives me to distraction! Mostly my first attempt at an answer turns into gibberish.

AmpleRaspberries · 26/08/2015 20:41

Glad to see you all have equally strong feelings about carbonara. I would ltb, but he did wait on me hand and foot tonight so I think he probably just needs more practice at cooking dinner (and I intend to make sure he gets it Grin )

fastdaytears · 26/08/2015 20:44

Ok well give him the benefit of the doubt for now but get him trained and make sure he know that any more of these serious transgressions and there will be consequences...

notthedressiwanted · 26/08/2015 20:45

I just want to have 'any' curry that hasn't got bloody coriander in it arghhhh! AND DH didn't bring poppadoms, sod slimming world, if I'm cheating I want the poppadoms tooGrin

Fleurchamp · 26/08/2015 20:49

My mum came to "help" me look after my 6 week old today as I have been unwell.

If "help" means cuddling the baby all day whilst I make her copious amounts of tea, sandwiches and then drive her home (a 1.5hr round trip) in rush hour traffic.

Not even one nappy change.

I had to endure endless "Dickinson's bargain attic" rubbish on TV.

It was harder work than usual Sad

And, because I felt obliged to - I thanked her for coming Confused and she went off chuffed at how she had saved the day.

This had better not become a regular thing.

lighteningirl · 26/08/2015 21:02

pico2 couldn't agree more horrible/boring/pointless posts I have a dog I love my dog but who is posting all this crap? And Fadedred that word was changed to carp five times by my stupid spell check which my Dhaka ( would put darling husband but spell check.will make my kindle explode) promised to turn off

wickedlazy · 26/08/2015 21:05

Oh Fleur, don't let it happen again.

WyldChyld · 26/08/2015 21:57

IABU for resenting DH for being on night shift because I want a cuddle.

IAAlsoBU for loving my cat very much but being very irritated that he wants to lick and rub against me all night. Damnit, cuddle cat, I love your cuddles but I want sleep.

imwithspud · 26/08/2015 22:55

I know I am BU, but I am miffed that MIL seems to have allocated Thursdays as her day to visit. She sort of just started turning up every Thursday afternoon over the past few weeks, one time even letting herself in because I was in the garden with the DC's and didn't hear the door go, thus scaring the shit out of me when she appeared in my living room as I was bringing DC2 in for a nappy change.

MonkeyPJs · 26/08/2015 23:28

AIBU to be grumpy that I want to name change before posting an AIBU that might out me in RL, but I can't remember the password I set after hackergate?

Frizzcat · 26/08/2015 23:45

Bastards, who when stuck in traffic don't move up as the traffic moves. They leave a two mile gap and then loads of people move into that gap and you haven't moved at all.

People who don't say thank you when you give way

People who don't indicate on roundabouts and expect you to telepathically work out which way they are goingAngry

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 26/08/2015 23:46

Another roundabout one

Busy city centre roundabout. 3 lanes.

If you are in the left hand lane, you don't force your way into making a right turn?? Into the busses only lane, in a corsa...

And then look at the 2 cars who had to emergency-stop for your stupidity, as if they are the ones in the wrong.