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To refuse to let DH have the car when he said he'd walk?

85 replies

MrsBuel · 31/08/2015 13:43

So I've booked my car in for a full service and MOT next week as DH said I could use his car as he wanted to walk to work next week.
Yesterday however he twisted his ankle chasing an old woman out of the garden and now wants to use his car. His work is a 15 minute walk away. Mine would take me an hour on bus and I dread to think how long it would take to walk it. AIBU to tell him we arranged for me to have the car and we're sticking to it?

OP posts:
BillyDaveysDaughter · 31/08/2015 14:53

That sounds awfully like my MIl.

VodkaValiumLattePlease · 31/08/2015 14:55

What the hell is this?

PeppaWellington · 31/08/2015 14:59

OP please tell us where you live and when you are next having your car MOTed because I want to dress as a clown and leap out of a bush going WAAAAOOOOOO!and squirting my buttonhole rose at your dh, causing him to leap in the air in surprise and land arse first in a bin, wedging himself in, needing the fire brigade to cut him loose, and then due to his car being towed for overstaying on its parking meter whilst he was freed from his garbagey entrapment, you can't borrow his car for work.

Anyone else?

KevinAndMe · 31/08/2015 15:01

He won't be able to drive (or at least won't be insured) if his ankle hurts so much he can't walk.

You need to go to work. He does to.

I would cancel the MOT, move it by a week to allow recovery of his ankle (I'm assuming it's actually NOT that serious if you are thinking that he can actually walk on it).

I am also asking how is that possible he is always hurting himself when he is supposed to walk to work? Do you mean he is sort of doing it on purpose/using whatever old excuse not to do it?

Not answering all the comments about what happened with the old lady....

beardsrock · 31/08/2015 15:10

He's a mummy's boy.

I dated one when I was 20 for two years (he was 30). Still lived with his parents, his mum used to massage his feet. He used to take his mum shopping on his days off, she had to go to Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Aldi, M&S as she got different stuff from each supermarket. Because of this he spent less time with me, could only meet me in the afternoons etc etc. We split up.

5 years later on, we bumped into each other. Met up for a coffee. He still lived with his parents. He had a good job, police, could afford his own place etc. Once a mummy's boy, always a mummy's boy. Yawn.

Run, OP, run.

beardsrock · 31/08/2015 15:13

What the hell?!

Wrong thread.

Or is your DH a mummy's boy, OP?!

VenusRising · 31/08/2015 15:16

Wrong thread I think beardsrock!

I think a compromise has to be found op.....

coffeeisnectar · 31/08/2015 15:19

This thread keeps on giving...

QOD · 31/08/2015 15:23

Make him walk. And whilst he walks he must also T rex

LumpySpaceCow · 31/08/2015 15:23

This thread definitely keeps on giving.
Biggest laugh I have had all day.
Thank you OP and hilarious contributers Grin

DixieNormas · 31/08/2015 15:27

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

DinosaursRoar · 31/08/2015 15:31

Fabulous thread! Surely your car doesn't need to be in having the MOT for a whole week, it's just a one day thing right? So either DH gets up early and drives you to work then has the car, or he books a taxi - a 15 minute walk suggests it would be relatively cheap.

Moln · 31/08/2015 15:49

Maybe you could hook a unicycle up to a trailer. He could sit in that and you'd be able to store the unicycle under your desk?

lifesalongsong · 31/08/2015 15:51

Is this one of those threads that's describing a cartoon or a childrens TV programme?

miaowroar · 31/08/2015 16:21

Mind you, it is infuriating when people let their dogs shit in your garden - cheeky mare.

Just tell him to keep a squeezy bottle full of water by the window - he could always say he was aiming for the dog and didn't know the old thruster was there.

To refuse to let DH have the car when he said he'd walk?
Hygge · 31/08/2015 17:34

I'm place marking because what else can you do when the very first post includes a line about chasing an old woman out of the garden and the next post describes her thrusting through the windows?

If he can't walk he can't drive, so he will either need to get a lift or get a taxi.

Or as PeppaWellington suggested "Can't he just skid to work on some dog poo?"

Grin
ElementaryMyDear · 31/08/2015 18:15

Presumably he could drive safely if the car's an automatic and it's his left ankle.

Sallystyle · 31/08/2015 18:21
Grin
Witchend · 31/08/2015 18:23

I've certainly twisted my ankle so walking 15minutes would be too painful, but it's been fine for driving. It's a different position of the foot or something.

But I do need to know, does he have an arrangement with the old lady to cone every time the car's booked in, and if so next time can you film it so we can watch?

Pumpkinpositive · 31/08/2015 18:28

Or is your DH a mummy's boy, OP?!

Many a true word said in jest.

The old lady is his mother.

Itllbefiiiiiiiiine · 31/08/2015 18:35

YABU, he's hurt his ankle! Maybe go twos on a taxi for him as a compromise? After all, an hour on the bus is nasty.

londonrach · 31/08/2015 18:38

Yabu as the situation changed since the agreement was made. He is injuried and risks damage to that foot.

londonrach · 31/08/2015 18:44

Stop it everyone my sides hurt. Beard you so on the right thread. Classics please..

CheekyMaleekey · 31/08/2015 18:46

Why does he usually drive when it's only a fifteen minute walk?

Get on the bus - it's no hardship!

Thrusting at the window! [Grin]

PeppaWellington · 31/08/2015 18:51

You can't T Rex with a twisted ankle.

I say make the best of his impairment and zombie it all the way to work.