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To have had a little snigger, even though it's really not funny

225 replies

potentialqualms · 12/10/2016 19:13

Friend of a friend type situation. He told his long-term live in girlfriend it was over 5 weeks ago. She didn't take it well and they haven't yet sorted out who's going to move out etc (I've no idea of any details of their relationship or if she's entitled to feel wronged etc)

Anyway, he's been excited to have qualified for the World Championships in a fairly obscure sport and arrived at the airport for his flight this morning. At check-in, he discovered the photo page from his passport is missing!

It's not funny. It's terrible. But I will admit my first reaction was a little snigger at the genius!

What's made you laugh when it really shouldn't have?

OP posts:
AnyFucker · 12/10/2016 19:38

Evil genius

is she a MN'er?

AmeliaJack · 12/10/2016 19:38

I'm sure they wouldn't potential but it does seem a fairly nasty sort of thing to do regardless of motivation.

AHedgehogCanNeverBeBuggered · 12/10/2016 19:42

Oof. Horribly mean, if it was just a regular break up.

But if he's done something dreadful to her or abused her...

I can't help but snigger a bit too!

2kids2dogsnosense · 12/10/2016 19:46

Wonder if he finished with her the way a lad my son knows finished with his then g/f?

They were out in a group (8 - 10) of them, and charming friend went down on one knee, gave her a ring box - and it was empty. He then told her (in front of everyone) that he wouldn't marry her if she was the last shag on earth and he was chucking her. (They'd been living together for about three years).

My son and the others - men and women - were disgusted and told him to fuck off. The poor girl was in bits - totally humiliated and devastated. "Friend" couldn't see what he'd done wrong - thought it was hilarious, apparently. Son said to me that the friend had always been a "tool" but that no-one could believe what he'd done. Son said he'd never particularly liked the g/f, as he found her irritating, but there was no need for treating anyone like that.

I was shocked, too, but I said that I thought the lass had had a lucky escape if that's what his friend (now ex-friend - all of them broke contact with him, and he'd never been that popular to start off with - they'd just all known each other from school) regarded as humour.

Turns out I was right. They know from FB that he's married now and apparently treats his wife like shit.

MrsArthurShappey · 12/10/2016 19:47

Oh that's good! Evil but good.

DD came home from Guides the other night with a boiled egg to look after, decorate, make a little home for etc. As soon as she unwrapped it she dropped it on the floor, completely smashing the shell. I pissed myself laughing. She started crying and I got told off by DH. I still chuckle when I think about it.

FurryLittleTwerp · 12/10/2016 19:48

Brilliant but very, very bad stores useful knowledge away in case needed

dementedma · 12/10/2016 19:50

Against the grain,but I think that's a shit thing to do. So, she got dumped. Get over it !

FurryLittleTwerp · 12/10/2016 19:50

2kids - that's just bloody awful Sad

Rrross1ges · 12/10/2016 19:53

But if he's not moved out yet does that mean he's going to be back home with her when she's just knackered his passport?

FlabulousChic · 12/10/2016 19:53

That's pretty nasty. It's not remotely funny to be honest it's pure evil.

whattheseithakasmean · 12/10/2016 19:53

That is such a shit thing to do that I expect she must be a nasty person who deserved to be chucked. Certainly sounds like he is well rid.

livedtotellthetale · 12/10/2016 19:54

Sorry didn't laugh at all. Ex p who was a controling bastard. Wrote slag all over pages of my passport. I found it 1 week before I was due to take dds away for there first holiday ever. paid for by me scrimping. Lucky I found it but it cost me.

headinhands · 12/10/2016 19:55

Nah that's not good. I appreciate she's gutted but doing that isn't going to make him feel what she felt, he won't suddenly want her, he'll just feel more convinced he was right to end it.

EllenDegenerate · 12/10/2016 19:59

That. Is. brilliant

ComputerUserNotTrained · 12/10/2016 20:01

Lord I'm going to be all PO now, but unless he was an absolute cock, that's a shitty, abusive thing to do. It's the kind of stunt my ex would have pulled when I left him.

HemanOrSheRa · 12/10/2016 20:03

Tricky as we don't know the whole story. However it does beat me writing 'YOU FUCKING CUNT' across the windscreen of my exH's work van in waxy red lipstick. He absolutely deserved that Grin.

Roussette · 12/10/2016 20:04

What on earth did he do to warrant that. I think it's a horrible thing to do TBH

Oh well, at least he'll realise he did a good thing finishing with her.

(Of course this all depends on how he was in the relationship)

cardibach · 12/10/2016 20:07

Neither brilliant nor even slightly funny.
Not even evil. Just stupid and overly dramatic. Shows her up as aceeeply unpleasant individual with little empathy. However they split up, he's had a lucky escape.
I say this as someone divorced after ExH had an affair when out baby was less than 12 months old.

cardibach · 12/10/2016 20:08

A deeply not aceeeply.

Beardsareweird · 12/10/2016 20:08

She's a twat. He's well rid.

DiegeticMuch · 12/10/2016 20:12

Bunny boiler.

UmbongoUnchainedInAPearTreeeee · 12/10/2016 20:12

I filled my brothers pasport with glitter when he went on his honey moon. But this is genius.

Bubbinsmakesthree · 12/10/2016 20:12

OP - gosh that is a nasty thing to do. Ruin a weekend away with his mates or something doing the same thing I could have a snigger at, but sabotaging someone's chances in the world championships of a hobby - that's really cruel. I hope he did something really awful to her, not just decide it wasn't working out.

2kids though - that is just awful - so glad his friends abandoned him.

MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 12/10/2016 20:12

That's probably evil. And definitely clever.

Dd (who is 3) and I made egg heads by drawing faces on the empty shell and planting cress seeds on damp kitchen paper. She spent ages making her masterpiece and proudly held it up to show me... at which point her thumb pushed through the shell and out of egg man's little face. It was like Tom Thumb does Alien.

Her face crumbled as Egg man's did, while I snorted into my arm pit and pretended I was also crying because I was upset about Egg Man's demise too. I'm going to hell.

bloodyteenagers · 12/10/2016 20:14

Makes you wonder what other 'funny' things she did in the relationship.

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