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Is this normal or AIBU?

52 replies

AgainPlease · 05/11/2016 18:13

DH dropping off DSS (12) to his mums house.

I get home and see the following:

Newly purchase nerf gun packaging scattered on staircase
Nerf gun on the floor in entrance hall
Nerf gun balls scattered all over sitting room floor
Empty & half-empty Chinese takeaway bowls on coffee table
Coffee table covered in sticky sauce
Cutlery covered in sticky sauce stuck to coffee table
Rice on the carpet
Go downstairs, clean dishes in dishwasher un-emptied
Dirty dishes scattered around the kitchen
Grocery shopping left on dining table
Lid of cookie jar LEFT NEXT TO the cookie jar. I mean how fucking hard is it to put a lid back on a cookie jar? Fuck sake.

AIBU in thinking this is too much and DH and DSS should have made a token effort of tidying up? At least pick up the fucking wet rice off the carpet.

Or is this just standard kid mess?

OP posts:
JenLindleyShitMom · 06/11/2016 12:16

Why is your kid not doing this himself

Confused doing what himself?

RunRabbitRunRabbit · 06/11/2016 12:38

You and you DH handled this oddly.

One of you leaving the house in a state is a thing that happens sometimes. It happened to both me and a mate today but the interaction was totally different.

She and I were standing on the sidelines watching our DS play football. She got a text from her DH, who was at a different club with another one of their DC, saying don't go in the living room, I've left it a complete state because of I'll sort it when I get home. She laughed and eye rolled about it.

I got home to a bomb site of a kitchen. I didn't touch it, instead I had a chat with DS and DD, made us all a hot drink and tidied up the utility a bit. DH got home with other DS from their club about half an hour after me and immediately set about clearing up his mess with help from co-offender DS without comment from either of us.

Those are both normal situations. Them leaving it a total smelly state but not having the decency to even message you to apologise, not even confirming they will sort it later, then you fully cleaning it up, with a big bucket of seething resentment is odd.

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