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AIBU?

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Original poster

One more day...

83 replies

fibrecruncher · 26/12/2016 23:44

I've managed 6 out of 7 days at the PILs over Christmas - HELP ME get through one more day. Here are my main current complaints (there are many).

I'm up late again as the bed is so uncomfortable I'm having trouble sleeping. The mattress feels like a bouncy castle and I hate the square pillows and the bolster is too high. Have just scavenged some cushions from the living room. Bloody DP is snoring away beside me.

Why does anyone buy Pink toilet paper - yuck!!! How can you see easily if something is amiss? Sorry for TMI but am 6+4 wks with dc2 so am very worried that something could still go wrong.

They had an absolutely massive platter of oysters as in more than a dozen each. Plus prawns and some sort of sea snail at Christmas eve Lunch and spent the entire meal saying how sorry they were that I couldn't eat it! They weren't that bloody sorry to eat something else. We had Lobster for dinner so it wasn't like there wasn't a seafood treat ahead.

We haven't played a single board or card game, I haven't seen any trashy Christmas films. I haven't eaten a mince pie since I left the Island. AIBU?

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user1477282676 · 27/12/2016 00:24

You don't sound that nice OP.

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fibrecruncher · 27/12/2016 00:27

user1477282676 - right now no. I have discovered my limit at PILS is 5 days. It doesn't help my DS keeps asking if we can go home.

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heyjude12 · 27/12/2016 00:28

Actually I think that you are the one whose naff (and rude and petty and a brat) actually Xmas Biscuit

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fibrecruncher · 27/12/2016 00:29

Maybe I'll feel more festive after a nights sleep.

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MrsMcMoo · 27/12/2016 00:29

Honestly, just don't ever agree to stay with anyone for that length of time again! They've not done anything really bad, it's just much too long! 24 hours is quite enough.

SantasJockstrap · 27/12/2016 00:29

Pink toilet paper?

what total bell ends

seriously OP you do realise how that sounds, complaining about the colour of someones shit roll??

GTS · 27/12/2016 00:31

Well I think you're a saint for having stayed there for so long, I don't think YABU in the slightest, particularly being hormonal! Hang in there a bit longer, it's nearly over :) x

heyjude12 · 27/12/2016 00:32

Actually I think that you are the one who is naff (and ungrateful and bratty and a big nob)actually

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fibrecruncher · 27/12/2016 00:33

heyjude12 - ouch!

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fibrecruncher · 27/12/2016 00:36

SantasJockstrap - I know it's completely unreasonable to complain about loo roll.

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mrskpn · 27/12/2016 00:36

YABVU
You need to get a life and realise there are actually problems in the world rather than your pathetic rant.
You sound like you're an absolute pain in the arse to be around whilst pregnant.

Original poster
fibrecruncher · 27/12/2016 00:37

GTS - thank you, I think your comment will help me through the last day :)

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Motherfuckers · 27/12/2016 00:38

You suggested the oysters and are now upset that they are eating them...? What did you expect? They keep them as pets? And why does pink toilet paper stop you seeing blood? Weird.

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fibrecruncher · 27/12/2016 00:39

Motherfuckers - I've always hated the pink loo roll.

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Baylisiana · 27/12/2016 00:39

Where can you get pink loo roll? That would be a retro treat!

Motherfuckers · 27/12/2016 00:41

I still don't see the relevance of you being pregnant?

RedastheRose · 27/12/2016 00:43

Benjamin Franklin famously said that guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Limit future visits with that in mind 😄 Yabu but it is most probably down to lack of sleep, raging hormones and too long in someone else's house. Learn yoga or meditation breathing and you will be able to relax. X

ladymariner · 27/12/2016 00:44

They're probably more sorry that they listened to you and bought the sodding oysters in the first place! If you hadn't asked for them they would have probably bought something else, but tried to please you.....you sound very hard work, tbh.

CommunionHelp · 27/12/2016 00:45

We had Lobster for dinner so it wasn't like there wasn't a seafood treat ahead

Smile

Why couldn't you eat the prawns OP?

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fibrecruncher · 27/12/2016 00:46

RedastheRose - Benjamin Franklin famously said that guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Brilliant, thanks for this.

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WorraLiberty · 27/12/2016 00:48

Christ, you more you post the worse you sound OP.

Seriously, just do them a favour and don't stay with them again.

Cherrysoup · 27/12/2016 00:49

I can manage two nights at my parents', but zero at my pil's. DH is the same, but opposite way round. Yanbu, small insignificant things become incredibly annoying very quickly.

WorraLiberty · 27/12/2016 00:51

Yabu but it is most probably down to lack of sleep, raging hormones and too long in someone else's house. Learn yoga or meditation breathing and you will be able to relax. X

That has to be the most generous and giving post I've ever read.

Truly in the spirit of Christmas! Xmas Grin

If the OP was an ungrateful man, I suspect he'd quite rightly get a virtual kicking into shape for acting like a complete brat.

Bettercallsaul1 · 27/12/2016 00:53

Bet you're sorry you started this thread, OP! Grin I agree six days is too long for staying with anyone - the old saying about three days being the maximum limit for hosts applies equally to guests! And not bring able to sleep properly makes it much worse - irritations are much less tolerable when you're tired. You are just at the stage where you need to be home again, where you can control basic things like food, drink and sleep. Just see this as a lesson learned for the future - a week at the in-laws is too long!

QuodPeriitPeriit · 27/12/2016 00:57

Sooo...you suggested oysters, PILs bought lots presumably to please you, you subsequently discovered you were pregnant and you now expect them to throw the oysters away rather than eat them because you can't? Seriously?? YABVU and difficult