Am I BU or is she?!

[ImportSave]

Just went to have some toast. The toaster is temperamental and hangs onto the bread, so I have a set of plastic tongs to retrieve it. I couldn't find them anywhere so rung my mum (she'd been here earlier in the day and I though she might have had toast, then put them somewhere unusual.)

No, it turns out that she's taken them to use when she's pre-soaking my niece's bibs/mucky clothes and I'll get them back later in the week.

I'm quite bloody cross with her and I'm afraid it turned into a bit of an argument on the phone. She thinks I'm being unreasonable, because they're only 'cheap plastic tongs' and she's going to buy me a new pair.

I don't want a new pair, I want mine but not after they've been stewing in a mix of dirty water, baby food and baby sick! I pointed out that if she was buying new ones anyway, she could have just bought a new set to new tomorrow and not needed to have pinched mine!

Who is BU?!

[NarkyMcDinkyChops]

Its her mum not some random stranger stealing from her home

She still stole from her home, mother or not.

[WitchesCauldron]

YANBU, but on balance probably best to not give it brain space.

[kali110]

Yanbu at all

[Magzmarsh]

It's irrelevant how much the item is worth or the purpose it's used for, people shouldn't take stuff that doesn't belong to them without permission from the owner. It's disrespectful and rude.

[WonderMike]

I want mine but not after they've been stewing in a mix of dirty water, baby food and baby sick

The question you should really ask is, how many times has she already borrowed them to wash your niece's bibs? attempts to scrub memory of finding university housemate washing his undercrackers in the kitchen sink rubbing the gusset with the washing up brush