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It just took DH 15minutes.....

233 replies

manasaw · 07/04/2017 22:20

To get 2 pillows and 4 cans of cider out of the caravan on the drive. He thinks this is normal.

AIBU to think it's not?

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LilaoftheGreenwood · 08/04/2017 10:28

There was a famous occasion in family lore when my dad, told by my mum to tidy the sitting room because visitors would be here soon, started carefully wiping and dusting the unseen top edge surface of all the doors in the house.

CosyCoupe88 · 08/04/2017 10:28

When my husband takes our toddler out he says goodbye to me about 16 tines in amongst all the faffing It takes them to leave the house over a 40 minute period... and gets little one to com say goodbye too... its cute the first few times and then I just want to scream JUST LEAVE!!! Miss them when they're gone though haha

LilaoftheGreenwood · 08/04/2017 10:30

That was extreme though, his more usual standard faff was the relatively sane "take apart the coffee pot and clean every component", regardless of what he had actually been asked to do.

Littlegreyauditor · 08/04/2017 11:42
Angry This gives me all the rage. So much rage that I just had to stop myself ringing DH to growl at him for nothing at all. It's just the rage from all the accumulated faff has built up and volcanoed out of me thanks to this thread.

He is an epic faffer which, coupled with his idea that everything takes ten minutes, or is ten minutes drive away, even the city of Cork which is at very least a day's drive, drives me completely insane.

His "holistic tidying" method in which he pings from room to room disrupting stuff and leaving cupboard doors open but, crucially, never finishing anything is a sight to drive a person to drink.

We work together, in our business, but have two separate locations due to my utter inability to deal with the faffage gracefully without swearing, hissing and general viciousness.

I try to rise above, I really do, it's just some days I just want to sink beneath.

WankingMonkey · 08/04/2017 12:18

Its normal if he had to pick the lock to get into the caravan.

If not then no

ToriaPumpkin · 08/04/2017 12:39

I've got one too. He makes me murderous. If we're going away for the weekend I'll have everything packed and the kids in the car and he'll still be wandering around looking for keys, checking the tyre pressure, trying to decide which sunglasses to take and asking if the kids have everything. Of course they do because I FUCKING WELL PACKED IT ALL.

It bites him in the arse sometimes though. We went away in October and he took so long to get stuff sorted to come home that he ended up shoving things in gaps rather than packing precisely as he wanted to. He lost something as a result. He insisted it wasn't in the car, had me emailing the place we'd stayed and everyone who'd been with us to see if it had turned up etc. He cleaned the car a couple of weeks ago and it was in a pocket. He still blames the kids.

I think my favourite ever was when DC1 was about ten days old and his brother, SIL and their two kids were coming up out of the blue (they live a couple of hundred miles away and called from the road). I asked him to tidy the room while I got showered and put the baby down. I came downstairs to him alphabetising our DVD collection. "But you keep saying it needs doing"

Musicaltheatremum · 08/04/2017 12:41

My late husband was a bit of a fader and my son is just as bad. I'll say "we're going out in half an hour" "fine mum" he says then as I'm just putting shoes and coat on and say "are you ready" he stops what he's doing goes to the loo, finds keys, wallet, phone. Drives me mad.

Pandakin · 08/04/2017 12:48

The bin mysteriously disappears as part of his version of "tidying" but never actually gets emptied? I don't really get why the bin needs to be hidden like a shameful secret. If anyone complains about us having a bin in the front room I'll probably do my best to cram them in it anyway, luckily nobody cares.

Topseyt · 08/04/2017 12:48

DH is a faffeur extraordinaire.

The current faff is his computer, which is old and needs replaced. He isn't replacing it though. He is buying all new component parts, fixing them in, getting them wrong , cloning his existing software and files without believing that that could be construed as piracy and therefore will be unlikely to work. The faffing about that this causes over days and weeks is unbelievable, and the amount of money spent etc. etc!!!

Just. Buy. A. Fucking. Computer. And. Be. Done. With. It.

He has offered to upgrade my admittedly now ageing laptop for me. Errrr, hell will freeze over first. It works, I save every important thing to cloud drive, and I will buy a new laptop.

manasaw · 08/04/2017 13:43

I'm hopping mad.

After aforementioned caravan prep get the kids in the car ready to hitch up, DH realises he has not changed the number plate on the back of the van to our new car. Can't find the plate. Can't find the tape to stick it on with.

Opens the car boot drops a load of cider all over the drive. Smells like a brewery.

Number plate not in there. Finds it in some extraordinarily odd place in the house.

No tape. Had to go to shop for tape. All kids out of car.

One hour behind schedule.

Furious!!! AngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryAngry

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WindyBottoms · 08/04/2017 14:09

I thought I'd head off some of DH's purchase-related faffery when our washing machine died.

I did all the online research and found the best place to buy it from. We arrived at the shop and there was the washing machine I'd chosen.

DH then proceeded to open the doors of every single machine in the display. "I don't like this one. The door opens the wrong way."

This was followed by opening the detergent drawer of every machine in the display. "Hmm. This one doesn't feel very sturdy."

He then asked the sales assistant who had the patience of a saint to plug one in so that he could see what the display screen looked like.

After half an hour of faffing, we ended up buying the one I'd originally picked out... Hmm

marcopront · 08/04/2017 14:43

My daughter is a faffer as is her Dad. Her favourite word seems to be "just", as in "I'm just doing X or I'm just about to do Y"

Gooseygoosey12345 · 08/04/2017 14:51

But... how 😩? I don't get how a 5 minute job can take 30 minutes!! I just don't understand. I like to get my job done as quickly as possible and move onto the next thing. So many people faff and I get so irate

QuietNinjaTardis · 08/04/2017 14:54

I still remember the time dh was going to build some flat pack furniture. He got out all the screws/nuts/bolts put them in neat little piles then wrote numbers on scrap paper for each little pile. There were about 50 different piles and this process took about two hours. Before he'd even started building anything. I had to walk out as I was on the verge of screaming at the utter waste of time I was looking at.

Topseyt · 08/04/2017 16:43

My DH has now printed out 60 pages of instructions on how to build a computer. Yes, 60 pages!!! Apparently he will soon have it all read and the computer will be right as rain, good as new etc. in a jiffy.

He printed it out on MY printer because guess what? His doesn't work. Any chance he will buy himself a printer? Or is he more likely to think he can build one first? All bets are off.

Even my normally reliable printer didn't like the job and threw a strop. It jammed and went offline. I sorted it out myself rather than let him fart about even more.

He has given up for now and is outside mowing the lawn instead.

Topseyt · 08/04/2017 16:54

Windy, I wouldn't even dare let DH choose a washing machine or dishwasher, or god knows what the fuck I would end up with.

I had to buy a washing machine last October after my 14 year old one began to fall apart. I simply ordered it from Appliances Online. Easier on my nerves and temper, and the job got done.

manasaw · 09/04/2017 16:06

Me too, I bought the cheapest 7kg they had on AO, DH was excluded from the process 👌🏻😂

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Gileswithachainsaw · 09/04/2017 16:29

Oh god my parents are huge Faffers. I've never known anyone take two hours to cook pizza and chips ffs.

It then takes about 15 mins to by it all diaged up and taken over to the table. My mother then insists on paving around the kitchen doing fuck knows what meaning that having waited two hours for lunch, sat at a table for 15 mins waiting to be given said lunch which was apparently ready. No one can start until mother has finished finding jobs in the kitchen and sat down.

Result is cold food and ansy kids.

Dp is also a Faffer. As I rush around getting myself and kids ready to catch the bus dp will tell me to stop rushing about we have plenty of time and all he has to do is clean teeth and put his shoes on which of course takes 2 mins.

He then decided to have a shave or put his work jeans in the wash or check his bank balance meaning he's running late and somehow it's my fault we caught the bus by the skin if my teeth as if it wasn't for me and the kids getting in the way while we were getting ready he'd have been able to get ready sooner Hmm

If there are ten mins til the bus you can also garuntee nine of those minutes he will be in the toilet. Cos despite having all day to go to the toilet he inevitably needs to go when we need to leave it's not a regular time thing because it will apply whatever the time of the day.

And now dd1 is also a faffer. I have no idea what she does if a morning but after being woken at half six you can put money on her appearing forty mins later wearing notbing but underwear and socks brushing her hair.

She then moans at being made to hurry up. No amount of going to school without breakfast due to lack of time will stop her faffing.

Angry
Gileswithachainsaw · 09/04/2017 16:41

There was also one incident where we were all off to a family occasion. I had been told to arrive at parents house by X time and reminded not to be late. Constantly.

On the day I had taken kids to school come home showered and got dressed and gone over. On arrival my dm was doing her usual multiple checks of what was in her handbag and panicking no one was ready while running around doing fuck knows what.

My df was still half naked

Everyone was frantic as my db wasn't there yet. Them running late was apparently his fault despite the fact they were no where near themselves and know my db would be late to his own funeral.

Yet apparently I'd been deliberately been told the wrong time to ensure I wouldn't be late Hmm

I sat around waiting nearly an hour whilst in their minds being the person who would let them down and no one was even dressed.....

iklboo · 09/04/2017 16:46

I'd get:

DH decides to get pillows & stuff out of caravan. Goes to get keys out of cupboard. Spots his gym bag. Decides to tidy out gym bag. Halfway through finds iPod . Faffs on iPod. Decides to download some music. Leaves gym bag & associated detritus strewn across hall. Gets laptop out of cupboard to download music. Sees strimmer in cupboard. Decides lawn needs strimming & gets strimmer out. Goes to put his shoes on. Sees his gym bag......

About 6 hours later comes back in, having completely forgotten about the pillows.

strawberrisc · 09/04/2017 17:25

Meanwhile, in Syria...

reuset · 09/04/2017 17:32

Are you sure there wasn't 5 cans and now there's 4? grin

Grin
joolsy67 · 09/04/2017 17:32

Omg I am not aloneSmile if I hear one more time.....im just drinking my cup oftea before anything ever gets done! Hoovering...yes in a second. We are going anywhere. Just how long does it take for am effing 52 yr old man to tie his laces. I swear! There is no rush in him at all. I do think he does this to annoy me tho. He says living with me is like living under a dictatorship 😃 I am very very organised lol. There is little hope for the kids! All 18 +

TheFirstMrsDV · 09/04/2017 17:39

Are you going to post that on every thread and repeat it to everyone you meet straberri?

Women in Syria are no doubt getting exasperated with their faffy OH's as we speak. What would you say to them?

WomanStanley · 09/04/2017 17:39

Why do you give a sh*t?

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