For DH to pick me up. DS is asleep at home and we have house guests also asleep

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The guests are my Brother and SIL who arrived this morning and are asleep. DS is asleep in his cot (19 months). I am on my way home from work xmas party. 30 min walk from station or 5 min drive. It’s cold and I’m a little drunk. Should DH leave them all sleeping to come and pick me up (or wake DB to warm him?)

Get a taxi. Won't cost too much if it's only five minutes.

it's a little above freezing, not that bad if you are properly dressed

I couldn’t get a taxi. Taxi firms too busy and I’d be waiting longer than it would take to walk

In the end DH just came and picked me up without waking anyone. We were both back home in 9 mins

Well weren’t you lucky then

I'd walk

I'd have phoned DH because I'm normal, and I have a normal life, and the risk of anything happening in that short time is so remote it doesn't even register on my worry radar.

This thread is batshit crazy.

Does everyone stay up all night and watch their sleeping babies these days?

I’m normal and also have a normal life.

I’m glad you’ve been lucky enough not to experience a (much more common than you realise) house fire.

It would be silly to go out of your way to avoid a risk you consider small.

However, on balance, the risk of my child being hurt vs the minor inconvenience of giving someone a nudge and saying ‘nipping out for ten mate’ is a no brainier.

Op I think you were being irresponsible to leave your baby in the care of two unconscious adults who aren’t not even aware that they were responsible for that child

You lucked out. Grats.

"Well weren’t you lucky then hmm"

I bet she wasn't. I bet someone sneaked in and stole the baby!s soul while they were gone........

I wonder if someone did a risk assessment on

(1) the likelihood of a fire starting, taking over, the "unconscious" adults sleeping through the smoke alarm, the op and her dh not being back in time to notice said fire (probably before they would if they were asleep) vs

(2) the likelihood of the op being hit by a car/having a bad fall (especially if icy)/being attacked on her way home

which would turn out to be the greater risk.

Well actually I would have said the risk was:

1. A fire starting. The two adults getting out of the property and then wondering where the others/baby had got to.

You have minutes, those minutes would be eaten up pretty quickly by two sleepy confused adults trying to figure out what was going on.

You may have a point about it being unlikely to happen if op was seriously going to have to put herself at risk or going to have to do something involving a bit of hassle to make sure in the event of something happening that her child would be safe.

But I wouldn’t call ‘briefly waking bil to tell him I’ll be popping out for ten minutes’ too much hassle, would you?

You'll have to factor in the amazing danger minimizing powers of the presence of a mother which will be hard to quantify.......

What a load of dramatic people there are on here. The possibility of the house bursting into flames wouldn't have entered my head - I would have been on the phone for a lift ASAP.

I’d have got him to warn them if he came to get me.
But I’d have just got an Uber.

You should of sorted before you went out!

I'd have phoned DH because I'm normal, and I have a normal life, and the risk of anything happening in that short time is so remote it doesn't even register on my worry radar

This. With jingle bells on!

You have minutes, those minutes

Derailment... Smoke inhalation obviously kills, which is why fire service have a stay put policy. And general fire safety advice is to close all the doors before bed. A normal bedroom door wouldn't burn through for approx 20/30 minutes. Stay where you are people, call from bedroom. Fire service would be there within minutes to extinguish fire, vent property and walk you out your front door. Obviously Grenfell was completely unprecedented.

My god only on this bloody site would you get the batshit responses that you have OP. In real life everyone would just say phone DH to come get you. Hope you enjoyed your night.

"Well how did you plan to get home when you knew you were going out? Doesn’t everyone think about this when going out. "

Not if you live walking distance from the station, surely?
I live not far from the city centre so obviously don't need to make plans for getting home.

I WOULD BET MY HOUSE THAT THE OP’S HOUSE WILL NOT BE ON FORE WHEN SHE GETS BACK!!!

It wouldn't have taken much effort though to think about this earlier so you could have said to your guests 'if you're woken by DS crying, could you just check on him as DH will be popping out for 10 mins to pick me up? If the lights are all off you can assume I'm back and then one of us will deal with it'. Easy.

Another thread where someone's solution is to 'get an Uber'. You do know there are large swathes of the country where Uber don't operate, right?

Ffs, a grown adult can't make their way home on their own, and people are actually agreeing that the guests should be woken uo and asked to listen out for a toddler so her DH can get her?! For crying out loud!

Psychobabble123 she could’ve made it home on her own by walking, which she has already mentioned more than once but it’s cold, late, she’s a bit drunk and it’s a 30 min walk so she’s called for a lift because she can, which is 100% what I would’ve done too. No need to wake anyone, was a less than 10 mins round trip for her DH.