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Have my only lay in ruined by someone banging and ringing on the door?

184 replies

BrollyDolly · 11/03/2018 09:08

Baby free last night as went out for dinner with a friend. Trying to catch up on as much sleep as possible. There was a knock on the door at 8:30. Still asleep so I rolled over. Then comes ringing the door bell multiple times and banging on the door.
I shouted to go away and they did. But it's too late now I'm awake.

Note through door says flowers left with neighbours.
AIBU to be annoyed at this on a Sunday morning and telling them to go away?!

OP posts:
Loki1983 · 12/03/2018 17:40

Wow, of course YABU! Someone was doing their job efficienctly and someone else had thought of you.

Lashalicious · 12/03/2018 17:57

Definition of ungrateful. The knock at the door was flowers being delivered to you? Do you not get that??

Mycatsaninja · 12/03/2018 17:59

I’m with you OP ! 8.30 on a Sunday is a ridiculous time for a delivery ! Sunday is my lie in day and I so look forward to it after a long week (I work Saturday too so that’s why a Sunday lie in is so important) so I totally get where you’re coming from ! For those posters calling you spoilt etc , you weren’t aware that you were getting flowers !! Go away and stop being mean !!
Some more 💐 for you OP !!

HeavyLoad · 12/03/2018 18:00

This happens to me every time! (not the flowers, i'm not that lucky, just postman, usually with something for a neighbour Hmm ... wait a minute are you my neighbour?!!)

It is bloody annoying, I feel your pain.

WazFlimFlam · 12/03/2018 18:41

I can beat that. I got a text message at 6.30am on Sunday morning saying my mum's flowers had left the florist. They turned up at their house 11 hours later. FFS.

Eveforever · 12/03/2018 18:41

8.30 on a Sunday morning is a very antisocial time to be hammering repeatedly on someone's door. I think the responses on here are a bit extreme, to be called spoilt, a brat, a victim and ungrateful etc because you're complaining about an over enthusiastic delivery person waking you up is a bit OTT. I will admit the shouting at the delivery person was unnecessary and I would suggest you don't do that again as that is rude.

I sometimes take sleeping tablets myself because of trouble sleeping, so I do sympathise with you as sleep deprivation is no fun and isn't good for your mental health. I hope you enjoy your flowers.

Brocka · 12/03/2018 19:31

I wasn't aware sending flowers on mothers day is so unreasonable. Personally Id say your defo OTT seriously. Theres people out there who are alone on Mothers day through no fault of their own and your worried about your beauty sleep. Maybe you should tell family and friends not to.bother with flowers next time and give you some chloroform instead.

zoomer445 · 12/03/2018 20:09

Also this was your first Mother's Day but you let your child stop out the night before?

SherbrookeFosterer · 12/03/2018 21:01

I am with AnnieAnoniMouse.

Sounds like you need more support with your baby because you are doing too much on your own.

Please stay strong and don't be afraid to ask family and friends for help if and when you can.

DuckbilledSplatterPuff · 12/03/2018 21:17

It was unreasonable for the delivery person to bang on the door, but lie in or not, it was unreasonable of you to pass on the chore of accepting the delivery to your neighbours.

BrollyDolly · 12/03/2018 21:43

Thanks again to those that understand where I was coming from.

My Mother's Day treat was to have a lie in without having to get up with the baby else I would have had the family member at mine to babysit while I went out for dinner.

Also as previously stated I didn't even think they could be flowers as I'd been given some the day before and even if I knew they were on the previous time I had received flowers they were taken back to the shop for me to collect later, I wouldn't have known they would have left them with a neighbour!

As it happens I still don't know who they're from Hmm

OP posts:
justlliloleme · 12/03/2018 22:04

This post made me laugh. I’d have been livid. I hate being unnecessarily woken up when I get a lie in opportunity. Knocking on doors before 11am atvtne weekend should be a criminal offence in my book 😜

Ohyesiam · 12/03/2018 22:35

It’s a lie in.
Chickens lay, humans lie.

PositivelyPERF · 12/03/2018 22:39

It’s a lie in.
Chickens lay, humans lie.

Don’t be so judgmental!

Maybe OP identifies as a chicken 🐓

FrozenMargarita17 · 12/03/2018 22:43

I am in the throes of sleep deprivation with a baby who will. Not. Sleep. and no matter what time of day, if someone wakes me up I am bloody furious.

Obviously it was someone doing something nice for you, but you weren't to know that.

YANBU.

NoqontroI · 12/03/2018 22:44

I'd be pissed off too op. Irrationally probably. But lie ins are precious (and few).

RavenLG · 12/03/2018 22:53

Since you have acknowledged you were unreasonable, the next time you are planning a lie in perhaps put a note on the front door not to knock and leave parcels in porch / with neighbours. The delivery driver can't read minds and doesn't know you're struggling mentally and need a lie in, it will prevent this situation in the future and save some poor soul being shouted at for no doing his job

manicmij · 12/03/2018 23:07

Poor you! Someone bothered to send you flowers and you couldn't be bothered to answer your door even though you didn't know who was banging and ringing. Could have been someone with an emergency. Of course you were happy for your neighbours to be up and about taking your delivery in. Selfish

Echogirl · 13/03/2018 01:08

I get you as I love my lie-ins at the weekend😉

chicazteca · 13/03/2018 08:49

It doesn't matter what time people gets up, it's rude to bother others between the hours of 9 in the morning and 9 in the evening. It's called etiquette and good manners, so no, YANBU

BoobleMcB · 13/03/2018 08:58

LTB definitely

Lozz22 · 13/03/2018 09:00

Hell i wish someone would knock on my door at 08:30 to deliver me flowers!! The closest I’ll ever get to that is if I order my own!!

kubex · 13/03/2018 09:00

Oh for fuck sake OP, get a grip!

Bellamuerte · 13/03/2018 09:03

Who delivers at that time on a Sunday! I'd go nuts if I was the neighbour and someone knocked on my door at that time when it wasn't even my delivery.

notacooldad · 13/03/2018 10:52

I'd go nuts if I was the neighbour and someone knocked on my door at that time when it wasn't even my delivery
Blimey, maybe an anger management course followed by some Mindfulness sessions maybe useful for you!

Go nuts! Really. Most people may be mildly irritated!

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