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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

............ to think that many mumsnetters would be much happier if...

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BertrandRussell · 30/03/2018 11:27

........people never interacted with each other at all? Or at least only with their partners and children?

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ikeepaforkinmypurse · 30/03/2018 12:17

well, not everyone is retired and happy to potter around all day. Some people have a life and can't drop everything because some rude entitled bored acquaintance decides they need entertaining.

I am much happier with selecting the people I like and getting rid of the nuisance one, life is too short to waste with overbearing and rude in-laws. Each to their own though!

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 30/03/2018 12:18

I feel weird when I read some threads on here about how often some people talk to their relatives. We are in contact more or less all the time in one way or another. My DIL texts me more than my son

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 30/03/2018 12:19

Ah on mn the mil is to be kept distant,not allowed to exert a preference and never impart her advice

TheSmallClangerWhistlesAgain · 30/03/2018 12:20

Even when you're in your house safely away from The Others, you can't even make noise because they will know you are there and be entitled to call Environmental Health and possibly the police.

This does work both ways though.

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 30/03/2018 12:30

noise On mn only matters if you're hearing the noise and not producing it
So you and your kids and literally star jump and run around house.complaining neighbour can go fuck herself
BUT if you are disturbed in any way by postie/amazon or neighbours kids in their own garden call police, call council,call environmental health

Alexkate2468 · 30/03/2018 12:39

I like this thread 😃. Reminds me of reality and the fact I'm not a weirdo after being ill at home spending g too much time browsing MN and beginning to think that it's actually how people in RL think.
I do love MN but it cracks me up with some of the advice on here.

nakedscientist · 30/03/2018 12:40

To be fair, some of the "friends" described on here, and the way they are described, are far from the people I would want to interact with or constitute friends at all.

I thought they were people who liked eachother!

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 30/03/2018 12:56

Worra I hope you are not making your feet uncomfortable by staring at them. Just because they're "your" feet doesn't mean you own them, you know

You sound very controlling

PerfumeIsAMessage · 30/03/2018 13:01

Hold on a minute! If we have to stop talking to our children and treat them as adults at 16 who is going to wipe their bums when they go to university huh? Who is going to drive up to their university with the cotton wool and foil wrapped sweetmeats every weekend? Who is going to go to their bosses when they get too many shifts at their Christmas job? How can we then fall out with our Dils if we've already stopped talking to our sons!

Don't be forgetting that we'd all be much happier if we all had made up stories about cheeky fuckers! I don't know any and I am bereft. I could have had a MN classics thread and everything.

Good job I'm in my fifties so an "old bag" who nobody wants around them anyway...

PerfumeIsAMessage · 30/03/2018 13:03

Oh yes, Lipstick- MMN! Magic Mumsnet Noise. Like MMCIR, (magic mumsnet children in restaurants- totes angelic for the parents, but do a weird and creepy thing whereby every other client complains about them, almost as if they were running riot and chucking their chicken teddies at the next table)

WorraLiberty · 30/03/2018 13:07

Fair point Johnny

I'd better log it with 101 and confess to ogling them

SilverySurfer · 30/03/2018 13:11

I second never answer the front door unless you're expecting someone and would like to add:

Never answer your phone if you're not expecting a call

Never speak to a person when you can text - so much so that I think humans will lose the ability of speech in a few hundred years from now.

Never carry money when you leave the house so you can be endlessly offended when small shops refuse to accept a card for a small amount. Then brag that you won because they didn't get your custom when I'm sure the store is more than happy not to sell the item to you at what would be a loss because of associated costs for using a card.

Never ask your DH/DP to do their share in the house until after you've had at least two children so you can add parenting to the long list of things they won't do. Then post on MN in shock after having enabled them in their laziness all through the relationship. They won't change.

MephistophelesApprentice · 30/03/2018 13:13

I get paid to interact with people during the week.

If I ain't getting paid, they'd better be otherwise contributing to my happiness or I'm not going to bother.

auditqueen · 30/03/2018 13:13

And if you don't have children you should never interact with, or pass an opinion on, any child ever or expect your friends who are parents to contact you until they are at least 18.

coconuttella · 30/03/2018 13:14

Many would be much happier if they didn’t interact with their DP. Everyone should be entirely reclusive, only interacting with others via MN.

DrEustaciaBenson · 30/03/2018 13:23

Never ask your DH/DP to do their share in the house until after you've had at least two children so you can add parenting to the long list of things they won't do.

Or alternatively, find fault with everything he does, if he doesn't do it in exactly the same way as you do it, so that eventually he gives up because he can't do anything right, then you complain that he does nothing in the house/with the children.

RidingWindhorses · 30/03/2018 13:27

What are we doing as a society that so many people can't cope with social interaction?

Spudlet · 30/03/2018 13:30

It's important to judge other women for their parenting. Be they a SAHM, WAHM, WOHM, or any other acronym you care to invent use, it matters not. They are Doing It Wrong and are clearly setting a terrible example for their unfortunate DC. Look down your nose at them at every opportunity. Including at yourself in the mirror, if you yourself have dc. Don't think that you're getting away with it.

Dads are much easier to categorise, as they fall into two broad camps: Useless, and Utterly Useless. They also seem to attract far less judgment. Funny, that

Viviennemary · 30/03/2018 13:33

And certainly not with anyone who has the temerity to ring a door bell or knock or that gravest MN sin try and deliver a parcel.

RoadToRivendell · 30/03/2018 13:36

One has no way of knowing what sort of disease strangers might be carrying. It's really for the best.

MrsKoala · 30/03/2018 13:38

Never let children walk along your garden wall and under no circumstances should someone be allowed to use your drive to reverse/turn in - they must continue going in the wrong direction.

WorraLiberty · 30/03/2018 13:46

What are we doing as a society that so many people can't cope with social interaction?

Mumsnetting

JacquesHammer · 30/03/2018 13:48

What are we doing as a society that so many people can't cope with social interaction?

There’s a difference between “can’t cope” and “choose to avoid”

RidingWindhorses · 30/03/2018 13:48

Ryder63 · 30/03/2018 13:49

Your dp must not interact with any female unless she 60+ and curmudgeonly.

Well, I'm 60+ and gorgeous! lock up your DPs, girls!

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