To expect my DH to do a simple task without f*****g it up !

[CaptainUnderpants]

Always wanted to post AIBU so here goes

Sold our car and the guy was coming to pick it up tonight. Car registered in my name but I had to go out tonight so left DH to do the deal.

Showed DH what needed to be filled out on the registration document by HIM , showed him what needed to be given to the buyer.

Get home tonight , find the registarion document has been filled in incorrectly not by DH but he allowed the buyer to complete and DH never checked it ! Then DH forgot to give the buyer the handbook of the car , so I now have to post it to him tomorrow !

And to top it off the kids were still awake at 9.30pm after having gone to bed at 7pm .

If you want a job done properly do it yourself !

AIBU ?

Yes , yabu, you know he's never going to get it right, largely because he thinks it's obvious what he has to do (afterall, you manage it so how hard can it be?) so he NEVER BLOODY LISTENS!

You're so right Berries , I shouldn't have expected so much of him . I know how hard it is for a him to mutli task - its very difficult to breath and think at the same time

I text mine from town at 9am asking him to hang out washing & stick another load on.

I pulled into the yeard at 12.20 to see an empty line & my dh sat on his arse on the summer seat reading a paper

He also tried to show me how to use the iron

And he wondered why I was pissed off with him and he went off to bed in a huff leaving me to sort the children out that he should have put to bed and that I will have to try and drag out of bed tomorrow for school whilst he has already buggered off to work and then after my work I have to go to a post office to get the bloody handbook weighed to post it off and ....ARRRGGGGHHHHHH !!

maybe he wasn't sure of what to do, but didn't wish to ask in case he got his head bitten off??

MrMarie - I showed him what to do and claerly explained. It is also self explantory on the vehcile registration document what to do ! Thats why I am was so annoyed with him.

As Berries said - they think its obvious and then dont listen !

Anyway today is another day ....

I've found the best method is to ask them to repeat it. The look on DHs face after he has been nodding yeh,yeh,yeh and then realises he hasn't got a bloody clue is priceless

hmmmm, such mutual respect going on here

NOT

After 26 years we have a lot of mutual respect for the things we are good at, and an honest appreciation of the things we are not.

It was a bit tongue in cheek.....

I know that if DH in his work had asked someone to do something and they cocked up afetr being explained how to do it he would not be happy either.

I shall in future ask him to repeat what I have said , no doubt he wont hear my last words as he would be walking out the door .

Oliveoil - are we not allowed now to have a bit of a gripe about our other halves nowadays ?

Male pattern incompetence. Next time don't trust him with anything so important. My dh is crap at getting kids to bed too. He just delegates it to dd1 (age 12) and falls asleep on the sofa.