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Original poster

visitor wanted escort to buy eggs

109 replies

CoalTit · 22/08/2018 14:14

My brother and his girlfriend came to stay in my share house in a trendy area with lots of good, cheap restaurants well within walking distance. Last time he came to stay he was single, chatty and easy-going and fun to have around, so I was looking forward to it.
On my day off and in the mornings I took them out to places I thought they'd like. I work from 3pm until 10pm. She informed me that he had refused to go out for dinner so they didn't have any when I was at work.
I gave them my bed, with mosquito net, and slept on the sofa. She informed me in the morning that he was annoyed by the mosquitos.
The day before they left she wanted to show her apreciation by making walnut pancakes, but we didn't have enough eggs. I wanted to rest far more than I wanted pancakes, so I tried to give her directions to the shops, but she wasn't having any of it; we had to go out (on foot) in the heat to find a shop open. My brother stayed on the sofa.
I was resentful. I made a snotty comment about her wanting to show off by making pancakes. She looked really offended. She loves cooking and is good at it. She felt she was doing something nice for me.
I suppose we were all being unreasonable, but from most unreasonable to least?

OP posts:
3luckystars · 22/08/2018 17:17

Did she make the pancakes though?

If they were nice, I would love the recipe.

cariadlet · 22/08/2018 17:19

I do not recommend my area for a holiday; it's very built-up, noisy and polluted.

No wonder the gf didn't want to go to the shops on her own! Grin

And your brother is definitely the most U out of the 3 for being lazy, miserable, not going to the shops and not going out for dinner with his poor gf.

Original poster
CoalTit · 22/08/2018 17:22

She made the pancakes. My resentment may have clouded my judgement, but they were just pancakes with sugar and butter and chopped walnuts on top.
They'd be nice in cold weather. That's why walnuts ripen in Autumn, innit!

OP posts:
derxa · 22/08/2018 18:29

What they all said about thread title. Where do you live?

Dahlietta · 22/08/2018 19:24

I think the OP lives somewhere like China, though I don’t know how readily available walnuts are there. More guesses?

RaspberryRipple1963 · 22/08/2018 19:36

I thought this was going to be a naughty thread!

Original poster
CoalTit · 22/08/2018 20:23

I live where the word "escort" is understood to have a broader application than just "prostitute". I see I've really annoyed some people on here by overestimating their level of literacy. I'll take care to dumb it right down in future.

OP posts:
CatPatrol · 22/08/2018 20:52

I live where the word "escort" is understood to have a broader application than just "prostitute". I see I've really annoyed some people on here by overestimating their level of literacy. I'll take care to dumb it right down in future.

No need to be so rude.

NoFucksImAQueen · 22/08/2018 22:23

oh come on op people were just joking about the title, there's no need to be so rude and snippy.

EvilRingahBitch · 22/08/2018 22:32

If you’d been asking for help on a serious issue then you’d have been entitled to be annoyed when people started taking the piss.

But given that this is a trivial moan about bad-mannered guests who made you go for a walk when it was quite hot (which is fine, where would MN be without trivial moans?) then you need to accept that it will be treated as entertainment by bored people.

PPPMA · 22/08/2018 22:32

The thread title is funny though Grin

KinkyEggscort · 23/08/2018 09:25

Well that escalated fast Confused Grin

KinkyEggscort · 23/08/2018 09:25

Or should I say.... eggscalated

QueenAravisOfArchenland · 23/08/2018 09:28

Came for the sex worker being exploited for her ova, stayed for the flounce and the egg puns.

IAmNotAWitch · 23/08/2018 09:57

Could you hire a prostitute to go and run errands like grocery shopping and stuff?

Like pull up, and negotiate terms for that rather than sex?

Now I am going to be wondering about it...

TheEmmaDilemma · 23/08/2018 10:03

I thought this would be about someone wanting to harvest eggs from a prossie.

QueenAravisOfArchenland · 23/08/2018 10:14

Could you hire a prostitute to go and run errands like grocery shopping and stuff?

What do you think TaskRabbit is for? Grin

Now I'm wondering how she would provide "proof of escort status", though...

Strongmummy · 23/08/2018 17:38

Your brother is an arse.

Strongmummy · 23/08/2018 17:39

By your replies “arsey-ness” runs in the family OP

LloydColeandtheCoconuts · 23/08/2018 17:42

Wow OP, that was rude.

You’re BU Hmm

cricketmum84 · 23/08/2018 20:00

I also opened this thread expecting a story about a prostitute being forced to buy eggs from your farm.... sorely disappointed OP shakes head

Rockhopper81 · 23/08/2018 20:26

I live where the word "escort" is understood to have a broader application than just "prostitute". I see I've really annoyed some people on here by overestimating their level of literacy. I'll take care to dumb it right down in future.

Posters misunderstandings are perfectly valid, and the above was rude - in the written form, there isn’t a distinction between ‘escort’ as a verb or a noun, whereas spoken there clearly is in the pronunciation.

I don’t want to speak for a whole population here, but I would say ‘accompany’ would be the more usual term in the UK for the meaning you intended. As a previous poster said, ‘to escort’ here has serious connotations regarding perceived or possible danger, so as to provide protection - is that what the girlfriend wanted, because otherwise it’s understandable people didn’t immediately think of it in that usage.

No need to get snippy because people interpreted a word as a noun rather than a verb.

cricketmum84 · 23/08/2018 20:46

Oh wow just seen the snippy little response from the OP...

Tip for you hun - don't post AIBU and then be rude to everyone. Also learn how to take a joke.

Here is my first ever MN Biscuit

BackforGood · 23/08/2018 21:00

I thought the same as the vast majority of viewers Grin

This
I see I've really annoyed some people on here by overestimating their level of literacy

is just rude though.

It seems like a trivial non-issue, so people are just having a laugh as you've made them smile this evening.
Maybe your brother's 'arsiness' runs in the family. Hmm

SchadenfreudePersonified · 23/08/2018 21:12

KinkyEggscort

Grin

Oh wow just seen the snippy little response from the OP... Tip for you hun - don't post AIBU and then be rude to everyone. Also learn how to take a joke.

It was a snippy and mean response, wasn't it? Totally unnecessary.

OP - if you've been on this forum for more than 24 hours, you should know what an irreverent bunch we are. And also, that if you have a real problem, you will get an enormous amount of support and often some very good (and professional) advice.

No real problem goes unsympathised. Yours, however, is not a real problem. It can be summed up thusly:

  1. Your brother is an arse. An ARSE!

  2. You are a mardy mare. Okay, it was hot, you were tired, you didn't fancy eggs . . . BUT - your ARSE BROTHER'S girlfriend - probably embarrassed by his behaviour and wishing she had married that astigmatic, three-testicled tattooed man from the circus other than be in the position she is today; you know, stuck with an ARSE - she was trying to make up for his arsedness by doing the kindest thing she could think of - MAKING PANCAKES! YAY!!!!! And you threw her kindness in her face.

  3. Your DF's GF is a bit wussy, but outnumbered by an ARSE AND AN UNGRATEFUL COW ie YOU

And now you pick on us.

(It's always the innocent that suffer . . . ).

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