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Your book character is on AIBU!

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WaterBird · 04/12/2018 15:38

Your book character is here on AIBU! This can be from any book you have read or are currently reading.
Only rules:
DO reference the book you are referring to because there are so many out there.
Choose the character that's most likely to get pulled apart for this unreasonableness.
I will do mine in the below post.

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keiratwiceknightly · 04/12/2018 18:04

Nonever - obv a Kingscote one but I don't know which.

nonevernotever · 04/12/2018 18:07

@keiratwiceknightly it's End of Term - one of my favourite Christmas books

Love the username by the way

DaveGrohlsBeard · 04/12/2018 18:07

I'm new to the neighbourhood and popped round to see some neighbours this afternoon. I was a bit peckish and they kindly shared their afternoon tea with me but, to be honest, the portions were pretty tiny and I've got quite an appetite! I'm ashamed to say that I ate pretty much everything on the table and a few other bits and pieces as well. They were lovely people and gave me plenty of juice, milk, water and beer to wash it down with. The trouble is that I feel a bit embarrassed about how much I ate and i'm worried that they'll judge me for being a bit greedy. AIBU never to go back there again?

The Tiger who came to Tea.

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WaterBird · 04/12/2018 18:50

These are great.
Actually, in the tiger situation, I would say YANBU, stay away.

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Witchend · 04/12/2018 18:56

nonevernotever definitely a CF Grin

DanielRicciardosSmile · 04/12/2018 19:00

@noideaatallreally What Katy Did - my absolute favourite book of all when I was little!

FadedRed · 04/12/2018 19:54

My dear husband was injured in the war and is now impotent.
I’m a young woman with needs.
AIBU to fancy the gamekeeper?

brizzledrizzle · 04/12/2018 20:11

My husband is away with work and I'm expected to entertain 4 children as well as look after a toddler for the whole of the summer holidays. Worse still we are going to be in the back of beyond with no decent shops for miles around and certainly no wi-fi or mobile phone coverage. Would I be unreasonable to let the older ones go off sailing on their own? I think they'll be ok, they aren't duffers.

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WaterBird · 04/12/2018 21:12

I'm going on holiday to a Cornish cottage. I'm a gay male who has secretly been having a relationship with my sister's husband.
AIBU:
A. To invite my sister's husband and children on the holiday, but not my sister? (She has other stuff to do anyway).
B. AIBU to sleep with him while there? The children will never know. My mum is losing her memory, and my dad is preoccupied and getting pretty old anyway.
(Rough Music, Patrick Gale), character of Will/Julian.

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WaterBird · 04/12/2018 21:13

Brizzledrizzle, I am very intrigued by what you read because I love reading about large families. What book was it?
Though I'm guessing the sailing didn't go too well.

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brizzledrizzle · 04/12/2018 21:26

@waterbird Swallows and Amazons and the sailing was good.

Flutternotsoshy · 04/12/2018 21:34

My new husband is a widower and everyone I meet through him seems.obsessed with his late wife.
Apparently the woman was perfect.
I keep getting the feeling that everyone is looking down their noses at me.
He's quite wealthy and we live in a lovely house in Cornwall.
I think that they think I'm a gold digger (there's quite an age gap) as he met me in Monte Carlo.

Also his housekeeper is really intimidating and keeps making wired remarks, she seems to think I'm trying to replace the late wife!

It's all so stressful and now I have to plan a bloody masquerade ball!

Am I being unreasonable to think I'll never make the grade and will constantly be compared to bloody Rebecca!!!

Flutternotsoshy · 04/12/2018 21:36

*weird
Damn autocorrect

honeylulu · 04/12/2018 21:41

AIBU to tease a young local lad by inviting him to play with my pretty but unkind adopted daughter?

He thinks he has a rich benefactor. Maybe I'll make him think that is me too, hee hee!

Who cares? Males are awful, pah.

I should probably change my clothes, they're a bit whiffy and the lace on my dress is getting a bit manky, but I can't be bothered.

Would you like some tea and cake? Oh, I think there might be mice living in the cake these days. What a shame.

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WaterBird · 04/12/2018 22:07

@Brizzledrizzle
Glad the sailing was good. I guess I thought since the AIBU was about that, that something might have happened to the kids.

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WaterBird · 04/12/2018 22:09

@Flutternotsoshy
Is that a Patrick Gale novel?

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Flutternotsoshy · 04/12/2018 22:12

@waterbird
Nope it's Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

AleFailTrail · 04/12/2018 22:24

AIBU to hate my half brothers for taking away my father’s affection. He remarried after my mother died even though we knew she would be brought back eventually. And AIBU to threaten my half brother for trying to steal my father’s affection from me?
(Feanor, The Smarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien)

ShreddedBanksy · 04/12/2018 22:29

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Prestonsflowers · 04/12/2018 22:38

Knightlymyman
Definitely YABU
Dream Guy is a fucking wimp, he’s not your soul mate he just wants to shag you
This time you won’t get what you want
And Frankly I don’t give a damn
It’s all your own fault

Echobelly · 04/12/2018 22:41

AIBU - I married this really intellectual older guy thinking it would bring my life depth and help me get taken seriously, but actually I fear I'm finding him boring and life as a lady of the house stultifying, I mean, I can't even carrying a thing from one place to another without a servant coming and doing it. And now there's this younger guy and I think he's into me...

KnightlyMyMan · 04/12/2018 22:55

@Prestonsflowers

😡 it is not my own fault and I resent the implication!

Update- I married the rich Cad and now he expect me to like...be a wife 🤔. He’s being very unreasonable about my still loving DG but I can’t help how I feel.
I told him straight that I only married his for his cash and he got upset...I think he’s gaslighting me? Should I report?

We’re supposed to go to a party tonight but I don’t want to go. There’s a nasty rumour that I hooked up with DG going around - which I didn’t - though I was kinda trying to. Now I’m being slut shamed by the nasty old pea hens! DH says I HAVE to go (controlling much) but If I have to feel 1/8 of the embarrassment I reguarly cause others...I’m simply going to die!!! 😫

Santasushi · 04/12/2018 23:00

Ooh I love this thread!! Definitely making me want to read some books that I’ve not yet read.

Racecardriver · 04/12/2018 23:07

So I promised my childhood sweetheart that I would marry him but then my father sent me to boarding school and I realised that I am way above him. When I came back I met this guy who was really handsome and upper class and we got married. But now DH has cheated on me a left me for OW. My attentionshave turned back to my childhood sweetheart and I think I may try to get a divorce and marry him after all. AIBU?

Letshopeitsallok · 04/12/2018 23:13

I’m really weirded out by puberty so I’ve developed a method to cut the souls off children so that they don’t ever mature. They keep dying though after I’ve done it. AIBU to continue so I can perfect the process? My daughter keep fighting me along with an army of polar bears to try and stop me. Why doesn’t she understand it’s for the children’s own good?