AIBU to ask my husband to pick up some bits on the way home?

[Hollanda]

I realised I'd run out of Sanitary towels...and shampoo...and bubble bath...and we're out of toilet roll too. And husband is out tonight and I could do with a glass of wine but don't have any. Oh and we're pretty much out of bread too.

DH said I'm taking the proverbial. He asked me if I wanted anything so I told him......AIBU???

Can I be the first to say my dad is an old fossil (his phrase) and if I rang him to say can you grab me some tampons on your way over he would say if I must dear and buy them (he says if I must to EVERYTHING)

Your dh is a twat. He needs to grow the fuck up.

I'd almost be inclined to make DH wait to go out whilst I went to the shop, obviously I'd take a lot longer than normal as I'd have had a glass of wine so couldn't drive. Let him explain that to his peers.

Yep. This.

Wow, he wouldn’t by sanitary towels.
I’m always getting caught out without so most months ask DH to pick some up for me.
If he moaned I would find it quite disrespectful.
It’s a necessity not a nicety.

If men had periods they would be expecting special care above and beyond any normal female

My husband is more than happy to pick up stuff on his way home, but he stipulates that I ask via text, or he forgets; and that if I want anything specific that he doesn’t know much about (like sanitary stuff for me or our daughters where we all like different things), I send a photo of the packet. It works well for us.

Why do people stay with these ridiculous pathetic men?

My dp doesn’t even live with me and yet if he knows I’ve got my period will ask ‘do you need me to pick up any pads?’ Because why wouldn’t he??

Good heavens I thought young men were much more sensible than this these days. My son picked up some extra sanitary protection when he just happened to see his partners favourite brand on special. My husband used to buy mine and kid the checkout girl that they were for his piles. Even my Dad used to buy them if he saw stocks were running low in the bathroom. Some people are just fossils. Seems he has a fear of buying shampoo and bubble bath too. Silly man.

I often ask dh to pick things up on his way home from work, or he will ask if we need anything. He literally goes past a small Asda, and can very easily pass a small Tesco and a small co op on his way home every day. It would take me a good 45 minutes or so to walk to and from the Tesco or the co op. And an hour and a half if not more to walk to the Asda and back. (To walk to the big Asda or Tesco would be even longer than that). I could wait for buses but they often take ages, and I don't drive.
Obviously if I was on my own and needed something urgently I'd go myself. But when he goes right past them it makes sense to us. Tbh even if he's at home and we only need a few bits, he will go on his bike which is even quicker.
(And he has no issue buying me tampons it needs be).

The shop in his defence only had cheap ones and he didn't want to get the wrong ones.

I do work but finish literally just in time tof pick DD up from nursery and do school run for DS. Going to the shop is not easy with her.

I’m waiting for someone to come along and tell you that you’re an adult and absolutely shouldn’t ask your husband for any help, ever.

Husband is OK with the towels. But not why so much bubbly, plastic, indulgent packaging tat for you night of comfort. Is husband more aware of the Oran-Utangs perhaps?

My DH gets the hump too if I ask him to get anything on the way home. I've had all day to do it with the 2 year old so why should he

Why he couldn't say the shop didn't have my usual brand when he returned I don't know. But Ds 7 and DD2 were being a tad loud and demanding lol.

I'd be annoyed I think, but then I am a single parent who has to be organised.
Obviously things happen from time to time, but to be sent a list of some clearly non essentials would piss me off.

What can I use instead of loo roll? Wibu to use a torn page from a book of his???

My DH often asks if i need anything or whether he needs to get dinner ingredients on the way home. He is not usually home til after 8pm and have usually planned for dinner. I think he might be hoping for an excuse so he has to go to the shop to buy wine. I asked him to buy san pro once and he came back with tena lady so that has never happened again.

This can't be real.

I text my DH a list of stuff to pick up on his way home pretty much every day. He's the one who makes sure I always have sanpro and knows my brands better than I do. I really can't imagine a grown man refusing to buy them.

Mine used to call and ask what we needed when dc were little, he still does it now.
I text him a list and he buys it, where's the problem?
No difference going in for one thing or half a dozen.

I cant see any problem with that at all, I'm surprised anybody would. Whenever me or Dh or oldest son are out we always check in before heading home to see if anyone wants/needs anything on the way.

What have my eyes just seen?! He asked if you wanted something and then got annoyed when you said yes, these half a dozen things? And some posters are implying he's right?!!

Does he wear ties? I’d start there.

He could have called from the shop to ask you about the san pro. Any cheap loo roll is better than no loo roll, and there’s no way the shop didn’t have bog roll!

He could have called by another shop. He had options, he just couldn’t be arsed.

DP phoned me from Tesco's once and proceeded to describe every single packet of tampons on the shelf because the ones he'd seen occasionally in the bathroom weren't there - the thought of him standing there, saying 'There are ones that say "mini for light flow" and "super for heavy flow", but I don't think they're right, as I think you're pretty normal on the first couple of days, aren't you?' whilst weaker men swoon at the horror of the discussion around him entertains me greatly. The conversation ended with 'are you OK with applicator ones? They're regular. I'll get those. Oh, one type says "cardboard applicator" - they're more environmentally friendly, aren't they? I'll get them instead.' and he came back with gin and chocolate, too.

I normally use a Mooncup, but moments like that are priceless because I can't imagine having a phone conversation in the shop about which condoms he'd prefer if we used them.

WTF? It's a single bag of shopping plus a packet of loo rolls!

Milk, bread, shampoo, bubble bath, san pro and a bottle of wine and bog roll. Hardly a full weekly shop where you've asked for mixed colour quinoa and truffle oil.

Is he usually this pathetic?

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 so he can reproduce with you but not buy sanitary towels or loo rolls or whatever else you need. FFS.

So he was embarrassed about buying loo roll and sanitary towels basically? Whatta man