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It’s another chester draws thread...

375 replies

OccasionalNachos · 13/07/2019 13:17

I have just discovered that my DP of 11 years - so far always seemed like a fairly decent adult man - says ‘Chester drawers’. Specifically, I was asking him where some paperwork was and he said ‘in the top Chester drawers in the spare room’

This has never happened before.

AIBU to leave?

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SoupDragon · 14/07/2019 14:30

There is no 'R' in Chi ca go.

ca has a short a like apple. I don't think I've ever heard Chicago pronounced like that.

Shi car go. Because I have a non-rhotic accent.

Steamfan · 14/07/2019 14:30

I have a friend who calls hydrangeas higher rangers. I've never been able to find any lower rangers, sadly

HennyPennyHorror · 14/07/2019 14:41

Soup that's how I say it too! Not like with the A from apple!

Daenerys77 · 14/07/2019 15:06

I've recently noticed a new abomination-people saying 'X has got mental health' when they mean to convey that X does not have his mental health.

SaskiaRembrandt · 14/07/2019 15:19

So are you going to LTB, OP? Please tell us, I'm on tender hooks.

SeasideSoul · 14/07/2019 15:23

Of instead of have is becoming really very common now 😭 and we aren't allowed to point it out because that's just mean and does it really matter. YES!

CoolCarrie · 14/07/2019 15:24

Chester Draws would be a cute name for a cat who likes to climb on furniture!

CoolCarrie · 14/07/2019 15:26

It also sounds like a name from a book by Terry Prachett or Jasper Fforde

Ihopeyourcakeisshit · 14/07/2019 15:27

These threads wet my appetite for more threads of minor irritation.

NoTheresa · 14/07/2019 15:27

I text him or her or them. Sheer nonsense.

NoTheresa · 14/07/2019 15:28

Discrete used instead of discreet.

Ihopeyourcakeisshit · 14/07/2019 15:29

Mitchigan

NoTheresa · 14/07/2019 15:31

Reign in that behaviour.

NoTheresa · 14/07/2019 15:33

Drawering. Just say colouring in, please.

Greenteandchives · 14/07/2019 15:35

ihope do you mean ‘whet’, or are you being ironic?

NoTheresa · 14/07/2019 15:35

They went with him and I.
Rong.

NoTheresa · 14/07/2019 15:35

Ironic.

Ihopeyourcakeisshit · 14/07/2019 15:39

@Greenteandchives
I can't believe you had to ask.

Colourfulest · 14/07/2019 15:42

I just to get emails at work from people saying "I was just wandering if I could get a quote" Sad

chocolatebumby · 14/07/2019 15:42

Someone I used to work with. Not a stupid woman really said the other day on Fb 'cherry storkes'.

I was AGHAST!

TremblingFanjo · 14/07/2019 15:45

My DH proudly pronounces every letter in Library (lie-bra-rarie) and February (feb-brew-arie) but insists on saying restaurant as if he's French. He's not.

Muddledupme · 14/07/2019 15:45

I have to bite my fingers when people have died and someone puts now with the angles it makes my teeth itch but you can't say a thing without looking evil.

Socksontheradiator · 14/07/2019 15:47

@TremblingFanjo my mother does that too. Very Agatha Christie Grin

@crustycrab I also hope you were joking Confused

Greenteandchives · 14/07/2019 15:49

Sorry ihope.

NoTheresa · 14/07/2019 15:49

Ihopeyourcakeisshit

@Greenteandchives
I can't believe you had to ask.

Neither can I!