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Your examples of bone idle laziness!

185 replies

TightPants · 10/01/2020 20:33

School mum lives down my road. I actually live further from the school than she does and it’s a 7 minute walk for me and DC.
This mum (who is not disabled in any way btw) actually gets in her car and drives her DC to school. I see her parking up back at home on my way back so she’s not dropping DC on the way to work either. This is morning.
WTF!

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ChocolateCoins19 · 10/01/2020 21:44

Ds does the curtains thing too
Yet in the day when the sund on xbox he manages to close them then.. I hate closed curtains in the day time.

SapphireSeptember · 10/01/2020 21:47

Me, I've been off work this week, I've spent from Sunday lunchtime till this afternoon indoors and haven't done much at all. My room is a mess (partly because the recycling bins are full and they don't go till Monday) partly because I can't be arsed. My clothes horse has clean washing on it that's been there for over three weeks. I could go on. Smile I've got a day and a half back at work and then I'm off for another week! I have loads of washing to do and haven't done any either. (Nothing especially manky, my underwear gets washed fairly often otherwise I'd run out!)

Rubyupbeat · 10/01/2020 21:48

Shes hardly lazy if she goes to gym classes is she?
As for bad for the environment. I have a large 4x4 hybrid, anything within 30 miles is run on a motor.
Oh, and I couldnt drive when mine were small, so did a mile there and back 3x a day.
The driving came when they went to a school 10 miles away.

Veterinari · 10/01/2020 21:53

Clearly posters like @BlueEyedGreeness don't give a shit about pollution, climate change or childhood obesity. And like to slag off anyone that might raise an eyebrow at lazy selfish behaviour.

I'm with you @TightPants
It's pretty idle.

Ihatesundays · 10/01/2020 21:54

I used to pass a dad on the way to school who would drive to the school (a 2 minute walk from where he lives to his DDs entrance) and park in the school car park. Except the car park was on the opposite side of the school to where his DDs class was. So they would actually walk further than just walking from home? He would then drive straight home.
He stopped in year 4. I assume he worked it out.....
Me and other mum I walked with laughed about it every day for years though.

ironicname · 10/01/2020 21:58

@Tightpants
Would be too outing, but looks like this.

wishihadagoodone · 10/01/2020 22:01

DH puts used teabags in the sink when making tea.....instead of taking the massive extra FOUR steps (two there and two back, yes I've counted!!!) to the bin.

Gives me serious raaaage

nestisflown · 10/01/2020 22:05

I couldn't face dealing with the mountain of laundry so I ordered an extra week's worth of underwear for me and the children. I know it is wasteful but I just can't this week Shock

TightPants · 10/01/2020 22:12

Grin at some of these domestic ones.

I’m gobsmacked at the other school/nursery ones - obviously it’s more common than I thought.

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justcly · 10/01/2020 22:15

My DS texts me from his bedroom to ask me to make him a coffee. We live in a bungalow and his bedroom is next to the kitchen. I also once spent ten minutes clearing out biscuit wrappers that he had shoved between his bed and the wall. There was an empty waste basket right next to his bed. Hmm

wallyrag · 10/01/2020 22:22

I have ibs which is most likely coeliac but can't go through the testing process. I love the gym, when well I can handle it. In a bad flare up I've also managed work;Nursing which is extremely physical,
I disagree with your comment that someone with ibs couldn't manage going to the gym.
There are a multitude of reasons why she does this, one of which is laziness, the majority of others perfectly valid if not visible.

Purpletigers · 10/01/2020 22:25

It’s lazy . Buying breakfast from the local spar after you drop the kids at school when you don’t even work .

slipperywhensparticus · 10/01/2020 22:26

Lady at our school lives a five minute walk away she drives all around the one way system parks on the yellow zig zag inbetween the school slow signs and takes the kids to school..late..

I text my daughter in the same room

vodkaredbullgirl · 10/01/2020 22:29

@wishihadagoodone my dd does that too and the food bin is right by the sink.

Weenurse · 10/01/2020 22:29

I may have packed a box of ironing when we moved house last 😊

Spartonian · 10/01/2020 22:29

BeeFarseer

I once bought an e-book of a book I already owned, because I couldn't be bothered to get out of bed to fetch the book

Now that's is my kinda thinking

FranticToddlerMum · 10/01/2020 22:31

YANBU. That's lazy as hell and most schools are congested in the morning so also selfish. I used to have a bloody annoying neighbour with a child the same age as DC1 who told me in a condescending way that my 2 year old was really too old for the buggy now when we'd walked to playgroup (DC1 would usually walk half the way and jump into the buggy if she got tired) and she had just plonked her two year old in the car seat and driven her door to door.

YourBonesAreWet · 10/01/2020 22:33

I bought an Echo just so I could turn the lights out from my bed.

bananahood · 10/01/2020 22:33

YANBU. My neighbour does this. Every day. And parks in the staff only car park. She obviously gives no shits about the environment Angry

BarbedBloom · 10/01/2020 22:34

I have RA. I get terrible morning stiffness so wouldn't be able to walk a child to school, but could quite possibly do an exercise class later in the day. Just saying.

Anyway, my example was when I was super lazy one day I needed my usb wire to charge my phone and my DH draped it over the cat and I called her. It didn't fall off and she ran right to me Grin

Khione · 10/01/2020 22:37

My daughter used to get in her car when she left work to drive the 50m to the gym she used. When I commented she said, she would be too tired after the gym to walk back for it.
She was 22

MitziK · 10/01/2020 22:41

I used to walk past a house where the mother would drive her rapidly increasing in size daughter 25 foot downhill and then walk the other 0.1km to school. And then come back, get in the Rangerover, drive it back up, get out and go inside until 2.55pm, when she'd repeat the run. It took longer for her kid to get in than it did for me (41 weeks and 5 days pregnant with a 10 pounder bouncing on my pelvic floor) to walk past and get halfway to school. And the fuss when somebody stole 'her' parking spot in the turnaround point at the bottom of the hill - she genuinely screamed 'FOR FUCK'S SAKE' when she had to abandon it in the middle of the single track road a car length's further away.

Other than that, I'd like to nominate DTwatCat#1. He has a bed behind the armchair. His armchair, covered in a furry throw and positioned so he gets sunshine all year round. It is accessed by jumping onto the coffee table, walking across said coffee table, walking onto his armchair and disappearing over the back. Or, if you're a normal animal, by walking round the back and stepping in. He's gone to sleep on the coffee table.

W33XXX · 10/01/2020 22:42

Know if a few parents doing the maximum 5 minute walk, drive to school. Parking on the double yellows or zigzags to drop the kids right at the school gates (not disabilities as people with disabilities get to enter the car park to collect kids. There's a big crack down with council and police.

My husband is a lazy sod. Fold all his clean washing into nice piles relevant to what drawer they go in, anything that gets hung up I do. When he goes to bed at night he sweeps it all on to the floor Angry I haven't cleared it since Hogmanay and there is a sizeable mound growing, with the requests of have you seen? Angry

otterhound · 10/01/2020 22:47

She is a Lazy cunt.

AlwaysThinkingOfNames · 10/01/2020 22:49

It seems lazy, but maybe her children are a complete PITA and walking is more trouble than it's worth.

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