I'm feeling like doing a Shirley Valentine this morning

[completelycheesedoff]

That's it really. Fed up to my back teeth with son and my husband taking his side even when he's being really disrepectful. AIBU?

stuff that lets hire a car and do a Thelma and Louise

Driving into the Grand Canyon? Can we even drive all the way there?

I'm so fed up with my menfolk; there's a small chance I might be suffering from pmt as well.

I feel like taking the girls and going to live in France. WITHOUT TELLING HIM!

I'm looking up schools and flats for rent, down where I want to go, right now. Shall I go before he gets home from work?

yes, sorry im being no help at all am i

Test the waters by booking yourself into a spa for the weekend!

Blowing up stuff sounds good at the moment, but the Pitt? Urgh!

Like my son's disgusting room for a start.

Skerrymum- He's 14.

Two younger sisters.

sod the car hire get a mini bus and i will join you

Skerrymum- you can have the Pitt all to yourself- I won't be fighting you over it...

My son is not a typical surly and uncooperativwe teenager. He's just maddeningly disorganised and thinks nothing of getting someone (ie- me!) to run around after him. This morning he rang from 4 miles away where my husband had dropped him off to say that he'd forgotten his monthly bus ticket and had no money to get to school. I said I'd take him his ticket (after telling him I was in fact cross with him), but when I got there, he'd buggered off. I didn't have my mobile on me as it is not taking charge (he knows that) at the moment, but he didn't attempt to call me at home to tell me he'd left the bus stop.

I went to my husband's work and got him to ring the boy. Turns out he had walked to school (3 miles) from where he was meant to be, leaving me to drive in in rush hour traffic to where I thought he was, and my husband doesn't think there's anything wrong with that. I think at hte very least he could have made contact to tell me not to bother dragging his sister out of the house in a rush to take him his bloody ticket (which I didn't find in his shite-tip anyway, and was taking him money from his own money box). Grrrr....

Am slowly simmering down and have stopped looking for houses in Toulouse now.

I felt like you at the weekend - totally put upon and cross.

How long would it take to get to the Bahamas if we left now?

SKerryMum- Only my husband spoke to him. Since I have now empowered my husband to do most of the discplining and talking through such events with our son (I felt he was taking a back seat with him, and actively ducking out of the "nasty" jobs, and just didn't want to be bad guy any more), I consider it his department to talk to him about it. I will tell him what I and his sister did for him this morning, but will not get cross with him again.

I do expect my husband to talk to him about it though,, but when I saw him (DH) this morning at work, he didn't seem to think it was that big a deal, and that I was just overreacting. Hence my fury at 9:30 this morning.

May I suggest that you definitely go to France because from experience of teenage boys, they only get better when they get married and their wives take over