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Original poster

My ExH is a dick, I need an alibi

119 replies

TravellingSpoon · 30/10/2020 21:24

so that when I go over and smother him the police wont think its me.

Its his birthday today, DD chose a nice jumper for him, gave it to him on Monday when she saw him and he opened it today as he is spending today with his GF.

DD got a message this evening which simply read 'thanks for the jumper, do you have a receipt?'.

DD is crushed and he is such an arse. He has a history of wanky behaviour since our split just over a year ago, and they have only just started spending time together again as he didn't see them from Christmas to the beginning of August.

TWATWAFFLE.

OP posts:
Pinkyxx · 31/10/2020 01:33

Send him a picture of the receipt via text

If any consolation DC’s discovered a few years ago her dads wife puts any gift from DD in the bin..Has done for years, and yes he knows. It broke her heart ...

Loveable1 · 31/10/2020 07:00

@PerseverancePays that’s the only episode of tales of the unexpected I ever remember! How strange Grin

LakieLady · 31/10/2020 07:10

You've come to Sussex for the weekend, to help me clear out the spare room.

That will easily occupy 2 people for a whole weekend, and we can bury DP under all the crap he's accumulated, which is why the spare room needs clearing out.

SimplyRadishing · 31/10/2020 07:57

What a wretch.

Agree on asking for it back and using the cash to do something with your daughter

Whitehorsewaves · 31/10/2020 08:03

You don't need one, it justifiable homicide (bangs gavel). Next case.

Here's what I'd do, say mum needs to take it back as it was her card that paid. Get it back from him, get refund and tell DD to pick something nice for herself. Then never ever buy him a present again. Good life lesson for your daughter bad behaviour doesn't get rewarded.

Whitehorsewaves · 31/10/2020 08:03

*it's

CaraDuneRedux · 31/10/2020 08:05

For Christmas, buy him a ticket for the Orient Express Coventry to Birmingham stopping train (cheapskate? Me? Halloween Wink). We'll all come. Without any meddling Belgian detectives.

olivesnutsandcheese · 31/10/2020 08:15

He's a twat. I once helped my DSS to buy chocolates for his DM for mother's day. She asked him if he'd chosen them himself, when he said I'd helped she went nuts and told him it wasn't acceptable that he hadn't done it all himself. He was in bits. (Not the OW in case it matters and he lived with me 90% of the time)

Making a child feel shit about giving a gift is truly an arsehole move. Never let your DD buy him a gift again

KunekuneKristmasCake · 31/10/2020 08:22

Take it back to refund and give him a 50p block of chocolate. Spend the rest on DD

catsareme14 · 31/10/2020 08:32

Lovable1
Me too , I remember thinking that eating the murder weapon was the perfect crime .

plominoagain · 31/10/2020 09:14

Everyone remembers the leg of lamb one !

I always remember the one where the woman takes an overdose and is supposed to be saved by her ‘best ‘ friend in a plot they hatch - except that the friend purposely doesn’t - and then marries the rich man instead . Joan Collins ? I think .

NewlyGranny · 31/10/2020 09:30

Only substitute chocolate if he's diabetic/lactose intolerant/on a diet/hates chocolate. I'd been inclined to replace the unwanted jumper with just a belated birthday card, the naffest to be had, and stick to naff cards hereafter.

Your ex doesn't understand fatherhood or the etiquette of receiving gifts, does he? Was he always this socially inept or is he deliberately setting out to humiliate and discard his daughter?

Smothering with an unwanted jumper is too good for him. If I'm asked, you spent the weekend with me, stormwatching in Cornwall. 😉

Dobbyismyfavourite · 31/10/2020 09:50

Your poor DD and your ex is a twat.

If you need an alibi you were in Kent whilst binge watching Stranger Things with me, my DH and teenager.

Soontobe60 · 31/10/2020 09:52

Get it back off him, get a refund and buy him a charity shop jumper

Sparklfairy · 31/10/2020 09:55

@plominoagain

Everyone remembers the leg of lamb one !

I always remember the one where the woman takes an overdose and is supposed to be saved by her ‘best ‘ friend in a plot they hatch - except that the friend purposely doesn’t - and then marries the rich man instead . Joan Collins ? I think .

Oooh I don't remember that one. Joan Collins was in a few, the one that sticks in my mind is when she got her head stuck in a statue, and (after trying grease etc, very funny) her husband picked up an axe and (probably) chopped her head off Grin

Really sorry about your DD OP Flowers

My ExH is a dick, I need an alibi
fluffiphlox · 31/10/2020 09:59

That is a very low blow indeed. Any of us would be hurt by that, let alone an eleven year old. Her dad too!

Mandalorian · 31/10/2020 10:02

@Soontobe60

Get it back off him, get a refund and buy him a charity shop jumper
That. With the slight change of get him nothing and treat your DD with the money.
81Byerley · 31/10/2020 10:10

@WillYouDoTheFandango what a fantastic man! have you still got him?

Wellyouknowbest · 31/10/2020 10:34

@MessAllOver
Gentle mailice, might be my favourite thing to ever be said on here. That did make me laugh because i used to to the same thing with peppa pig Tshirts for my partner. And he always wore them.
And Op, hes a twat, you were with me, we had a windy walk, watched hocus pocus and the children carved the pumpkins and then we ate all the chocolate and sweets because - no trick or treaters

DressesWithPocketsRockMyWorld · 31/10/2020 11:09

Another offer of alibi here!!

My ex and his new bird (5 years older than DD) told our 15 year old DD who has been self harming and tried to kill herself recently that she doesnt have a personality and that she will get fat when she is older.

In fact, I might need an alibi for DH as he is threatening to go round and explain why this wasn't a sensible idea....

Original poster
TravellingSpoon · 31/10/2020 12:19

Of @DressesWithPocketsRockMyWorld, that is horrific.

I have messaged him this morning telling him that he can drop the jumper round and I will exchange it. He hasnt replied and he won't come round as he is refusing to visit my new house in protest at having had to sell our old one.

OP posts:
Storyoftonight · 31/10/2020 12:21

@DrizzleandDamp

Oh she must be heartbroken Sad

Please text back “too small? DD does see you with rose tinted glasses you fat headed twat”

Fat headed twat Grin
Sideorderofchips · 31/10/2020 12:27

You were in Jersey the whole time....

Snazzysausage · 31/10/2020 12:43

You were definitely here in Lincolnshire helping me to paint the hall. Oh how we laughed when I knocked the paint over and you trod in it!

MinnieJackson · 31/10/2020 12:52

@NancyPickford can I come too Smile that sounds so nice

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