He bought chicken burgers

[Mouseylu]

Lighthearted. Yesterday dh went to do food shop. Two lists - one for supermarket, the other for our local butcher. The butcher list had two items on it: chicken and burgers. I wanted a whole chicken and some beef burgers. He bought chicken burgers - items were listed on separate lines as were the supermarket items but somehow he claims it read chicken burgers. Aibu to despair?😫

Why would you saddle yourself with someone incapable of reading a shopping list?

Do you never make a mistake? Everytime then yes I would agree. But once if you dont normally do it with the rest of the list obtained. I'd be laughing

Man, now I really want a chicken burger for lunch.

Honestly I could see myself making this kind of mistake...

Once I told my DP to "put the sheets in the washing machine" - he put them in, shut the door and that was that. Didnt bother to actually wash them

I'm not sure this is that ridiculous. I often ask my OH to stick something in the machine, because I still have other stuff I want to add to the load. If i want him to put the machine on I'd say so.

@Hazelnutlatteplease

easy mistake if you dont regularly fo the shopping!

Nonsense. It's not a case of being used to shopping, it's basic literacy.

My DH rang to to ask what ‘one hundred rolls’ were. It was loo rolls.

@Regularsizedrudy

Ah another thread of hilarious feigned incompetence

Why would you saddle yourself with someone incapable of reading a shopping list?

The list said chicken burgers. He bought chicken burgers. He offered to go back and buy chicken and burgers.

I hope you never ever make a simple mistake.

I gave my 6 year-old the list to hold to try to keep him entertained and a pen to cross things off. He announced 'we need 100 rolls'

I made a list which included Sauce P.
Went to supermarket, utterly confused as to what Sauce P was. And I'd written the list myself. Came home without Sauce P.

Readers, it was a Saucepan

@UghNotThisAgain36

I don't find this funny at all though I know its meant to be light-hearted. Why do people put up with such 'selective helplessness'? Why would you saddle yourself with someone incapable of reading a shopping list? Just smacks of infantilising men. Yuck.

there's always one

@Wellysock

My DH ignored the first item on a shopping list because he thought it was a header.....

That’s brilliant! I can just imagine your face when he told you that!

Nonsense. It's not a case of being used to shopping, it's basic literacy.

chicken. burgers.

Seriously, get over yourself

@Regularsizedrudy Not in the mood to play today eh?

Dear God, we really can't laugh at anything on MN anymore, it's always got to be selective this, feigned that, incompetent whatever.
Sometimes it's just brain fart/human error, a mistake that's amusing to tell and read about.

Did you not specify types? I would normally say 'whole chicken' or 'chicken breasts' for instance.

But yes, his fault. Send him back out.

Gave up, oh doesn't shop very often, nor cook.
Minced beef? Yes he bought minced beef- a tin of....... Yuck!

On ours recently my partner had written ‘orange 50’ I resisted the urge to buy 50 oranges so I bought 5 oranges. He meant the 50% less sugar orange juice that tropicana make.

@UghNotThisAgain36

I don't find this funny at all though I know its meant to be light-hearted. Why do people put up with such 'selective helplessness'? Why would you saddle yourself with someone incapable of reading a shopping list? Just smacks of infantilising men. Yuck.

Hope you're getting a lot of vitamin C from that lemon you're sucking on

@Jessbow

Gave up, oh doesn't shop very often, nor cook. Minced beef? Yes he bought minced beef- a tin of....... Yuck!

I didn't know this existed until DH was telling me about the bolognaise his mum used to make when he was a kid, which was a tin of mince and a tin of tomato soup combined. That was it, 2 ingredients.

I think (if I was sending somebody else out with my list) I would have quickly added 'whole' in front of the chicken. I just write 'chicken' meaning breasts. or legs, or a whole chicken because I know what I want but I wouldn't expect him to.

I would expect a phone call to clarify what type of chicken, but chicken burgers would definitely be a surprise!

You're telling me your DH doesn't phone you 50 times whilst he's doing the super market shop ?! I love my oh so much but fucking hell I could strangle him when he's food shopping on his own.

When we first moved into this house, I sent DH out to order and pay for a new bed. He came home with a television.

@UghNotThisAgain36 good God I bet you're fun at parties.

Op he's done you a favour. Chicken burgers are much tastier than beef burgers 😂😂😂

Mine has a habit of texting me, when I'm at work and he is in the supermarket, with questions such as "Do we need milk?".

Ahh rooky mistake on ur part there !

I’ve learned from mine as an very specific in list writing now. If I really think it might cause any confusion I also google a pic of what I want and send them. Most times now I get the right things brought home lol