He bought chicken burgers

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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?😫

My highly intelligent, fairly high earning DH is no infant, however, without a list he is hopeless, even with a list its a bit hit and miss - he once phoned me to ask what the difference was between new and old potatos as he couldnt work out which was which, I told him to ask the ladies in the co-op, I guessed it would give them a laugh over tea break.

My highly intelligent and very high earning DF once took home a mango and 3 bottles of wine from a supermarket so he could get free parking, my DM remarked that maybe he could have called and asked if anything 'more useful' was needed, his reply was he faniced a mango and wine is always useful.

@dodobookends

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?".

I do that too, why is that so wrong? Better that than realising someone wanted something I could have bought!

I'd get mad if I'd fancied something and DH announced he was in the supermarket that day

To be fair for chicken I'd expect it a little more specific (ie whole, thighs, breasts etc) and for buffers perhaps a number/and or type (I like the posh ones, our butcher does quite a few types) so I can kind of see the mistake. Simply chicken and burgers is a little vague if you aren't the list writer

@DottyWott

I remember reading about the DH on here who bought 100 bread rolls instead of loo rolls 🤣 Could be worse!

What on earth were you supposed to do with 100 bread rolls?

however, without a list he is hopeless

looking at the number of shoppers who use a list, male or female, he's clearly not the only one

Bit harsh to criticise when he went out to do the shopping. He might be in his rights to say “do it yourself next time then!”

ah the MN very low bar for husbands.
OP, branch out with the chicken burgers, and send him out for a chicken. Shopping doesn't require multiple higher degrees, he should maybe do it more often?

DH drove DD1 to the supermarket yesterday because there was no salad in the fridge. He asked me if I needed anything else. I said veg.

DD1 went in, bought the salad items, came out. When they got home I asked her which vegetables she picked up. Veg I wasn’t told to get veg -said DD. 🤦‍♀️

at the pp who would break up with her partner for getting an item wrong on a shopping list (yeh yeh 🤣)

Of course he should go out & get a chicken!

How could you have made it clearer Op?

It was listed items-surely the fact that they were listed shows that they were 2 seperate items?

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 would have done the same. I'd have assumed you were going to add more items to the wash before putting it on. "Wash the sheets" would be clearer.

How could you have made it clearer Op?

Specified that it was "a chicken" rather than just "chicken" which could be diced, breast, thighs, fillets... that one letter would have made it completely clear.

I love that he thought you were branching out 😆

@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.

Sometimes human people make human mistakes?

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. We got our first car because my mother sent my father out to buy a typewriter (yes, it was a long time ago).

DF once took home a mango and 3 bottles of wine from a supermarket so he could get free parking He's right, of course. And more sensible than those people who reserve their on-line supermarket slot with a £40 bottle of champagne that they have no intention of buying, but risk being the only thing that arrives if they can't got on to update their order.

A friend of mine was sent out to get a chicken, and came back with a Ferrari.
His wife gets food delivered now

This is one of those threads where context is everything. If he is usually a totally normal competent partner who does the shopping reliably and consistently, then yes, this is funny and in no means a LTB moment. And certainly, while I'm always on the alert for strategic incompetence, this one did not come across that way.

Dh does not cook. So I have to be pretty specific on the food shopping list if he's doing it and I don't resent that. But he does do more than his fair share of cleaning so there's no need for me to get specific if I write, "bathroom cleaner" or "persil" for example because he knows what we use (and is often the person making the final decision as he does more cleaning than me). I don't think that's unreasonable. If I am buying batteries he has to spell it out to me in great detail as I avoid all things to do with power in our house at all times. That's normal.

@MereDintofPandiculation And more sensible than those people who reserve their on-line supermarket slot with a £40 bottle of champagne that they have no intention of buying, but risk being the only thing that arrives if they can't got on to update their order.

(although it was 3 giant bags of dishwasher tabs. So all was not lost)

I put baking pots once and he came back with cake cases...

Years ago I asked my husband to go to tesco for "some mince so we could make spaghetti bolognese" he came back with a packet of trebor soft mints!!!! Poor thing couldn't understand why I was slightly annoyed!!

I’m doing shopping for people I don’t know at moment as part of a voluntary good neighbour scheme. I think I must give them something random sometimes compared to what they want as everyone writes them so differently. My last list I got had ‘chicken meat’ on it I think shopping for others is hard!

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

DH did manage to wash the load when I asked him to do this when I was on my first day out after having ds. By the time I got home I didn't check and it was the next morning when dh asked about a clean shirt for work that I realised all of his shirts were still in the washer soaking wet.

I do find this sort of thing quite funny, we all are capable of total fuckwittery, I have to laugh at some of the things I have done over the years or I would cry and book myself into an asylum.

I laugh at DHs fuckwittery,, its just a brain fart, no one died.

Not harsh to critique when he did it wrong . Ridiculous to think he doesn't do shopping enough so allowed to make mistakes. Embarrassing that you let him off.

Poor thing?

My friend went out for a sofa and came home and with a donkey. Could have been worse
I went for a walk, got distracted and put a deposit on a new build (lived here 14 years now...)

Santaiscovidfree that is so sweet bless him! When my Ds was just starting to read independently we went to a restaurant .He proudly announced he would like a Sir Lion steak, (sirloin ha ha) we still call it Sir Lion steak now.