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?😫

Oh so theyre not high earners. Gotcha.

@SoupDragon

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.

But then the list (to him) would have said "a chicken burgers"-what would he have made of that??!!

I get what you mean about type of chicken-but maybe meals had been discussed & Op didn't realise that it would need spelling out?

Agree re: context, as a mistake - funny. Regularly useless - not so much.

My usually efficient DH went to the shops quite late one Saturday afternoon as I had been ill and all I fancied were digestive or Rich Tea biscuits.

He returned about two hours later (should have taken five minutes) with a large red tin of those whirl shaped Danish biscuits in paper cases. I'd asked for 'Plain-ish biscuits'...

@SlightlyJaded, that’s cute, though. And Danish biscuits meet the spec. As well as rhyming.

@Santaiscovidfree

Dh does our shopping.. On his list was water cress as I was making salmon and wc fish cakes.. Went to make tea and found salmon and salad cress.

I know nothing of salad cress!

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. oh get a grip.

As much as there might be DH’s who get this stuff wrong I would bet there are women who do as well, they just don’t admit to it.

I once made a mistake on an online order and ordered 21 500G blocks of cheese. [shock[ fortunately the supermarket rang beforehand to check that the quantity was right.

I went to a local carpet shop to buy an offcut to use as a doormat. The lovely guy who owned the place talked me into recarpeting my four bedroomed house...

During the first lock-down I ordered what I thought was 10 boxes of icing sugar off amazon cos 3 of my elderly neighbour's wanted some as well as myself paid not attention just clicked, I had ordered 10 packs of 10, was giving it away all round the village

I too am in awe of a man who went shopping! What a prize! Did he take his dick with him? That might have been what caused the confusion ...

During the beginning of the first lockdown, couldn’t get my hands on a pack of antibac wipes for love nor money.

DH was very pleased with himself when he handed me an appropriate substitute he’d found in the local shop - Andrex wet wipes for your arse.

DH went shopping with a list I'd written that had 2 columns. The first 2 items were chocolate and teabags- he actually went looking for chocolate tea. The second 2 were bleach and gravy, thankfully he caught on... He's never usually a fool, unlike most of the DHs on MN...

During first lockdown I ordered garlic powder from amazon.

1.5kg of garlic powder.

Still using it now

@QueenPawPaws

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...)

Hahaha. Put a deposit on a new build..... love this.

I once went out to take the dc to school and accidentally bought a car on the way back. DH had this face ---> for about 3 days straight.

But what was on the list @doctorhamster? Were you meant to buy cat food?

Bless 🤣

Your being completely over the top get a grip girl.

That's why I always do the shopping myself. Easy mistake to make, however.

I once asked my husband to pick up a birthday card and he did literally that: just the card, not the envelope 🤦🏽‍♀️

I was (unwell) so sent my partner for tampons at the corner shop.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 came back with super plus am I a friggin horse dear.
I had to scurry back to shop myself. Shop assistant thought it was hilarious, said I wondered about size but didn't like to say.

Completely your fault, fancy let him go to more than one shop at a time unaided, Russian Roulette is probably safer

This is why my husband is not allowed to shop alone.

I once sent him to the shop for butter and milk. He returned with 3 premixed cans of gin and tonic, a fruit crumble and custard, 2 bottles of red wine, a box of chocolates for me, 2 small packets of sweet for the children a jar of peanut butter and a large bottle of chocolate milk.

Apparently, I didn't specify the type of butter and milk he was supposed to buy.

What is wrong with you ? Please have a word with yourself 🤦‍♀️

My husband went with my mom in law to do our shop as I was ill. On the list was bio laundry powder... They both, along with an assistant spent ages looking for b10 soap powder and came back with none, nonplussed 'cos I'd asked for something noone had ever heard of and thought I'd gone balmy 😂

@Ddot
Why would you be ‘a frigging horse’ to use super plus tampons?