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?😫

My Oh, went off list, a couple of times. It was in the first lock down in March, he works at Lidl, he gets a staff discount, but he has to show his card. The shop was doing a one person only policy.
So I gave him a list, he comes back with items, but extra bits, some potatoes. I asked why? As they weren't on the list, he said, they were on last week's list so he thought I had forgotten them, I explained, they weren't on the list, due to us having loads left over, from the week before, hence, why they weren't on this week's list. He did the same, with tomatoes. Again, not on list dueyo not needing.
He also got pasta, not passata.
I was so glad, when we could both go shopping, so we could get his discount, plus the shopping, we needed. I told him not to go off list, but he did it again.

heaveho
No children and in my twenties

I’m howling laughing at these & then howling even more at the miserable arses trying to analyse a mistake as a deep marital issue

Why has nobody asked about the friend who came home with a donkey This is a story we need to hear @QueenPawPaws

came back with super plus am I a friggin horse dear.

Shop assistant thought it was hilarious, said I wondered about size but didn't like to say.

I don’t understand what’s so funny about this? I’ve never used anything else. I can’t believe a shop worker would be judging and thinking about someone buying a totally normal product which is entirely to do with flow and not the size of your fanny!

No children and in my twenties

Crikey. It gets worse!

I’ve had a few situations like this so now ask DH to read shopping list out loud in front of me. It helps!
But in fairness I have awful handwriting and often use my first language alongside English on my shopping lists.

Oh god now I’m laughing that someone thinks tampons come in fanny size ....

I love this thread. My husband does like shopping but always goes off list and constantly calls me even though he’s been shopping for over 10 years for family now!

I sometimes say I’m popping out to get milk, come back with a bag of shopping, but forgotten the milk.

My friends husband once called her telling the shop had no margarita pizza but they did have cheese and tomato pizza

I was asked to get “a pint of milk, and if they have eggs get half a dozen”. I didn’t understand the issue when I returned with 6 pints of milk 😆

[quote heaveho]@Ddot
Why would you be ‘a frigging horse’ to use super plus tampons?[/quote]
This.
What kind of a dummy doesn't understand tampon sizes are about flow not your vagina size. Know your bodies, ladies!

@Mouseylu Ha ha!

I do know my size and its not superplus, I tried one off a friend and it got stuck. So pull your neck in

My DH once spent £25 on cheese from Makro because he didn't realise it was £5/kg not £5 for the massive block. He did wonder why the bill was so high but didn't question it 🤦‍♀️

I dread to think what kind of preservatives it had in it as it took a good couple of months to eat and never went mouldy!

Once I had cystitis and asked h to nip to the chemist. I said ‘ask the pharmacist what to buy, say I’ve had it before and just need something to treat it, because sometimes they ask a lot of questions if it’s not for you’. He went off and I got a phone call from outside the shop:
H: she won’t give me anything, she says you’ll need to see a dr.
Me: FFS did you tell her I’ve had it before?
H: yes, I said my wife’s had it a few times and now just needs something over the counter.
Me: and she still said she wouldn’t give you anything? That’s really odd...
H: ummmm you did say syphilis didn’t you...?

Men are as thick as pig shit sometimes. I don’t care how ‘sexist ‘ this sounds. I do not care. I’m too old and I’ve seen too much 😄😄😄

Lol! Can totally relate.

Yesterday dh went to get stuff for our Saturday night meal - I sent him the list of the ingredients and he came back with the fish. Just the fish. Nothing else.

My dad is the king of this. When he and my mam were first married she wrote "lb sprouts" on the list and my dad read this as "16 sprouts" and counted out 16 in the greengrocers.

Honestly I hate when that’s sort if things happen.

It feels to me that each time, it’s more of ‘I can’t be arsed’ comment.

These men shouldn't need babying anymore. Nor should they have any issue doing some shopping for their own household wo any mistake.

Reminds me of a comedy show in the 80s called Watching, when one character wrote out a shopping list and the other said “why did you buy crepe paper?!l”, and she pointed to it on the list - “no,” said the first one, “that says crap paper!”

A while ago I askedy DH to bring back salad items, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, coleslaw etc. He bought a tin of tomatoes.

One Christmas my friend asked her partner to pick up a jar of mincemeat, so she could make mince pies. Partner came back and said that shop did not sell mince in jars, so he bought some tinned mince in sauce and some fresh 'just in case'!

Not helpful but I love chicken burgers, haven’t had them for ages

Think men do this in the hope they don’t get sent shopping again 😂

Not many butchers sell chicken burgers in my experience. Are you sure he didn’t buy chicken burgers from the supermarket to save going there and just told you he “misread” it?

It's been 46 years since my DH went food shopping. First DS was a new born and we lived on a shoestring (very tight budget) I sent him to the butchers, he bought the best cuts of meat and a large amount and basically I thought the butcher saw him coming. He went to the supermarket and found several things not on the list but left off other things. Decision taken instantly, never again so apart from milk or a loaf, it's my job. If he comes shopping with me now, my bill doubles with his add-ons, vino, beer, cakes etc. On the other hand, I leave him all the dirty, cold outside jobs so no complaints.