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Mouseylu · 2021-01-16T10:35:05+00:00

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?😫

lollylimejuice · 17/01/2021 21:20

Just remembered my late MIL telling me of the time she sent her little boy but later my DH on his bike to buy 12 crackers.....it being Christmas. He came home with 12 boxes of cream crackers stuffed under his arms, up his jumper and anywhere else he could find. That one, he's never lived down!

pinkyredrose · 17/01/2021 21:38

I put corn flakes on shopping list. He came back after a considerable absence with corn for making popcorn and a packet of chocolate flakes

i like his style!

multikids · 17/01/2021 21:44

I asked DH to buy kitchen roll - specifying a particular brand.
He came back with 4 double packs of kitchen roll!!
Well I had said “plenty” 😂😂😂

Eggnoggoanngoanngoann · 17/01/2021 22:07

I sent my adult son to corner shop to buy me a block of butter. He came home with a block of lard. He said it was really my fault because i had said the one in the red packaging and tbf this brand of lard was in a red pack. It was sold next to the butter and he didnt even know lard was a thing as we have never used it. I often wonder how many other people have been supprised when theyve bitten into their lard and ham sandwich

Pet8 · 17/01/2021 22:43

Mine's a butter one too. Every single time I'd write butter, he'd come back with the nastiest tub of margarine because it was cheaper. Not matter how skint I am, I can't stand 35p marg I'd rather do without.
DD came back with local newspaper once when I'd sent her the corner shop for potatoes. No, the paper isn't the daily spud either.

helpIhateclothesshopping · 17/01/2021 23:18

If my husband went shopping at the butcher's, he'd probably come back with a chicken, burgers, ribs, sausages, mince, pork chops and goodness knows what else. He doesn't often go shopping and gets seduced by meat!

supersplodge · 17/01/2021 23:29

Lol at all of these.

Be very careful what you wish for. DH is useless around the house and I got cross yesterday when he was lounging around and basically ordered him to pull his weight. Grudgingly he got out the hoover and started on the sitting room and - suddenly decided to completely re-arrange the entire room and all the furniture....!

He spent the entire afternoon moving the sofa and chairs, trying to persuade the kids their (very small and very lovely) bookcase was unnecessary, and generally making the place look horrible and cramped. He then said he can never see the telly so started moving that - cue weird arrangements where the TV is in the middle of the room (great idea with two mad kids and two even madder kittens) and unplugging all sorts of wires and not knowing where they came from!

It was chaos. We told him he needs to either buy a bigger telly or go to the opticians, and won the battle of the TV, but the furniture is still cramped into the middle of the room! It all took hours, and looks awful - and he didn't even hoover the other downstairs room!

If it was a deliberate ploy for me not to ask him again it definitely worked - but honestly! The time he spent, he could have hoovered the entire house! Should I LTB....?

supersplodge · 17/01/2021 23:35

And he doesn't really shop - but went with the kids to buy me things for my Christmas stocking. We always get funny, edible or practical things so I wrote down some ideas and put 'yellow sticky post it notes about 3x3 ins'.

But he does love a bargain. I got a huge pad of white memo paper! Not brightly coloured and not sticky!!!!! (But it was more pages for less money so he just couldn't help himself........!

Sparklfairy · 18/01/2021 00:26

Still laughing at the superplus tampon ignorance... "I know my size"

HeyMister · 18/01/2021 00:27

Whole chicken
Beef burgers.

That should sort it next time.

Mamanyt · 18/01/2021 00:49

LOL, I love this. I could write a book about just such things! Well, I could if I didn't send a man to shop for pens and paper.

Greenmandm · 18/01/2021 00:58

@DottyWott

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

🤣🤣🤣 Can't stop laughing

StarlightLady · 18/01/2021 04:05

Equally lighthearted respone.

I suggest you put your husband over your knee and let him feel the back of your hairbrush! It’s the only way they learn.

Malibu295 · 18/01/2021 09:19

My partner went shopping the other day and came back with a huge bag of pasta really proud telling me he got it for a good price, I didn't have the heart to tell him we didn't need pasta. Later it turns out I wrote Passata and he thought I just couldn't spell pasta 😂

BlondieJ · 18/01/2021 10:55

@Lenin1870

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!”

Imagine having this partnership

stayathomer · 18/01/2021 10:59

Wasn't there a chocolate milk thread or something before too? Sorry op, I might have done the same

icanboogieboogiewoogie · 18/01/2021 11:02

@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.

I don't know, maybe because he's her husband and not her employee? Maybe because sometimes people make mistakes?

AryaStarkWolf · 18/01/2021 11:14

@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.

Oh fgs, he read the list wrong and made a mistake, unless he's constantly making mistakes give the guy a break

WestendVBroadway · 18/01/2021 13:58

@multikids and@Malibu295 Lmaf!

BLToutanowhere · 18/01/2021 14:05

Got to love how quickly an honest mistake turns into a capital offence on here for some posters.

Regularsizedrudy · 18/01/2021 14:08

I don’t think anyone said it was a capital offence, just that they wouldn’t be impressed. Everyone makes mistakes but there does seem to be a pattern of some men pretending not to understand simple instructions just so they won’t get asked again. (These men also often have ‘important’ jobs, so I just don’t buy it). Maybe that’s not the case here but it does happen.

Notimeforaname · 18/01/2021 14:30

I do know my size and its not superplus, I tried one off a friend and it got stuck

Whilst I do know tampons are about flow and not size I must say I've had a similar experience the two times I tried to use super or superplus?! (was all that was available) it really hurt to put them in,was uncomfortable and really hurt trying to take it out... I assume its because I wasn't used to them and perhaps wasn't using them/placing them correctly.

MrsKoala · 18/01/2021 14:42

@Notimeforaname

I do know my size and its not superplus, I tried one off a friend and it got stuck

Whilst I do know tampons are about flow and not size I must say I've had a similar experience the two times I tried to use super or superplus?! (was all that was available) it really hurt to put them in,was uncomfortable and really hurt trying to take it out... I assume its because I wasn't used to them and perhaps wasn't using them/placing them correctly.

Tampon Derailment alert That’ll be more because your flow isn’t heavy enough to have lubricated you well enough to put it in. I have used super plus since I was 14 and I still couldn’t put one in if I wasn’t on my period. I have had 1 baby vaginally and was actually sewn up smaller than before - so it’s nothing to do with having a fanny the size of a wheelie bin (or a frigging horse).

If it hurts pulling it out or gets stuck it’s because it’s not soaked with blood and you need one for a lower flow. If I look at the size of a super plus tampon they are about the same as my thumb. Absolutely nothing compared to a penis or a speculum. Those things go in and out with lubrication and so do tampons.

Bodynegative · 18/01/2021 16:10

I laughed at the OP & didn't take it too seriously, however I did notice that nearly all the posts were about men or kids being unable to read lists and get the right thing. It seems that it's still women who do all the organising and thinking. Surely the little darlings could take their fair share?

Eg:

A friend was in hospital seriously ill. She asked her DH (intelligent, middle manager) to pop into town for groceries and get their DS some new trainers and her some Pjs from M&S. He "couldn't find" any of the above but managed to find the wine aisle... She had to ask a relative to look after them!

ColdTattyWaitingForSummer · 18/01/2021 18:38

I do remember writing "salad pots" on a shopping list, and giving it too my then DH. I meant the pots of coleslaw / pasta salad / potato salad, that type off thing. He came back with a bag of salad potatoes. To be fair, that one maybe wasn't his fault!