What has someone not done for the most ridiculous reason?

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I'll start....

My DS didn't do the washing up today as there wasn't any room on the draining board for more dishes!!

DH once didn’t get me any prawn crackers from the supermarket because he didn’t know what aisle they were in.

This thread is going to be great!

I didn't change a wall clock time in Autumn. Because the chair was the other side of the room. So in a couple of weeks clock change it will actually be the right time

Went on a self catering holiday with my parents. My dad refused to lift a finger to help cook, wash up etc because he was "on holiday". Lazy bastard left it all to me and my mum.

I didn't go to work because the coat I wanted to wear was still wet in the dryer.

My kids never put their plates or cups in the dishwasher as they don't know whether it is currently clean or dirty stuff in there 🙄

He always helpfully puts yard bin out for collection, walks past and ignores every time the overflowing kitchen bin citing confusion if that should go out too. Ah!

@willowmelangell

I didn't change a wall clock time in Autumn. Because the chair was the other side of the room. So in a couple of weeks clock change it will actually be the right time

PMSL! Just a handful of posts in and I am already ROFLing!

My daughter 8, declined to help me with folding clothes, declaring that she was 'too naive' 😂

DH (seriously) used to have this fucking annoying tendency to be a bit passive-aggressive... Eg.... One example is that he would go for his breakfast at 7.30am, and see all 4 cereal bowls were in the sink (still dirty from yesterday, as the washing up fairies hasn't done them!)

So he used to come back into the lounge and sit down with a sulky pout, with just a cup of coffee. When I asked him why he had no food (I only asked him the first 2 times,) he said 'coz there's no clean cereal bowls.'

Too idle to wash one, or a little passive-aggressive way of saying he was going to STARVE until lunchtime now, because I hadn't washed up last night? I wasn't sure, but I ignored him nonetheless. I thought 'well go fucking hungry then!'

He only did it 3 times. The third time he did it, I said (angrily) 'WELL WASH A FUCKING CEREAL BOWL THEN! IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!'

I really had no idea why he thought it was MY responsibility to do the washing up. I worked as many hours as him.

He shares household chores now (and has done for most of our marriage,) but the first 2 or 3 years of living together/marriage, he definitely had this attitude that it was my job to wash up and do the grunt work!

He soon learned that I wasn't a pushover, and wouldn't tolerate that 'I can't do this because of a stupid nonsensical reason' bollux!

My husband once told me he couldn’t mash potato as he didn’t know the correct technique. I pointed out I hadn’t got a degree in it myself yet had somehow managed to figure it out and sent him back to the kitchen.

Me: DD could you tidy the kitchen table please?
DD: in a minute.
Repeat. Repeat.
Me: DD could you stop skivving and tidy the kitchen table please?
DD: I'm not skivving, I just went into the hall to look at myself in the mirror.

@UnicornPug

My husband once told me he couldn’t mash potato as he didn’t know the correct technique. I pointed out I hadn’t got a degree in it myself yet had somehow managed to figure it out and sent him back to the kitchen.

😀 Men eh? Can work or mend complex things but little things baffle them a lot.

Ooh I've got one! When we'd got a new hoover, I asked DH to vacuum the place.
Afterwards I realised he hadn't done the (perfectly normal standard) tiled bathroom or kitchen floors. His excuse was he "didn't know if you were supposed to use it on those kind of floors".
He is still a fucking lazy bastard when it comes to the cleaning.

New member of staff a few years ago. We got a lot if deliveries in his first week which needed sorted. He said he'd do it, then his line manager discovered that he'd disappeared off and hardly did anything.
Reason:he'd been sorting things at home and mentally couldn't cope with doing too much sorting things.
Apparently telling him he had to actually do something (anything!) in a job was bullying...

@treeeeemendous

My kids never put their plates or cups in the dishwasher as they don't know whether it is currently clean or dirty stuff in there 🙄

You need one of these

Husband couldn't put on my plain penne pasta to cook one night because 'he didn't know how long it takes to boil and might mess it up'. Firstly, I'm pretty sure the instructions were still on the packet, and secondly it's f-ing plain pasta and he was 30 years old at the time.

A student teacher I was mentoring couldn’t start the lesson she was teaching on time because she hadn’t finished her make-up. She asked if I would mind reading the class a story until she was ready...
She was not a student teacher for much longer....

man who worked for me couldn't do the filing because he'd been off with a stomach upset and the retching had made his stomach muscles sore so he couldn't physically do the filing

Can work or mend complex things but little things baffle them a lot.

It doesn't baffle them. It's deliberate incompetence as the 'durr silly men can't do what us women do' is instilled in them from childhood, and playing that card means not having to do these things.

A good 'well figure it the fuck out like I had to' usually works. Same goes for buying gifts for his side of the family in special occasions.

DH hasn't changed the time on the car clock because 'I'll just have to change it again in six months'.

My husband bought a takeaway for him and DS because my over the phone instructions on how to boil rice was to difficult to follow whilst I lay in a hospital bed after giving birth to DS2.

This was quite sweet. DH pulls his weight 100%. Does all the food shopping and cooking. I tend to do the laundry.

We got a new tumble drier (never had one before). I am in the habit of separating stuff for the dryer and hanging the rest on the Lakeland heated airer.

One evening he hung everything up on the Lakeland. I asked how come he hadn't used the drier.

He said he didn't think he was authorised yet

DS couldn't empty his pe kit out of his bag as 'he had done it once already this week'. Apparently you should not have to do things more than once a week!

When I was young I missed a few things because I preferred staying in bed to getting up in time.