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!!

When we get in from school I send our 2 ds (9 and 5)upstairs to get changed. The 5 year old comes down and I noticed his school tshirt under his out of school tshirt. No biggie, he can't always do the buttons and was going to have a clean one the next day. So comes bedtime dh is helping ds5 get ready for bed, dhs shouts to me to why has Oliver still got his school trousers on. He'd only put a pair of trousers on top of his school trousers. Still have no idea why.

When we first moved in together DH didn't want to empty the kitchen bin "because I don't like doing it". I pointed out I was hardly thrilled to do it either and he started doing his turn.

Worse was the person I paid to pick up DC from school. She was really unreliable and often used the train as an excuse.

One time she rang me and said the train was 35 minutes late so she couldn't pick the DC up. I had a board meeting so couldn't leave work. I said ok I'll put them in after school club (1hr) which would give her time to arrive. She just said, no that doesn't work for me and hung up! Needless to say we replaced her asap

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

@willowmelangell did you know the clocks actually change tonight (only asking because I didn't til this morning) so you will have the correct time sooner than anticipated. Meanwhile I'll go back to having to remind myself to adjust the hour as my car clock is only correct in winter. It's not a hard job to change but I forget and have to relearn the process each time so it's easier just to leave it! 😆

OMG!
This has literally just happened...
DBF has just made a bacon sandwich, he didn't make me one because there wasn't enough bacon in the pack land didn't think I'd want him to open the other pack!

@thegreatporkchop

My DD said that she could not clean her room as it would confuse the cat.

Oh that is a winner 🏆

In the past I've thrown away pans as they were too hard to clean (I now make scrambled egg in the microwave)

Colleague cancelled a 2pm zoom meeting because she had to go out that evening

When I first started dating my husband, he stayed over at mine. As I left, he was still in bed because he was working a late shift. I asked him if he could do the washing up?

He said no because he had a busy day and he had to let the cat out.

I was furious, then found out he answers questions now his sleep!

My friend didn't come to my 17th birthday party because she 'had to help clean out the family campervan' - in February!. I think she was afraid it would be a wild rave, which was hilarious as that's so not who I am!

My DH doesn't (won't) cook AT ALL as he doesn't know how to put meals together.
And often says how do you know what goes with what

@Weedinosaurus

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....

We had a mature European student whose lessons were dreadful, one girl politely asked him to repeat something because she hadn't followed that he said. He went ballistic, it was their fault because they had northern accents and his English was south of England!

@Aweebawbee

Colleague cancelled a 2pm zoom meeting because she had to go out that evening

We once had loads of parents cancel their appointments with teachers because they had 'urgent family business', nothing to do with United replaying a cup tie! They then expected teachers to stay after school to see them or to see them in their lunch break. I was so glad that United lost the tie!

Dh went through an inexplicable phase of not emptying the kitchen bin because he couldn't tell if it was full or not

Weirdly it only lasted a couple of months, he's over it now.

@memberofthewedding

Many years ago - a staff member explained his lateness because the "bell on the bus wouldnt ding" and took him well past his stop.

A 15 year old boy was given a detention for persistant lateness for no good reason. He said, totally seriously, that he had a good reason though, he found it hard to get up before 10!

My cleaner didn’t turn up once because she was having her eyebrows microbladed
She’s my ex cleaner now
(If she had messaged to ask to come another time etc it would have been fine but it was a couple of hours before she was due and it was a simple sorry I can’t come this week because........
I suppose you have to admire the honesty though)

my ex refuses to have his iphone set to automatically adjust to clock changes because he ‘doesn’t trust it’, which then leads to utter confusion every time the clocks change as ‘now i don’t know what the actual time is’.

he once blamed me for him missing an appointment as i hadn’t changed the time on the fridge. mate, if you just set your phone properly you wouldn’t have to rely on the bloody fridge. why are you relying on the fridge anyway??

i’m glad he’s not mine any more.

Visiting a friend in hospital after the birth of her baby she said that the woman in the opposite bed's husband said he was too nervous to hold their baby. The funny part was that he was in bomb disposal!

@MatildaTheCat

I’ve not been permitted to have a coffee table in the sitting room because ‘you’d only put things on it’.

I confess I have told my DH the same thing because if there is any clear horizontal surface available, it's guaranteed that he will cover it with cables, papers, spare change, crumbled tissues, receipts, coffee cups and car magazines. All of this crap just seems to follow him around wherever he goes; his jacket and trouser pockets spew out their contents on to the nearest available surface every time he sits down. And breathe.

I'm going to sound sooo lazy here (I promise I'm not).

Sometimes when my baby stirs in the evening and I don't want to get up I tell DH it's best he goes to settle him as DS gets too excited when he knows it's me and won't settle back to sleep but he will for him

I also had a very bad habit of throwing odd 1p coins in the bin when I was younger and didnt know what to do with them. I no longer do this after a deserved telling off from my friend!

My ex once bought me a pair of boots I wanted for Christmas. In the wrong size. When I pointed this out he looked a bit confused and said "but I couldn't find your size anywhere".

@DarlingBudsofMarch

I once got a letter (in the post) telling me they couldn't pay the child benefit because they didn't know where I lived . I know it's not about being lazy but the logic of that still makes me laugh! I had to go into the office and when they crossly told me they didn't know where I lived I had to point out I lived at the address they sent the letter to

We lived in a Forces quarter behind a gate with no letter box, OH asked if a letter box could be put in because even though his mail all went to his BFPO address at work mine came to the flat as I worked for a local employer. One afternoon the gate bell rang and I went to collect a letter from the postman, it said there was no need for us to have a letterbox as all mail went through BFPO to work!

@harknesswitch

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

That's me too I get so excited about this time each year as it'll be right for 6 months after this weekend

took me a few years but its 7 months-still dont know why

oh my dh doesnt like making phoencalls to sort out bills etc-most things are in my name but ive told him i cant do the things in his name

he gets anoyed anout it not my fucking fault is it

Years ago we viewed a house that had a beautiful detached 2 bed, 2 bath newly fitted out annex in the garden with a private garden to the side of it. My mum was in her 60s, widowed and planning her retirement. She lived in a big house worth about £350k that needed a lot of work and had a massive, very steep garden.

The main house wasn't ideal for us because it needed a lot of work but the annex was perfect for mum so we suggested we bought the new property together. We would put in the bulk of the purchase price (about £750k) and be responsible for all bills and maintenance of the main house, annex and gardens. Mum could put in £100k from the sale of her house and keep the balance for her retirement. It seemed like a win-win for her. No more bills and a small manageable home that would allow her to be private and independent but nearby if she ever needed help or support.

Mum was thrilled at the idea until she viewed the annex. She then went off the plan because the windowsills were too high (they weren't anything unusual, they seemed like the normal height to me). I can only assume she had second thoughts about the whole scheme but if that was the case I wish she had said so.

TBH in some ways it was a relief because she can be a difficult woman but at the time it felt like a smack in the face. We had made this offer for genuinely altruistic reasons and to be rejected over something so petty really hurt.

My oldest ds who was 5 at the time told me that he couldn't go to sleep at bedtime because Australia were being too noisy and keeping him awake.......in North Yorkshire!