Page 8 | What has someone not done for the most ridiculous reason?

HiyaMeAgain · 2021-03-25T17:45:31+00:00

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!!

Grenlei · 27/03/2021 14:11

A friend of mine once told me he never picked up a coin of a value less than 10p if he dropped it in the street or when vacuuming as it wasn't worth his time to do so

TawnyPippit · 27/03/2021 14:17

One of my colleagues was always about to start a diet. I remember her coming in one Monday and saying she’d meant to start it that weekend but on Saturday she had mopped her kitchen floor just before supper time and the floor was drying so she couldn’t go in and cook what she had planned, so she had to go out and get fish and chips.

Its so funny, that must have been more than 20 years ago, but I always use it on myself when I mithering about why I can’t do something that I don’t really want to.

SandAndSea · 27/03/2021 14:17

Our toilet brush (yes, I know!) has tissue stuck in it, which I find pretty annoying. I tried to talk to DP about it but he was emphatic that it couldn't possibly be him because he hasn't used it in over a year!

Longingforatikihut · 27/03/2021 14:56

Me...

I had booked a hire car to pick up first thing in the morning. Part of my morning/leave the house routine is a head count of pets and checking of food and water bowls. Someone was not in their tank. I looked behind all the furniture, under the sofas, behind the curtains, Everywhere. After 90 minutes I gave up, flopped on the chair and looked up... There, stuck on the inside of the lampshade was Marge, my giant African land snail. Needless to say the car rental place hadn't had that excuse for being late before. She still likes to escape but now can normally be found stuck to the back of the telly.

TheHollow · 27/03/2021 14:57

I asked for pyjamas for Christmas. Instead DH bought me a dressing gown ‘because he couldn’t find any pyjamas’.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 27/03/2021 15:00

@Grenlei

A friend of mine once told me he never picked up a coin of a value less than 10p if he dropped it in the street or when vacuuming as it wasn't worth his time to do so

I know! I was in the car with a friend once and I gave him the change from something. Picked out pounds, fifties and twenties and threw the rest out of the window! My Christmas tree last year was definitely not left in the corner of the dining room till the following year because no one cba to go in the attic. It’s not there now. Honestly.

wishing4sun · 27/03/2021 15:07

My DP didn't get something from a shop we were 2 min walk from because he could get it tomorrow.

Same kind of thing, he walked 25 mins to bloody toolstation without checking the item was in stock because he couldn't be bothered to faff around.

Neither of these things make sense to me.

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 27/03/2021 15:20

@Marvelwife123

Eat your xx food to DC the response I’m too cold to eat it. Basically replace xx with any food they didn’t fancy. Funny how they are very too cold for treats or puddings. Best part is it’s normally a hot cooked dinner that they stare will make them feel colder not warmer if eaten 😂

Expert level is 'I can't eat this because I'm allergic'.

Oh, you're allergic to carrots/tomatoes. OK. Of course we'll take it seriously. Sorry, no you can't have cake now. It's carrot cake. And no, we've got to take away the tomato ketchup because you're allergic to tomatoes.

Seen it on secondary school trip dietary request/medical forms many, many times. Allergies to chicken on the bone and pork seem to be the most common, followed by brown bread, fish not in breadcrumbs, mushrooms where they can be seen and crunchy peanut butter.

Not entirely sure what there is in a chicken drumstick they'd be allergic to that isn't in a piece of breastmeat, pork that isn't in the sausage rolls they buy from the canteen or any other allergies that apparently only present in the versions they don't want to eat, but there you go.

ProfessionalWeirdo · 27/03/2021 15:23

@Pumpkyumpkyumpkin

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".

This reminds me of a story a friend told about trying to buy some monogrammed handerkchiefs for his father, whose name was Edward. The shop assistant said "Sorry, we haven't got any Es. Will an F do?"

Liverpool52 · 27/03/2021 15:46

My mum once bought me pyjamas for Christmas that were three sizes too small because she loves a bargain.

LolaNova · 27/03/2021 16:02

@jessstan2 To be fair, I only have to change the sheets once per week. He has to swap bikes on the turbo at least three times so I still feel like I’m winning 😂

ReachedTheEndofCake · 27/03/2021 16:07

Staying at a friends for a few weeks whilst at uni, sharing a key via posting through the letter box.
Predictably, one morning friend forgot to drop the key through and drove to work a fair way away. The back door/yard backed into a train line. Completely locked in.
Emailed lecturer with the truthful, but very unbelievable reason why I wasn’t in tutorial - locked inside my house

He emailed back saying he was singing the great escape theme tune

CharityDingle · 27/03/2021 16:08

@Liverpool52

My mum once bought me pyjamas for Christmas that were three sizes too small because she loves a bargain.

ReachedTheEndofCake · 27/03/2021 16:09

Nowadays the most common reason for procrastination/avoidance of chores is

“I’ve got a cat on me”

the80sweregreat · 27/03/2021 16:13

Most people just blame covid or ' it's stuck on a cargo ship on the Suez Canal ' these days!

LifeOfBriony · 27/03/2021 16:39

Vodafone wouldn't cancel my late MIL's phone account because the account holder had to do it - and neither my DH or FIL were the account holder.

the80sweregreat · 27/03/2021 16:56

Most companies blame ' data protection' for every little thing. It's another good get out clause. Makes life very hard at times.

willowmelangell · 27/03/2021 18:12

@midnightstar66 Cheers midnight! I genuinely did not know that. Luckily tomorrow is a day off so plenty of time to change ALL the clocks.

Macncheeseballs · 27/03/2021 18:16

My dh couldn't put a fresh bin bag in the bin cos his 'hands were full' with the old bin bag

NotMyPremium · 27/03/2021 18:17

ExH couldn't cook proper meals as apparently he didn't know which bits of meat were fat and I only eat meat with the fat cut off. Idiot me fell for that one.

DS will tell me he vacuumed the week before/2 weeks ago when I ask him to do it again. Yes DS, dust constantly appears again!

Often DS has also broken a limb apparently. No idea when or how and it is never an issue until he needs to do something.

I refuse to let him turn out like his lazy dad who did bugger all when we were together and I can clearly see him taking after his dad. I asked outright who he thought was going to cook/clean/tidy when he was an adult. He said his wife. I very clearly corrected him. Then realised he had been modelled this for most of his life!

BritWifeinUSA · 27/03/2021 18:28

When I lived in the UK we had someone on our freecycle group (who was known to be a bit of a CF) ask for a bread maker “if anyone has one going spare” (because we all have spare bread makers sitting in the cupboard under the stairs gathering dust) because she can’t eat bread from a dip egg market because she’s pregnant and a loaf is too heavy for her lift and carry.

I did wonder how she would not only lift the bread maker onto her kitchen counter but also lift the bread and the pan that it cooks in out of the machine if a bagged sliced white is too heavy to lift.

BritWifeinUSA · 27/03/2021 18:28

Supermarket not dip egg!

Ginevere · 27/03/2021 18:46

Oooh I have a good one.

Was in a car with a friend and his gf at the time who was a proper ‘princess’ type. He pulled up at a tight parallel parking space and asked her to get out and guide him in. She said she couldn’t as it was ‘too short notice.’

Sexnotgender · 27/03/2021 18:53

@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

I got one of those too! Bizarre.

Arbadacarba · 28/03/2021 08:55

@Longingforatikihut

Me...

I had booked a hire car to pick up first thing in the morning. Part of my morning/leave the house routine is a head count of pets and checking of food and water bowls. Someone was not in their tank. I looked behind all the furniture, under the sofas, behind the curtains, Everywhere. After 90 minutes I gave up, flopped on the chair and looked up... There, stuck on the inside of the lampshade was Marge, my giant African land snail. Needless to say the car rental place hadn't had that excuse for being late before. She still likes to escape but now can normally be found stuck to the back of the telly.

That made me laugh out loud!