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Housework Chicken....how long have you held out?

156 replies

JensonsAcolyte · 29/04/2021 14:46

We had a delivery of 90 loo rolls (so a massive package) on Friday.

After watching 3 out of the 4 adults in this house climb over it to get upstairs, I decided to play chicken.

I’m afraid I cracked first, yesterday morning. But only because I saw that someone had opened the large package, taken out an individual pack, taken out a single loo roll and walked off.

I lost my shit and then while I was stomping around the house shouting about ungrateful lazy bastards, I actually slung the package in the cupboard where it lives.

So a six day hold out.

Please come and tell me your best/pettiest/longest lasting games of chicken.

OP posts:
Tlollj · 29/04/2021 18:40

Your dhs trousers have been on the bathroom floor for 8 months! Did someone not wash the floor? Did you wash round them?
I could not sleep at night if this was going on in my house. I’m glad I live alone.

DdraigGoch · 29/04/2021 18:47

There was a thread on a similar subject a while ago and a poster said that she'd won such a game of chicken. He repeatedly left the kitchen a tip after cooking in it so she gathered up all of the clean stuff (down to the last spoon), put them in the boot of her car and took them in to work her shift. When she returned the kitchen was spotless and it never happened again. Not a single word about it was ever spoken between them.

notagainmummy · 29/04/2021 18:56

Not doing any housework or cooking. About 6 days too.

GreyhoundG1rl · 29/04/2021 18:57

The games some supposed adults play Confused

Devlesko · 29/04/2021 19:11

This is reversed here, my dh is the picky one.
I'll step over piles, not all the time, though.
In my defence I have learning difficulties and when I tidy up we end up worse when finished than when I started.
The family watch in awe as I mess it up, they come behind me and finish off.

TaraR2020 · 29/04/2021 19:12

My last housemate got too complacent about housework and I ended up doing 90% of it. Eventually got a bit fed up and waited to see how long it would take him to clean the bathroom....6 weeks

Then he had the nerve to say I wasn't pulling my weight. Hmm It was the beginning of the end Grin

Devlesko · 29/04/2021 19:14

Some people just don't see it either. One of them will often say have you not seen xyz, and my answer is invariably no.
I'm not a lazy person, but i do it in my own time.

dodobookends · 29/04/2021 19:31

There is a large cardboard box in the middle of the living room floor which is full of dozens of packets of crisps. It has been there for four days so far. I didn't put it there.

I am, however, helping myself to the contents.

hiredandsqueak · 29/04/2021 19:44

Loo rolls are the bone of contention here. Ds and dd take a new one out but rather than put it on the loo roll holder and remove the tube they put the new one on top of the cistern. I finally cracked when there three empty loo roll tubes and a full loo roll on the top of the cistern and the empty tube on the holder as well.

wombatgoeswild · 29/04/2021 20:04

I lived with two real blokes when I first left home. My bf came round one day and said "oh, I see you have a bin corner.".

Inclinedtochatter · 29/04/2021 20:23

This has reminded me of the battle of the rice pudding tin circa 1988. My dad decided to eat cold rice pudding straight from the tin to save on washing up. My mum was disgusted and dad found this hilarious. He placed the empty tin complete with spoon on top of the TV. What followed was an epic battle of wills between my parents that lasted 8 weeks. My mum would even dust it. It finally ended when my grandma came to babysit and unwittingly put it in the bin!

Standrewsschool · 29/04/2021 20:30

I have just entered the game. Dh has pipit some socks on the windowsill, I think intending to carry them upstairs. He has passed them already a few times and not moved them.

Unfortunately for me, he mum would tidy things straight away. He presumed I would be like that, or thought all people were. He doesn’t quite like it when I give him the 1950s retort.

Silverfly · 29/04/2021 20:31

Oh I can go ages with this sort of thing. A load of DH's clothes are currently dumped all over the sofa in our bedroom and have been for approx 2.5 years. It's not really a game of chicken though because it genuinely doesn't bother me.

StoneofDestiny · 29/04/2021 20:35

Must be a lot in the household losing their shit if you need 90 loo rolls 😂

laughoutquiet · 29/04/2021 20:49

@JensonsAcolyte this reminds me of "Everybody Loves Raymond" sitcom where a suitcase full of cheese is left on the stairs.

EastWestWhosBest · 29/04/2021 21:19

My DH doesn’t sleep too well so he will often sleep in the other bedroom. He does this about 3 nights a week. We go to bed in one room but sometimes he will go into the other room before we go to sleep or during the night. I never sleep in the second room.

I went to change the sheets in there and DH said that he would do it to save me the bother.
That was 4 weeks ago.
I don’t sleep in there. It doesn’t bother me.

DingleMcDingle · 29/04/2021 21:35

I am not sure whether I don't play it or whether I am a Jedi master at it.

If I were to ask DH to pick up a tissue off the floor and he agreed but didn't actually do it, it would remain in place until it spontaneously combusted or fossilised.

My days of giving in and doing shit myself are long gone.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 29/04/2021 21:47

@Tlollj

Your dhs trousers have been on the bathroom floor for 8 months! Did someone not wash the floor? Did you wash round them? I could not sleep at night if this was going on in my house. I’m glad I live alone.
They werent on the floor but the surface next to the sink. And its the bathroom we dont use so often, but still. Trousers are dry clean only so I wouldnt wash them but even if they werent I decided it wasnt going to be my problem.
ememem84 · 29/04/2021 21:59

@StrictlyAFemaleFemale

Dh left his suit trousers in the bathroom on 18.8.19 and picked them up to wear on 20.4.20.
Woah!
OwlinaTree · 29/04/2021 22:35

Lolling so much at the abandoned trousers and the rice pudding tin!

OwlinaTree · 29/04/2021 22:36

We had a light bulb on the side from mid February - finally disappeared last week, only two months, that's nothing!!

GreyhoundG1rl · 29/04/2021 22:38

Some of these stories are ridiculous, really. Who wins?
What a way to live.

Tambora · 29/04/2021 22:45

@GreyhoundG1rl

Some of these stories are ridiculous, really. Who wins? What a way to live.
Who wins?

The person formerly know as everybody else's skivvy, that's who.

GreyhoundG1rl · 29/04/2021 22:52

I wouldn't call trousers left in a bathroom for 6 months a win!

waitingpatientlyforspring · 29/04/2021 22:55

I didn't clean en suit except for toilet for two months. I broke before DH 😡