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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To think isolation makes you extra crabbit?

14 replies

treblecase · 15/06/2021 15:04

I'm on my 5th day of isolation as was in close contact with positive case. On top of that have been waiting for my uni results and they keep getting pushed back further and further so feel like I'm just constantly waiting for something. Keep refreshing my emails constantly.

Today I asked my brother to drop me off four things from the shop. Four things, I made the list as clear as can be. So he arrives at my door with two bags full of shopping. I really appreciate he's helping me out with dropping this off but he'd bought loads of stuff I didn't ask for and won't eat and the stuff I did ask for is wrong.

Take for instance, tonight for dinner I have steak in, however wanted it with mash so just asked him to get a ready meal of mash. Instead he got me new potatoes in a mint and herb sauce which I won't eat. Usually stuff like this id just be like whatever it doesn't matter but today I feel furious about it, like a little toddler wanting to stamp my feet and lash out. I think because it's the fact I can't even pop to the shop and get it myself and I was looking forward to it.

He brought me tomatoes which I don't like, out of date mushrooms, and the spring onions I asked for went out to date yesterday and are all limp at the bottom so went straight in the bin. I feel so frustrated yet also brattish at the same time. Could just cry.

This is so unlike me, usually things roll off my back but I'm biting my tongue from messaging him. AIBU to think this isolation is making me ultra bratty?

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BlackeyedSusan · 15/06/2021 16:40

god yes. I am an introvert. I could stay in for days in the school holidays, but if I have to stay in, I just want to get out...

treblecase · 15/06/2021 17:11

@BlackeyedSusan that's exactly how I feel, I could usually stay in quite happily but now I can't I just feel sad and want out.

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LividBlabber · 15/06/2021 17:21

Well done for taking it to mumsnet and not beefing straight back at him.

I’m disappointed for your mash!

slashlover · 15/06/2021 17:52

Can you not rinse off the potatoes and then mash them?

If you have an Iceland nearby then I can usually get free next day delivery from mine if I spend £35.

NotMineToTell · 15/06/2021 18:22

I have to express my appreciation for the word crabbit.
Also have a cry if you want, its okay to be disappointed. Can you stick the steak in the freezer and get a nice takeaway instead? Flowers

treblecase · 15/06/2021 19:34

@NotMineToTell haha I'm in Scotland and word is very prevalent up this way 😂. Yes that's exactly what I did, my birthday is on Friday so saving the steak till then with some real mash!

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stackemhigh · 15/06/2021 19:36

Why does he get it so wrong though? Does he do it deliberately?

I would be mad too, wasted food in the bin. It’s a shame women can’t feel they can tell men when they’ve messed up.

Scautish · 15/06/2021 19:44

I love isolation however I also love the word crabbit. I have a mug at work which says crabbit which I’ve not seen since March 2020. I miss it. Stupid lockdown and isolation. Now I’m crabbit too.

treblecase · 15/06/2021 19:44

@stackemhigh I honestly have no idea...and I'm not sure how the stuff was so out of date, it felt like he'd just went into his own fridge and flung what he could find into it. I feel I couldn't say anything as it would come across as ungrateful as in 'I don't need to help you' and he didn't take any money from me for it so I feel like I couldn't complain. However, I'd of much rather spent the money on the things that I asked for.

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treblecase · 15/06/2021 19:46

Also starting to develop a sore throat 😫

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Heathrug · 15/06/2021 19:46

Day one of isolation for me and I’ve already cried with anger and crabbiness. I’ve isolated twice before and genuinely almost ended in divorce.

treblecase · 15/06/2021 19:48

@Heathrug oh no! Were you around a positive case or do you have Covid? It really is a struggle, I'm a bit jealous though as I am all on my own, so at least you have your husband with you for company (even if you feel like ripping his head off Grin). Hope it goes fast for us both. I've genuinely never felt this fed up.

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NotMineToTell · 15/06/2021 19:48

@treblecase it's a fine word that gets plenty of use here in Ireland too.
Glad to hear you got a takeaway.
I'm sure your steak will be extra nice with real mash.
Your post inspired me to dig some mash out of the freezer for dinner tonight.

Heathrug · 15/06/2021 20:14

I have Covid so do my husband & 2 kids. Kids seem fine but I’m in a bit of pain so I don’t even feel like doing the isolation activities and games I would usually do with them so they’re also crabbit and restless. Wishing us both a speedy isolation and hope you escape catching it. I almost think isolation due to a close contact is even harder as you know you could be doing it for nothing.

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