Buy your own fucking cards

[theheartofthematter]

My 'D'P sent me a message at 7pm ish to ask if I will get his dad a Father's Day card tomorrow and post it because he won't have time. He is helping with a house move tomorrow so is busy. Fair enough but he doesn't have a fucking job (currently taking a stupidly ridiculously relaxed approach to starting his own business). He spends all day watching tv with the occasional look at a laptop. Why the fuck couldn't he have bought a card on any of the days he has sat on his arse for the last month or so that they have been in the shops. I am working tomorrow by the way so it's not like I'm not already busy. What a twat

My DH tried this a couple of years after my mum died. Can you pick me up a Mothers Day card. Err Ok (fine, I was in the shop anyway). Can you write it and post it? He never asked again. Honestly, choosing a card I could just about cope with, but writing 'to mum' in it after I'd lost mine? Show some compassion mate!

If it were once in an emergency, that's one thing. But what's the use of a Father's Day card if it's basically saying, 'Hi Dad, haven't got the time or energy to put any effort into sending a card, but I managed to pressurize my wife to do so, aren't you lucky?!'

@TellingBone

Telling him to use moonpig, funky pigeon etc = doing his thinking for him as well.

It also tells his father that he couldn't be bothered to go out and buy a card, write it, stamp it and post it! If I get one from my daughter I always thank her with Forgot again??

Exactly as @dayslikethese1 has said. My MIL used to phone me to remind me to send cards to DH's relatives and I always just said tell him. One year she bought me one of those birthday books and had written in all her family's dates. I thanked her and handed it straight over to DH. It was never looked at again.

I think we shared a MIL! When we got married she gave me a list of family addresses, birthdays, anniversaries etc., she was most put out when I handed it over to him, There you are, you're mother's written this out for you!