'Where Are They Now' if AIBU threads?

[MolyHolyGuacamole]

Do you even find yourself suddenly remembering a particular scenario, and wondering where the people involved are today, if the behaviour is still carrying on, did she ever LTB, etc?

Even if the thread had a resolution to the scenario, if things ever repeated again?

The one that came into my mind vividly today was about a woman who'd gone to collect her child (believe it was a DD) and came home to find that her husband had left the key in the door on the other side meaning they couldn't get in, and despite being able to see 'D'H in the window and signalling to him, he refused to come and open the door as he was on a work call? From memory they were left waiting for about an hour and DD had to wee in the garden.

I remember feeling so outraged for her, and find myself wondering now if it was just a one off or if the bastard has continued doing shitty things to them.

Any other ones that have left an impression?

@ThornAmongstRoses

Another one is where the op's sil had convinced fil to sell his house, give the money to the sil to buy a bigger house and build a garden studio for him to live in..

This one was me

FIL pulled out of his house sale about a week before contracts were due to be signed as he finally realised what a big, big, stupid mistake he was making. This obviously meant he didn’t end up coming to live with us which we were grateful for.

So he’s now living in a near empty house after selling all his furniture. My DH is still no longer speaking to his sibling. SIL’s pregnancy never materialised.

Not a very exciting update but that’s what ultimately happened

Ah, thanks for updating! What an (easily-avoided?!) shitshow! Sorry...

@BadLad

A London Underground quiz.

Something like "What are the five underground stations with such and such letters in their names?"

Nobody could think of the fifth station, and the OP never filled us in.

Maddening.

I know 'St John's Wood' is the only one not to contain any letters from the word 'mackerel', if that's any help...

Answers are probably all here somewhere.
www.sporcle.com/games/tags/londonunderground

@GladysNorracott

*Last I heard she was getting legal advice. Her STBExH's attitude seems to be, 'oh well.'

Thanks for this. I hope she managed to get back.*

Don't know if she did. Marriage disintegrated, child custody, Covid etc. She had it in mind to return but (IMO) is unlikely to come without her children.

@CounsellorTroi

The woman who posted about her father in law being unwilling to give her a glass of his best champagne. It turned out she'd gatecrashed a dinner they were having with some old friends.

I remember that 😂

also the gardener story the poster has just come on to say it was true

But that doesn't mean it was true. I'm not saying it isn't - I didn't read the original thread and have no opinion of whether it was real or fake - but in principle. MNHQ has extremely limited tools in working out whether someone's story is real, so "it hasn't been deleted and the poster says it's true" doesn't mean a thing.

The woman who posted about her father in law being unwilling to give her a glass of his best champagne. It turned out she'd gatecrashed a dinner they were having with some old friends.

That reminds me of the one where the woman ruined her brother's engagement party. He told her in no uncertain terms not to bring her new partner and new partner's children, who he'd never met, but she took them anyway and this bunch of strangers ended up at the intimate family celebration. She couldn't understand why her brother and his fiancée were upset.

@HeyDemonsItsYaGirl

also the gardener story the poster has just come on to say it was true

But that doesn't mean it was true. I'm not saying it isn't - I didn't read the original thread and have no opinion of whether it was real or fake - but in principle. MNHQ has extremely limited tools in working out whether someone's story is real, so "it hasn't been deleted and the poster says it's true" doesn't mean a thing.

Exactly. With the best will in the world, MNHQ can't possibly know if some threads are entirely genuine, completely fake, or something in between. Look at the many long-term trolls who have posted on MN for years, some of whom have been mentioned in this thread.

I posted a thread about a horrible painting left in my flat when I bought it and I foolishly updated my username so everyone was missing my updates - you will all be glad to know all is well since my bf got rid of it :) www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4180552-To-throw-away-this-painting-with-pic?pg=1

@whynotwhatknot

Why do people keep saying softzilla was a troll was never deleted never proved wrong

also the gardener story the poster has just come on to say it was true

Yes some things sound ridiculous but dating the gardener/builder?

my friend threw out her waster DH in the middle of major renovation / building works, the head of the company doing the work was really sweet and supportive - they've been married over 20yrs now and have dc. It happens. (yes, I thought it was just a rebound fling at the time 🤷🏼‍♀️)

I always wonder what happened with the poster who posted about her DH being friends with a famous person but she thought something was going on due to the tone of their messages
Always wondered who the famous person was

Does anyone remember a thread from a couple of years back, the OP was pregnant and her partner was a complete waster and she’d posted something about being frustrated about his reaction to her son’s birthday.

She left him to go and form her own life but then found out he had other children she’d never known about.

It went on for a while IIRC and she had the baby but then went quiet?

@CoolCatTaco

The woman who with the controlling husband who made her go to bed at 8.00pm and fell out with her for calling him Brian. She wanted to be a teacher but he was insisting she worked for him. I hope she's OK.

I too hope that poster is OK.

Most of the ones I occasionally think of have already been mentioned darn it!

Wardrobes DH
Lobster Boy - although sad to read on lost recent threads that nothing has changed
Spangran
EKL
CallMeChris (I think) the ones with the random horses in her field and we were going to have a MN party or something once they’d finally gone

The woodland that some neighbours had fenced off
The FIL who was going to live in a glorified shed but glad to read that got called off
Gardner one - sad to read that was a troll maybe? Was a lovely thread either way!

[quote Rosebean92liveson]I posted a thread about a horrible painting left in my flat when I bought it and I foolishly updated my username so everyone was missing my updates - you will all be glad to know all is well since my bf got rid of it :) www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4180552-To-throw-away-this-painting-with-pic?pg=1[/quote]
OP, that was a great thread. Glad to hear that you are alive and well and not posting from somewhere in 'Norway'.

The woman who posted about her father in law being unwilling to give her a glass of his best champagne. It turned out she'd gatecrashed a dinner they were having with some old friends.

That thread was hilarious! Some old family friends had visited the in-laws from abroad, and the OP and her DH randomly dropped in uninvited one evening. The FIL had opened a bottle of expensive champagne which him and his guests were drinking. The OP made eyes at the DH to get her a glass (having admitted she liked a drink). The DH went and got a glass from the cupboard and poured the OP some champagne without even asking and she couldn’t understand why the in laws were pissed off with her. She was utterly clueless!

The poster with the green eyed gardener flounced after posting some really offensive shit about women who have Caesarean sections. No idea if she was a troll though.

I remember Riven. And often think of MrsDeVere and TrinityRhino, not that either of them knew me even under previous names, but I remember them 💐

I lurk in a Makaton group on FB and Lottie’s Wilf posts a lot of sign videos on there! 😀

Oh and I was also on BBC BAP board. Not till the end - I found MN while the site was down for a while and stayed.

The first crazy thread I remember on here was about a sleepover the OP’s son was having - bunch of 12ish year olds I think. OP was (rightly) horrified to find a poo on her bathroom floor and couldn’t work out who had done it! 🤣

@DartmoorDoughnut

Most of the ones I occasionally think of have already been mentioned darn it!

Wardrobes DH
Lobster Boy - although sad to read on lost recent threads that nothing has changed
Spangran
EKL
CallMeChris (I think) the ones with the random horses in her field and we were going to have a MN party or something once they’d finally gone

The woodland that some neighbours had fenced off
The FIL who was going to live in a glorified shed but glad to read that got called off
Gardner one - sad to read that was a troll maybe? Was a lovely thread either way!

"CallMeChris" was I think called 'FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse' . She was having trouble with someone else using her field for their horse.

@shrunkenhead

Not sure if it was AIBU but one of the ones I still think about is the woman who was dying of cancer and had a young child and was asking for ideas of things she could do or make so he would remember her. It was such a sad thread. I often think of her and hope maybe it didn't all turn out as bad as it sounded.... On a lighter note , the other threads I will never forget - because they were properly hilarious - were the woman on the bus with the ",fly space" - I think a fellow passenger had objected to her putting her shopping in the "fly space" or something. It made v little sense and appealed to my daft soh! The other was the husband "doing the T rex in Asda" or something?! Basically pretending to be a dinosaur, as you do! Again tickled me.

Oh I remember the ‘T Rex impersonating husband’ ;~). I wonder whether the OP managed to rid him of that strange habit

I'm not that poster but the T-rexing husband inspired this username

There was another 'painting' one ages ago - a painting of a woman apparently appeared under the OP's bed (?) and definitely wasn't there before but neither her nor her partner admitted to knowing where it came from!
Like all the others, when I write it out like that it does heavily suggest it was perhaps a little... embellished...

There was a thread last week where the OP's friend assumed that as the op was going to be on maternity leave after the birth of her first baby, that she would look after friend's toddler. She didn't even ask. Everyone was very supportive with various suggestions. She was due to see CF friend last weekend and has never been back to the thread.

I think it's fucking rude to leave people hanging when they have spent time responding to a thread.

[quote Rosebean92liveson]I posted a thread about a horrible painting left in my flat when I bought it and I foolishly updated my username so everyone was missing my updates - you will all be glad to know all is well since my bf got rid of it :) www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4180552-To-throw-away-this-painting-with-pic?pg=1[/quote]
Omg, I opened the thread, screamed, as closed it 😂

Oooh just remembered another one, lord recent. OP said her friends didn't like her partner. Said he was low-level famous and his friends didn't like him for his 'views'.

Cue loads of people asking if it was Laurence Fox. OP never returned