'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?

There was a really lovely thread a couple of years ago from a woman who was getting building work done and fancied the (younger) builder.

It went on for a couple of weeks and there were nicknames for all the builders (there was a plasterer who used stilts). She ended up going out with the boss, not the younger guy. The boss had seemed lovely from the start and most posters were rooting for her to pick him.

She seemed like a really nice woman, I hope she's well.

@Fiercestcalm

I want to know where the ironing board went to in the woman’s flat…

😂 I still think about that

Lady who worked with wolves, had a long-term cancer and an ex husband. Or have I conflated posters? Username had something to do with tea.

Another woman who slept on the sofa (not from choice) and her dh and dcs were horrible to her.

I might not be remembering the exact details correctly. But a lady in a cottage who kept hearing knocks on the door but no one was ever there. Then there were like ribbons or bows or something left in the bushes in her garden. And something about a person in the country lane that ran to the nearest house?

@BattineBlooms

Aww, what about the Elderly Korean Lady? It would have been lovely if they'd all become friends in the end!

Didn't softzilla descend in to chaos and stalking? Horrible! Hope that OP is doing well.

Yes last I remember she was being stalked at a play group. Utterly bizarre

The lady who found out she was heavily pregnant by her 'buddy'

@Fiercestcalm

I want to know where the ironing board went to in the woman’s flat…

YES! That was my first thought too!

I still wonder about one from Relationships. The OP had discovered her DH was cheating but was playing the long game and didn’t tell him she knew, instead she was using his cc to buy all sorts of stuff and basically just getting ready to drop the bomb when she was well provided for financially. I think her username was something to do with coats? She stopped posting after a while,

The one where the OP's sister was planning on buying Vietnamese pot bellied pigs for her children and was adamant they were bringing them with them when they came to visit.

@me4real

That isn’t some sort of achievement.

@silvergoldstars No-one's saying those are achievements as such. Just interesting/meant something to them as people.

It’s just people who resonate with you rather than thinking they achieved something

EatShitDerek had a fantastic way with words and a very dry sense of humour, which is why I loved her posts. Glad to hear she's doing well.

There was a long-established poster some years back whose husband died very suddenly and she had a very tough time afterwards and eventually (I think) stopped posting. I hope she's OK. I can't remember the username but I know she posted a lot about tennis before her sad loss.

@BlackberrySky

I'd love to know what happened to the woman who posted in disgust about men stripping off in front of her child in the swimming pool changing room, only to drip feed that she had in fact chosen to sit in the men's changing room for half an hour!

😂 and then the subsequent post where someone wrote pretending to be the man in the changing room saying some random lady came in and was staring at his bits

I will never forget the thread posted by a woman hiding in the kitchen laughing as her husband had got his balls stuck in a hammock and was trying to soothe himself with a pot of yoghurt.

Others chimed in with their own stories of mishaps. I couldn’t read the thread without being in hysterics. Sadly it seems that thread has been either deleted or archived ow. This was at least a couple of years ago now.

The poster who had neighbours who blamed her for rain water flowing upwards into their garden. I think Rainypuddles or something.

The last thread got removed, IIRC.

To me she seemed genuine and really intimidated by her neighbours and their adult children.

There was a lady who lived on a ranch in S America and who had huge dogs that killed a jaguar that was stalking her children.
She was mostly in The Doghouse.
Reading that back It sounds unlikely I know but I do (like to) think it was real.
Does anyone remember Wilf and his Mum Lottie? I came across them recently and both are doing well

Softzilla had to get a restraining order in the end i think couldnt go into too much detail because of a court hearing

There’s 2 I always think of.

Thanks the first was called something like “AIBU or did I actually ask her to babysit” it was where the poster wanted to go to IKEA and asked her friend (who was also a childminder) to have her DD for a play date with friend’s son and she charged her for babysitting. I always wondered if they stayed friends or if it changed the dynamic too much. She never came back with an update.

The other one was something like “AIBU or was this really bitchy” a woman had three kids by three Father’s and had a boob job. She had met a man through I think a work colleague who was friends with colleague and the colleague said to the poster something bitchy like “don’t worry I’ve already told him about your kids and all the Dad’s and having a boob job” in a horrible way.

I always wonder about those two I don’t know why

There was one lady whose partner worked away a lot, and when he was due home she had to clean the house to extremely high standards. When she didn't clean he got upset with her. She was posting just as he was due home any day, and never came back😩 I think she'd either been ill or busy at work and not had the time to clean as thoroughly as he would expect so was worried he would be upset with her.

Often wondered what had happened when he came home.

@MyFartWillGoOn

Yes, that’s the poster I was thinking about. I really hope she gets the strength to leave the abusive prick

@pappajonessecretchild

i wonder about the lady from the first thread that i read on mumsnet, it ws the original penguin bollard lady who i believe lived on the IoW, we holiday there and i always wonder if i will come across the penguin bollards.

I often wonder about her. In fact I was walking round Ryde last week wondering where she lived. I hope everything is going well for her

@Winterfellismyhome

I often think about the lady who packed up her car and left with her baby whilst her husband was at work. I think DV was involved. She had horses too. I hope shes okay

It was a troll. A good one but a troll.

Catlady wasn’t CatThiefKeith. She had MiniCatlady and a horrible ex.

I often think of TrickyTreeLou.

There was one I read when I first came to MN where the OP was asking advice on how to access her husbands secret emails, assuming he was hiding something, but didn’t think it was an affair because he was such a good father/husband. I think it escalated slowly to her finding out they were in huge debt from him paying prostitutes?

Having been on mumsnet for a good number of years (off and on), there are four that have really stuck with me. Three have been mentioned already…
TrickyTreeLou, I think there were many of us cheering her on quietly, while she got fantastic advice from some really experienced posters. Her DH was trying to run rings round her, but posters could see right through him and helped her deal with him. She was brilliant at actually listening to the advice she was given (so many posters don’t).

The one @Jacopo mentions above. I think the username was something like “babynamechange”? I often think about her and her little boy (although he won’t be little now).

The one mentioned by @WallaceinAnderland with the DP (I seem to think they weren’t married) and the piano lessons. The poster name changed part way through, but one of the names was something like “InTheDuskWithTheLightBehindHer”. She seemed heartbroken and her DP just seemed to only care about himself.

The last one, that I don’t think anyone has mentioned yet, was a woman with a DH and young daughter and a really awful MIL. I mean, seriously the worst I’ve ever read about on here. Seoladair, maybe? The DH was completely under the control of his DM, but with fantastic advice the poster was finally getting him to see what was actually going on.

Those are the ones I think about…

I wonder what is happening with Pickle, the guy who posted recently about his abusive wife (amongst other things she vetoed his Vimto and wouldn't allow him to eat upstairs because of crumbs on the carpet). He did manage to leave and get a flat but in his most recent posts he'd moved back in. Poor sod.