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CardiOfDoom · 29/07/2021 20:52

So DH is working away this week, I'm home alone, unwell with an endometriosis flare up and have no access to a car. I got what shopping I needed before DH left and wasn't expecting any visitors so just got what I knew I would use and something for tea for when DH gets home.

Then DSS (25 years old, has never lived with us but has a key and visits a couple of times a week although usually only when DH is here) pops in to pick something up he's left here, I was upstairs and called down when I heard him come in that I'd be down in a minute. By the time I got down to the kitchen he was getting the stuff out to make a sandwich, something I've never known him do before as usually we would make him something if he was hungry.

I'm down to the last 3 slices of bread and the last couple of slices of ham which was supposed to be my food for tomorrow daytime so I explained that and asked if he'd have time to pop to a shop (he'd come in the car so not a massive ask) and get me some more bread so I'd have enough to last me. He got really huffy about it and started shoving all the stuff back, then made a sarky comment about how he might as well go seeing as I can't even spare him a sandwich and stomped out slamming the door behind him.

I feel a bit shaken up tbh, I think I was pleasant when I explained and he knows I'm not well and can't easily get to the shops, in fact it would have been nice if he'd asked if I needed anything as he was popping round anyway. He's not hard up for food, works full time and lives with his DM so could easily have gone home (10 minutes away) for a sandwich. I'm alternating between being annoyed and a bit disappointed by his reaction and feeling like a right stingy cow for not letting him have a sandwich, any other time he would have been welcome but I don't feel up to walking to the shop and there's not really anything else in I could have managed with. So, was I unreasonable? Not even sure whether to tell DH in case he thinks I was so opinions would be great.

OP posts:
AryaStarkWolf · 30/07/2021 13:24

YWNBU, he should have gone to the shop for you ffs, he knew you weren't well, he's a grown man acting like a child

EvelynSalt · 30/07/2021 13:25

Gosh some of the replies on this thread are Confused It makes it easier to understand how some men grow up to be mollycoddled, entitled tossers who treat women like servants though!

OP I hope you've had enough to eat and that the tramadol-aided sleep has done you good. Endo is the pits!

Aprilx · 30/07/2021 13:47

Maybe he didn’t realise that you had apparently allocated every last scrap of food in the house to a particular meal and were going to have to go without until DH gets home because he had two slices of bread.

To be honest, not many people would expect this, so to be jumped on and asked to go to the shops because he made a sandwich probably sounded very unfriendly.

Woodmarsh · 30/07/2021 13:52

@Aprilx not many people would expect to walk into a house that they don't live in and never had and help themselves to the last of some food

chunderwunder · 30/07/2021 13:52

Mumsnet hates stepmothers so much that they can literally go hungry when too poorly to get to the shops so that the precious wondrous-child-of-first-marriage gets all their foot-stamping needs met.

OP, you weren't rude. Your stepson was. Hope you feel better soon.

Hyppogriff · 30/07/2021 13:55

I’m sure if that was not your step son you wouldn’t have begrudged him a sandwich. He probably feels the same way.

AnneLovesGilbert · 30/07/2021 14:00

@Hyppogriff

I’m sure if that was not your step son you wouldn’t have begrudged him a sandwich. He probably feels the same way.
What other relationship can you imagine where a 25 year old man who has a key to your home but has never lived there let’s himself in when he knows you’re at home and unwell to eat your food and doesn’t offer to see if you need anything?
ToastandPeanutButter · 30/07/2021 14:00

@clickychicky

ToastandPeanutButter agreed. I have a plan for every item of food I buy. I can't afford to buy loads of spare food just in case. I have a few tins for emergencies that's it.
That must be really tough. It's a sharp reminder of how lucky I am and how much I take for granted, I'm going to do better! x
CardiOfDoom · 30/07/2021 14:01

He knew I couldn't get to the shops Aprilx, and that Thursday was almost the end of the period DH would be away, and that we have no freezer currently so not really strange that I might be running low on supplies tbh. He could also clearly see that taking 2 slices meant there was only one left! Is it really so unusual to be low on bread towards the end of the week when you can only shop at the weekend? Confused Still not sure it warranted his reaction even if it is out of the ordinary tbf.

OP posts:
AryaStarkWolf · 30/07/2021 14:02

@Hyppogriff

I’m sure if that was not your step son you wouldn’t have begrudged him a sandwich. He probably feels the same way.
I disagree, if it was the OPs own child I'm sure she would have been even more disappointed that he wouldn't help her out when she wasn't well and go to the shop for her.....I know I would be
CardiOfDoom · 30/07/2021 14:13

Yep, disappointed about sums it up AryaStarkWolf, DSS has needed a lot of support in the last couple of years in particular and he would tell you himself I have 100% been there for him. I'm not even going to respond to the 'it's because he's your stepson' comments, my conscience is clear on that front.

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Motherofalittledragon · 30/07/2021 14:15

So he's a spoilt little brat enabled by his father.

PhoenixReincarnated · 30/07/2021 14:33

OP YADNBU but some on mn will have read dss and automatically decided you were regardless.

MotionActivatedDog · 30/07/2021 14:33

@Hyppogriff

I’m sure if that was not your step son you wouldn’t have begrudged him a sandwich. He probably feels the same way.
She didn’t begrudge him a sandwich, she just asked him if he could go to the shop and get her some bread. A very normal request in families. I ask my DC to go and get bread all the time. And not even when I’m ill- when I’m well. Is that me begrudging them a sandwich?

A decent person would have said “sure is there anything else you need while I’m there?”

Shirleyphallus · 30/07/2021 14:50

Called a cunt and saying he should have his key taken off him for taking a slice of bread. Premium MN that.

MotionActivatedDog · 30/07/2021 14:51

Is that what he was called a cunt for though? Taking a slice of bread? Or was it his behaviour after that?

GnomeDePlume · 30/07/2021 15:00

You dont just walk into someone else's house (especially one which has never been your home) and help yourself to food unless you have been invited to do so. You just dont!

It's atrocious manners.

Given that DSS is now being indulged by late developing Disney Dad I wonder if there was an element of DSS asserting some sort of 'rights' over OP's home?

OP challenging this (in a totally reasonable way) has shown DSS that she isnt a pushover who has to allow him in and feed him her last food. I imagine this realisation came as a bit of a shock to him.

Notaroadrunner · 30/07/2021 15:05

When Dh does get home don't take any shit from him if he dares try to stand up for dss. He should be ashamed of himself for raising such a self absorbed twat.

Hotpinkangel19 · 30/07/2021 15:14

Could you not do an online shop op?

CardiOfDoom · 30/07/2021 15:21

I could have Hotpinkangel19, if I'd known I needed extra stuff! We only really have Tesco delivery round here and if I'd tried to get a slot on Thursday evening (when this happened) I would probably have got a slot for Saturday, when DH will be home anyway! Once again, I had catered for what I needed, I wasn't expecting any visitors.

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Gardenwalldilema · 30/07/2021 15:34

Presumably you walked downstairs and one of the first things you said was for him to go and get bread. Its quite pointed, couldn't hehave eaten the sandwich first?
Would you have begrudge him a brew, are your tea bags allocated by day?
If your husband treated your adult child like a nuisance would you be ok with it, I certainly wouldn't.

CardiOfDoom · 30/07/2021 15:51

Well no he couldn't have eaten the sandwich first Gardenwalldilema because I had no way of knowing whether he would be willing/have time to replace it until I asked and if he'd said no or hadn't time it would have left me with no food!

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theresapossuminthekitchen · 30/07/2021 16:05

Even my 8 year old son will ask before taking the last of any food. I would certainly hope that he still has those manners at 25. I would feel very welcome to make a sandwich in my parents house and at my in-laws house, but I wouldn’t ever take the last couple of slices without checking first. It’s just basic manners to ask before finishing something off.

I expect he was embarrassed, I would have been too. So then the appropriate response would have been to apologise profusely and go to the shop and buy bread, ham and something nice as a peace offering. I agree with the pp who said that reading some of these posts explains why there are a lot of young (and not so young!) adults with such appallingly entitled attitudes.

iklboo · 30/07/2021 16:10

Presumably you walked downstairs and one of the first things you said was for him to go and get bread

Asked him if he would be able to, not demanded or directed him to. What if he'd have eaten the sandwich & then said he couldn't / wouldn't go?

It's no surprise why so many posts on here are about man child / cocklodger / useless partners when OP - who is ill - is expected to bend over backwards for Little Lord Fauntleroy stepson and make sure he's fed and not at all put out. After letting himself into a house he's never lived in, not to visit OP but to pick up something he left there last time.

Junkmail · 30/07/2021 16:31

I can’t believe people are having a go about there not being extra food in the house? OP was home alone and not expecting visitors—why would she have bought extra? Not everyone can afford the money or space to store extra food.

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