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AIBU?

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AIBU husband and waitress?

214 replies

Millionnewnames · 13/08/2021 11:33

Husband and I own a small cafe. We live in the flat above with my parents. We have two young girls working for us front of house, they are delightful and hardworking.
After noticing we were running low on a few things in the kitchen I went down into the cellar to get them and found one of the waitresses draped around my husband. I furiously asked WTF he was doing and he called me ‘a stupid woman’ and told me the girl had fainted after seeing a huge spider clambering about in the onions. He was stopping her from hurting herself as she fell.
I’m not sure what to think now.

P.s lighthearted. Bored. Guess the show and add your own.

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BrightYellowDaffodil · 13/08/2021 12:38

I run a seaside hotel with my husband. He's rude to the guests, ruder to the staff (including our lovely Spanish waiter who, while not being terribly proficient in English, has a lovely Siberian Hamster which my husband insists on calling a rat). I even saw him hitting the car with a broken branch in a rage the other day.

Should I LTB?

Novelusername · 13/08/2021 12:41

I'm being sexually harassed in the workplace. I'm a single middle-aged woman and have a cat that I'm very fond of. Every time I mention my pussy I receive crude comments and innuendos about it from the men I work with - all apart from Mr Humpries who is a perfect gentleman and to be honest I think harbours a secret crush on me.

UnoriginalPenguin · 13/08/2021 12:41

@Icecreamsoda99
are you sure you son has no idea what is going on with his "uncle"? He must be a very stupid boy.

Mummyoply · 13/08/2021 12:42

Family just arrived for dinner "For what we are about to receive, may the Lord help us to pay for."

That Trollop my husband ran off with knocked on my door this morning, wondering if he was here! The Brass Neck of 'er!

MyCatHatesEverybody · 13/08/2021 12:43

My lovely rural walks are being spoiled by three elderly gentleman, one of whom is a scruffy looking disgrace who somehow ends up sliding down various inclines in an old bathtub on an almost weekly basis. I did stop and speak to one of them once to ask why they had nothing better to do than wander around aimlessly all day - do you know what, he sounded extraordinarily like that animated chap with the dog!

Millionnewnames · 13/08/2021 12:45

@LadyShrek2k19

How awful! You sound lovely!
Ask your husband to mark an area on the drive with a parking space marked ‘drop in’.
Loudly announce to everyone in the community and possibly a small piece in the parish council newsletter that you are doing a charity project that involves mentoring poor and intellectually challenged folk. You know, teaching them to read and use cutlery properly.
Then anyone seeing ‘vest man’ and his entourage traversing your drive or calling out to you in the street by name will simply be reminded of your charitable nature as they will assume they are one of your projects .

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Coffeegirl87 · 13/08/2021 12:46

AIBU to think about leaving my husband? He never sees the good in anyone and can't seem to do anything without it ending in disaster. He can't communicate with people either. Only last week I came home to find him up to his neck in the garden after upsetting the builders. Our last holiday ended in A&E when he conveniently got "stuck" in a cement bag with our friend - I mean there's also the fact they were close enough to get stuck together which he says I'm being ridiculous about. Our next door neighbour has billed us for doggy therapy after he tried to use their sausage dog as a telephone. I'm too old for all this!

Pbbananabagel · 13/08/2021 12:51

Bwuahahah just what I need this afternoon!
Nominate this thread for classics!

Sausageroll67 · 13/08/2021 12:51

I was stood up at the altar by my exh to be, who promptly went off to Canvey Island! Now he is back in my life and I'm not sure how I feel about him. One minute I think getting back together may be OK but then he puffs on his stupid plastic fake cigarettes and I'm put off. Should I just move on?

Icecreamsoda99 · 13/08/2021 12:54

@UnoriginalPenguin Grin

youdoyoutoday · 13/08/2021 12:55

I'm a sahm and my MIL is driving me mad as she lives just across the road so she here constantly, making digs about how I do things, the laundry, cleaning, cooking, anything to do with the kids My! My DH is a wimp when it comes to standing up for me or himself and just won't tell her to back off!! What can I do??

ClawedButler · 13/08/2021 12:56

I am fond of my fiancee but his tightfistedness is really starting to become an issue between us. He also disrespects my boundaries with regard to my personal space and is very unsupportive of his nephew (who works for him). What's more he's a workaholic - he's in that shop All Hours. Should I LTB?

Millionnewnames · 13/08/2021 12:58

@BrightYellowDaffodil
Are you sure DH is NT? Or could he have a secret drug habit? I’d be getting an emergency fund together and lining up my waterfowl incase this escalates and you need to LTB.
I hope you’re paying your Spanish waiter through the books and a fair wage.
Has the hamster been fully vaccinated and DBS checked?

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Yourstupidityexhaustsme · 13/08/2021 12:58

@Icecreamsoda99

Single mum with an 17 year old son. Long term relationship with a man but think he might be a cocklodger, always comes to mine for meals and spends the night (my son doesn't know about spending the night and calls him uncle). I'm hoping he will propose but I've been waiting years. He's much posher than I am and went to one of those public schools. It's further complicated by the fact he's my son's line manager. Not sure if I should kick him out or just accept things won't change and keep calm and carry on.
Maybe a stint in the army may straighten your son out?
Fiercestcalm · 13/08/2021 12:59

My brother in law is a terrible influence on my husband and regularly interferes in our marriage. Once BIL bought a lot of male ponytails and my husband wore one, I saw it on the floor and DH pretended it was a mouse …. I ended up sleeping with him in gratitude for removing it. BIL buys and sells things that don’t work, fall apart or explode. He is also loud, sexist and prone to falling over in wine bars.

He’s also mishandled a family windfall by not paying tax or VAT and we had to move into BIL’s grubby flat in a tower lock or be seen as intentionally homeless by the council.

His influence on DH is putting a severe strain on our marriage!

AfternoonToffee · 13/08/2021 13:01

I love my husband, but he just can't seem to hold down a job, he tries so hard but everything he touches seems to break. We even had to break out the hotel on our honeymoon as he destroyed the bedroom we were in.

Millionnewnames · 13/08/2021 13:01

@MyCatHatesEverybody
Log this with 101. Contact adult social care incase they are confused. Write everything down and take photos whenever possible .
Maintain social distancing and you can’t be sure they are men, don’t assume until they’ve given you their pronouns .

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MrsLCSofLichfield · 13/08/2021 13:01

Oooh, Betty!

MrsLCSofLichfield · 13/08/2021 13:06

I commute to the office every day, have been doing this for decades. I hate it. I am bored all day long. The trains are late every bloody day. I don't see the point in my life any more. I leave the house every morning and my wife says "Have a nice day at the office, darling" and I say "I won't!" I don't think she even notices. What shall I do? I'm thinking of running away to start a new life. Maybe I'll join a commune?

vampirethriller · 13/08/2021 13:06

My landlord, who is awfully annoying and always wearing a grubby vest, keeps lurking outside my room and trying to seduce me with bits of burning wardrobe! What on earth do I do?!

MrsLCSofLichfield · 13/08/2021 13:08

@Fiercestcalm - I think you need to keep you chin up and fetch the suitcase from the van, petal!

AutistGoth · 13/08/2021 13:11

@vampirethriller, How awful! I hope the property doesn't have rising damp.

Could the two nice young diverse men help you out at all?

CatMuffin · 13/08/2021 13:12

@aConcernedPrude

I live in constant fear of being contacted by my neighbour to call in for coffee. She's an insufferable snob, which I can handle at the best of times, but every time the phone rings I end up spilling my drink over her lacquered tableware Blush
Grin
Novelusername · 13/08/2021 13:13

MrsLCSofLichfield Maybe you could channel all your misanthropy and cynicism into starting a new venture? What about a shop selling gifts for people you hate?

AutistGoth · 13/08/2021 13:16

@Novelusername I didn't get where I am today by starting up ridiculous business ventures! Wink

It's quite clear that this individual needs to take out his money from the bank - in used fivers, less easy to trace - and LTB (by which I mean his bastard of a life).

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