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AIBU husband and waitress?

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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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Icecreamsoda99 · 13/08/2021 15:56

@SurferRona oh go on, go on, go on!

@dunkaccino God bless you!

@NotImpossible Grin

Bloodypunkrockers · 13/08/2021 15:58

@ViciousJackdaw

I've had it up to here with DH. He wanders round the house shirtless all the time, even when we have guests. He's got stacks of dusty old science magazines in the garage that he refuses to get rid of and one time, he even brought a dead fox into the house. As for my boys, I just wish they'd get themselves nice girlfriends and settle down.
Could be worse

He could be like his mother

DameAlyson · 13/08/2021 16:01

Oh, my favourite sitcom! "Don't tell him Pike!"

If you watch it on YouTube, Philip Madoc (the U Boat captain) looks as if he's about to break down in a fit of the giggles.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 13/08/2021 16:01

I’m a landlady and I’ve rented my upstairs apartment to a couple of professional gentlemen, one of them is a doctor. They are the most chaotic tenants I’ve ever had - always charging around, the police must have been here a dozen times and as for the bloody violin at 3am. What should I do?

viques · 13/08/2021 16:06

@PennyPinkPineapple

I've recently started a new job in a bookshop. The owner is an aggressive lazy Irish drunk who chain smokes and the mad woman who runs the shop next door is always popping round. The other day I had to eat scrambled egg out of a shoe with a comb. Do you think I should look for alternative employment?
Do you have any other talents that are marketable? Do you sing, dance maybe, or play any musical instruments?
Maireas · 13/08/2021 16:07

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude

I’m a landlady and I’ve rented my upstairs apartment to a couple of professional gentlemen, one of them is a doctor. They are the most chaotic tenants I’ve ever had - always charging around, the police must have been here a dozen times and as for the bloody violin at 3am. What should I do?
I think there are probably drugs involved. When they're out, check for syringes. If one gentleman has recently returned from foreign climes, who knows what habits have been picked up.
MotherOfGodHoulYerWhisht · 13/08/2021 16:09

A BBC documentary team follow my grandson around everywhere in our small Cotswolds village. He’s a lovely boy but imho easily led astray by his best friend who also happens to be his cousin -she’s not a bad girl really she’s just never had any positive, parental guidance!
I’m really hoping the Vicar will straighten them both out...

debwong · 13/08/2021 16:13

DH and I were going through a rough patch but I didn't expect him to leg it in the middle of the night. Now I hear from one of his soppy friends that he's working on a building site in Germany. Should I LTB?

Ashard20 · 13/08/2021 16:14

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude
It's elementary - get a very large dog. You could train it to howl loudly when the violin begins. When they complain, say you haven't got a dog. That will confuse them. You could tell them to put it in their pipe and smoke it.

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Millionnewnames · 13/08/2021 16:15

@MotherOfGodHoulYerWhisht
Is your grandson okay? I live local to you and he was sat on the swing in the park the other day crying his eyes out over some dead cress! The girl ( troubled young thing, Dad’s a ‘peeper’ by all accounts) was the other side of the park teaching some year 7’s how to throat punch . Nice kids

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Ashard20 · 13/08/2021 16:16

@debwong
Aw come on pet, it's a bit quick to be saying Auf Wiedersehen...

viques · 13/08/2021 16:17

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude

I’m a landlady and I’ve rented my upstairs apartment to a couple of professional gentlemen, one of them is a doctor. They are the most chaotic tenants I’ve ever had - always charging around, the police must have been here a dozen times and as for the bloody violin at 3am. What should I do?
Count your blessings dear. my husband recently let our BTL flat to a bunch of students. One of them seems like a charming young man who wears a suit but one of the others is giving me palpitations, he has a very naice middle class accent but calls himself some sort of an anarchist, my husband was well known for his own left wing ideas himself as a younger man ( thank goodness he is more of a running dog capitalist these days) but I am sure he never set off explosions. The third one has very long hair, I really thought he was a girl at first, he doesn’t say much and how he got a university place beats me. I am sure there are vermin in the flat too.
ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 13/08/2021 16:18

@Ashard20
That sounds like a good idea. I am a bit worried because the violin player's older brother is some sort of senior civil servant and they are both a bit strange so I don't want to upset them

Mummyratbag · 13/08/2021 16:20

I had an affair and returned to my husband after several years. I was pregnant. He forgave me and brought up the baby. I'm now a widow and have recently found out the man I had an affair with is still alive (I was led to believe he was facing certain death) ...I want to contact him, it will mean leaving my daughter, crossing the ocean and the small matter of time travel ...trouble is I'm considered quite the outsider in his homeland. It's a big risk, but boy does he looks great in a skirt...

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Millionnewnames · 13/08/2021 16:20

@viques
I’d watch those boys closely dear. They sound exactly like my last tenants ! Found the place flooded and they’d nailed the front door to the ceiling in the living room!

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ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 13/08/2021 16:24

@viques
Well we were all young once. I am sure that as students they will be environmentally friendly and concerned about pollution and make sure they use public transport. I hope the house is well insulated because it could get nasty if one of them gets a cold.

Ashard20 · 13/08/2021 16:25

@viques
I think vermin are the least of your problems. I hate to tell you, but your husband was seen posing as a train driver. Might he be suffering from a multiple personality disorder?

Ashard20 · 13/08/2021 16:37

@Millionnewnames I'm sure that your daughter's boyfriend would be very supportive and be there for her if you left. You never know - they may decide to join you, given time.

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 13/08/2021 16:43

My DD has recently married. She didn't tell any of the family, and I only found out when I dropped in to see her and found she was her honeymoon. He isn't our type at all, and he wants DD to give up the way of life our family is used to. He also tried to call me "Mother". WIBU to call him the wrong name every time I see him to make it clear I disapprove?

notacooldad · 13/08/2021 16:43

You need to assert yourself, go into the cafe and sing all of your favourite songs, loudly and with confidence. Wear your wonderful feathered hat and when he says 'Why av you got on your ed a dead en? sing louder!
🤣🤣🤣🤣

SamVimes6 · 13/08/2021 16:50

I work part time and I really love my colleagues, even though they have let themselves go and our team manager is in a relationship with Bren (my line manager)
AIBU for being annoyed every time my line mangers mum visits? She helps herself to tea and biscuits etc.

LadyShrek2k19 · 13/08/2021 17:06

@SamVimes6

I work part time and I really love my colleagues, even though they have let themselves go and our team manager is in a relationship with Bren (my line manager) AIBU for being annoyed every time my line mangers mum visits? She helps herself to tea and biscuits etc.
What do you mean, "they've let themselves go"? I suppose you're a fitness fanatic, following the latest fad diet and only having sugar on particular days! Hmm

As for the line manager's mum visiting - if it's just the occasional cuppa I wouldn't have a problem. It's not like she's set up home in a caravan in the car park, is it?!

Mummyratbag · 13/08/2021 17:11

Ashard20 was that meant for me? I would love for her to join me, but I think she is safer where she is, life is very tough back in 18 century Scotland - when I was there I frequently found myself in trouble! I was even accused of witchcraft at one point - which reminds me I must pack some medicines (I'm a doctor).

jcyclops · 13/08/2021 17:25

I was hiking in the Peak District when I realised I urgently needed an AA battery. I popped into a local shop and the shopkeeper initially wanted twelvety pence for it. I was obviously confused so the shopkeeper asked if I was local. When I said no, I was thrown out of the shop because it was a "local shop for local people". People in that area are very strange - especially the taxi drivers.

MrsKJones · 13/08/2021 17:25

I’m so unhappy, my DH was laid off years ago and now just sits in his armchair watching telly and barking orders at our son to make him tea. My daughter has just got married and I look forward to having our grandson every weekend. My mother stayed recently after a serious eye operation and my DH was so rude her the whole time she was here.