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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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ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 13/08/2021 17:33

jcyclops
I've heard that the special at the local butcher is very good.

dunkaccino · 13/08/2021 17:33

My friend is a actor (he was in Eastenders) - he's living with a complete nymphomaniac who is convinced that she's the most beautiful sexy stunner ever with her big glasses and wild ginger locks. They're both trying to shag the newly married male neighbour. I don't like where he's living - I think his landlord might still be working as a prositute, can anyone gimme any advice as to how to improve his living situation?

Ashard20 · 13/08/2021 17:41

@Mummyratbag
Hi Sorry- yes it was! But if I were you, I would make sure you wear something practical when you go back. That white cotton thing wasn't very suitable by the time you'd run through the forests and over the hills! And it gave totally the wrong impression when you came across Randall...

Chikapu · 13/08/2021 17:53

My mother stayed recently after a serious eye operation and my DH was so rude her the whole time she was here

Maybe if she'd offered him one of her Revels things would have been different...

SunSeaSurfGin · 13/08/2021 18:05

I'm getting increasingly worried about my DM. All she does is get pissed on champagne at parties and pretty much all of the day everyday tbh with her Best friend then go shopping. She's always been this way but I'm getting very bored of being the mother in our relationship.

PennyPinkPineapple · 13/08/2021 18:08

@viques

I know this cool trick with a piano and some spoons...

Novelusername · 13/08/2021 18:13

SunSeaSurfGin you sound like a bitch troll from hell and your mother and her friend sound completely wonderful.

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Millionnewnames · 13/08/2021 18:13

@SunSeaSurfGin
Sorry dear, but your mother sounds absolutely fab to me! Perhaps you should lighten up a little sweetie, darling?

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DameAlyson · 13/08/2021 18:20

I'm a teacher in a secondary school. My colleague and I are concerned about one of our pupils. We have discovered that she lives in a scrapyard with her grandfather, Who refuses to talk to us. Should we report to social services, or do we really need a Doctor?

TheYellowOne · 13/08/2021 18:24

AIBU to think that my husband's longstanding friendship with an old school friend is having a detrimental effect on our marriage? We were all at school together and since then my husband's friend has caused no end of trouble and even split us up once. I was relieved when he joined the army 5 years ago and disappeared to Germany. However he recently came back with nothing but a broken marriage to show for his time there. He expects my husband to go back to their single, lad about town ways. I'm horrified at this - my husband's done very well for himself in the last 5 years, we play badminton and go skiing and live in a brand new semi detached house with all mod cons (not a stealth boast). The final straw came recently when we went on a caravan holiday with the friend and his new girlfriend - a lovely Finnish girl - and my husband and his friend picked up a couple of glamorous hitchhikers leaving the girlfriend and me behind at a petrol station, stranded in our nighties.

DameAlyson · 13/08/2021 18:39

AIBU to think that my husband's longstanding friendship with an old school friend is having a detrimental effect on our marriage?

I'm afraid you're not going to win this one, Thelma. The habit is too deeply established. And perhaps Bob doesn't care as much about the badminton and the skiing as you do?

Nc123 · 13/08/2021 18:49

@DameAlyson

I'm a teacher in a secondary school. My colleague and I are concerned about one of our pupils. We have discovered that she lives in a scrapyard with her grandfather, Who refuses to talk to us. Should we report to social services, or do we really need a Doctor?
I’d leave well alone if I were you. You never know where you might end up
suckingonchillidogs · 13/08/2021 18:51

I'm fed up with my job as a cleaner and long to change careers - I work alongside people who get to do ballroom dancing, stand up comedy and generally entertain the masses. I keep getting overlooked for promotion - I'm so enthusiastic it's killing me! What I'd give to strut my stuff in the Hawaiian ballroom.

ShowOfHands · 13/08/2021 19:08

It's my birthday on Christmas Eve and I'm torn. I don't know whether to spend it with my Mum which is the worst option really as she is precariously housed and the reason I spent so much of my childhood in care. But I feel guilty and responsible for her. Or I could do what I've wanted to do for ages and admit to my boss that I'm in love with him. I think he feels the same way and everybody else at work is encouraging me but I don't feel like I'm good enough. And what if it's too late or too complicated? I'm pretty sure his chemo has saved his life but left him infertile, I'm probably too old for babies and I've already got a failed marriage to an alcoholic to my name, live in a poxy flat and earn minimum wage in a dead end job with no future.

drudgewithagrudge · 13/08/2021 19:39

Killahangilion
Glad to hear you are still game Isa.

Icecreamsoda99 · 13/08/2021 20:13

@TheYellowOne pretty sure I read your previous thread about how you "accidentally" ended up in bed with your husband's old school friend when you "mistook" him for your DH Hmm and how it was all your DH and his friends fault, you announced you were no longer speaking to him as I recall!

Tomhardyshadabath · 13/08/2021 20:43

PennyPinkPineapple, I would just eat all of the book shop owner's bees, if I were you..Smile

AutistGoth · 13/08/2021 20:53

In a situation of art imitating life, I was signed up to a record company along with three other guys - one of them from Manchester, England - to be a sort of American version of a highly popular pop band, also from England. We got our hair cut just like them, perfected our funny dance/walk and though I thought it would never work, now I'm a believer! The fans love us.

The thing is: it's all a sham! We're fake! We simply stand onstage singin' the songs and strummin' the chords that other, better musicians than us (with less sex appeal) wrote for us to perform. As the heady decade of the 60s draws to a close, I'm tempted to go public with our guilty secret.

Loose definition of a sitcom, I know. And some of it wasn't fictional.

Ashard20 · 13/08/2021 21:14

@AutistGoth
Cheer up, sleepy Jean - you were a much better "sham" band than the majority of subsequent manufactured bands!

DroopyClematis · 13/08/2021 21:27

@Ashard20

These are all brilliant! What a genius idea for a thread.

It completely takes me away from my mundane life as a housewife. I've never managed to master the art of cooking and baking and I can see my two grown up sons wincing every time I place my creations down in front of them. Luckily my husband doesn't really pay any attention. He hides behind his newspaper and dentistry journals.
The most exciting part of my day is when all the male members of the household compete for the best parking space on the drive. All that swerving must drive the neighbours mad. The funny thing is that I constantly have that Dolly Parton song about some insect or other playing in my mind. Either that or Albinoni's Adagio which is altogether a more negative soundtrack to my life.
There must be something more out there, waiting for me, but I feel so ungrateful to even think about it..

Oh how I loved this series!
Ashard20 · 13/08/2021 21:59

@Droopyclematis
So did I!

Fedupofballs · 13/08/2021 22:27

I’ve noticed that the receptionist at my local leisure centre seems to keep her children in the drawers while she’s at work. I’m a bit concerned for their welfare so should I contact social services?

TheYellowOne · 13/08/2021 22:27

@Icecreamsoda99 you see? DH's friend is the common denominator - causes trouble everywhere he goes.

merryhouse · 13/08/2021 22:33

@Nc123 Nah, you'll probably get Bill Wyman next

@ScottChegg Have you thought of moving to Oswestry? (and turn that phone round!)

Mummyratbag · 13/08/2021 22:37

Ashard20 you are so right - running around in nothing more than a nighty was not my best move, I will be sure to rustle up an ankle length dress/outfit to trek across the Highlands.