Doing something nice and p***ing the recipient off?

[Still1nLove]

Reading a current thread about being woken up, as if it’s an emergency, reminded me…..

DH and I were in a holiday to a tiny greek island. It was just just before the holiday season started, so it was really quiet and relaxing. I was 4 months pregnant, we had a great time. We took a boat trip out to the island where they filmed Mamma Mia. On the way there I took a nap (I’m not good on boats at the best of times), I was suddenly shaken awake by DH, I genuinely thought there was a problem and the boat was sinking (seen titanic too many times)………. The reason for his rude and violent awakening (exaggerate much!!), there were dolphins swimming with the boat and he didn’t want me to miss them!

They were spectacular and with the rude awakening.

When have you been on the receiving end of a ‘gift’ but wanted to ‘kill’ the person giving it?

@Knittedfairies

My son, then aged about 4, woke me up by opening my eye by my eyelashes and asking 'mummy, are you in?' I can't remember what he wanted though.

@Knittedfairies that is one of the cutest things I’ve ever read...although I’m sure it wasn’t cute at the time

What is it with all these mums waking people up to tell them Princess Diana died?

Mine did it too - I was at home from University and she woke me up at stupid o'clock in the morning to say "Diana's died!". Once we'd established that it wasn't my cousin Diana, I went back to sleep.

Diana’s death occurred at a civilised time of day in New Zealand.

Wake me for a humpback whale but not for dolphins.

I woke up at about 4.30 am anyway - radio alarm since I had to go and pick up a dd from Gatwick - only to hear while still half asleep that she’d died.

Drove to Gatwick in a daze, R4 still full of it. I’m not very interested in the royals, but it was massive news.

People were wandering around early-morning Gatwick, asking whether it was true.

The family dd had been on hols with came back to ours, I made a massive fry-up breakfast and we were all glued to the TV for ages.

A particular memory is the really bitchy article someone had written about her in the Sunday Mail - obv. printed well before anyone knew - and wondering how on earth that journo must have felt when she heard. No prizes for guessing.

Dh was in Jakarta for work, and he said all the office staff there (Indonesians) were glued to the TV news, too.

My husband was on a flight to Japan when Diana died. Everyone on the flight was sleeping but the airline staff (JAL) went up and down the aisle and woke every British person to tell them the news!

My parents turned up at the stables I worked at as a teenager, bundled me into the car to take me to see the fucking Tall Ships in Liverpool I was 14 years old and didn't give a flying fuck about tall ships. It was about 35 years ago and I've never forgiven them

My dad woke me up for Diana. Walked in, puts the TV on, says "Diana is dead" and walked out
Me
He's not the most... tactful though, when my younger cousin died, he sent me a TEXT at 8am which basically said "X cousin is dead, sorry"

knittedfairies mummy are you in

I was heavily pregnant and DH decided to get me a book I'd been meaning to get around to reading for ages. Gave me it and said, when the baby sleeps you should be relaxing aswell. Think he had an image of moses basket beside the couch and me resting between feeds and changes recovering, while catching up on all I hadn't read until then.

The book was The Handmaid's Tale.

This doesn't quite fulfil the original brief, but we appear to have gone off in a tangent with tales of rude awakenings.
My parents woke my sister and me up at about 11:30 one night( we were about 6 and 7) because my Mum had entered a phone in competition on the radio and she wanted us to hear her. Brilliant, only she wasn't selected to be spoken to we trailed off back to bed bleary eyed and disappointed.

Very early in our relationship, My DP woke me up to check if I would like a glass of water.... he felt it was very hot in the bedroom and didn't want me to get dehydrated. I was utterly gobsmacked....... he has never ever done it again thanks to my reaction!

He can sleep, wake then sleep again very easily, so maybe that was why he thought it was ok.

I only want to be woken up if my life depends upon me being awake, or if something terrible has happened to someone I love. Neither dolphins nor Princess Diana are worth waking up for.

My dad made the mistake of waking me up so I could 'see' Liechtenstein as we were driving through it. I've had a negative view of my dad the country ever since.

On Mother's Day at 6am, woken by sinister croak from 3yo son - "Happy birthday, Daddy...."

Meticulously planned a trip to Longleat for the 4 x dc.. Packed the car and everything in the morning... Woke ds (about 8)up to tell him we were going on a surprise holiday..
He grabbed the duvet back and told me don't be stupid of course we weren't and tried to go back to sleep.

@Libraryghost

I woke my husband to tell him Princess Diana died and he told me to fuck off. That’s my overriding memory of that day,

Ditto!

@Howshouldibehave

There are only two reasons to wake a sleeping person

1. Telling them it’s snowing
2. Telling them that a famous person has died.

Proper true

I think I'd like someone to let me know if the house is on fire.

My mother woke me in 1987 to tell me it was really, really blowy. Now, I'm not one to hold a grudge for 34 years, but whilst it was indeed blowy, it was also the middle of the fucking night so it wasn't like you could see trees being uprooted and sheds blown away.

My not at all in this bloody moment ‘D’H woke me up after after I’d had the pessary for induction with DC3 and I was shattered and had the most terrible water retention and was enormously pregnant and he said I was snoring and might disturb the person in the next cubicle. I’ve clearly still not forgiven him.

@FlatCheese

What is it with all these mums waking people up to tell them Princess Diana died?

Mine did it too - I was at home from University and she woke me up at stupid o'clock in the morning to say "Diana's died!". Once we'd established that it wasn't my cousin Diana, I went back to sleep.

I’m actually slightly comforted to find that there were loads of us baffled and pissed off to be woken to hear about the death of a royal in whom we hadn’t the remotest interest, and that several people other than me assumed for a nasty moment that it must actually be our friend/cousin Diane, because no normal person would wake someone up early on a Sunday to tell them if not.

Honestly, I’d have been more interested in a glimpse of Liechenstein.

^^There are only two reasons to wake a sleeping person

1. Telling them it’s snowing

❄️☃️🌨 to true!!

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff

On Mother's Day at 6am, woken by sinister croak from 3yo son - "Happy birthday, Daddy...."

Brilliant

ExP woke me to wake the big baby/s nappy on the changing table that was in our bedroom for the little (weeks old) baby, with all the little baby;s nappies on. Big baby had her own stuff in her own room. he was so gleefully proud of himself, marching in there to change her, and I was so exhausted and gutted that I wouldn't sleep again and would be expected to get up in a few minutes after a broken "lie in" of about half an hour. He said he "didn't know" and it has only this minute occurred to me to notice that for all his grandstandng he can't have changed a nappy for weeks if he "didn't know" where they all were