to get up early for work and wake the whole family?

[MonsterMunch99]

I go into London once a week for work, and normally I get up at 7 which gets me into the office about 9:30. Occasionally I'm awake early and decide to get the earlier train, so I can be in the office for 8:30. This means I have to creep into our bedroom at 6:15 (I sleep in the spare room, but all my stuff is in our room), grab some clothes, then creep out and shower in another bathroom. Our place is open plan so if I make too much noise in the kitchen it's audible throughout the house. I obviously try to tiptoe everywhere, and even eat my cereal in another room, but it still wakes everyone up.

I can see it's annoying - I also hate being woken up early. But if I'm awake and ready to go at 6am, what am I supposed to do - just lie there for an hour?

Obviously if I planned better I could get my stuff ready the night before, which would alleviate the issue a bit - but I would probably still wake everyone up.

What's reasonable here? I can't be the only person getting up earlier than DP in order to go to work.

Can't they just be ok for the one day and just watch early morning TV? My dad worked in hospitality most of his life and wasn't back til 2am, and I used to be told to go watch some bloody tv when I was a kid and up early.

@3totheright4totheleft

Please don't eat your breakfast on the train. I once stood next to a woman eating porridge out of a glass container with a teaspoon, and the awfulness of it is still with me.

Get over yourself

Please don't eat your breakfast on the train. I once stood next to a woman eating porridge out of a glass container with a teaspoon, and the awfulness of it is still with me.

You should obviously get your clothes out the night before so you aren’t ‘tip-toeing’ into the bedroom and rummaging around in the drawers (this would probably wake me up too).

If the bedroom door is closed, I’m unsure how they can hear you eating breakfast unless you’re a particularly loud eater. Suppose opening a cereal packet and boiling a kettle makes noise though. Maybe eat breakfast on the go?

@tickledtiger it was the endless chink, chink of a metal spoon on glass. And she was RIGHT next to me (it was v crowded).

@3totheright4totheleft fair enough!

@MonsterMunch99

Prepping the night before is a no-brainer.

But one of our kids is a light sleeper. Supposing despite all my prepping and tiptoeing, it's impossible to leave the house without waking him, and because he's noisy, he wakes DP, what then?

If it’s a no brainer, why haven’t you been doing it?

I get up early for work, and I have my outfit sat ready for the next day along with any accessories, jacket etc. So I've just just get up, get a shower, brush teeth etc and I do my hair and makeup in the spare room so I'm not in anyone's way or waking anyone up.

I get up when I want. Except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by my partner leaving early for work and expecting me to step up and do the parenting for one morning a week.
(Lyrics from OP's partner's POV)

I get up when I want
Except on Wednesdays
When I get rudely awakened by my partner
(Real life)
She puts her trousers on, has a cup of tea
And she thinks about leaving the house
(Real life)
I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the children too
It gives me a sense of enormous well-being
(Real life)
And then I'm happy for the rest of the day
Safe in the knowledge there will always be
A bit of my heart devoted to it

What a wanker
A selfish wanker
But I keep on telling everyone
That I am Dad of the year

Real Life

Just seen your lyrics @PyongyangKipperbang

Haha brilliant.