AIBU or is DH being a sadistic arsehole?

[Praguemum]

So, middle of the summer hols here in the southern hemisphere. DH tell DS 9 this morning that he has munted his Nintendo Switch because he failed to take it out of his togs bag after a last minute trip to the neighbours yesterday evening when the kids were told ro bring swimming gear so they could go in the spa. DH says "Oh it won't turn on and it has water dripping out of it!". Blatant lie!! DS in tears saying, "But I put my togs in a plastic bag!" Now, I know they need to take care of their stuff but this seems f*cking malicious to me... Or am I being soft??

@Laiste if you could so I don't have to, and update accordingly

Does your dc often forget to look after switch, if so I can understand husbands logic.

If usually careful with it or as a punishment for not taking damp clothes out to dry then very unnecessary and unkind.

It’s basically a sexual act involving two people…and a freshly rotting corpse. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination

They’re potato scallops actually but I think it depends where you are in Australia exactly what they’re called. The only bubblers I know are the covid spreading water fountain things commonly found in schools and parks, not sure what else they’d be?

Yes, know full well they are called scallops but some people do call them potato cakes, from experience same people who use togs. Can’t recall the term for bubbler but it was from someone from SA who used togs and potato cakes and had us really scratching our heads trying to figure out what they were talking about. They didn’t call it a fountain either which I’ve heard from QLDers, it was something bizarre and they couldn’t figure out why we didn’t know what the heck they were in about.

[quote wiltshirelass1418]@Laiste if you could so I don't have to, and update accordingly [/quote]
...... i googled.

Goodness me.

DP is a flamin' galah.

DS will realise the lie at some point. All you're doing is teaching DS that it's ok to be dishonest if you kid yourself that it's for some dubious moralistic gain.

Even Bertie Wooster got togged up- togs for clothing is in use in British English chaps!

I think your husband is very unkind to say this to a 9yo though. I hope the switch isn't actually broken?

I think DH is angry at DS for not unpacking the swimming clothes so has lied and said they have leaked on the switch and that the switch isn't working? To try and teach him a lesson in unpacking his stuff?

That's what I've grasped anyway. But I don't see why he has to make the child cry. Surely it's enough to remind him he should have unpacked as he could have damaged his things?

If son has been asked many times not to put expensive devices in his swimming bag, and the usual 'please don't do this again' reminders haven't worked, I think it isn't that cruel actually, to give him a bit of a shock. But only for half a minute, while he has the initial response. Anything longer is cruel.

If it's a first offence, cruel.

Mine would have had a telling off, and told that if the Switch (or whatever) was broken through careless wetness they wouldn't be getting another one this side of next Xmas.

If the child had genuinely made an effort to put wet swimmers in a plastic bag, separated from the Switch, as the OP's son says he did, then that's mitigating circumstances and a case for round-table negotiations about future behaviour.

Tbh I'd have made sure the kid had a Switch case anyway. My DD has to have one to keep hers safe, and she's in her 20s ...

OP, your DH is being a dick.

If he tried to turn on a wet device then your 'D'H is both a dick and an idiot who did the breaking - the number one rule is never turn on a wet device, let it dry out and then turn it on.

My experience is that nintendo stuff, with some notable exceptions (joycons wearing out for example) is fairly indestructible - our Wii is still working after having been dropped an uncountable number of times by toddlers, as are the DSes, and the switch has been lugged about constantly and is fine (apart from the worn joycons). So if this is the case, let it dry for a few days - maybe get some of those dehumidifier packs, and then try charging/turning it on again and it'll probably be fine.

did anyone remind him to take his stuff out of his bag, or are we in the realm of assuming a 9yo has the executive functioning ability to remember everything, all of the time?

@NightLight2

Chucking your wet budgie smugglers in a bag beside a Switch is pretty irresponsible, your son is lucky it hadn’t carked it after all. Still it’s a little mean of your DH, did your son spit the dummy when he sussed out his dad wasn’t being fair dinkum?

I’m a little bit with DH on this. Switches are expensive. He won’t do it next time!

OP, are you a Cantab' Kiwi by any chance?!