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to ask for your best ever 'I told you so moment?

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AllyBee990 · 17/01/2022 21:17

I feel like we can't talk about these moments in real life without sounding smug but would love to know stories...

Mine is when a git at work left his lovely, also at work wife for a total bully, also same office. After a few months of flowers delivered to the office and rubbing it under lovely ex wife's nose, new lady chucked him hehe... I didn't say I told you so but I could tell eveeeeeryone else ( rest of the office is lovely and scandal free ) and defo his wife was thinking it.

What's yours?

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Crazybabylady14 · 19/01/2022 12:54

MIL (opinion on everything) kept telling me and OH how we had newborn in a 'bad routine' she kept asking to have baby overnight to 'give us a night off'. Well she tried her routine and unsurprisingly was kept up all night. We had her going 6 hours overnight by 8wks so hardly that bad but MIL knows best..... bad bubba 😆

Mama1980 · 19/01/2022 13:44

I was advised many times to end my pregnancy so as not to endanger my life. One day I had a different consultant come in to see me and give an opinion. He told me in no uncertain terms that I should terminate for medical reasons that day, that I wouldn't survive and that I was being selfish as I already had 2 other children.

When I was finally discharged from ICU having had my son at 24 weeks and having been unconscious for 2 weeks after his emergency birth I saw the consultant again and said I told you so....we were both alive, only just but that counts. He told me he had never been so pleased to be wrong.

c190 · 19/01/2022 13:52

I had forgotten this one. I was staying with my bf and his housemate couldn't get his car to start. I had a similar problem in the past with my own car, so bf asked me to look at it. By this point it had been pushed to the bottom of the road in a failed attempt to bump start it.

Housemate looked very sceptical when I pulled a load of bits out of his engine, and told him to fetch a few things from the house (sandpaper and a cloth). By the time he got back I had his car running. I told him he needed a new distributor cap, a new rotor arm and new HT leads. Despite the fact I had got his car running for him, he still didn't think I knew what I was talking about (no "Y" chromosome you see). He went to work, and relayed the morning's events to his (male) colleagues. They said "sounds like you need a new distributor cap, a new rotor arm and new HT leads". At least he had the decency to tell me all of this when he got home and to apologise for dismissing me!

Same housemate was also asked to keep an eye on my car while bf and I went away. I gave him the keys in case the car needed moving for whatever reason, making it very clear he wasn't insured and should not drive it unless in an emergency. I didn't trust him not to drive it, so I removed the rotor arm (disabling the car) and hid it so that I could direct him to it if the car needed moving in an emergency. On our return he told me my car was knackered. I asked him how he knew that if he hadn't tried to drive it. retrieved the rotor arm, put it in and drove the car with no issues. Plonker.

twoshedsjackson · 19/01/2022 14:00

For context; I was not brought up to be a fussy feeder, but allowed to decline if I had really tried and was polite about it! Plus, old enough to be at grammar school, so old enough to know mw own mind.
A peculiar food intolerance I have is that ginger makes me vomit (odd, as I have seen it recommended for nausea),
School dinner was very much "take it or leave it in those days, with no menu board to advise what the meal was. I took what I thought was plain sponge pudding and custard, but after one mouthful I realised my mistake, so went to throw it away.
Unluckily for me, the teacher on duty was "old school" and insisted that I was not allowed to leave until I'd eaten it - no food waste on her watch! I tried hard to explain that, if I'd realised, I'd have opted for just custard, that ginger made me sick, but she was adamant.
In the end, I realised that if I stood firm, I'd be late for afternoon lessons, beginning with double Latin - a teacher with whom one did not mess!
So I reluctantly complied, and sure enough, we were about ten minutes into Caesar's Gallic Wars when I was comprehensively sick all over my desk and books, tearfully trying to explain that this was exactly what I had feared.
I was especially worried about annoying a rather fierce teacher, but to my surprise, she was sympathetic, especially when my friends confirmed my story.
I would guess that crisp words were spoken in the Staff Room, as the matter was never mentioned again, but requests to leave food were treated more sympathetically.

FreedomFaith · 19/01/2022 14:18

@Highfivemum

Telling a doctor at A&E that I had broken my arm when I was 11. He examined it and said it was a little sprain and I would be ok. I said no doctor I have definitely broken it. I heard it when I fell. He looked at my DM as if I was crazy and told her I had watched too many films. The pain was agony and I was trying not to cry but I said again. No please believe me it is broken. My DM told me to stop being silly and took me home on two busses. I couldn’t sleep and in the morning was shouted for school and I got up and was sick everywhere. The pain was so bad. My neighbour took me in car to hospital and I had broken my arm in 2 places and had to have surgery and a plate fitted !!! The Doctor from the day before passed the cubicle and I so wanted tin shout I TOLD you it was broken.
Wonder if you went to the same hospital as me. I had the same thing happen. My dad insisted on an xray. We didn't see that doctor again, too embarrassed to admit he was wrong.
EveningOverRooftops · 19/01/2022 15:00

@Mama1980

I was advised many times to end my pregnancy so as not to endanger my life. One day I had a different consultant come in to see me and give an opinion. He told me in no uncertain terms that I should terminate for medical reasons that day, that I wouldn't survive and that I was being selfish as I already had 2 other children.

When I was finally discharged from ICU having had my son at 24 weeks and having been unconscious for 2 weeks after his emergency birth I saw the consultant again and said I told you so....we were both alive, only just but that counts. He told me he had never been so pleased to be wrong.

I’m pleased you’re alive but can you not see the consultant was actually right not you and your life was endangered because you were in ICU.

He gave you the right advice that you would (and did) endanger your own life to continue with the pregnancy. you chose to ignore it and was hospitalised for a significant amount of time with a seriously premature baby.

Again I’m glad you’re both alive but this isn’t a I told you so more blind luck and a clearly experienced medical team who were able to save you both - just - by your own word.

Other women will not be so lucky or will feel the immense guilt for taking the clearly safer route.

MrsPetty · 19/01/2022 17:33

I told ExH that he always left aresponsibilities for holidays to me. Packing, passports, cabs etc. He agreed next holiday he would be taking full responsibility. I asked him if I could check his arrangements before we left but he didn’t need that. We arrived at the airport - my passport was still on the desk at home. He flew to Sardinia with DC alone. I went home. Stayed in a hotel for the night and had to join them the next day.

Finallyfree41 · 19/01/2022 17:41

Warned my exs new gf what violent pig he was, she proceeded to tell me how jealous I am that he found someone better than me, that I’m a fat mess, a shit mum blah blah, within 24 hours she’d apologised as she’d seen the real him and needed my advice on how to get rid

FluffyBlueJumper · 19/01/2022 17:42

When DC3 was born. The midwife wanted to send me home but reluctantly accepted to let me stay in the waiting room.
Less than an hour later I felt the need to push. I called her, she did a tinkly laugh because I was only 2cm when I arrived.
DC was born about 3 minutes later. She did not even have the time to put on her gloves.

chaosmaker · 19/01/2022 17:45

Brexit

Seriouslymole · 19/01/2022 18:13

My saddest time was when we were on holiday and I was pretty sure that DS had diabetes - I asked DH just to humour me and let me take him to a&e. DH, DD and our friends put bets on what time we’d be home. Sure enough…4 days later…. I would have been bloody delighted to have been wrong.

Jet888 · 19/01/2022 18:21

Told snooty mum her son had used extremely inappropriate language. She brushed it off with, 'Oh, you teachers are always over reacting...he probably just said bum.'
Told child to repeat his exact words to mum's face.
Priceless look when he turned to her and said, 'You're a f-ing c--t'.
Obviously without the gaps in the letters...
Loved that moment...

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 19/01/2022 18:25

I’m not sure having a severely premature baby and almost dying is a good example of an ‘I told you so’ moment. More an example of the extreme lengths the medical teams went to saving both your lives.

Absolutely reckless and cavalier considering you had two other children IMO.

stimpy1 · 19/01/2022 18:33

@newmum738 me too, third child I told the midwife the baby was coming as my previous babies were born super quick, no one believed me , I also had the baby down the toilet, it still pisses me off now as they told my husband to go home, fortunately they didnt do he was able to help deliver the baby and get help else I would have been all alone

Mary54 · 19/01/2022 18:43

Years ago. Friend and her dh were invited for a meal. She called, explained dh‘s brother had arrived unexpectedly to visit and could they bring him. All ok. When we were about to open a bottle of wine their visitor insisted on doing it. Explained he was a trained sommelier at a very posh restaurant so he could do it properly. Implied we wouldn’t manage it. We watched for 10 minutes while he tried to open a screw top wine bottle with a very professional looking corkscrew 😊

Cheeseandlobster · 19/01/2022 18:43

@Mama1980 @EveningOverRooftops could not be more right. You were not right. You were just bloody lucky. This is not a haha told you so situation. To be honest I can't believe what I have just read. Your poor dh/ dp and children must have been worried sick

LetHimHaveIt · 19/01/2022 18:48

@Mama1980

I was advised many times to end my pregnancy so as not to endanger my life. One day I had a different consultant come in to see me and give an opinion. He told me in no uncertain terms that I should terminate for medical reasons that day, that I wouldn't survive and that I was being selfish as I already had 2 other children.

When I was finally discharged from ICU having had my son at 24 weeks and having been unconscious for 2 weeks after his emergency birth I saw the consultant again and said I told you so....we were both alive, only just but that counts. He told me he had never been so pleased to be wrong.

Strangely triumphalist tone on this one . . .
keeptheaspidistra · 19/01/2022 18:49

@ChiefWiggumsBoy

I’m not sure having a severely premature baby and almost dying is a good example of an ‘I told you so’ moment. More an example of the extreme lengths the medical teams went to saving both your lives.

Absolutely reckless and cavalier considering you had two other children IMO.

I thought this, although I wouldn't have phrased it quite like that. I don't think it was an i told you so moment at all, judging by the outcome of labour at 24 weeks and 2 weeks in a coma sounds like the doctor actually had very valid concerns.

Very pleased both you and baby survived though Flowers

yellowjellytot · 19/01/2022 18:51

3 mins after being induced I told the midwives I was going to have the baby very soon me was told there was no chance of that, it would take much longer. As she reluctantly examined me my waters broke rarer dramatically all over her and DS was born 40 minutes later.

yellowjellytot · 19/01/2022 18:52

30 minutes not 3!

Doris86 · 19/01/2022 19:00

In December when everyone was panicking about Omincron. I posted on here that in future we’d look back and wonder what all the fuss was about.

Scotland32 · 19/01/2022 19:11

I usually book travel plans because my OH is too slow and disorganised. But when DD1 was tiny I asked him to book some flights for us.
I asked him when we needed to leave the house. He gave me a time. I asked if he was totally sure that was early enough. He told me yes.
We missed check in and therefore the flights. Cost him a great deal of money to book new ones.
I often use it as a reminder but he hasn’t changed his ways!! 😂😂

phishy · 19/01/2022 19:12

@Doris86

In December when everyone was panicking about Omincron. I posted on here that in future we’d look back and wonder what all the fuss was about.
Yeah right Hmm
Whatamess582 · 19/01/2022 19:21

Recently my most potent one was to a friend who voted for Boris Johnson (loudly) and used to post memes of him looking forlorn when Brexit was going shit and saying we should all be kind to him…. She even posted something along the lines of ‘if someone offered to pay for my flat renovations I would jump at the chance and you wouldn’t give a shit’….. So anyway, recently they posted something saying ‘he needs to go’ basically.
I didn’t do it on her page but sent a text message to her saying ‘I told you so’
Her reply was ‘I know’.

I would take glee in this usually but considering that the country is pretty much broken internally and externally, and people are dead because of his incompetence, I can’t.

UserBot999 · 19/01/2022 19:22

Actually, watching the news 10 jan 2020 and the flu virus in china was reported. Oh shit i thought. My colleagues all said "dont be daft, we'll be fine".

They"ve v likely forgotten that though!