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

[AllyBee990]

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?

[falalalalalalablahblah]

@MagicKit does the thigh disorder begin with P? If so, my parents had the same thing with me when I was 4!

[Getyourjinglebellsinarow]

Everytime I tell MIL I need DS back so I can get him down for a nap because he's tired "that baby's not tired!" 5 minutes later he's snoring away.

[Isaw3ships]

Worked with a manager who was super dodgy, tried to get me ( age 20) to sign over petty cash to him, give him access to docs that were confidential and other stuff. I refused and he made my life a misery but when I tried to warn senior staff I was ignored cos I was young, female,and he’d been complaining about my ‘attitude’ problem towards men ( I was openly gay! Though obvs had no issue with guys, just this slimy knobbead)
Anyway, I rock up to work early one morning to panic stations as they discovered that said manager had cleared out the safe ( it was a business with a pub attached so LOTS of cash held overnight) and buggered off with it along with the credit card details of lots of clients.
I got a sort of apology afterwards from the big boss when we were all questioned and it became apparent I was the only one who’d tried to stand up to him.
I really enjoyed that told you so, it was £20k ish and when they tracked him down he’d spent most of it on crap …

[MagicKit]

[quote falalalalalalablahblah]@MagicKit does the thigh disorder begin with P? If so, my parents had the same thing with me when I was 4! [/quote]
No, with O, opposite end of the femur!

[CampervanQueen]

@MaybeHeIsMyCat

Out riding, so obviously I have a higher view point than cars
Put my hand up for the car behind me to stop, he stuck his middle finger up and sped past. It was a blind bend and I had seen the tractor over the hedge. He had to slam on and reverse back all the way past me to a passing point
I tried not to laugh much

So if you're driving and a rider asks you to stop it might be they can see something you can't!

God, I have done this SO MANY TIMES. On corners where I can hear a vehicle coming the other way or I can see it where the driver behind me can't. Most have the manners to wait because, you know, I might actually know something they don't know. But I have shouted 'that's why I asked you to wait' through open windows a few times.

[Fluffycloudland77]

Told someone not to lend money as the person had a two decade history of not paying it back. They lent the money.

Eventually got it back but if a third party hadn’t intervened they wouldn’t have done.

Oh and I diagnosed dhs hypothyroidism 13 years before the dr despite low thyroid levels and his diabetes. Pisses me right off that he suffered for 13 years doing 50hr weeks on low thyroid with no proper breaks. Drs egos need reigning in.

[Gingernaut]

@Supersimkin2

A man at work tried to hit me. I ducked and complained out loud. Management blamed me for making a fuss.

Six weeks later while man had a few min alone he destroyed the office, costing the same directors £10k to redecorate.

They all tried to stay in touch after I left.

Where TF do you work???

[Silkieschickens]

Husband moaned it wasn't fair I always researched and booked holidays despite always consulting him. So said OK you do it this time. He very snuggly came back and said I have found a hotel same as one you found last year but cheaper and have booked it, it was for a skiing holiday as he likes to ski.

We went there and hotel was fine but was nowhere near the ski-slope or the shops and mine was close to both as that is where he wants to be. He had not checked the location of where he booked. He was really annoyed about it and said he was resigning from booking any more holidays and I was much better at it than him.

[Spidey66]

An ex colleague of mine was a right arrogant sod.

In the early days of the pandemic, shortly before lockdown v.1 Spain were in lockdown but we were yet to follow suit, he booked a holiday in Italy. It was suggested now wasn't a good time. He insisted he HAD to go abroad,no matter what. I did suggest there was little point in going on holiday just to remain in his hotel room if all bars/restaurants/clubs/organised activities were closed. He said this wasn't a problem as he'd be in Italy. Of course Italy then went into lockdown and the borders were closed. A few months later he announced he was going to Mexico, who were at the time were in a state of denial about the scale of the pandemic. Again, he insisted that he was going. He said he was leaving his job to teach ESOL. (Bear in mind we're both mental health nurses by profession and he'd never mentioned before being an ESOL teacher.) I did suggest it was likely all ESOL classes were now online....no no no this wasn't the case he said. The airline went bust and he couldn't go. Again he was in denial that this was in any way related to the pandemic. However as I suggested if everyone was flying as normal the airline probably wouldn't have gone bust. Although he wasn't a covid denier as such, he would totally minimise the extent. Pre lockdown he said he had to self isolate and WFH at a time when not many were doing so as one of his housemates had come into contact with covid. He was delighted, no going to work but he said he fully intended to go to the pub etc which at the time were still open. We had to remind him he wasn't supposed to leave his house for a pint of milk, let alone a pint of lager!!!

About 3-4 years back, I started getting crippling stomach pains. Dr Google suggested gallstones. My pain was central rather than to the right which is more common, but central pain was also common. Other than that I was textbook gallstones, even down to to being a middle aged, overweight female. I said it to my GP, who wasn't convinced because of the area, but sent me for a scan anyway which revealed gallstones. Throughout my journey I was met with doctors who told me that yes, I had gallstones, but my pain was unlikely to be caused by it, again because the pain was central rather than to the right.. When I had the bloody thing out, the surgeon told me they started counting the stones but lost count at 200, and it was no wonder I had pain. Most people who have gallstones needing the operation have about 4 or 5. Strangely enough, i have not had any episodes of pain since the op (August 2021) when pre op I was getting an episode of off the scale pain every 3 weeks or so.

[nansbigpants]

Obnoxious male boss had a lovely wife who supported him as he built his career and gave up work to look after their 2 DC. He told everyone that once he got to director level he would 'have' to leave her and get a partner who also worked within the industry. His view was that wife 1 had been great for his early career, and meant that he didn't need to worry about child-care etc, but for the next stage in his career it would be better to have a partner who could offer business connections and 'had a better class of friends'. He also wanted a partner who would be able to join him on holidays/nights out etc without 'moaning' about who had the DC. Most people at work assumed he was joking but a few weeks after he was promoted to director he announced that he was in a relationship with a female client (who had a reputation for also being a bit of a bully) and left his wife. He offered the rest of us (entirely unsolicited) advice about our relationships (basically, be entirely selfish) and once advised me, in a careers management meeting, that I should leave DH and find someone more wealthy. His DC were very upset and didn't want to meet his new gf, so he threatened to stop paying for their private school/hobbies/clothes etc. He boasted that he was a hardened negotiator so he would 'win'. Anyone who suggested that perhaps they needed a little kindness was dismissed as 'soft'. A few years later, his new gf ditched him in the middle of planning a fancy wedding as she got a better offer. His (by then teenage) DC refused to speak to him let alone visit him and told him to stuff his money. He could not understand how this could happen to him. He also couldn't understand why attractive, well connected career women were not lining up to go out with him. He told everyone that his 'fall back' would be apologising to his ex and going back to her. Funnily enough she was didn't want to.

[PhoboPhobia]

It's such a cliché and its my own fault but guess who is the main caregiver and walker of the dog I didn't want, that DH & DS swore they would walk and pick up poo and feed and look after?!
(I do bloody love that dog though!)

[Crowdfundingforcake]

4 weeks in Italy, DH driving, spatial awareness a bit off so I kept 'nagging' him to pull over a bit more. He got shirty. Back off ferry in UK he was overcompensating the other way. I mentioned it a couple of times and was told to pipe down, he was the one driving etc etc.

When we arrived home he pulled the car into the garage and scraped the passenger side paintwork because he was too far over to the left. I actually did a Mutley snigger.

[rifling]

We were driving through the countryside and I was navigating with my phone and a map. We get to a junction and I tell dh to turn right but no, he instinctively knows it is left. A little while later we end up in a field. We loop around again. Same junction. I say right, he goes left. We are back in the field! Third time - he still hasn't learnt, I tore up the map (childish I know but I was so frustrated) and turned my phone up and said he could find his own way home as he obviously had no need of any help! (BTW I love DH but he has an appalling sense of direction and 100% confidence in his own abilities - not a good combination).

[rifling]

*turned my phone off

[QueenPeony]

Oh god so many with exP, I couldn't even be arsed to say "I told you so" most of the time. He was Always Right on the basis of zero understanding or experience.

One of the best was when his very big car got stuck on a campsite. I told him how to drive it out by staying in first and driving gently and aiming for the rough ground/rocks to get purchase. No, I couldn't possibly have a point as I know nothing and he's the best driver. I sat there patiently while he revved and rammed it further into the mud.

Finally I said I could do it. Of course I couldn't. He only let me have a go because he was sure I couldn't. I drove it out. As I gently pulled to a stop on the road I had the best "I told you so" glow :o but said nothing.

It wasn't just that, it was all his know-it-all bossy behaviour over the years adding to it.

[Houseofvelour]

An old friend of mine turned up to my 16th birthday (he was 17) with his new girlfriend that he'd been with for less than a month and told me they were trying for a baby.
I told him it was ridiculous as they were still teens with no jobs, no money and stated they'd never last so why bring a child into that?
Sure enough, she got pregnant and when the baby was less than a year old he left.

I don't speak to him anymore but that baby is now a teenager and he has only seen her once since she was a toddler.

[Pellewsmate]

I lived next door to my ILs (farming) and whenever I hung out my washing my FIL would light a bonfire and then peer over the wall to watch my reaction. He also had his bonfire beside his oil tank which unfortunately never caught on fire but the heat wrapped the tank so much that the tank split and the oil company refused to deliver. FIL had to pay to have a new tank installed and find a new spot for his bonfire.
Just before Xmas I had a delivery which went to ILs house by accident so FIL left it out in the rain, the look on his face on Xmas day when he opened his soggy present was priceless.

[ReformedWaywardTeen]

The GP who told me DS "definitely" couldn't be allergic to all the wise range of food stuffs I said he was

I kept a food diary. From weaning he would have reactions and end up in A+E. GP refused to sort out allergy testing. Called me, and I quote "neurotic and over thinking" and "clearly thinks she knows better than me, a GP".

Eventually, Practice manager said to organise allergy testing to shut me up. They still took months to do so and argued back and forth with me and each other.

I wish I had of been there when the Allergy clinic lead phoned and berated them for putting DS at risk for years as he was indeed allergic to every single item I said he was. He told me he said they let their ego get in the way of doing their job, they owed me an apology and he himself had shook my hand as I clearly wasn't neurotic and thank god I trusted my instincts and ignored their childish behaviour.

I didn't get said apology, not surprisingly but both left the surgery within a month.

[HarrietOh]

My eyes randomly being very swollen and sore a couple of years ago and I went to eye A&E. Doctor dismissed it as conjunctivitis and sent me on my way. Overnight was getting worse, and it just didn't feel right. Looking on NHS website I didn't have the typical conjunctivitis symptoms, so went back the next day as I was concerned.
Triage lady all huffy 'why have you come back today, waste of time' etc., passed to nurse who was all 'well yes with conjunctivitis, it does get worse before it gets better...' then literally seconds later after looking at my eyes through the machine thing, didn't like what she saw, and was calling the consultant in, who was great. He immediately ushered me through to his room and carried out eye scrapings (blurgh!) to send off urgent samples to the lab as he was concerned about a serious but rare infection (particularly as a contact lens wearer). He even asked nurse 'who was the doctor who seen this lady yesterday?' as apparently my eyes has abrasions which would have been there the day before and should have been a concern. Would love to have gone to see rude triage lady again!

[JustDanceAddict]

Years ago ds and dh were having a kickabout outside and ds ran in saying that dh had accidentally kicked the ball into his arm and it really hurt, etc.
There wasn’t an obvious swelling or bruise and he wasn’t in bad pain so he resumed his afternoon activities (he was 11), but later on I wasn’t happy with how he was holding it so I said I’d take him to the walk-in to check it wasn’t broken. Dh was convinced it would just be soft tissue damage so when he’s finally been x-rayed and plastered(!) I took a pic and sent it to dh in a ‘I told you so’ manner.

[LuaDipa]

@PhoboPhobia

It's such a cliché and its my own fault but guess who is the main caregiver and walker of the dog I didn't want, that DH & DS swore they would walk and pick up poo and feed and look after?!
(I do bloody love that dog though!)

This is me too. Ds was adamant that he would always help with walking and feeding and he did, every day, for about a week! But my lovely dogs know they are the best outcome of an I told you so that I have ever had.

[ShinyPikachu]

@PhoboPhobia

It's such a cliché and its my own fault but guess who is the main caregiver and walker of the dog I didn't want, that DH & DS swore they would walk and pick up poo and feed and look after?!
(I do bloody love that dog though!)

This has been me but with 2 hamsters and 3 goldfish over the years. The dog was my choice and is much easier to care for than the little animals for me.

My two main ones are both pregnancy related, just at different ends of the pregnancy.

With DC1 I was having contractions which felt like bad period pains. They got closer and closer so at 4 minutes apart I went into hospital. The midwife said they weren't strong enough so there was no point examining me and told me to go home, have some paracetamol and get some sleep. I went home, took some paracetamol, promptly threw it up again and my waters broke with a much stronger contraction than before. I was then rushed back into hospital, the previous midwife had just finished her shift so it was a new one on but she found I was fully dilated, no chance of any pain relief other than gas and air and DC arrived just half an hour later.

With DC2 we had been TTC for a few months and I was using a fertility tracker as I had always had irregular periods. According to the tracker for that cycle I didn't ovulate until CD28, more when a period would be due for most women. My temperature on the tracker then did the exact pattern you get when you conceive and I got my first BFP at 10DPO (CD38). So I printed it off as I knew I'd have to explain it to medical professionals that it hadn't been a normal cycle. They all ignored me and went by LMP, they wouldn't even look at my chart. I was sent for my 12 week scan (when I was only 10 weeks) and they were concerned that the baby was too small. They ignored my explanations, still insisted on timing it by LMP and sent me home basically trying to convince me that the pregnancy wasn't viable and I should prepare for the worst. Two weeks later I had another scan and the baby had grown nicely to what they'd expect at a 12 week scan and this time they finally adjusted my due date to be 2 weeks later than they'd originally calculated. DC2 arrived a week late from this second date so if they hadn't changed it I guess I would have been induced because in their eyes I would have been 43 weeks rather than the 41 when DC actually arrived.

[IncompleteSenten]

Mine mostly seem to be around the assembling of flat pack furniture while claiming they don't need the instructions because it's common sense.

I say ok, sit back and enjoy the show.

[QueenPeony]

Also had a GP one. I don't want to detail the condition as outing, but I knew my baby DC probably had a serious infection because I had researched the condition for an unrelated reason previously. DC had the main telltale symptom. GP would NOT listen and kept saying antibiotics weren't needed (as if I was a whiny idiot who wanted antibiotics for everything without question) and it was just a minor bug, without even examining DC! I don't think it's a coincidence that this was a male GP who clearly thought I was an air-headed over-protective silly little woman.

Went home, ended up in A&E that night, doctor took one look and admitted DC immediately for emergency surgery.

I explained what had happened to another (senior, female) GP at the practice. Though I didn't raise a formal complaint, she hauled him over the coals and made him go on a training course :o

I still see him at the practice and he always has his sheepish face on and I always have my "I told you so" face on.

[ChessieFL]

Another birth one. Getting ready to have epidural but anaesthetist was slightly delayed. While waiting I said to the midwife ‘I feel as if I need to push’. Lots of eye rolls and ‘you can’t possibly need to push, you’re nowhere near far enough along for that’. I insisted I did feel like I needed to push so she grudgingly agreed to have a look. Next thing she’s on the phone cancelling the anaesthetist and DD was born about 10 minutes later.