Dh expects me to know EVERYTHING

[BrokenToy]

and it’s driving me round the bend. It’s got worse as he’s got older I think.

We were on holiday last week and he was forever asking me questions like what time does the restaurant open or is there food on the catamaran. How the bloody hell should I know? You have the same access to that information as I do!

DD lost an object recently and a neighbour found it today and put it on top of a nearby fence. She sent me a photo and description of where, I’m not home so I sent the screenshot to DH so he could pop out and grab it. He had exactly the same information as me but kept asking me questions like where did she find it, where exactly is the fence etc. I don’t fucking know, again, you have the same information I do.

The trouble is it makes me a bit snappy (I’m definitely getting more intolerant as I get older). He says it’s a compliment that he thinks I know everything, I say it’s infuriating because he’s expecting me to find out the answers for him.

Im not BU to be driven mad by this, right?

Nope, not a compliment, just lazy

What time are the busses into town (in the Canaries ffs).

How much is a taxi to the airport?

What restaurants are there at Gatwick?

all in the last week or so.

That would drive me crazy, it’s bad enough when my children treat me like a fucking oracle but DH doing it would annoy me immensely. No wonder you are snappy! It’s pure laziness.

Your new stock answer: ‘fucking Google it’

‘You could Google it’

On repeat.

Or charge premium rate for the answer.

DP does this and I have a set range of answers that amuse me and make him roll his eyes but at least piss off and do the work:

”I don’t know, have you checked with the office manager.”
”Zyoom, zyoom, bork. Oh no, my X-ray vision isn’t working today.”
”Have you checked with Mystic Meg?”

I 100% refuse to play the “I’ll Google that/look in the fridge/find the thing for you” game.

Haha I have been known to reply to texts with a link to lmgtfy.com

Do you find out the answer for him? If so that's why he continues

My DH got a parcel this week. Addressed to him and asked me what it was...I managed to politely suggest he opened it to find out.

Nope. At least not in recent times. I’ve resorted to a blank stare and shrug.

Omg yes this too!

Mine got like that - couldn't be bothered to look anything up for himself, made me do all the mental legwork. His excuse: I'm not good with the Internet. Noooo, but he could spend hours reading shit off right wing news sites and parroting it.

I am not your P.A.

I've noticed this more and more from DH recently, and his Dad does it was his mum too. So annoying! I

My mum is bad for this. If it’s anywhere we’ve not been before I’m just expected to have all the answers. As an example she once sent me to Asda to get a photo printed out for her because she’d never used the photo printing machine before - I just thought well the first time I used it I’d never used it before either but I figured it out!!

My dh did this at the beginning of our relationship and would get pissed off when I'd tell him that I'm not his mother. It's so unattractive and I told him so. When he does it now, I just reply, 'no idea' and let him work things out on his own. It's infuriating op, I get it.

My DH can be like this too. Then gets snappy when I get annoyed and don't have the fucking answer to everything.

You need a stock response and then just repeat it to everything.

Or turn it around - every time:

'Where do you think ... '
'What time do you think ...'
'Why do you think ...'

Or,

'I don't know the answer to that question.'

This is a deeply unattractive trait. YA-definitely-NBU!

Your blank stare and a shrug is good. Otherwise a "don't know, sorry" and walk away. If he texts the question then just reply with 'IDK'. You would hope he'd eventually get the message, but don't hold your breath OP.

"Sorry Alan, it's Lynn's day off"

Is your name Alexa?

YANBU, mine is the same asked me the others day how old his Brother was?

Another favourite when we have take out is "what do I usually have" ?
I mean can't he remember for himself what he had last time FGS 🙄

I do the 'I don't know' quite often 😉 especially to 'where is?' questions.
DH is an intelligent and resourceful person, quite capable of finding these things out for himself but he tries to offload domestic labour quite often. I'm getting good at resisting it.