To not be very impressed with how dh told this story?

[Gettingcosy]

Dh was telling a group of people a funny story about a time when I'd fallen asleep in the car on a long journey and he'd got lost and couldn't wake me up.

All fine, expect he told everyone that I'd taken some tablets because I couldn't sleep. This is completely incorrect, I've never taken sleeping pills in my life. I had actually taken travel sickness tablets because I used to get very car sick that had made me feel drowsy.

I did correct him but I don't think anyone believed me.

I can understand why someone might say "sleeping tablet" for the purpose of telling a funny story rather than "travel sickness tablet that also causes drowsiness" .

We're talking about story telling, it's not very entertaining if you tell a story like you're reciting facts from an encyclopedia. It's normal to take some creative licence.

I doesn't really change the story positively or negatively. It's so minor, it's irrelevant.

Really? Why would you judge someone for taking a sleeping tablet 🙄 it was just a slip up, let it go fgs

It’s always weird hearing other people tell stories when you were there/involved and they exaggerate it or add parts that didn’t even happen.

My friend does this a lot and I’m sat there 😐

So yeah I get your irritation OP, if you don’t take sleeping pills then it’s odd to add that into the story - plus medication is very personal.

Someone tells a story, other people laugh, they get carried away and embellish. You took travel sickness tablets and they often make people go to sleep. (I keep some next to my bed for that exact reason.) He said sleeping tablets. Does it matter? He's not humiliating you, he's telling a story that you're all having a laugh about. The only person who's still thinking about it and making themselves miserable is you. Everyone else is off thinking about something else and has forgotten the whole thing. Let it go.

YABU and completely overreacting. Who cares even if it was a sleeping tablet?! Very bizarre thing to get upset about.

It could be that he embellished it or is it that he has a poor memory? My ex constantly recalls things incorrectly. I have a very good memory so I used to find it difficult to understand and almost feel aggrieved if it was deliberate but I have come to concede that he literally does not remember.

He could have just said "Gettingcosy was fast asleep and I couldn't wake her up' without mentioning the tablets - they don't really add anything of interest/amusement value.

I also have a much more embarrassing story about falling asleep. I was out and about and feeling soooo tired, couldn’t stop yawning, found it difficult to walk straight. Eventually returned to my car… woke up four hours later 🙈
I had mistakenly swallowed 2 sleeping pills instead of vitamins before going out.

I didn't say that I would judge someone for taking sleeping tablets but as far as I was aware they are prescription medication to be taken under the direction of a GP? If I'm wrong then apologies.

This story was told at a work event with my colleagues and at the time that this was supposed to have happened we had a baby in the car, who was 'apparently' crying hysterically while I was zonked out on sleeping tablets and poor dh was lost. Would you take sleeping tablets so that you could sleep on the way back from holiday and leave your dh to drive with a crying baby in the back?

I did feel that it made me look bad when what actually happened was I nodded off in the car which may or may not have been because of travel sickness tablets.

@ParsleyPesto yeah I have a sharp memory,, my mum tends to rewrite the past. My dad would always joke that she'd get someone sent down if she had to be a witness in court.

I accept that it's no big deal as I said we haven't fallen out over this, but I felt it made me look bad and I also couldn't understand why he'd say it.

They’re not px only, you can buy lots of sleeping tablets over the counter.
your way overreacting to this.

Agree with everyone else.
YABU to be so upset you are starting a thread about it. Not sure how it makes any difference to the story.

Who cares

No one will care whether you took sleeping pills or sickness pills. It's not relevant to the story.

Maybe it's dependant on your upbringing but sleeping tablets are frowned upon here ESPECIALLY if you have children and ESPECIALLY if your a woman taking them as a man is almost forgivable (if you have a nagging wife obviously) but a woman taking tablets to sleep when she has a baby unforgivable my Dr refused to prescribe me anything because I had a child (who also had a father and slept through the night like a dream) I was told I had "post natal depression" and needed to get over it not medicate it (I'm a diagnosed insomniac have been for years)

So yeah stigma is real on this one and I would correct it too

Does anyone remember the stories colleagues tell? No, not really.

Fair enough to be a bit pissed off he was exercising dramatic licence at your expense, but I'd let it go. It's not worth aggro.

Did you know sleeping tablets, antihistamines and travel sickness tablets are all the same drugs. Just different quantities depending on what u need it for!!!

A) drip feed
b) of course they aren’t POM. Have you never noticed the whole section of boots or Tesco’s aisle on sleeping?!

Who cares? You sound very uptight.

It's just a bit of dramatic licence. My boss is like this. No one takes him at his word, he just tells a great story.