In thinking no-one else's husband is as big a berk as mine?

[FamilyStrifeIsHard2Bear]

We went to buy a tree today from a garden centre.
What does my dear (supposedly) intelligent husband do? Choose a tree, while I am away for 3 minutes looking for poinsettias, which looks so bare on the bottom half we might as well have bought one half the size.
I pointed it out at the time, and instead of admitting I was right, he says it will be fine and I should stop 'going on'.
When we got it back home he has as much as admitted I was right by cutting 12+ inches off the bottom, so we now have tiny tree and might as well have bought a small one to begin with.
We also have wood shavings from where he cut it and needles from branches taken off all over the living room carpet which he hasn't bothered to clean as they've appeared so are now being tracked all over the house.
What a great start to Christmas!

You are right but to be fair that tree is cute

Bonus for reviving ‘Berk’ 😭

He picked a funny looking tree

why didn’t you just go and swap it? Before you left? I don’t have a tree yet, especially a real one I always wait until 12th but that’s just me, it’s far too early but your tree will look likely once in a holder with decorations on I’m sure.

Pass him the hoover and tell him to tidy up his mess

This ^

😂

Seconded.

However you don't win because mine once bought a too-big tree and made it the right size by chopping off the TOP. Plonker.

Quite honestly it does not take very much these days for us to get into a bad way. It’s all about losing patience.

Something we once tolerated becomes unbearable and spoils the weekend.

Ha ha - DH once brought a tree home and it was spindly - he had only checked the height. I know the chap who sells them and he took it back and swapped it saying "my wife doesn't like it " Chap just wrapped it up again - saying I get this all the time - no problem - choose another one." in a very cheerful tone 😁

He’s a bare-tree buying berk. YANBU.

I only found out berk is rhyming slang for cnt a few years ago.
I always thought of it as a more mild ‘idiot level’ insult but nope Berkshire hunt = cnt 😂

anyway, I don’t know why trying to help some people (often male funnily enough) makes them dig their heels in even when they’ve realised they’re wrong too.
Further note is it not too early for real trees, I’ve been tempted but I thought they’d be looking a bit sad by the 25th.

Yabu for not putting your foot down at the time

Brilliant

@FeebasAquarium i didn't know that ‘Berkshire hunt’ that’s hilarious 😭😭😭

That poor tree would probably have gone unsold were it not for your husband taking pity on it. Give it a lovely home!

LTB

Yeah, YABU, sorry. It's just a tree. YANBU about him failing to clean up after cutting it though...

Erm I've seen nicer trees 😆
Mine is plastic and currently looking festive and lovely (gives self pat on the back!)
It's annoying OP, make him clean his mess up then have a baileys together, it's only one year....and you definitely pick the tree next year!

Your tree is very cute.

My DH is very intelligent however the other day he did leave me somewhat bemused. We were at the supermarket and he went off to get some loose baking potatoes. He came back to the trolley having weighed them all individually and applied a price sticker to each one. If I had asked for a bag of new potatoes he would have been there all night.

Way too early for a real tree

He was wrong and should have admitted it. Could have found some excuse.

He cut it indoors and left shavings and needles all over the carpet? He’s more than a berk!

Thank you OP! Properly laughed at that!
He won't do it again though

Why on earth did he cut it indoors rather than doing it outside?