AIBU to ask for your real life Hyacinth Bucket quotes

[JustAGirlScotland]

Went to a Christmas fair with my mum at the weekend.

She spotted some Norwegian style Christmas napkins that she liked. Passed them to me and asked, "Are these 3 ply? I will not buy napkins that are less than 3 ply".

It really made me laugh and I wondered if others have Hyacinth style quotes from friends/family?

My elderly mum was talking to a neighbour on the phone and said the Mercedes near the house belonged to my sister. I chuckled and thought of Hyacinth, at least she didn't say she had room for a pony!

Brilliant! It also brings to mind that episode of Friday Night Dinner with the woman who made constant reference to her Mercedes.

My MIL <IS> Hyacinth Bucket. She acts and dresses like her.

Once I was at a wedding with her and she was bragging to a woman on our table. She said “MusicAndPassions Father is big in the racing world”.

I was like 😝

My dad likes a bet, and often wins a couple of hundred quid.

My neighbours son came home from a party and was complaining he was still hungry even after having food.
She sat him on her knee and asked what he'd eaten. After going through a list of food and him mentioning sandwiches which he didn't touch, she asked him 'ahhhh.... was it cheap ham?'
This was well before I ever knew about 'naice ham' and that it was a thing 🤣🤣

I think I'd secretly love my MIL to be like Hyacinth. It would be a constant source of amusement!

Cheap ham! Sheridan would be appalled!

Brilliant thread! Hyacinth would fit right into MN

I got told off for having done things in the wrong order once by a friend and contemporary - she would do it "properly" and get married before having kids.

In all fairness she did!

To my embarrassment - one from me.

I was handing out cake and my sister started to eat hers
Me: one moment, I'm just about to fetch the silver cake forks.

My sister looked ar me like 🙄

I'm such a knobhead. 😁
(I'm really not that posh, but I'm very proud of my silver cake forks).

The lady who told my friend who lived in Stevenage that she herself lived in …..St (saint) Evernage…..

and the lady who told my mum that her family would be having a BBQ (pronounced Baaarrrrr Beak) and she must come round with the family to enjoy (in the ladies defence it was the early 80’s and BBQ’s weren’t really that popular)

Massive health anxiety tonight and looking for distractions and this thread has really made me smile!

As an Australian, bar-beak makes me laugh.

Barbecues are not at all posh in Australia. I was amazed when I came to the UK in the 1990s and people would sit down to a table at a barbecue, rather than juggling a drink in one hand and a sausage wrapped in a slice of buttered bread, with tomato sauce dripping out of both ends in the other.

Just look at posts on any etiquette thread on MN!

I once to my embarrassment said to a vet 'oh yes we are quite big horse and dog people' I quickly added 'very poor horse and dog people' no idea why the words came out of my mouth. I actually meant I am a crazy woman with too many dogs and a mad horse

But was it an outdoors indoors BBQ with luxury finger buffet?

I recently ran into my elderly, rather posh neighbour at Aldi. She looked shocked to be seen, like a rabbit in the headlights and said 'Well, yes, hmm, seems everyone shops here now. I was only here because it's close to home!'
There is an M&S right next door to the Aldi!

Can we add Nigella for pronouncing it 'Mee-crow-wav-ay' 🙄

My MIL is very much a source of entertainment.

I also think I’m a bit of a Hyacinth. If I’m hosting I’ll plan it for ages, as I have to be the best. I’m very competitive.

I once had my arse handed to me on a plate on here because I suggest hummus and carrot sticks for a lunchbox.

My son loves hummus and carrot sticks!

Quietly backs away from MN crowd...

I started dating someone and told some friends about him and they fell about laughing. He had poshed up his surname. I can't say it in case too outing but it wasn't that far off Bucket to Bouquet!

Mee-crow-wav-ay' 🙄

That’s it. I’m going to say that from now on.

Also, if it’s just us, the carrots are round. If there are guests, they are batons. Nigella once said round ones are common, and I’ve not done it outside my nuclear family since 😅.

My aunt Is hyacinth
(This makes me rose!)
She's the sort of woman who puts her aldi shop in m&s bags,so when she takes them out of the car,the neighbours think she's been to m&s

Anyway,I heard her talking about her massive new house (in the posh bit of our city)

'Oh yes,there is room for a pony....'

I howled

As told to me by my late mother:

Back in the 1970s, my mother's most hated SIL pulled up at our house and asked: is it safe enough to leave my fur coat in the car?

My ex-boyfriend's mum thought anyone who didn't live in a detached house was "terribly common".
She was most appalled that me and my family lived in a mid-terrace ex-council house 😂 (although not as scruffy as Onslows!)

Well at least I know I do the BBQ the right way then, never understood sitting down with it either. I'm UK btw😁