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?

I had a neighbour in my childhood who would always answer the phone with the telephone number, she would just pick up the phone and say the number the caller had just dialled! I never quite understood why.

My son had a Hyacinth moment when he was just two or three. We were given two sets of silver cake forks when we got married. We live in France so used them when we had cakes. They’re also just the right size for children.
We went to a friend’s house one day and they had cake. My son piped up, “Mummy, can I have a silver cake fork?”

On her first sighting of an Aldi, and being told it was a discount supermarket for poor people: Oh, what a lovely idea!

On being told some time in the latter half of 2020 that holding coffee mornings was against the lockdown rules in place: oh, those rules aren’t aimed at us, they’re for people whose living rooms are too small to be able to socially distance in!

Also frequent references to the “classy china”. She thinks this is enormously, amusingly ironic. She has been informed people are more likely to confuse her with Hyacinth Bucket than Violet Grantham.

That's not unusual. Everyone used to do that. It's only since the advent of mobile phones, that practice has stopped.

On her first sighting of an Aldi, and being told it was a discount supermarket for poor people: Oh, what a lovely idea!
Who told her that? 🙄

One of DH's aunts in the bar of a (pretty nice but not posh) hotel as we were waiting to be called in for lunch (family pre Christmas get together)

"Oooh Serenity, I have to say I never would have agreed to come here if I'd known there was a fruit machine in the bar"

😂

On her first sighting of an Aldi, and being told it was a discount supermarket for poor people: Oh, what a lovely idea!

That reminds me of the James Herriot story in which a Chinese restaurant opened in Darrowby - a very, very new thing for people there at the time, and most were not ready to try it. The very genuinely upper class Mrs Pumphrey, who doted on her little dog and rewarded Herriot richly for fixing his non-existent ailments, was the one who was keen to give it a go. She got all the dishes delivered to her mansion and enthused endlessly about how wonderful it all was. The business owed its subsequent success to her!

I have a pantry in my house and being ‘not posh’, I made loads of jokes about “the paarrntry”. “Oh I shall put it in the paarrntry” “Let me just go and check in the paarrntry” etc

My sister has just bought a new flat and it also has a pantry. When her fiancé was doing a video show around for us he walked into the kitchen and over to the pantry and said “and the pantry” and then “fuck you Chelsea” under his breath.

My sister now can’t call it anything else “I’ll put it in the pantry (fuck you Chelsea)

You are completely fabulous!!! I have a goth in training teenager, I'd love her to be like this!!

I live close enough to Theydon Bois to be entertained by the boyz / bwah continuum.

40 years of visiting charity shops before they were fashionable. I have amazing things that I use as often as I can. Silver chafing dish to keep kfc fries warm? I do that. crystal wine decanter for aldi wine, yes. Sherry decanter and matching glasses on a silver tray for afternoon drinks? I do that. Such fun 😊

We always answered the phone with the exchange name and number - only 3 digits - when I was young. Even now we answer (only use landline) in the same way. People do dial the wrong number at times so it confirms who's calling whom. But things can get confused. I was having a chat with someone who'd phoned and I thought it was my brother's MIL. The woman who phoned thought I was someone she knew. It wasn't until she mentioned my husband by name - not his name - that we realised what had happened. We had a pleasant chat and a good laugh about it
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NImumconfused - my mum and dad sighed when i was younger at how i looked. But then were very amused when i became hyacinth. we had a police raid in the bedsit i lived in as neighbours had reported we were all using drugs. (we werent). I was the only one home on a saturday evening in full goth, listening to radio 4, sipping earl grey from a china cup and embroidering a napkin. How we all laughed 😉

Also remember daughter at about 3 bouncing in the car seat as we drove into the Sainsbury's car park going "no mummy, no, not this one, WAITROSE". It was only because there was a park next to the Waitrose but was v funny.

This sounds great! I loved your charity shop finds too. It's inspired me to take a look.

I thought Sidebottom was pronounce sid-ee-botham? Like Beauchamp is pronounced beech-um

DD at the ripe old age of 20 months was introduced to smoked salmon by my DM when she was making mousse for Christmas dinner. The subsequent pointing and loud demands from the trolley in Morrisons were her Hyacinth moments.

I've also noticed that people called 'Cockburn' always seem to pronounce it 'Co-Burn' . A man I was talking to on the phone in work when I was really young had the surname 'Uprichard' and sounded very displeased when I asked for Mr Up-Richard. How was I supposed to know it was pronounced 'Yoo-Pritchard', who invents these rules?!

I'm convinced that the whole Cockburn thing was invented by some people who weren't impressed at being named after the slang for a genital, and it gained legs 😂I would never say co-burn unless someone told me to. It's not a phonetically difficult word. There's a clear ck in the middle.

I suppose someone with the surname Warren could insist people pronounce it 'g-rEEn' if they wanted to, doesn't mean people will!

I have many hyacinth moments and ways, to which brings my children great opportunities to take the P but I absolutely don't care.

My DM used to remind me that as a small child about 4 or 5 I went to sleep at a friend's. When my DM asked me about my stay I informed her that "they must be poor because the curtains did not match the bedding"

At school I had posh friend whose family lived on a small holding. When she came to my house for the first time she went to look out of my bedroom window and declared, “I don’t know how you cope seeing all these other…….houses”.

Reader, I don’t know how how I coped either. What a miserable existence I had living in a house being able to see other houses 🙄

There was once a child invited to the house for tea after school.
The ketchup was put on the table.
A gasp followed by 'What, not Heinz?'

I was browsing in Wilko one day and a woman was in there with her dc of about 6. The little girl picked up a photo frame and asked if she could have it and the mother said "Oh how lovely, we could put it on top of the grand piano in the music room".

10yo DD bought herself a bobble hat from an M&S Outlet shop. She is exceedingly proud and protective of it.

DH decided to joke around and started to put it on. She went absolutely spare and wailed in a very fluting, quavery voice " It's CASHMERE"

She's a mini-Hyacinth.

Asked mother what dress size she was as I was making her a pinny as a gift. " I'm the size that I am" was her reply