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?

That's brilliant!

When my DD was small one of the other school run mums was very Hyacinth. She lived on one of the 'nicest' streets in town, with the biggest houses so rather than ever referring to 'home/my house' she would refer to 'nice street' (as in, 'would you like to come over to nice street for coffee', 'we're going back to nice street now'. Some new houses, including social housing (the horror!), were built and the opposite end of nice street to her so she started to refer to her house as ' number 92'- I assume to make sure that everyone knew she was at the 'right' end of the road.

I once went to Aldi and saw her come out of the shop and put bags of shopping in her car. As she was getting in to the car I said hello, so she went to great pains to tell me she didn't shop at aldi herself but the Waitrose car park had been full so she parked at Aldi and walked across. (Not only had I seen her come out of aldi with her bags, but the Waitrose car park was clearly visible and almost empty).

You could have a LOT of fun messing with someone this deeply entrenched in keeping up appearances!

@sockarefootwear
Hilarious and utterly tragic!

My great aunty (my nans sister), is well known for being a bit snobby. She talks in a very posh accent, unlike the rest of us. But she knows this and takes it in good fun. My mum called her a snob once when she was talking about wine. And she laughed. Said I am a snob! She admitted that she "decants" her aldi body wash into a posh bottle she was once given as a gift. So that if anyone uses her bathroom, they don't think she uses aldi body wash!

Did he pronounce it 'fouquet'?

My sister called and asked to speak to my OH 'as he is working class and I want to ask him a question about the Labour Party'

😂
Someone I know brags that her son is an actor (he's 11 and does drama at school)

We were driving through town to my friend's house and she apologised for driving past the 'industrial estate' (aka council estate) and then she took a detour to show me her, grand and very large, childhood family home she'd once lived in.

She had said people who had those crystal ornaments, in the shapes of animals and birds, were common.

She's recently upgraded to a large detached and posts pictures of the exterior on social media. Insecurity I think.

Sorry I can't remember exact quotes. I haven't met her in some time. She's actually not very pleasant.

His surname wasn't Tunnel, pronounced (only by him) "Tunelle" was it? If so, I've met him!

@Holly60

Did he pronounce it 'fouquet'?

😂

An ex boyfriend asked how anyone could possibly live in a terraced house, or semi detached, as they were so small and common.

Another friend expressed horror at common people being allowed into an upmarket department store. She was the most snobbish of all, yet she was from a council estate. Lovely person otherwise believe it or not.

My mum once told a neighbour she was a film critic for the BBC. In reality she just occasionally won the weekly phone-in competition on the local radio station where you got a free cinema ticket in exchange for a quick opinion on the movie 🙈

I'm pretty sure Hyacinth would be firm friends with DH's great granny. MIL and DH and DBL have to all call her granny. As DHs wife I also have to call her granny and so does my DD but SIL (who isn't married) has to call her by her poshified first name and to BIL's DC she is granny poshified first name and is beyond horrified that they were born out of wedlock and they are all living in sin (the youngest is 8 and she still hasn't got over the horror).

She insists anyone who doesn't know her has to call her Mrs husband's first name, Surname so for example Mrs Adam Blogs. This is highly amusing when she has to attend appointments as she always presents herself as Mrs. Husbands first name, surname and any unfamiliar receptionists are always confused. No amount of explaining that it isn't the norm now falls on deaf ears.

She is brilliant. DH got into a red brick university and it absolutely made her life, everyone had to hear about it for years. DH is basically Sheridan to her.

She's currently horrified that non of the great great grandchildren are attending the convent school (that shut down years ago and has now been turned into luxury flats). She was however delighted that our DD has a "traditional and proper name that is spelt the correct way" after the trauma she suffered when BIL named his children. She is absolutely convinced that had he being married he and SIL would have chosen traditional names like George, Edward and Arthur (especially Arthur as it was Great Grandpa's name and should be passed down the family the proper way) rather than his childrens perfectly lovely more modern names.

She's in her 90s now and she's getting frailer every year but there are some absolute bangers every Christmas when she comes to stay with Nana.

One of DD1s nursery friends mum was a Hyacinth (Or Amanda from Motherland), her son was called Charles, but you had to pronounce it 'Sharles' because Charles was common.
He was dressed head-to-toe in designer clothing, had cloth nappies just so she could have them monogrammed (And loudly reminded the staff to not confuse them with other children's nappies).

@Fraca no but sounds like they have a similar attitude. He pronounced a fairly common British surname the way it would be pronounced in France. Similar to the different way the English and the French pronounce.Raymond.

Bumped into a pretentious neighbour in Aldi. She went bright red, & said she was being paid as a "mystery shopper".
I said "I'm not, I just love their stuff & prices".

My Granny, many years ago now.

We're Scottish, and she was going on a bus trip with her cronies. She said she was going on a "Tower" because tour sounded, and in real Doric (Local Aberdeen/shire) "Affa orra" which means awfully common! 😂

Just remembered another guy telling me his first name was Gee which I thought was unusual until a friend said it is actually Guy but he had just decided to change it to the French pronounciation to sound more impressive. He wasn't French.

I overheard a man in Aldi on the phone to (I assume) his partner: "No, I won't be long, I'm just in Waitrose buying the creme fraiche"

What’s wrong with carrot sticks and hummus for packed lunch?

@Sharontheodopolodous Actually (sorry to be pedantic)Rose was Hyacinth's sister. You'll have to be Stephanie, Daisy's daughter. 😁

Mid 1970s, my great aunt came to visit, Dbro and and I tumbled through the door after playing out, she looked at us in typical 1970s tracksuits, plimsols with the toes hanging out and piped up 'don't the children have proper shoes to wear'
She was perched on the sofa as if it was a health hazard, big flowery 1970s dress, and definitely looked down on our side if the family. DGM was fuming.

I had a hyacinth bucket moment with my DC7 in the supermarket. "Would you like carrots and hummus or olives and feta cheese?" Felt like such a knob when I said that out loud lol. He loves olives though, I think they're 🤮

"We finished the drawing room with Christmas plum Farrow and Ball paint and these darling cushions from John Lewis"

You painted one wall purple and put a cushion on the couch. Gotcha.