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?

DH and I always laugh at the fact that when my sister had a Mercedes she always referred to it as "The Merc!" For example, giving us directions to her new house: "when you turn the corner you'll see my Merc in the drive." Or "we were out in the Merc" or "the Merc is in the garage."

I find it funny that when she's had other cars she's never referred to them as "The Citroen" or "The Vauxhall" just the car! 😂

This is hilarious!!! I actually can relate... you probaby don't get to use your fancy silver cake forks on a weekly basis so OF COURSE you'd want to get them out! But I too, like your sister would have thrown you a look (or died laughing!) 😆😆

sharontheodopolodous - a pony requires at least a double! Preferably downstairs though.

My mum grew up in what was initially a fairly ordinary house in Cheshire, but it rapidly gentrified. She was able to stay in the marital home after divorce but had to leave when we left home (mescher order I think it's called)

Anyway due to her age and being on a very low income I was helping her to apply for older adults social housing. She was adamant she needed to live very close to her current house and I was trying to help her understand she needed to broaden her options as she was at very real risk of homelessness.

She thought about it long and hard, and then begrudgingly said:

'Well I suppose I could consider Alderley Edge if I had to'.

(For anyone who doesn't know, Alderley Edge is millionaires territory, famously home to Posh and Becks when he was at Man utd)

“She’s quite attractive. Well, you know, for a poor person.”

My mum. Who grew up very “poor” herself!!

Male work colleague constantly had to comment on 'the merc' during every conversation 🙄

When I was younger and parents had guests, the sandwiches were cut into tiny crustless triangles...if it was just us, they were just cut in half or in squares, with crusts.

This is hilarious!!! I actually can relate... you probaby don't get to use your fancy silver cake forks on a weekly basis so OF COURSE you'd want to get them out! But I too, like your sister would have thrown you a look (or died laughing!) 😆😆
I'm in the club too as an honourary Hyacinth if cake forks come into it. Mine match my cake slice. They only come out on nice occasions or should that be naice occasions? 😆

In the 1980s my dad and uncle were going out to the pub and my grandma told them off for going in jeans because ‘people might think you are poor.’

The men in my mum's family were all Scottish coalminers. Dad was a coalminer, originally from Eastern Europe.

One of her cousins thought that she was a cut above the rest of us, because her husband worked in the Post Office.

I was born exactly the same day as the cousin's daughter. Once we started school, any time Mum bumped into the cousin, she'd be regaled with stories over how well the daughter was doing...particularly with her Elocution Lessons.

One day, the cousin was at pains to tell my mum that her daughter was top of her class for maths.

Not be outdone, Mum informed her that I was top of the class for maths and English.

Cousin: "Well! They do say that children of mixed blood do well at school!"

A friend of mine was referred to as ‘ the mummy who goes to work’ by the other mums at her DC school.

I'm not sure @whatkatydid2013 it was in response to @MusicAndPassionWereAlwaysTheFashion 's post!

I was very lucky to inherit some beautiful silver cutlery. It only comes out at Christmas and last year dh and the children howled when I asked "if anyone had time to polish the silver"

My mil (hyacinth) was introduced to a friend of ours who is an opera singer. She said "oh yes, we love the theatre. DH what was the last thing we saw?" To which FIL as quick as a flash replied "Aladdin" 😄 we all fell about laughing and MIL was furious

I was afraid to use "naice" actually.. see this is why I'll never reach the dizzy height of Bouquet-ery!

Also cake fork AND cake slice? 👏💐😄

Mum in law: "I can taste Tesco and it never agrees with me."

When she visits at least a few times a year we serve her Tesco Finest quiche with salad and I smirk to myself about her highly developed palate. Simple pleasures.

My MIL (who would turn up for Christmas empty handed, stay week and not lift a finger) said up me on Christmas Day (as I was rushing around doing everything)

’The Brigadier doesn’t do paper napkins’…..

I gave her my death stare and carried on….

There’s a local surname round these parts - Badcock. About 25 years ago had 2 colleagues with this name. One changed hers when she got married, the other acquired it when she got married. The latter pronounced it ‘Bad-co’. Very Hyacinth 😂

My friend wasn’t allowed to watch anything on ITV as a child because her mum thought it was common. Channel 4 was definitely not allowed either. It was BBC or nothing.

great thread, thank you OP

My husband’s family did this right up until the Inspector Morse years. If I quote childrens tv from the 70s my DH doesn’t have a clue.

@FrogSplash lol at “I can taste Tesco”. That’s genius.

I've recently rebranded and now when people ask where we live I say 'a village just outside Henley on Thames' instead of 'a village just outside Maidenhead' as I think it sounds nicer (we are equal distance between both) and my husband said this was very hyacinth 😳

Me! I once held a candlelight supper 🤷‍♀️

It was totally innocent because I hadn't heard of Hyacinth or watched the programme. But boy did my friends never let me forget it.....

Yes! @LolaSmiles and @Scorchio84
I just get so excited when I have occasion to bring out the silver cake forks -ot brings out my inner Hyacinth.

I too have a cake slice!
Oh god, I'm not coming across well...... I just like cake.

Ironically, my sister gifted me the cake slice after the "silver cake fork" incident.
She had it engraved and everything. 😁
She thought it was really funny.

I bet your cake slice isn't engraved, is it @LolaSmiles?

In, I think, "Nice Work," David Lodge writes about a character whose favourite word is "en suite". That made me laugh, because the person could have been modelled on my mother in the first few years after she moved into a house with an en suite shower room. "The en suite the en suite, oh the en suite, would you like to look at our en suite?" She also once commented, "The dirt in your Dyson always looks dirtier than the dirt in my Dyson."

Many years ago, when I told a friend I was going to the Austrian Tyrol on holiday she said, "Oh, they say it's like Benidorm with mountains. I'm sure YOU'LL love it."

@Mothership4two a gee is a very different thing in Ireland!