I was only asking

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We were supposed to be visiting family for a few days to celebrate the new year.
However, they called this morning to say they have fallen ill with a tummy bug. I'm glad they let us know. We wouldn't want to visit and catch anything. We also don't want to disturb them whilst they are ill.
However, we hardly have any food in the house.
I put an anonymous post on Facebook asking what shops are open today as we now need to get supplies in. I didn't give any details as I don't want to announce to the world that my inlaws have a funny tummy.
I had tried googling but wasn't sure if opening times would be different with it being New Year's Day. We are in Scotland so this is a holiday.
We can just about scrape together enough for today but it will be a bit rubbish. Pot noodles, cuppa soup, beige freezer food.
My husband has shouted at me that we should just make do. I shouldn't have announced it to Facebook.
It was anonymous so I didn't announce anything.
None of us are ill. And what we have in the house won't satisfy the appetite of him or the kids so I was just going to get more to eat plus some bread and milk.
He is now sulking saying we shouldn't be enjoying ourselves if the other family members are ill. I think this is ridiculous.
Am i missing something here or is he being ridiculous?
I'm going to go to the local Asda and get stuff for the kids and I. He can eat pot noodles if he wants.

Of course he’s being ridiculous, enjoy your day.

He's being ridiculous. It's not the end of the world if you have to eat what you already have but I can't see the problem with asking/wanting to get more.

Googling is more reliable. There’s indeed no need to announce every minor ailment to the world. Shouting at your partner for a minor disagreement is pretty shit.

I work in a supermarket. We have a sodding ENORMOUS A frame outside with our opening hours over Christmas and New Year and still get people ringing up or coming in to ask what our opening hours are!

Sorry OP. Thank you for the opportunity to express my ire. And your DH is an idiot - why should you all suffer just because people elsewhere are ill? Sounds like he's disappointed at not being able to visit and is taking it out on you, though.

Shouting at you about it was wrong

But my pet peeve is people on Facebook asking what they could easily google. But that's not an excuse to shout at you.

Anyone who does this on my local Facebook groups get a load of (justified imo) stupid replies, if you can post on FB you can Google the opening hours of the shop but that aised your husband is being a knobhead, is that unusual behaviour for him?

This. He sounds like an arsehole but you can easily find out opening hours yourself

Your husband sounds like an idiot. Find something out of the bin to feed him, it's not fair on the ill family members if he's not puking too.

Google said "these opening hours maybe changed due to the festive period"
So I thought a quick ask on Facebook might be quicker. Usually I would just google. However, I know lots of stores have different timings at this time of year and might not necessarily have updated that information on websites.
Been stung with that before trying to find a pharmacy for eye drops for conjunctivitis on Boxing Day one year.

God just eat what you have, you sound like you have plenty. Does every meal need to be a feast? You have freezer food for a reason

Your husband sounds a knob. Of course you need basics like bread and milk. I would hardly call that a feast.

I actually think fb more likely to yield accurate info than google. Google for opening times works well any other time of year. That info is often not updated to account for bank holidays. Your husband has got a bee in his bonnet and I bet it’s about something else.

So just look at the shops webpage or social media, they nearly all have opening hours on there.

I would imagine garages with attached shops will be open today,

Google those

Tbh if I'm ever in doubt I either Google the company and see what the opening hours are as most places are pretty accurate (and if not then I live in a town where most of the shops are near enough each other than I can go elsewhere) or just assume that if they're not explicitly closed on a holiday then they're going to be open, as a minimum, for "Sunday Hours" so just make sure I go during those hours and they're almost guaranteed to be open.

Well your husband is very strange saying you cannot enjoy yourself because a relative is felling unwell. But you really are making a drama over nothing with your Facebook post. It is just one day, why would you only have pot noodles in the house, there must be something else. And as has been said, it is not hard to find supermarket opening times.

I've read so many threads about men behaving like sulky or grumpy children over Xmas it's becoming a real thing 😮 if supplies are needed because of a change of plan at least you are dealing with it. Bet he'd be moaning tonight if there's not enough in!? If I tell my DP we need something he just accepts that we do..

If I made a rule that I couldn't enjoy myself every time a family member was ill I may as well just hit myself with a birch switch every day of the year.

What a misery guts. Send him out for prosecco and chocolate and order in a nice takeaway as antidote to his pointless martyring.

The people coming in to ask are being annoying but obviously people are going to phone. They can’t see the board outside can they, doesn’t matter how big it is.

I really don't understand any of this??

Why post on Facebook rather then pop to asda ?

Why does your husband not want to get food shopping in ?

What are you actually asking ???

What a silly billy your H is. Let him have his bizarre sulk as he eats his pot noodles like a martyr 😂

Do you spend a lot of time on Facebook, because the most obvious first move would be to go to the website of your local supermarket and check for the seasonal opening hours. They are usually listed.

Your husband is being a knob, but it sounds like he is in good company with some of the posters on here.

I don’t see how an anonymous Facebook post could possibly have done any harm. You’ll likely get more accurate replies than Google. (I got caught out myself just last week with the Google results saying somewhere was open when it was not.)

Youll either get replies from people who work in the shop, or those who have seen and noted the opening times in-store.

I would have said you could phone the store, but as per a PP upthread, apparently that annoys the staff and you should drive to the store to read the billboard instead.

The supermarkets will be open. Just go get stuff.

I don't have Facebook, but why does it matter if they Google it OR ask on Facebook? I don't really understand why that would annoy people