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AIBU?

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To not go to the shops at 10pm?

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Vaselinevaseline · 13/01/2024 23:36

Dd asked me for pink vaseline. I sell it at my store . I said yes, tomorrow at work.
So today comes. Dh asked me for some thing from a different shop next door. I said might not get time. So he said he would go to Asda. Dd went with him.
I was then requested to get another thing for ds as I was coming home. At 10pm. Stayed late and went to dinner with a friend. Note, I started at 8 this morning.
So I ended up going to get ds stuff. And extras then requested by dh as he didnt get it at asda. As I was going anyway, rather than getting it at work, plus it's cheaper next door, I decided to get DS vaseline there.
However, they didnt have her thing next door. So I offered alternatives. Apparently not good enough. Argument ensued, I said alternative or nothing. She said nothing. So i got nothing. She asked me to go to another shop on the way home. On a motorway! I said no. Nothing in the town I work in was open. By the time I would have got to my town, everything was closed anyway.
Cue massive argument when I get home at half ten cos she didnt get her vaseline.
She now wants me to go to the 24 hour shop to get it. Been called lazy, a bitch, shes been ranting for at least 1/2 hour. She said I shouldnt have children if I am not capable of raising them, that I am prolonging her suffering.
Note... we have, within easy reach of where I am sitting, 2 elf lip balms, 3 carmex, a green vaseline tub, two nivea lip balm sticks. Plus lip oils.
But I has to be the PINK vaseline. Apparently the others dont work. And her lips are chapped NOW. And she cant use them temporarily until tomorrow.
Dh has also offered to get it in the am.
AIBU to not go?

OP posts:
BungleandGeorge · 14/01/2024 05:09

I do t really understand why you didn’t get the Vaseline in your shop as you had planned. You went next door because the rest of the family had asked you to get other stuff after you agreed to get the Vaseline for your daughter. They didn’t have it. Why didn’t you go back next door? You agreed to get it, then changed plans which meant she didn’t get her item. The items you offered her weren’t in the shop they were stuff she already had so how is that offering her an alternative? I can see why she was a bit annoyed that you didn’t follow through with what you had agreed. Why would she buy it earlier if you had agreed to get it? I suspect you got angry and the situation got inflamed but I didn’t think she’s totally in the wrong because you agreed to do so
ething and then changed your plans

mrsplum2015 · 14/01/2024 22:50

I agree with @BungleandGeorge

She had every right to be annoyed as she was in discomfort and waiting for a product, which you promised to get her. And she deliberately did the right thing by not buying it in asda because it was more expensive.

I assume at 13 she has no option at 10pm to go out by herself and get it. So she's completely disempowered having been wanting the product and waiting patiently for 24 hours.

The reaction was rude but as someone previously said that is part of a teenager not knowing how to self regulate.

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