Husband ignored door. Missed my delivery.

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Light hearted !

Upstairs with my 2 babies. Hear door knock. Desperately I hope DH who is downstairs will go as I don’t want to wake the babies . But I hear no movement . So I stupidly jump and run to the window to see the delivery drive away!!!! I woke the babies in the process. Arghhh

It is the first time in almost 3 years I have ordered new clothes after living in leggings ! I actually mean this. I finally bit the bullet after months of lurking at clothes and paid for next day delivery and I missed it .

DH sat at kitchen table claims he didn’t hear the door go! Yet I heard it from upstairs and now need to drive to collect the parcel 25
mins away but can’t collect until Saturday !

I could just explode ! Ahahahhash!!

I think it's the day for husband missing the door. I ordered a phone for DD and I've just be notified that I missed the delivery. Dh is at home with the kids so no idea why he missed it

Did you let him know a parcel was due to make sure he was listening out? You say he ignored it, but he never did he. He didn't hear it.

Yeah people on MN are just bonkers with their responses. Cranky pants 🤣

Have you a tracking number for the parcel. I would try logging into the website and see if you can get it redelivered.

LTB 😉

This.

Didn't it show you on the app the specific time they were delivering?

What makes you think he ignored it rather than genuinely didn't hear it? Has he got form for it?

Leave the children with him on Saturday, go get it, stop off for a coffee and enjoy an extra half hour to yourself.

I don't know how you walking downstairs would have woken babies, unless you live in the worlds creakiest house, or they were both asleep on you. If you cared that much about the delivery you would have opened the door. Or mentioned it to your DH for him to keep an eye/ear out and also sent him tracking information so he could be on the ball.

This. Make him learn his lesson!!

The other day both me and my partner were working from home in the same room and the door bell rang for the builder my partner was waiting for. I heard the door bell. Went down stairs opened the door went back upstairs to get partner. He hadn't heard the door nor had he noticed me leaving the room to answer the door and was bewildered by the concept that the builder was there without him knowing

Did he know you were expecting a parcel?

LTB!!!

It's a bit disappointing but in 2 more days, you'll have lovely new clothes. Hope they are all perfect & you feel a million dollars.

Instead of ‘desperately hoping’ he would answer the door, why didn’t you just tell him you were expecting a delivery and when? DPD give a one hour timeslot, and a link which shows which delivery number you are and which the driver is currently on, so they’re one of the easiest to track for something like this. If your husband knew to expect a delivery between 11:58-12:58, he’d probably have been more alert to it.

I assume he didn't hear the knock on the door. Anyway, I'm surprised DPD took the parcel away! Every parcel we get delivered gets left on the front step. It is annoying though if you've been looking forward to it. Hopefully you can collect it Saturday morning and then you've got all weekend to wear your new clothes.

Get him to go and pick up your parcel. What a useless twat.

I’d go collect the parcel myself (via a coffee shop) and leave him the kids… natural consequences…

dont dpd usually try twice

DH sat at kitchen table claims he didn’t hear the door go!

Maybe he didn't hear the door? Why are you saying "claims" he didn't hear? Perhaps he had headphones in. Maybe the kettle was boiling.

Or maybe he did hear and didn't go to the door because he wasn't expecting anyone. I'm one of those nutters that doesn't go to the door if I'm not expecting someone/something because the area I live in is a total pain in the arse for door-to-door salespeople, charities, and the like.

If you were expecting a parcel you could have asked him to listen out for it.

It's a pain having to go and pick it up, yes, but I doubt he did it deliberately.

It wasn't deliberate. I'd also say have him look after kids, go pick it up, stop and have a coffee or do something else for you. A good partner would understand why and encourage it!

Unless he's generally lazy and/or selfish, I don't know why you wouldn't just believe he didn't hear it. Sometimes DH hears things (phone going off, someone knocking on the door, one of the DDs crying etc) that I don't. I'd be cross if he had a go at me for not hearing it.

I'd leave him with the babies and make it a nice 2 hour journey to collect it. Have a quiet bit to eat and drink while you're out collecting it.

Time to get your ducks in a row. You deserve so much better than living with this SOB. My advice would be to move on, it will never get better.

People saying he should “be left with the kids while you collect your parcel and teehee stop off for a coffee” as some sort of punishment/consequence…he should spend time looking after his own children at the weekend anyway. & a Mum should be able to
pop out for a coffee. Not as a punishment or consequence. Just because.

Shoot him.

Then take yourself off for a day in a spa/ shopping centre trying on clothes, drinking coffee and eating cake while he takes care of babies.

Surely God created men as a joke?

@sockmuncher right?! My husband is away and texted me yesterday to see if a package was delivered and I had no clue, I’d been working without any breaks all day and couldn’t remember if I’d heard the door at all. Hopefully he wouldn’t bollock me for that!