Slapped in the face with a tortilla wrap.

[SaphiraBlue]

Title says it all really.

Backstory:

Just cooked tea for the family (though not myself as I wasn’t hungry)

DP took his time coming to the table, which was slightly annoying but is what it is.

He sat down and asked for sauces, I looked at him and told him where they were (as in get them yourself)

He looks at me with mock puppy dog eyes and says “but I have a bad foot and I’ve been working on your house all day”

1. He does have a bad foot after he impaled it on two rusty nails while building a fence at my house.
2. He’s been plastering walls all day at my house

The house we live in is in his name so I’ve recently bought my own as an investment/security for myself. He has been incredibly helpful with doing up the property so I got up and got him the condiments…. ….only to be slapped in the face with a tortilla wrap!

He thought it was funny, DSS thought it was funny (my DS still hadn’t made it downstairs to the table at this point) and when I was clearly unamused DP’s response was “It’s a thing!!” And tried to justify himself by saying it’s something trending online. I did pick up his drink and threaten to throw it over him but stopped as I didn’t want to be the one to clear up the mess after - it feel guilty for it as I undoubtedly would.

So
AIBU - lighten up it’s just a joke
AINBU - Cheeky (Expletive) can make his own food in future.

I remember I pinged a bank card off my ex face and couldn't move for about an hour laughing at the look on his face.

He got me back the next day.

Jesus wept, the people bleating on about OP making him food when she wasn't eating. How many hundreds of pounds do you think he's saved OP in plastering and fencing bills? I think in this instance the least OP can do is make him some fajitas or whatever the hell it was, and get the sauces for him without twisting her face.
Yes the stupid tortilla thing was annoying, but surely you'd just say 'FGS Barry, stop being a nob!' and get on with your evening. Not run off to Mumsnet to wallow in people making ridiculous comments about assault.

Slapping someone at random with a tortilla isn't the trend though (nor is it particularly funny, unless you're into the sort of juvenile humour that people who start every YouTube video with "HEY GUYS AND WELCOME BACK TO MY CHANNEL" find funny), the point is it's two people with mouths full of water doing it to eachother.

This is just a buffoon acting like a buffoon at the expense of his OH. It's mean spirited, whereas the trend is funny because it's a joke shared between two adults. I'm not sure why people are struggling to grasp this concept.

Joke - everyone is involved and laughing
Mean - one person is the unwilling subject and everyone else is laughing at them

Shit. Really? I got it the wrong way round. Oh god. No wonder HR need to speak to me first thing Monday. Aaaargh.

I think that's funny,

Hell no

My brother used to slap you in the face with the foil lid from their yoghurt when we were kids… last Christmas I finally got him back. We’re 35 and 40. If it was a stupid joke and he apologised when he knew you were upset let it go

I've never heard of this 'thing'. He sounds very immature and like a follower of silly childish trends, not a thinker. If he said to me "it's a thing!" my response would have been - yeah, if you're a 12 year old boy and your balls haven't dropped yet... . That would have put him in his place and wiped the smirk off his face.

Technically it is assault (common jaw) -apprehending imminent unwanted application of force.

It does not have to cause harm -just touching is enough. Cutting someone's hair without permission also counted.

How rude of you to comment on the OP's jaw. I'm sure she was slapped with a tortilla on her beautiful and refined jaw.

I think it sounds like you have a great, hard-working, supportive partner who got it wrong on this occasion.

I can understand why you were caught off guard and found it a bit embarrassing or upsetting but equally it doesn't sound like he meant to make you feel that way. He thought it would be funny and it just happened to fall flat as a tortilla.

common jaw assault 😆
Definitely quote this when you call the police OP.

I don’t think it’s funny. I’d tell him if you resent working on my house then say so, don’t go expecting me to wait on you hand and foot in return and pretend it’s a joke.

Where did he say he resents working on her house?

Honestly, I think I would have emptied my drink over him and left. I don’t find slapstick funny at all, whatever’s on YouTube. I think the whole cake smashing thing with little children can get in the bin as well.

It is a thing. Id of laughed

get him back with the cracking the egg on his forehead, i did that to my child the other day, oh how we laughed, then ate it 🍳

I think it’s funny and he obviously thought you were going to think it was funny too.

I wouldn’t have thought twice about jumping up to get his condiments after all he had done for me.

This guy is injured, has been plastering your home all day and is entertaining your kid (and what he thought was you too) and you’re trying to find fault with him.

It is a thing. It’s not funny online and I very much doubt I’d find it funny in real life.

I wouldn’t find that funny at all. It sounds like some of you would, and that’s fine, everyone has different senses of humour. It’s not the sort of thing that DH and I would do to each other and we would both be very shocked if the other one suddenly did that. It sounds like there’s a sense of humour mis-match which is a bit concerning tbh. It’s only a good joke if both of you are laughing, otherwise it’s just unkind.

I hate these "things" with a passion. I think I would have been petty and picked the sauces up and put them back where I had got them out from and walked away from the dinner table, with a "piss off" thrown in.

A&E to get the injuries recorded. Then 111. Or maybe the other way around.

If that were the case, he should have apologised and not just laughed and made excuses for it.

He should know what kind of humour his partner has, what OP finds amusing and doesn’t.

“It’s a thing”

??? For whom is it a thing?

I know 11 and 13 year old boys who wouldn’t think of behaving like that.

It sounds like passive aggression. (I’ve been doing this thing for you and am secretly pissed off so this gives me the right to humiliate you) sort of thing. Be very wary … glad you’ve got your own place.

That’s repulsive behaviour. Surprised by all the PPs saying they would have laughed - really, with no context for the “joke”, after they had just had a negative interaction about the dinner?

This guy is injured, has been plastering your home all day and is entertaining your kid (and what he thought was you too) and you’re trying to find fault with him.

Objecting to being hit in the face with a tortilla is not "trying to find fault"!