Panto in an hour, guess what my husband is doing ?

[haretodaygonelater]

Pulling up the patio as the slabs are uneven! I mean yeah it needs done, but today!!

Reminds me of the time I cleaned the car to avoid doing the ironing.

Tell him to leave the patio alone otherwise he won't have time to do a 35 minute poo.

How thoughtful.of him preparing his final resting place 😬

In the bathroom on the toilet at a guess,having a festive clear out. 🤔🎄

Oh no he isn't! 😅

Tell him he will be under it if he doesn't stop 😆

I love the panto comeback!

I honestly do not know how his brain works. To be fair he doesn't do the long bathroom trips!

Yep he's basically indicating he doesn't want to go to the panto.

My DH spent all morning on Christmas Eve putting up fairy lights on the patio and then announced he was going to clean the living room windows (and even though it was by now dark). Meanwhile I am running around like a blue arsed fly cleaning bathrooms, changing sheets and hoovering because his bloody family are coming to stay.

Bloke priorities.

Is he behind you?

Ah, ignore my post,I missed what he was actually doing!
🤦

My dad was worse. My mum would be standing by the door and he would be running a bath.

If someone invited me to a pantomime, I would start looking for the most out of date food gift (on MN everyone seems to receive some biscuits or chocolates datestamped 1995) and gobbling it in the hope of falling dangerously ill and being unable to attend. However as the panto is in 1 hour that’s pretty annoying of your DH and presumably the tickets weren’t cheap.

If you get time, read the short story, The Way Up To Heaven (widely available to read online).

@ThePure I was thinking of bloke priorities this morning as I cleaned the bathroom, vacuumed, tidied kitchen, prepared nibbles etc ready for visitors later this morning. Meanwhile DH rearranged books on a shelf as his contribution.

Is that you Dave? My dad was exactly the same!

How interesting, I'm glad it is not just my DH. The first time we hosted 12 of his relatives for a family get together, he insisted on spending the morning trimming a lilac bush that was overhanging the path down to the bottom of the garden, just in case anyone wanted to go there. I tried to explain they were more likely to want something to eat and a chair to sit on, but he was adamant.

If it was a choice between panto and pulling up paving slabs I know which one I'd choose!

Uh oh, you mightn't make it to the panto if he's got nefarious plans for you and that patio.

Ooft, if I was expected to go to a panto, I’d be digging up the patio too, lol.

Might solve the problem if OP creeps up and yells "He's behind you!" at the DH!

Df was known for that sort of thing:

My favourite was as dm went to the car to meet her friend who was staying for a week, hadn't stayed due to ill health for several years. "Stop. You can't possibly have a visitor when the airing cupboard is untidy". Dm pointed out that probably her friend would far rather be met, than wait on a windy station in sub-zero temperatures so she could arrive to a tidy airing cupboard she'd never have to look inside.

I remember dm driving the car still covered in soap suds because he'd decided to clean it 5 minutes before we were due to leave. He was trying to hose it down with water as we left.

Then there was the time we were due to leave to go on holiday and he started pruning the (20m long, 3m high) hedge....

Although I remember going to the panto with him as a child, and he settled down in his seat with a small torch and economics book to read too. So leaving him behind to do the patio would probably have been a good thing.

He's planning to either:

• dig himself a quiet resting place that's better than panto

or

• leave a dug-up patio to annoy you for the next 8 months

You are missing a trick here @haretodaygonelater
Call out 'dh is going to the panto!' and wait to see if he calls back 'Oh no he isn't'
Leave without him.

Why do men have to sabotage their partner’s work/efforts/plans?

Still, with the patio’s slabs up it’ll make it far easier to bury him underneath it.