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Being told I can’t drink out of certain mugs

521 replies

ThePerkyCoralPoet · 22/07/2025 23:09

I’m staying at my parents house and my dad has said “don’t drink out of my mug that’s the only one I can find that’s like this so you can’t have it drink from your own” so I said “you’re pathetic and this is exactly why you and I will never see eye to eye. Because you behave like a child”

I made my tea in another mug and never bothered speaking to him for the rest of my time here.

OP posts:
Zebedee999 · 23/07/2025 12:06

ThePerkyCoralPoet · 22/07/2025 23:14

Childish. Why act like I’m not his daughter. It’s a mug. He’s just pathetic.

You are everything you are accusing him of being. Take a look at the ugly person in the mirror.

TaupeRaven · 23/07/2025 12:43

I mean, it's not hard to imagine that he finds you difficult to get on with...

GreenGully · 23/07/2025 12:57

If you hate your dad that much go book yourself into a hotel during your renovations instead of freeloading at your parents house.

Weirdest thread ever!

Fivetimesfive · 23/07/2025 13:29

AncientBallerina · 23/07/2025 11:31

This is clearly the latest in a long line of behaviour by your dad that makes you feel that he doesn’t love you, care about you or want to put himself out for you in any way. It’s not about the mug really is it? And I agree it is pathetic for a grown man to be precious about a mug. I cannot imagine my own father behaving like this. My mum on the other hand…

Clearly?!
You clearly haven't read the OP's other threads. She has form for finding fault with those around her, when it's obvious to everyone else that it's her own behaviour that needs addressing.

Alltheyellowbirds · 23/07/2025 13:34

Fivetimesfive · 23/07/2025 13:29

Clearly?!
You clearly haven't read the OP's other threads. She has form for finding fault with those around her, when it's obvious to everyone else that it's her own behaviour that needs addressing.

Off-topic, but how do you know what her other threads are? I see comments like this a lot and always wonder - do you just have a really good memory for names, or is there a way to look up previous posts? I’ve tried searching by names before and it hasn’t worked.

Sorry to derail, have just always wondered!

Crispyturtle · 23/07/2025 13:41

I’ve got a favourite fork that I will literally wrestle out of my kids hands 😆 but this isn’t really about the mug is it?

YABU to not just use another mug, it’s not that deep.

xsquared · 23/07/2025 13:44

Alltheyellowbirds · 23/07/2025 13:34

Off-topic, but how do you know what her other threads are? I see comments like this a lot and always wonder - do you just have a really good memory for names, or is there a way to look up previous posts? I’ve tried searching by names before and it hasn’t worked.

Sorry to derail, have just always wondered!

I'm pretty sure you can do an advanced search based on the user's name. It may be a premium feature now though.

Fivetimesfive · 23/07/2025 13:45

Alltheyellowbirds · 23/07/2025 13:34

Off-topic, but how do you know what her other threads are? I see comments like this a lot and always wonder - do you just have a really good memory for names, or is there a way to look up previous posts? I’ve tried searching by names before and it hasn’t worked.

Sorry to derail, have just always wondered!

I remember the OP's name from other threads where her behaviour was very unreasonable but she failed to see that, despite almost everyone on the threads telling her so. Some threads stay in your memory when the OP's behaviour is unusual!

You can search for usernames too I think, try advanced search

Alltheyellowbirds · 23/07/2025 14:01

Fivetimesfive · 23/07/2025 13:45

I remember the OP's name from other threads where her behaviour was very unreasonable but she failed to see that, despite almost everyone on the threads telling her so. Some threads stay in your memory when the OP's behaviour is unusual!

You can search for usernames too I think, try advanced search

Ha. I have the worst memory for names. I’ll sometimes recognise someone’s unusual posting style and think “I know you!” But I’ll never remember the name.

Alltheyellowbirds · 23/07/2025 14:02

xsquared · 23/07/2025 13:44

I'm pretty sure you can do an advanced search based on the user's name. It may be a premium feature now though.

Ah yes, I don’t have premium so maybe that’s it.

May913 · 23/07/2025 14:02

So you have a special mug that others don't drink out of and you'd respect your mum not to drink out of hers - but your dads is fair game because you don't like him and you don't think it's special enough.

He literally can't do anything right - you're staying at their house as a favour, he buys you ice creams you really like and you won't have them.

You sound incredibly immature and awful tbh. I agree with him that you sound like a complete bitch. And it all seems to randomly come down to your mum and him splitting up for a bit.

What was it about the man your mum was with for a while that you liked so much?

May913 · 23/07/2025 14:05

Alltheyellowbirds · 23/07/2025 14:02

Ah yes, I don’t have premium so maybe that’s it.

No it's not premium, just click on Advanced search at the top of the thread and search by a specific username.

Howmanycatsistoomany · 23/07/2025 14:08

ThePerkyCoralPoet · 22/07/2025 23:41

Wouldn’t use my mums mug because I respect her. My dad on the other hand. I don’t. Thus, I will use whichever mug I wish to. However I didn’t bother in the end.

So you were deliberately trying to wind him up while staying in his house?
Stop acting like a mardy pre-teen.

everythingsnotmadeofgold · 23/07/2025 14:38

Go grab a mug (not your Dad's) and pour yourself a really big measure of cop on.

ohyesido · 23/07/2025 14:44

He’s your dad. If there are no other more serious underlying issues why do you dislike him so?

I have been caring for my sainted mother and military father this week after my mum fell and hurt herself in the shower.

so far I’ve had to prevent my dad from carrying her up the stairs, using a pressure cooker and have endured lectures on immigration Ozzy Osbourne, my parenting skills, my bra measuring skills and my marriage. I’ve accepted it all because he’s my dad. You only get one

user1476613140 · 23/07/2025 14:46

Hercisback1 · 22/07/2025 23:14

I'm surprised you're old enough to have a child with an attitude like that.

🤣

thebinkster · 23/07/2025 14:47

You are absolutely vile.My father died 15 years ago and I still miss him everyday.If I was your father I’d kick you out and probably never speak to you again.

ThinWomansBrain · 23/07/2025 14:52

Is the only reason you visit to annoy him?

Nanny0gg · 23/07/2025 16:08

VanishingBlinds · 23/07/2025 09:42

Nowhere near as spiteful as the OP, it's pathetic.

Apologies. That's who I meant

Nanny0gg · 23/07/2025 16:11

ThePerkyCoralPoet · 23/07/2025 00:27

Yeah haha I’m the bully. Never mind his bullying towards me. He’s called me a bitch before. Chances are most people on the thread will agree though😂

He didn't ask you to stay in his house.

Don't like it? Don't use him and leave

FlipFlopShopInHawaii · 23/07/2025 16:27

Nanny0gg · 23/07/2025 16:11

He didn't ask you to stay in his house.

Don't like it? Don't use him and leave

Next thing from OP will be.... well I didn't ask to be born 😤

SirRaymondClench · 23/07/2025 16:30

I have several mugs in my house that are just for my use. They have sentimental value to me and are irreplaceable.

If you touched any one of them I'd do time (probably).

JSMill · 23/07/2025 16:39

I have a favourite mug and it really pisses me off when other people use it so I hide it!! It’s an Emma Bridgewater so not cheap to replace.
Years ago, part of my maternity leave gift from my colleagues was a mug that said ‘new mummy’. I loved it for sentimental reasons but my bloody father in law kept using it and broke it 😡.
FWIW my df is staying with me and is way worse. Yesterday I showed him a lovely new picture we have just bought for a specific place and he said at the top of his voice
it was ‘ a bloody stupid idea’. I also got shouted at yesterday morning when I put the sprinkler on because there was a hosepipe ban. When I said not in this postcode, he went back inside and huffed for a couple of hours. I have ten more days of this.

lizzyBennet08 · 23/07/2025 17:13

Honestly I know no family is perfect but then I read these kind of interactions and I realise that we are the Walton's compared to Op and her father.

HevMc007 · 23/07/2025 17:22

This has to be a troll thread right?!?