Your favourite unreasonable AIBU?

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There are so many wonderful examples of these, please share your favourites. Bonus points for links.

I remember one when OP was annoyed if the cost of children's birthday gifts weren't higher than the cost of hosting the party per child.

And the classic from a few weeks ago when OP thought it was ok to block the shared driveway and thought their neighbour who lived at the end was the unreasonable one.

I bet there are better ones out there though...

The one where the OP was going on a cruise (?) and her parents had invited and paid for her nephew to come too. The OP then realised she was pregnant and baby would have arrived by the time the holiday came around. She wanted her nephew uninvited to make way for the baby. But it was completely unnecessary. So many posters offered so many options for room sharing but OP was having none of it, she wanted her nephew uninvited. Weird.

Thank you! I've only read a couple of pages, but surely this was a joke? Surely?

Did you read the whole of the OP?

I remember the thread where OP was struggling with the term ‘behind my back’ 😂 frazzled my brain! https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/3006299-Aibu-to-think-this-doesnt-make-sense-behind-my-back?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

And another favourite of mine was the OP gate crashing PILs get together and making eyes at the champagne 😂😂 https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/4227852-Fil-reluctant-to-serve-niether-myself-nor-dh-nice-champagne?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

Just saw this bizarre one today.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5383061-height

OP actually called her doctor's office to set them straight, when it turns out was her own fault for slouching while being measured. 😄 I am enjoying picturing the expression on the face of the employee who answered that call and told OP she would look into it.

😂

There was a great one recently where a 'manager' had been told by all her staff that they felt she didn't care about them as people, just saw them as a resource, wasn't interested in anything but their output, wouldn't even take the time to engage them in conversation etc.

She confirmed that this was indeed the case and asked how she should deal with it.

From memory the options she'd landed on were putting the entire team on performance plans, sacking the 'ringleaders' who'd raised things with her to quell the rebellion, making everyone redundant or simply pretending to be nice to people...which she insisted was a non-starter because she wanted to be their boss, not their friend.

Unreal.

The promissory note had me hooting!
The OP kept saying ‘oh okay maybe I am being unreasonable, I’ll drop him a promissory note tomorrow’ and it was only about the after the 5th time she said it that a poster said ‘WTF are you on about promissory notes?!’

To then insist that they held the same power as bank notes was batshit. The poster who said ‘SO ARE YOU BACKED BY THE BANK OF ENGLAND THEN?’ had me hooting again.

That mechanic one is insane! She wanted to bill him for doing them a favour!!! Then then banging on about promissory notes! Either a troll or entirely deranged.

Doh! Yes I have now! Thanks!

I saw that one. The OP looked like it had been written by ChatGPT and there were no other posts by the username.

Thanks. My head hurts after reading that

That's 'PerkyOchrePeer' - all their threads are batshit

tow the op made her husband poo at work because they only had one working toilet
she wouldnt have ti that she was bu

I replied to that OP. Her arrogance was off the scale. She very much came across as a recent over promoted graduate (she did not confirm this) who was out of her depth.

Unsurprisingly, she didn’t like the replies and has flounced as she was told mostly she was being unreasonable and needs to change. She was also told how we can all sympathise with managing those who need to be managed out of an organisation,

There were well thought out suggestions, from people leaders, HR managers and individuals who have had managers just like her. A lot of which I have actually thought might be useful and will have a think about using.

Silver lining and all that.

😂😂🤣🤣 I remember this one

Ooh, I’ve just remembered another one! The OP had decided it would be a good idea to send flowers, balloons and pizzas to her daughter‘s school on her 16th birthday because “I wanted her to feel special!”. She was incensed that the school had not immediately dispatched a runner to let her daughter know the pizzas had arrived, meaning they went cold, and that she was told to put the flowers in her locker, meaning no one would see her carrying them about and she wouldn’t get attention.

Almost everyone told her this was batshit and a complete waste of the school’s time. She not only dug her heels in, but told us all we were obviously terrible mothers who didn’t care about our children feeling special, and how much she pitied them 😆😆

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3477486-WIBU-to-get-pizza-delivered-to-DDs-school-for-her-birthday-lunch?

I'd like to nominate the current civil service maths thread(s)
Not because OP is BU (she's correct) but just for the sheer level of batshittery

Check out this weird AIBU;

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5384775-to-think-that-if-it-is-illegal-to-use-a-mobile-phone-while-driving-a-vehicle-it-must-be-made-illegal-to-push-a-pram

Thank you for posting, that is a gem. "It amazes me that so many people cannot see the danger of using a mobile phone while pushing a pram."

I also just remembered the woman who was affronted that her friend asked her to go away on a bank holiday weekend. She said she semi regularly went away for a night or two with friends but thought it was very cheeky of her friend to ask her to go on a bank holiday because bank holidays are for family and she had children. She was incensed 😂

I had forgotten that one, @Gmala! It was insane! Not “My friend is upset that I won’t go away with her for the bank holiday” - incensed she would even ask! 🤣

OMG that's gold. Thank you for the laugh!