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...

omg - i was just reading that one. It really escalated 😂

The one where a mother of adult children, who no longer lived at home, had not invited her to a Halloween party they were holding for their friends. She was very upset not to be invited and was asking if it would be unreasonable for her to turn up anyway. Despite all of the posts urging her not to crash a party full of her kids similarly aged friends, who would probably find the presence of the host's mum acting as a chaperone quite weird, she was insistent that she couldn't see anything wrong with it. She was adamant that she would be a great help as she could bring some nice food and help her son's wife prepare food in the kitchen, which suggested a charming naivety about what twenty somethings often get up to at parties!

A quite recent and bizarre one where the mum said the nursery were constantiy testing her, the latest being when she went to pick up her DC from nursery they deliberately lied and said they’d all had radishes but DC didn’t like them. However, her 4 year old insisted she did like radishes and had actually eaten them with butter so why MN am I being lied to? 😅

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/parenting/5331197-nursery-lying?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

I very much enjoyed the one about Belgian(?) wolves.

Please link 😂

I love the ones when the op comes back and goes absolutely batshit at being told they are indeed being unreasonable.

This was one of my favourite threads of all time. It's an oldie but a goodie.

Fashionistas in france

The op simply could not understand that she couldn't push to the front of a taxi queue because she had birthed some kids.

I'm going to go reread it now, hope it's just as funny as I remember.

It was very rough on Anne, going through puberty, to have to share with a middle-aged man (and probably embarrassing for Fritz too). Since Mr and Mrs Frank already had their privacy compromised by sharing with Margot, I agree that arrangement would have made sense

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5273256-to-think-my-sibling-is-being-totally-unreasonable-about-sleeping-arrangements-on-this-trip?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

This one? I just couldn’t get my head around it!

Some of these are brilliant - I haven’t read some of them before as only joined in 2013 when I was pregnant with dc2.

I can never remember the threads I find unreasonable unfortunately!

OMG! That dinosaur one is brilliant! 😂

Showing how old I am but the dog walker that nearly made the news being chased by cows.
The MN decision is that we need to pack hills into our rucksacks on dog walks 🤣🤣

That's the one. Is it real? Because😂

That's the one i was thinking of as well! 🤣 Absolutely adamant that there was no reasonable excuse for her not to be there, and not being invited was irrelevant.

It’s got to be steak-cut chips and perfect pairings in M&S. - I think there was also something about a buffalo or maybe a bison from the same poster.

That was absolute comedy gold.

Will try to find the link, but a very unreasonable person talking about moving to Canada back in the day where SGM uttered the immortal line "I AM CANADIAN" It was hilarious. https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1015826-to-think-its-irresponsible-for-my-OH-to-leave-our

Supersoaker! I was brand new to the site - I think it must be about 16 years old, because my youngest was tiny. Someone has linked to it above. Because it was one of the first threads I ever got absorbed in, and was so completely ridiculous, it stuck in my head in all its glorious detail. I think 100% of the responses told the woman YABU, yet she refused to listen and sent the supersoakers anyway!!!

No particular threads that stand out (aside from those mentioned).

But one trend which I find particularly unreasonable is parents who start threads saying they are worried about their DS/DD because they aren't in a settled steady relationship at the age of about 19/20. It's such a stupid and controlling outlook on life.

Anyone who would wish to hurry their son or daughter into marriage or cohabitation when they are blatantly not ready and when they are about to enter the most exciting period of their life needs their head examined.

I always remember the Snapped & Farted one. I thought maybe it was a typo but no, apparently the OP did actually snap and fart 🤣

I was also very invested in the one where the Op's prize that she won went missing. It was a guess the sweets in the jar I think. And from around 6 years ago where the OP's acquaintance decided to volunteer the OP to donate a beauty treatment to the school's raffle but forgot to tell her

That one was nuts.
There HAD to be a room left empty for some reason but OP wouldn't say why

The one a few months back where an ex teacher who came across an ex pupil in the care home her husband was in who was rude to her. It transpired the op had been really abusive as a teacher but wanted to know if she should report the carer for being rude but got 99% piled on for being abusive when she was a teacher. I was the first one to reply

Just today, there was a post for a recipe for 1 (ONE) person that involved a whole BNS, 500ml of cream, something like 1.5 tbs of chilli powder, etc.

OP insisted that it was real & not a troll post.

Did she ever say why it was imperative for the room to stay empty??

I remember that one - OP last posted on page 11 and it somehow got to 40 pages 😂