To think dh is being absolutely pathetic?

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We’ve had really heavy snow here last night and this morning.

Dh and I have got wellies but ds14yo and ds16yo didn’t have any boots that fit. We found a pair of ds1s old wellies for ds2, so all fine.

Ds1 only had an old pair two sizes too small.

Anyway, 16yo ds went out with his mates and borrowed a pair of dhs walking boots. These walking boots had been in the cupboard for 4 years and dh hasn’t worn or touched them, in fact they’ve nearly been donated several times and he kept them just in case. Bear in mind Dh has been wearing his wellies in the snow.

Dh has gone mental at Ds for borrowing his boots saying he’s trashed them. They’re not trashed they are just wet from the snow. He’s saying ds should be more prepared and have bought his own wellies.

He’s 16 and at college with a part time job ffs.

I know ds should have asked first, but we weren’t home and he was excited to go out.

I think it’s absolutely mean and pathetic to not let your own son borrow some boots for the snow.

Christ, when they've dried out tomorrow I'd be running round the house waving them around and loudly proclaiming a miracle. "Lo, for they were RUINED and yet here they are MADE WHOLE! Ti's a miracle I tell ye!"

But that's after many many years of trying to iron the kinks out of DH's packrat tendencies - he's lost all sorts of stuff over the years to exes and family members chucking (or stealing and selling) his stuff which I do empathise with, but I won't have that being used to justify his (now rare) tantrums about why someone else has touched HIS things.