To leave my DH in a Zombie Apocalypse?

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Obviously a hypothetical, but I’ve realised my DH, lovely as he is, may be a bit of a liability in a zombie apocalypse.

He's great at playing battles with the kids, but I suspect the presence of a zombie threat would have him suddenly finding something to fix in the house like the washing machine filter, rather than get a club full of nails and preserve supplies.

AIBU?

OH would be quite handy, he's pretty accurate with firearms, not that we have access to any should the zombies descend! He does have a bow and arrows though, and keeps our kitchen knives sharp so we could tape them to the broom/mop handles 🤣

I'd be the driver, we've got a couple of dog crates we could break up to cover the car windows

I got him one of those salt guns for bugs for christmas, not sure how useful it'll be, maybe we'd get lucky and they'd dry out like slugs!

I think my DH would be more use in the ZA than he is now and worryingly I think he’d quite enjoy it! He’s quite antisocial so would be happy just with us, is a decent shot (has an air rifle that I reckon we could get local pheasants and rabbits with and our village has lots of oldish people who are the type to have shotguns that I reckon we could barter with) and we’ve got an open fireplace and good supply of wood for cooking plus a river a few houses down for clean water.

Sounds like you're well set!

Now I have to Google what a salt gun for bugs is!

Honestly from a survival perspective my DH would be fairly useless, he’s not particularly adept at DIY or practical stuff, dithers and is crap at making quick decisions, he is however a damn sight nicer than me and much better at the emotional support/ keeping people happy stuff so would be invaluable in maintaining psychologically sound family and making relationships with other survivors. I would just assume everyone else is a hazard (or so annoying I wouldn’t want to be stuck with them), avoid them all, sit in the dark sharpening my knife and figuring out new ways to turn the house into a fortress or obtain additional supplies.

Hmmm. Mine's a skinny geek with a tendency to leave everything to me, but he takes weird joy in building techy weapons and making stuff explode and to be fair he's pretty effective when he's motivated, he just thinks only about half of the things I think need to be done actually need to be done.

He also can probably rig up a way to charge the electric car from solar panels.

On balance, I think his geek skills mean ZA resource not ZA liability.

Same here. He's 75. 😆

See, I keep mine around in case of a ZA. Annoys me daily but can shoot, fly helicopters, fight like a bastard and is also quite big so lots of meat on him.

I think my son would be more of a liability than my husband. He's very gung ho. We've had one of those weird chats and it tickles him.

All the prep in the world won't help you to bug in if you're within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant. If it doesn't get shut down then you're dead anyway in a couple of days

If a zombie bites you, you get zombiefied. If a Patterdale bites you, do you get Patterdaleised? I think an army of zombies might be easier to deal with then an army of Patterdales ... (blanks out memories of walking neighbour's 'Bob' as a favour...)

foils are fuck all use in real life. No edge and the point is going to give a bruise at best.

frankly a kitchen knife would be better (although possibly too close)

<shuddering at the thought of an army of Patterdales> One Patterdale is more than enough, thank you!

Well in 28 years later although that’s a rage virus. The “zombies” can have non zombie babies with the huge dong zombie man.

So maybe you’ll be safe with a dog bite 😅

Yeah, I think it's got a safety tip!

Frankly I'm going with the le crueset wok and a good spade, and I'll put DH in charge of minding the children.

Mumsnet skills of stock piling loo roll, making a chicken last a week and never answering the door will come in useful though 😁

Shaun of the dead if you could actually hit the target records seemed like good death frisbees

Dh would be useless. We live next to a woods which would be an ideal hideout but he would probably eat the wrong berries/mushrooms on day one and that would be it.

Oh for the laugh emoji!
DH would raid the macds near us for left overs before he ate something "wild" 🤣

Our family have had a zombie survival plan for many years, as I’ve gotten older I’ve went from driver of young fit people to zombie food to slow them down while the young people savethe pets, I have to agree as I’d probably get everyone eaten x

Are these shuffling zombies, or sprinting zombies? Your choice is the same either way... LTB to the Zombies 🧟😂

The only sure-fire way to kill a zombie is by destroying its brain, sit it in front of Love Island or a montage of Donald Trump's speeches, and it'll be a goner in no time. No need for violence.

In a ZA I'm escaping to a sea fort. Wave, wind and solar power. Saline treatment to make drinking water. Lots of hens and room to grow veg.

I will train the seals to act as guard dogs.

I have a completely unreasonable terror of zombies. Surely since they are dead after a couple of months their bodies would collapse as they would be decomposing.

I should just stick to eating the remaining Christmas chocs.

Id leave him outside as bait and go to The Winchester to wait it out.

I'd keep him. If he's good at fixing things then he can stay home and maintain the base caamp, barricaded in while you go out hunting and gathering.