AIBU - Books part 2

[theyoungvisiter]

as you were ladies.

starlight - I think your problems might have started in your previous life as a member of a garishly costumed girl band.

I'm not intellectual, mines a film, but I've been needing to vent about the stortline for quite some time and this is the closest relevant thread.

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AIBU to be upset that I have not been invited to the christening of a good friend's DD?

I am upset as I think it might be a very glamourous affair, and perhaps they think I am not pretty enough, or classy enough, to attend.

DH said I should just turn up anyway, and take a really naff present, to show them how I feel.

What do you think?

MrsF. Not W&F. Basically got knocked up by employers son when v. young (some kind of cousin). DC died due to poverty related illness. But with the support of MN I got back on my feet and moved away, and started a new life. I met darling DP and was so happy, but felt I had to tell him my history. Only fair! sadly, there was a bit of mix up and he didn't get my note and only found out after the wedding. So left me....

Another one. AIBU to take a young boy, his sister and his sister's high-school jock boyfriend through space and time with my two friends, so they can trace a missing man?

My DH and I are separated. He is older and better educated than me, and is embarrassed by my lack of social graces and immaturity.

He has recently accepted a reseach job living in a weird religious commune with a bunch of nerdy misfits, and wants me to join him there to see if we can be reconciled.

AIBU to want to stay in London and spend all my alimony on pretty sandals and jazz records instead?

Balloon, why stop at naff presents? I reckon a bit of round cursing would be appropriate. How very dare they not invite you!

Now that sounds very Murdoch, MrsF!

AIBU to be a bit fed up of having one fight after another with bigger and uglier fantasy monsters for the sake of a blardy bit of metal.

DH and I are at last deciding to call it a day on our marriage.

We have debated what to do about the children for quite some time.

Eventually we have reached a solution. We have baby identical twin DDs, so we've decided . . . we'll take one each.

AIBU to think that the best way to handle this would be not to let on to either of them that the other exists, and to never let them meet again?

< disclaimer - probably not a book >
< but thought this thread was about the bizarre AIBU threads plotlines would make rather than a guessing game, although the guessing is fun >

as a young man recently up from the provinces, don't you think I would be wiser to ditch my bourgeoise mistress and take up with a real lady?

you know, one with her own carriage and a pretty chambermaid and connections at court and all that sort of thing?

I can't help thinking it would be a much safer career move

my friend keeps warning me against her, but surely that's only because he's got no real experience of women?

Salome - I see the right bells are ringing!

errr - Moll Flanders? no. That's not it...

cory, do you have a real old git of a landlord? and are you a teen weeny bit 'furrin'?

salome, think we've had that one non?

It was AIBU to dump my fiancee now I have found out she was raped by her cousin and had his stillborn child.

get thee back to the dairy sheds, lass.

BalloonSlayer - that's a good idea but if they do find out about each other beware - they may try to get you back together again through a series of fiendish tricks.

Do you mean Tess, TYV?

I keep getting confused... Tess's baby wasn't stillborn.

Balloonslayer - I think it woudl be unwise. THey might start setting a Trap for their Parents.

Mrs F - you're right!

didn't it die Ballonslayer? It's a long time since I read it to be honest!

slumps off the barn disconsolately.

They might indeed set a trap for their parents. And worse than that, they both might turn to drugs, drink and DUIs, and go out with Samantha Ronson, or have a son who ended up in Kula Shaker. Depending on which version we're talking about of course.

Thanks Trillian.

But do you agree - they wouldn't be at all upset about it?

I mean no one would get too fed up about their mum and dad keeping a secret like that from them, would they? They'd just say - duh! what are you like? - wouldn't they?

Yes it did die. But it (he? she called him Sorrow ) wasn't stillborn, but died as a newborn .

Well, if you brought up one in America she would say 'Duh', the English one would say 'what a jolly jape' as everyone knows that's how English people talk.