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AIBU - Books part 2

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theyoungvisiter · 17/04/2009 14:04

as you were ladies.

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Stayingsunnygirl · 18/04/2009 17:57

Sowwy.

salome64 · 18/04/2009 18:00

Its me who should be sowwy! gissa another one?

barbarianoftheuniverse · 18/04/2009 18:15

So surprised that no one is interested in my cuckoo clock. Would you care to see the guns instead?
Yours, longing for rain.

llandb · 18/04/2009 18:24

Ooh, then I'm sure there was a gf... or you thought that was her status after you found this manager bloke with her photo (but I'm just a romantic )

Look, the guv'nor thinks I'm getting above mesself; wants me to be in his line; I'm a red-blooded lad and fancy flying an aeroplane and fighting Ruskies, right? Knew all I'd get was a thrashing if I spoke out so of course I took off.

But now this posh cove has asked me to sit in his motor and given me a bite. And asked if I needed work. Seems alright, decent enough. Thanked him rightly enough but said I had my plans sorted. So he asked me about them, friendly-like. Just making conversation, so I told him, right. Thought he'd laugh at me, that's what the guv'nor would do, after all, what's a skinny working lad doing thinking the Air Force would take him?

But nooo, he went all quiet and then he put the moves on. Told me he and his friends were pilots who were tracking Russian spies. And if I'd go with him then they'd train me up. Well he knows that nobody at home knows where I've gone so he could just do away with me, none the wiser. I can look after mesself of course, but the sooner I can give him the slip the better, can't believe he thought I'd be daft enough to fall for that one.

salome64 · 18/04/2009 18:29

LLandb, it was Heart of Darkness, and there might well have been gf angle, but tbh, haven't read it in years!

Your lad sounds very game! Is there a Le Carre link there?

BalloonSlayer · 18/04/2009 19:33

A different one to 16:52.

I am starting to suspect my DCs may be involved in people trafficking.

There appears to be a person or persons from the Far East secreted in a shed at the end of our garden. I have not seen them but I know they are there.

Not only do I abhor the very idea of smuggling people in from abroad, but the DCs do not even feed them.

Even worse, they do not refer to them by name, but by an appalling racist term, which one practically never hears any more, and which I certainly did not teach them.

AIBU to report my own children to the Home Office?

MoominMymbleandMy · 18/04/2009 19:58

Ern Goon? But they did feed him. Bingo too.

llandb · 18/04/2009 20:12

Dunno either about gf

Not exactly le Carre, but the good guys are on the same side, as they liase with the Intelligence Branch of the Air Ministry or some such...

and I do apologise; I have had so many adventures after I started to work for this fella (who, as it turns out, was genuine) that I forget how it all started. Turns out that I didn't hop into the his motor at all but met him on the road. The bad guys were after him and his ankle was duff; if they caught him he was done for, so he sent me to find help. One thing leads to another and I get the job. I get to travel a lot but never seem to meet many girls.

frogthistle · 18/04/2009 20:16

AIBU to worry about keeping this unexpected pregnancy? It concerns me greatly as DF & I were waiting until we got married before doing anything.

The woman in the post office looked a bit peaky this morning and Mummy didn't eat dinner with us last night either.

Joining in late but loving the thread.

llandb · 18/04/2009 20:18

Moomin, YANBU - sooo tight-fisted!

MoominMymbleandMy · 18/04/2009 20:20

Frogthistle, you don't happen to live in Midwich, do you? If so, I would be very concerned.

frogthistle · 18/04/2009 20:34

I do believe my child will have golden eyes, along with everyone else. Yeah, Moomin.

Will now study bookshelves...

MoominMymbleandMy · 18/04/2009 20:48

llandb, yes, miserable devil. Very puzzled by yours...Len Deighton?

Back to my poor thwarted duellist who needs sea legs and surgical instruments. One of his concerns is that his new boss might Crowe over him.

salome64 · 18/04/2009 20:51

ooh ooh ooh! master and mariner? or something like that? master and commander? go on!

MoominMymbleandMy · 18/04/2009 20:54

OK, while I am cleaning and pondering (to very little effect with both) here is another easy-peasy one.

AIBU to be really miffed that the new girl, a wet nelly who can't stand the sight of blood, has got off with the coolest guy in school who has the hottest car.

He's so smart too, but he does play hooky sometimes. I wonder why?

MoominMymbleandMy · 18/04/2009 20:56

Salome, go to the top of the class - I'd give you an Easter egg but we seem to have eaten them all. Master and Commander it certainly is.

salome64 · 18/04/2009 21:06
Blush
frogthistle · 18/04/2009 21:12

AIBU to accept being dragged round by my friend? We do stop on the stairs from time to time.

salome64 · 18/04/2009 21:13

Have you suggested other passtimes? perhaps dropping sticks from bridges and seeing whose comes out the other side first might be more fun?

MoominMymbleandMy · 18/04/2009 21:15

Mmm, and he's a faithless little devil who will hand you over to an American university.

MoominMymbleandMy · 18/04/2009 21:19

Any takers on the wet nelly who nicked the guy I was after? I tried so hard to put the bite on him.

salome64 · 18/04/2009 21:21

sounds a bit bloodthirsty to me...maybe you are better off without him?

MoominMymbleandMy · 18/04/2009 21:25

Ah the Twilight of all my hopes.

salome64 · 18/04/2009 21:30

But with dawn comes new hope surely?

MoominMymbleandMy · 18/04/2009 21:32
Grin
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