Background: good friend is 36 weeks pg with baby 2, her husband is working away, her mum and dad live abroad. She phones at midnight to say she thinks she is in labour, would I be prepared to come to her house and stay with her dc1. She phones again at 1 to say she needs to go to hospital as she thinks this is it. I go to hers, take her to hospital which is only 5 mins away and go back to look after her dc. She calls at 2 to say she is being transferred over to the big hospital and can I care for dc until her mum gets over on sat night. I get up at 6.30 with 2yr old and bring her to my house to join my 2 boys.
Dh has plans to go to a rugby match in London (about 2 hrs away) kick off 2.30pm. I ask him to hold off leaving til 11ish so I can make sure all is well, organize kids and take my friend some books, snacks etc as she gave birth all alone. He refuses as he is meeting friends but puts off leaving til 10.15am.
All is good, friend is good, kids are behaving.
Friends dc's granny cannot get here until 11pm so I ask dh to come straight home so I he can look after our kids while I take the little one home and hand over to granny. He says he will try but I don't really trust him as he will be quite drunk.
A neighbour is organised to collect the child from me after tea and take her home to bed. I text dh and say don't worry about coming back early all has been sorted. He gets the wife of a mate to ring me from the pub to say he's too drunk to call (in moment of great comedy and laughing in background). I say hi, can't talk the baby is crying and hang up furious.
AIBU to think it is the height of fuckwittery to get someone else to ring as he thinks I'm cross and that in general he has been a bit selfish?
Oh and before the whole mercy dash thing he kept harping on that I could have come too, god alone knows where he thinks our kids would have got to as we have no family within a 3 hrs drive!