to think dh is an idiot?!

[Butterfly99]

I have been stuck in my small town because of snow for over a week. My dh otoh commutes to work to a larger town by train so I have been asking him to get some shopping in town. He is driving me mad with his incompetence. Yesterday I asked him to get a thermal vest for my 8 yr old dd and a thermal vest for me. He thinks he did this, but he actually bought non thermal normal vest and pants for my dd and thermal long johns for me.
Today I asked him to get compeed cracked heel plasters and sent him a picture. He bought compeed blister plasters.
On Friday he came home without his keys (including his car keys) and after I had hunted for them for hour, he "remembered" he had left them at his office one and half hours away.

the plasters thing doesnt sound that bad really

Beat him with a stick of rhubarb

is there a reason why you can't get on the train yourself?

men are generally a bit stupid when it coms to buying things, i find

The plasters and thermals don't actually sound that bad. If you ask someone else to get something that specific, and they don't really know what you mean, there is a chance they will get it wrong.

My DH is often forgetting where his work locker keys are too.

In the scheme of things, this is not bad and I think you are just fed up of being stuck at home.

Compo - no except the the cracked heel plaster goes over the heel and protects the heel while it heals whereas the blister plaster is just for a blister. And my heel is painful and i am currently walking 5 miles + a day in the snow to get the kids to school.

ouch!

All thermals are packaged the same for maximum confusion, you need a degree in underwear to buy the right thing.

The keys thing was a bunch of our house keys and both our car keys and he was convinced they were either at home or he had dropped them in the snow on the way to the station hence hunting for them for an hour before he remembered he had left them at work!

He once left his dress suit and shoes on the train and had to travel into London to fetch them from lost property.
He is very scatty!
You are probably right, I am sick of being stuck at home. I wouldnt really have enough time to go into town on the train and be back in time to fetch children from school.

Can you order some items online for him to pick up in store?

My dh would be pretty clueless too. At least he is trying to help though

If he loved you he'd not get it wrong................

my dh is highly intelligent, marvellous in every way, means really well, but can be a complete fool in the supermarket. I've also often wondered why, but there is a funny side to it too.

Sorry, I've every sympathy, my DP is totally incompetent with shopping and randomly uses his 'initiative' and yet phones me up to ask what brand of milk he should get. I find the best way is to order everything online or frankly I'd have to bludgeon hm.

At least you got your thermals, he managed to get them for DS and I then left them 90 miles away at work over the weekend......

Goodness me, he sounds wonderful compared with my useless 'D'H - mine would have forgotten to go to the shop for four days, then got pissed off with me nagging asking him to go, then the wrong items purchased would have been left at his work for another few days, with the recipt lost & no chance of exchanging them. Swap?!

DH's are generally useless with this kind of thing. By the way, flexitol cream (from Boots) is the best thing for craked heels. Works soooo well.