To tell him to grow up?

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We have been waiting for a flat packed set of drawers to arrive for a week and also arriving this week is a second set of flat pack drawers and bunk beds. DP keeps going on aboiut how we have our work cut out for us getting all these things put together by weekend. so the drawers arrive today, I get the instructions out, think it looks simple enough so put them together myself. This was mostly to save dp a job when he gets in from work and also so we're not stunk faffing with them all evening. When I'd finished I text him at work and told him not to worry about them as they were done and got this reply:

"great, thanks alot, you know I like putting them together, you should have waited for me to come home. have you even done them right? if they're knackered we wont be able to send them back. You should have waited for me."

he'll be in a right mood when he comes home now. AIBU to call him a tosser and tell him to grow up??

nope...go right ahead!

Text back: You're welcome cuntychops.

Tell him bollocks! I would. Then go on strike.

It's such a shame that a lot of men get so easily threatened if women move into their 'turf'.

Obviously you have emasculated him by being able to wield a screwdriver.

Why did you text him to tell him that you'd put them up?

I wouldnt have bothered myself.

'Golly, I'm so sorry. What was I thinking of? A mere female using tools and assembling flat pack furniture. The horrors! I'll immediately do a load of ironing, bake some scones, darn your socks and starch my petticoat'.

at Shirley!

Men are such tits sometimes

mine would have been really happy! he had a fight with our new coffee table recently trying to get it up.. i think the table won tbh..

Is it like his new toy that he wanted first go of?

It's like that film "It's a wonderful life":

Every time a bell rings an Angel gets it's wings....

and so the film "It's a wonderful Do-it-yourself life" goes:

Every time wifey successfully puts together flatpack furniture her hubby loses a testicle

Didn't you know???

sorted... i'll put up both the new cots and dd doesnt need to go and get his bollocks chopped off have the snip...

An excellent example of being damned if you do and damned if you don?t! How could you spoil his fun? Still, if he?s really so enamoured of assembling furniture, you can be sure he?ll never moan at you again.

I quite like the "You're welcome" response (without the "cuntychops!")but life's too short to argue about flat pack furniture!

Oh FFS, yes, tell him to grow up. A real man would never be threatened by a woman being able to put together a flat pack

My real man can't follow simple instructions so would never be able to do flat packs

I would undo it all and leave it in the middle of the room. Then I wouldn't ever touch another piece of flat pack furniture ever again. Seriously, I'd go on a life long strike.

Cuntychops is a brilliant response

I love 'cuntychops'. This website has really developed my swearing vocabulary, thank you so much.

I also love Ilkboo's reply. Its sarcastic enough to make a very valid point, but also funny enough to difuse tension and to subtly let him know what a twat he is!!

Tell him you have saved him the ironing/washing up instead as you weren't sure you would do it right.

A brief text reply is all that is necessary:

I've dismantled them. On your return you can erect them to your taste. Abject apologies for Not Knowing My Place.

Has he said things like this to you before? If so - he is an arse

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I like Gloria's response

tell him that by way of an apology you will allow him to cook/clean/iron for the rest of the week

I think 'cuntychops' is entirely appropriate in the circumstances.

Or you could just text: 'Don't be such a banana'. That works well with DH when he forgets himself.

Boob - I love that - I think his response to that would give you an idea of the measure of the man.

Ah well, at least from now on you will know that ALL DIY jobs are so Important and Hard that only your DP can do them, and you will be able to sit back and enjoy watching him and not letting him utter a word of complaint.

What a nob. Bigging up the assembly of flatpack furniture and making it out to be hard and time consuming, just so he can take all the glory and moan about what a tough life he has (and no doubt getting out of doing some of the more tedious household chores in the process).

Is there any chance you could have the whole lot finished before he gets home? I would. And a three course dinner.

Oh for the love of all things holy.... some men are just too fucking up their own arses for words!!

I think I would have replied 'Who the fuck do you think you are talking to??'

However - this is much better....

By Iklboo Thu 10-Jun-10 13:29:45
'Golly, I'm so sorry. What was I thinking of? A mere female using tools and assembling flat pack furniture. The horrors! I'll immediately do a load of ironing, bake some scones, darn your socks and starch my petticoat'.