to think the wasp man shouldn't have wanted to hold my DD??

[StealthPolarBear]

It's lovely really and I did let him but AIBU not to have the balls to say "you just sprayed toxic chemicals into our roof to kill every little buzzy thing in sight now you want to hold my baby?!"

OK, IABU - he was telling me about his granddaughter of the same age. Please tell me you would have thought the same though.

orm I bet you'd have sent DD up there to wriggle under the rafters and administer it herself??

No I'd have got her learning about the life cycle of the wasp and writing an essay!

I don't think moondog does 'simple disagreement' does she

It just begggars belief that we live in a world where people fear the kindly intentions of a middle ages man because he might have a slight aura of chemicals about him.

what intentions?
I didn't question his intentions at all!

And he'd just been dealing with toxic (I presume, since they're to kill the wasps) chemicals.

AYBU you ask?
Yes I say, very much so.

NeeeEExt!!

fair enough
I will run after him, shout him back and ask if he'd also like to blow a raspberry on her tummy
Will that do as a penance for my unreasonableness?

When I got home after my 6 weeks check at the Dr's with my twin d's I got all in a fluster with getting the pram into the flat (think it was the first time I had been out on my own with them!) and then a randon builder appeared from one of the flats upstairs and I asked if he would mind holding a baby for a few minutes...I have to say he looked delighted and it really helped me to manage to get in the house (bloody double buggies!). I have also given one of them to a group of teenage girls to hold whilst trying to get out of a cafe...ok so neither of these examples included possible toxic chemicals......

FWIW, stealth, I didn't think you came across as questioning his intentions

Toxic to wasps. Since your man was alive to hold her, presumably he wasn't exterminated along with the insects?
Unless he had 2 heads or a very odd rash, YABU!

lol

runnybottom, he did have a black tongue and purple prickles all over his back...
in seriousness though, I was more worried about the stuff on his clothes. I know when DH has been up in the loft and is covered in fibreglass he showers and chnages before holding a child.

Stealth,I'm taking two weeks off your sentence for good behaviour.

NeeeExt!

OK, I won't run, I'll just call him when he gets back.
Erm...thinking
WIBU to shout at the window people when we'd sat with them for hours and gone through what we wanted doing. When the fitters turned up this morning the first question was "so what are we doing then?"

i don't know the difference betwwn a soffit and a fascia, they're all just words to me

Oh, I'd be very snippy with 'em in this partic case.

do i not get the gavel for this one?
oh pleeease

No.
I am saving it for when you are next exceedingly irrational.
This one was far too reasonable to merit it.

well that's discrimination against rational people

lets not overthink this.
A nice family man offered to hold your child to help you out. I'm sure he wouldn't have if the chemicals were harmful.
I probably wouldn't have thought about it, unless the chemicals smelt/felt toxic when he was spraying them

look you I've been gavelled and done my time

Yes, leave her be now.
She's done her time.

@FallacyTide Why are you repeatedly digging up posts from 2010?