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I've just deliberately sent my husband on a wild goose chase

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GooseyGooseyWander · 01/09/2021 22:29

I may or may not have changed some details of said hobby and equipment.

He has a 'hobby' that he is obsessed with. Let's call it wild goose chasing. He watches YouTube videos about wild goose chasing, he reads magazines about wild goose chasing, he has all the gear ('infrared', 'thermal imaging' etc) and likes to go out wild goose chasing on a regular basis.

Recently he hasn't been wild goose chasing due to some disillusionment with his level of success in wild goose chasing and the lack of presence of gooses in the local area. This means every night, for many hours he has talked to me about wild goose chasing. Reads out bits from magazines to me. Talks endlessly. Listens to goose chasing videos in bed and comments on goose chasing techniques.

Tonight I went out on a run and happened to see a wild goose in an unusual location.

Nonchalantly told DH about it and would you know it, off his own back he's excitedly gone out to chase said wild goose.

I've now had two hours of mumsnetting and watching MAFS UK without someone talking about gooses through it. I expect DH is still delightedly crawling around on his hands and knees with his thermal imaging goggles looking for said wild goose.

Only I didn't see a wild goose.

AIBU?

AIBU to see it again tomorrow?

OP posts:
PandorasMailbox · 02/09/2021 09:04

Excellent! Grin

Lostmarbles2021 · 02/09/2021 09:06

Bird watching?

Genius.

CaMePlaitPas · 02/09/2021 09:07

Oh this is sublime.

DecayedStrumpet · 02/09/2021 09:08

Also voting for otters.

Can't be geocaching because you don't just spot one randomly, you have to spend an hour nettle rummaging first Hmm

PandorasMailbox · 02/09/2021 09:09

@PlanDeRaccordement

Why? That is so cruel and unnecessary. I couldn’t violate my DHs trust like that. It’s not funny, it’s bullying.
There's always one... Hmm
Thatsplentyjack · 02/09/2021 09:10

It's cycling. Its always cycling. OP told her dh she spotted a cyclist and he's off out to hunt the fucker down.

Original poster
GooseyGooseyWander · 02/09/2021 09:11

@rwalker

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Surely it's twatty with two Ts?

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it did it make a sound?

If a husband goes wild goose chasing, thoroughly enjoys himself gives me some peace, does anyone get hurt?

Actually I did,p get hurt, gave myself a nasty papercut opening a fancy box of cheese straws. Karma perhaps?

OP posts:
Sniv · 02/09/2021 09:12

This is going to backfire terribly. Your DH is going to come home more crushed and disillusioned than ever. There he is with all the high-tec gear roving about after geese with no success while his DW, who doesn't give two shits, is tripping over the damn things. What is he doing wrong? What does she know? She says she just goes for a run and the geese come out and dance for her...but there must be some secret.

Better talk to her incessantly about geese. She'll let it slip eventually.

CaMePlaitPas · 02/09/2021 09:13

Is it fishing? Like carp wrangling or whatever the bloody hell fishing folk do?

Or pheasants? It's nearly the season.

Or deers/stags?

I am too invested in this, I have a house to clean.

Original poster
GooseyGooseyWander · 02/09/2021 09:14

TBH, I'm not seeing the hilarity of this. I also hopes he spots an entire flock and spends hours (days!) regaling the OP with tales of the chase and insisting she comes with him because she is clearly an expert at spotting them

Can't - children to look after. What a shame. It's not a child friendly hobby, the children are too noisy.

He does love your flapjack though SoupDragon I might make him some today to appease for the horrible bullying he is entirely unaware he has experienced. Halo

OP posts:
AmaryllisNightAndDay · 02/09/2021 09:14

AIBU?

YANBU. And very funny! Great thread.

AIBU to see it again tomorrow?

YWBU. It's only funny once.

RainbowBriteUk · 02/09/2021 09:16

I love geese!

Original poster
GooseyGooseyWander · 02/09/2021 09:18

@RainbowBriteUk

I love geese!
Gooses.
OP posts:
Kithic · 02/09/2021 09:21

Can't reveal the hobby though. It's too outing. grin

of course it is

SchadenfreudePersonified · 02/09/2021 09:21

Actually I did,p get hurt, gave myself a nasty papercut opening a fancy box of cheese straws. Karma perhaps?

Serves you right!

That's what happens when you are mean and horrible. Grin

TatianaBis · 02/09/2021 09:23

@CaMePlaitPas

Is it fishing? Like carp wrangling or whatever the bloody hell fishing folk do?

Or pheasants? It's nearly the season.

Or deers/stags?

I am too invested in this, I have a house to clean.

I’m thinking deer or pheasants.

You wouldn’t see a carp on a run would you. It would be out of plaice.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 02/09/2021 09:25

You wouldn’t see a carp on a run would you. It would be out of plaice

Grin
CBroads · 02/09/2021 09:26

Is he into Paranormal investigating?

Shodan · 02/09/2021 09:30

Imagine, though, if he'd gone out and actually seen the rarest Greater Spotted Lesser Crested Goose, on the strength of your fake sighting.

Then you would have done him, and the rest of the Rare Goose Chasing community, a massive favour.

Although it could've backfired on you, OP, because then you'd be the Goose Whisperer, a lucky charm of the Goosey World, as it were, and be required to go with him on every future Goose Chase.

SVRT19674 · 02/09/2021 09:35

I was reading through and did not expect this ending it made me laugh out loud...

tonicwaterparty · 02/09/2021 09:39

@GarnetsandRubies

Lol!!! What's the actual hobby????
Dogging.
HerRoyalRisesAgain · 02/09/2021 09:40

Hes looking for bigfoot isn't he?

HeartvsBrain · 02/09/2021 09:42

For all the pp who are having a go at OP, when I was doing my nursing training (many years ago now) we had members of the Fire brigade come and speak to us, one of the things that particularly stood out for me was that they said that after every tragic case they need to use humour to help them cope. They were not hard hearted horrible people, they just had to use what would help them get through some very tough situations. Now I don't suppose that the OP is going through anything that terrible - well at least I hope she isn't - but she has just given what most of us consider to be a little bit of humour connected to her daily life. We have no idea what else might be going on for her, but she may really have needed that quiet bit of time away from her DH, in fact after the last year and a half, I think we all need a bit of peace and relaxation to try to recharge our batteries. The OP has tried pointing out to her DH that she is not that interested in his hobby, but he ignores her and goes on and on and on about his particular interest. He also plays you tubes about it when she is trying to sleep, but instead of burying him under the patio (joke) she told him a lie - one that wouldn't cause him any harm physically, in fact could do him some good as it got him outside, into presumably freshish air, and taking some exercise, and one that should help him mentally as it has revived his interest in his hobby, and given him hope, and in my mind we could all do with some hope at the moment. I don't ordinarily agree with people lying to someone, unless it is a genuine white lie, but what if the OP has become so depressed by her husband's constant (I doubt it is constant, but it probably feels like it) harping on about his hobby, and she desperately needed a break from it? Would it have been kinder for her to tell him that if he didn't shut-up about it, and if he didn't infact go into another room for at least an hour or two to give her some peace, then their marriage might start to come under serious jeopardy? Do you think her husband would have been happier knowing that he was boring his DW to tears, or happier being told a little lie, that got him outside and enjoying himself? If I was the 'wounded' party, I would far rather be teased with the latter choice - it actually sounds a quite loving choice to me - than told how boring I was! Yes, the OP didn't need to come and tell us, but we are strangers, we are not thinking that her DH is an arsehole, many of us do have some empathy with the OP because we suffer a somewhat similar fate with our Dlovedones, but what the OP is actually doing (hopefully) is getting something off her chest, and having a laugh with people, as I said before, who do not know her husband, so he can't suffer from us knowing about her little game, and actually giving many of us some much needed light relief.
A while ago I was very ashamed to have said something so horrible on Mumsnet that I was temporarily stopped from posting. So please those of you who had a go at the OP, save your comments for people who really deserve them, like I did, and maybe like me (I decided I will not go onto any threads that I know are about my trigger - my trigger is personal to me, I have no right to try and change other peoples thoughts on the subject, especially as it can be extremely upsetting to them) - come straight out again from any threads that cause you distress.
Sorry OP for bringing a bit of a dampner to your thread, I know that you can easily ignore the naysayers here as they are just being silly, but I really want them, for their sakes, to really lighten up a bit! And another apology if it seemed like I was suggesting your marriage might be in dire straights, I was just trying to give an example, a 'what if' scenario. Thanks again for the laughs OP.

Lovemusic33 · 02/09/2021 09:42

Your dh’s hobbies are the same as mine 🤣, people think I’m odd but I can get very excited about something rare being spotted and would happily go on a wild goose chase (and have several times) only to find the person that spotted said thing didn’t know what they actually saw.

SoupDragon · 02/09/2021 09:42

He does love your flapjack though SoupDragon I might make him some today to appease for the horrible bullying he is entirely unaware he has experienced

I am withdrawing my permission for you to use the recipe because you are a horrible nasty bully.

😉

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