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

532 replies

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:
LittleMissnotLittleMrs · 02/09/2021 18:11

Possibly outing! Wallabies?

Wowthatsalot · 02/09/2021 18:13

Please PM me the hobby OP.
I've had a bad day!
Thanks

TheVolturi · 02/09/2021 18:14

Ooooh, will have to pinch this idea! 🤣

toohappy · 02/09/2021 18:20

It's not fishing is it? Your DP sounds just like mine. Obsessed with YouTube videos on fly making and phone pinging with Facebook updates from the groups he's on. He's up at 6am, out all day and tells me all about it but I really find it hard to get excited about the fish catching especially as I'm a vegetarian.
I love the weekends he's out all day :)

EastWestWhosBest · 02/09/2021 18:27

It’s stoats, or weasels.

greyinganddecaying · 02/09/2021 18:31

Love this - OP you are a genius!

ChasedByFox · 02/09/2021 18:38

It's gotter be an otter...

Though I'm holding out for melanistic foxes tbh. We used to have a leucistic magpie that lived in our garden- he was awesome, he was white with really pale beige where his black should have been.

The silence required makes me think it's badgers though. They are so weird in RL.

Soubriquet · 02/09/2021 18:48

I actually saw my first badger a few months ago. Posted on mn and someone said they are like a squat coffee table and it really stuck

Romney981 · 02/09/2021 18:52

He's an angler?

bobbeebob · 02/09/2021 18:58

Is it dogging? 😳

bobbeebob · 02/09/2021 18:58

Oops! Sorry. Somebody already said that

Harls1969 · 02/09/2021 19:01

@ViciousJackdaw

Is it dogging?
You beat me to it Grin
Monkeymilkshake · 02/09/2021 19:05

I dont know if any of this is true, but you write really well.
I enjoyed reading your updates!

Toomuchtrouble4me · 02/09/2021 19:08

@PlanDeRaccordement

Why? That is so cruel and unnecessary. I couldn’t violate my DHs trust like that. It’s not funny, it’s bullying.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
ButterflyBitch · 02/09/2021 19:17

@Elliania

OP - is your husband one of the British population who firmly believes there are wild big cats in the UK so he heads off to chase up reported sightings?
I’m wondering this. My husband has recently starting listening to podcast, watching YouTube and generally being boring about big cats. He hasn’t gone on a wild goose cat hunt yet but give it time Grin
HonoreDeBallsack · 02/09/2021 19:37

@godmum56

thinking its badger watching
I read this as "badger wanking", and thought it an unusual hobby.

OP, I love this thread as it's like being back in MN in 2004. Thank you.

HonoreDeBallsack · 02/09/2021 19:37

And who the fuck voted YABU?

ItsNotUnusualToBe · 02/09/2021 19:38

I made @SoupDragon flapjacks today! Family all LOVE them. The recipe is handwritten recipe book titled Soupdragon’s Flapjacks 😍

HonoreDeBallsack · 02/09/2021 19:39

@ItsNotUnusualToBe

I made *@SoupDragon* flapjacks today! Family all LOVE them. The recipe is handwritten recipe book titled Soupdragon’s Flapjacks 😍
Nooo!!
FelicityBob · 02/09/2021 19:40

OP, you are an excellent writer

JuneOsborne · 02/09/2021 19:43

Magnet fishing?

Yummiliscious · 02/09/2021 19:44

I think I saw a wild goose today OP…London area. Enjoy your evening! Grin

HonoreDeBallsack · 02/09/2021 19:45

@FelicityBob

OP, you are an excellent writer
Agree. Which is why it's Just Like The Olden Days when we all, like, wrote properly funny stuff.
Mincepiesallyearround · 02/09/2021 19:56

Red squirrels?

Dozer · 02/09/2021 19:57

Classics!