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

[GooseyGooseyWander]

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?

As someone else said, bats?

It’s bats! Must be, they use infrared devices and a sound box thing to listen to their chatter (I may have been on one..)

This was funny, but made even more hilarious by @PlanDeRaccordement’s outrage 🤣

Just to clarify on the hobby

It is a movable goose.

You can see goose here, you can see goose there, you can see a goose almost anywhere.

But not on YouTube when I'm trying to sleep thank you very much.

[quote PlanDeRaccordement]@SleepingStandingUp

It isn't bullying. She mentioned in passing she saw a goose, he wanted to go look for the goose. She didn't make him go out.

But she lied. She never saw a goose. She lied to him for her own amusement because she knew he’d want to go and look for the goose. Now she’s sitting at home having a laugh while he’s out looking for a goose that doesn’t exist. That’s bullying. Sorry I do not find this funny at all.[/quote]
But he enjoys looking for the goose. And presumably he may have been in with a chance of finding one anyway! Come on, don't be such a spoilsport. I imagine if I pulled some similar prank on my dp, he'd see the funny side. I certainly don't think he'd consider it bullying! But then perhaps you dh is particularly sensitive.

Do you ever have a goose loose aboot yer hoose?

Sounds like a ghost hunter. Does he habe an EMF detector ?

Ooh is it beavers? I know someone whose DH is obsessed with them....

@PlanDeRaccordement doesn't it make your hands ache from wringing them all the time?

@LoveVintage

Ooh is it beavers? I know someone whose DH is obsessed with them....

Warm.

Badgers

Not bats.

I mean he is, but that's not the hobby.

Otters?

Badgers?

@LoveVintage snorted red hot tea through my nose

Not a ghost hunter then if badgers is close.

Hedgehogs?

Blonde hedgehogs???

You sound pleasant. If a man had done this to his partner, the whole of Mumsnet would be asking her if he was always this controlling/abusive, then telling her to leave him because he's a dick.

@PearTreeBoat

Blonde hedgehogs???

Ooh yes the albino hedgehogs?

@LoveVintage beaver obsession starts young in the male of our species. It could be beavers.

PdeR sounds great fun at parties. I'm autistic and don't find a lot of things funny, but this is genius. September 1st should become National Wild Goose Chase Day.

YANBU. MaFS needs to have no interruption and he's happy. Win win.

Christ, warm beavers.

@Holskey
He loves looking for a goose when there is an actual goose to be found. No one thinks it’s funny to be lied to and manipulated all as a joke. And then to brag about it online. This is horrible. What kind of people are you to condone this?

Red squirrels? Deer?

Love the username OP. Really wish the hobby was (nice) beavers