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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:
TatianaBis · 01/09/2021 23:29

Hands down the best thread on MN. 🦤

CombatBarbie · 01/09/2021 23:29

I'm guessing bat's 🦇

GooseyGooseyWander · 01/09/2021 23:30

@PlanDeRaccordement

The chances of him finding a goose were no less or no greater than any other time he has gone out goose chasing without a helpful tip off from his loving wife.

But you lied to him so he’d think his chances were greater. He is none the wiser that you never saw a goose and your “helpful tip off” was purely to manipulate him into going out so you could have a laugh about him and crow about it on MN. Not a very loving thing to do in my opinion. Imagine he’d done this to you and was sitting at home laughing at you and bragging about how he’d fooled his wife online.

It's balanced out by the times I actually have seen a goose and not told him because I don't want him distracted from important family stuff.

Or is that a bad lie too?

I'm so confused.

OP posts:
TatianaBis · 01/09/2021 23:30

@CombatBarbie

I'm guessing bat's 🦇
OP has confirmed he is, but it’s not the hobby.
StarryGazeyEyes · 01/09/2021 23:30

Oh shit. I'm the one with the geeky hobbies in our house and this is like seeing through the looking glass!

PyongyangKipperbang · 01/09/2021 23:31

@Feelingpoorlysick

I'm guessing he's a bird watcher...?
Yeah I thought twitcher too
CombatBarbie · 01/09/2021 23:32

Deer? Beavers? Hedgehogs? Foxes? Owls?

Is it a nocturnal animal?

OJandacupoftea · 01/09/2021 23:32

I’m thinking metal detector.

I’m with you OP - the joy is in the research/chase not the find. He’ll have fun out there hunting. It’s a win.

PyongyangKipperbang · 01/09/2021 23:32

Otters!

godmum56 · 01/09/2021 23:34

something to do with stars? meteor showers?

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 01/09/2021 23:35

His hobbies sound quite sweet.

We were out canoeing recently and were passing some young anglers (late teens to mid twenties) in a motorboat who were very excited at a kingfisher sighting. I understood... it was my first kingfisher too...

TatianaBis · 01/09/2021 23:35

@PyongyangKipperbang

Otters!
You want workin on boy.
FlatteredFool · 01/09/2021 23:36

Burglars/nefarious people of the night hence the night vision goggles to help him detect the sneaky bandits and make a citizens arrest?

Waitwhat23 · 01/09/2021 23:36

Hmm, I was going to say badgers but that's apparently not it.

If animals, I'm guessing hedgehogs.

If not animals, the aurora borealis? We've been known to go out chasing it. No luck yet!

Boredhimtodeath · 01/09/2021 23:37

Ohh I need to know what he watches! I’ve a pair or binoculars in a drawer I wonder if I could tell my DP I heard about there being one close on the internet.

Summerfun54321 · 01/09/2021 23:37

Great crested newts?!

tolerable · 01/09/2021 23:37

er...do you get "tame"geese? or..even solo ones?

GrapefruitGin · 01/09/2021 23:39

This is brilliant Grin

Katy4321 · 01/09/2021 23:40

Glowworms?

Give us a clue? Has whatever it is been featured on springwatch?

MyCatIsAFuckwit · 01/09/2021 23:42

@FlatteredFool
Pure comedy gold. I LOVE the word "nefarious".
You nearly made me wake my kids (first day back in school tomorrow) laughing. 😆

FelicityBeedle · 01/09/2021 23:42

Maybe voles or something similarly small? Or UFOs?

Justmuddlingalong · 01/09/2021 23:42

Sasquatch?

godmum56 · 01/09/2021 23:42

@Katy4321

Glowworms?

Give us a clue? Has whatever it is been featured on springwatch?

glowworms are rare to non existent in the uk....but I have seen them in the US....quite magical
justasking111 · 01/09/2021 23:43

Foxes or frogs

FAQs · 01/09/2021 23:44

Did op say if they’re in the UK? Might be zebras or lions or something, I need to sleep 💤