Anyone else's dp melodramatic about being stuck in traffic?

[sethstarkaddersmum]

DH is stuck in traffic and tbh I am not looking forward to him getting home.
This is because I will be treated to a huge session of dramatic contrition, 'I'm so sorry I'm late. How did you manage? Was it terribly difficult for you without me?'
er, no, I'll just put the kids to bed and then make dinner.

tbh I think it's a bit insulting really, this implication that if he's 20 minutes late my world falls apart!

You mean it doesn't ;)

Mine does the "Oh I have to lie down at once, do no more driving tonight and be made a fuss over because I'm so stressd at being stuck in traffic on the way home".

You're half an hour late FFS.

Oh mine is terrible! I have managed to make it into a joke now that every time we hit the slightest queue we recite 'that's it, nose to bumper all the way'. It has lessened the melodrama slightly.

We once drove round a roundabout 3 times debating whether to turn back and go home because it looked like there was a traffic jam on the motorway ahead. Luckily I common sense prevailed and we carried on.

my dad is awful in any sort of traffice that delays his journey at all. needless to say he has terrible road rage. even if he hears me talking about driving through my own town at rush hour he gets all shouty and red faced. "the town will be gridlocked. are you mad. i wouldn't go near that town if you paid me." it really stresses him. no, sorry, he really stresses himself about it. he thinks everyone feels the same about driving. i don't mind driving in heavy traffic/traffic jams at all. i am able to zone out or something so it doesn't annoy me. i just accept it is happening and i will get home when it clears but he is foul when it comes to any mention of traffic.

Wish my DH had shown any near that sort of contrition. I remember when I was expecting DC3 and we had exchanged on a new house with a huge mortgage, DH got stuck on a train with no mobile reception.

I spent the evening gradually moving from irritation to fear to terror that he had died in a train crash and I would be lumbered with a house I couldnt afford and no life insurance to pay off the mortgage.

When he eventually struggled in three hours late and hungry I was beside myself. He never did get why I was so distraught

oh whenallelsefails, that I can imagine that - would be horrible! I have been known to get similarly worked up about imaginary car crashes when he is very late and doesn't ring . he is good about always ringing when he's going to be late & I do appreciate it.

however. MrsJuan, I get contrition in the car as well. When we are going somewhere as a family and we hit traffic he says 'I'm so sorry' as if he has accidentally sunk out ship and it is becoming clear we are all going to be eaten by sharks.

anyhow I didn't get contrition tonight, as it happened - I got heroics about the clever detours he had taken to escape the jams and get home Yes dear your mental map of all the backroads between here and your workplace is very impressive. I would never have thought of doing that myself, you are very clever. Yes you are.

Aw poor DH. He sounds quite entertaining really. However, if I had to live with him for more than ten minutes I'd smash his head in.

LOL Writer. He is very sweet. But he's lucky I'm not the headsmashing type.

I'm only kidding really, he does sound like a sweetie. This sounds like the kind of thing your DCs are going to mock him about eternally when they're older :) Tis the stuff of family legend.

he he! Maybe I should accelerate the mocking a bit - dd aged 5 is a damn good impressionist....

Oh it would be hilarious if the next time your DH comes home you have DD waiting by the door ready to deliver a speech (a la DH) about the traffic!

yyy I'm going to do it! or get her to practise the 'stuck in traffic on a day out' speech for the car.

You are of course required to report on it here once you've done it :)

This thread made me smile , xh regularly gave a running commentary on the conditions re traffic and we would be treated to an endless debate on the merits of alternative routes if there were road works or jams.

Then of course the ceaseless tirade of drivers less gifted and unworthy of being road users, sometimes I would mildly point out the only people who could hear were the dc and I so why do it.

Really dont miss any of it and funnily enough dc and I did our first holiday to Cornwall from Herts - very long drive - and first thing they said after getting out of car was "that journey went quicker than we were expecting". I wonder why