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DH doing my head in

29 replies

Suger · 19/12/2006 12:15

On sunday we had a leak from the boiler and as it's classed as an emergency we called out a council worker (its a council house) who came to repair it. This poor man was working on the boiler for ages getting all hot and flustered and when he went to leave he was wishing us a happy christmas and slipped on a dish I had left collecting dripping water and went tumbling down the stairs (not all the stairs, from about the 6th one up), he had a huge toolbox in his hand which banged into his head as he fell and he landed on the kids bikes that are at the bottom of the stairs.

Anyway I rushed to help him and make sure he was ok and DH let out this huge howl and stood there all creased up absolutely pissing himself laughing , the council man gave a little chuckle, looked annoyed and then went to leave and by this point DH was practically screaming with laughter, I was so annoyed at him, he really showed us up.

Anyway when the kids got home from school he told them about it and they both started laughing, especially when DH did his impression of the fall and yesterday he kept bursting out laughing over it and has started it again today. I'm not trying to be a kill joy but this kind of thing really does my head in about him, he takes everything too far, everything is exagurated with him and its starting to grate on me.

Seriously would you have been annoyed at this? I mean I laugh when people hurt themselves but not in their face and not for days afterwards .

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charliecat · 19/12/2006 12:16

I have just laughed my head off reading that. sorry

BudaBauble · 19/12/2006 12:17

I laughed too

charliecat · 19/12/2006 12:19

That is JUST the sort of thing that sets me off, and makes me cackle for days afterwards.
Ive read it 3 times now and its still funny

MyTwoChocolateCoinsWorth · 19/12/2006 12:19

tell him you've just had a phone call from the council and the guy is sueing you. that ought to wipe the grin off his face!

RantInEMinor · 19/12/2006 12:44

Mytwo - exactly what I thought! I had a Saturday job years ago in a posh little gift shop. One day a woman slipped on the stone step that lead in through the front door. She ended up on her backside with a wrapping paper display in her lap. The shop manager (a complete tit) was watching and smirking and actually said "Oh dear, you can sue us if you like dear". It wasn't quite so funny when the following week he got a letter from her solicitor. The shop ended up paying her off.

MyTwoChocolateCoinsWorth · 19/12/2006 12:55

injured in your house as a result of something you put on the floor and didnt warn him about - nor did he offer the guy any assistance.....tell your dh it doesnt look good!!

rant - i bet the look on his face when he opened that letter was amazing - did you say it? ...... "well, you told her to sue!" i would NOT have been able to resist!!

Tortington · 19/12/2006 12:56

very funny however wouldnt teach the kids to laugh at someones misfortune

Original poster
Suger · 19/12/2006 14:31

I would maybe have laughed if DH hadnt made such a big deal about it to begin with, however I would've laughed once the man had left, not right in his face, honestly DH may as well have stood their pointing shouting "you fell over! you fell over!".

To make matters worse DH had set some mousetraps in the cupboard where the boiler is and didnt think to tell me before I let the man go in! luckily the man saw them and set them off with a stick so that it was safe for him to work, when I mentioned it to DH he almost looked disapointed!

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nothercules · 19/12/2006 14:34

I must be strange as I never find this sort of thing funny. WOuldn't get the kids to laugh about it either.

lazyemma · 19/12/2006 14:41

I think it's a bit shitty to laugh right at someone who's obviously just hurt themselves - the workman could have been seriously injured. I bet your DH was a bully at school.

1sue1 · 19/12/2006 15:01

I think it's hilarious lol. But I would not find it so funny if my bloke was like yours...double standards? Yes lol

Troutpout · 19/12/2006 18:04

pmsl
Sorry...but v. funny
I would have probably tried to hide it at the time but as soon as the guy had gone, dh and i would have been creased up.

funkychic · 19/12/2006 19:18

Suger I read this and yes I did laugh out loud, because I could just picture the whole thing happening.

Tell me to mind my own business if you want,but if you're really honest with yourself, your DH has probably been doing a whole load of things to grate on you lately and I guess this single incidence was not in isolation.

Why don't you confront him with all the little habits he has that pisses you off and maybe you'll have an honest and open discussion and he'll change (you can hope!).

NotQuiteCockney · 19/12/2006 19:21

Hmm, reading about someone falling down the stairs is funny. But actually seeing someone falling down the stairs isn't.

lazyemma · 19/12/2006 19:26

you guys must really love the "People Falling Over Amusingly" section of You've Been Framed on a Saturday night. "look! it's a man falling off his ladder! ha ha ha!...a bride slipping on the dancefloor! ha ha ha! an old lady stumbling slightly at the bus stop - oh, my sides"

lazyemma · 19/12/2006 19:28

Bah. why didn't the italics things work? Now I look retarded.

Rocklover · 19/12/2006 23:02

I can't believe so many people who answered this are sooo mean. I would not have stood for it at all, you're kids will get themselves into trouble at school if they copy his behaviour.

I like a laugh as much as the next person...but please what has happened to empathy and kindness?

AtterySquash · 19/12/2006 23:48

No, Rocklover, you're right: it really isn't funny to laugh at someone to their face, nor to describe it to your kids in the way he did. I would have been very pissed off with him.

I have to say I was in fits of laughter at the thought of the incident though - maybe to do with having a shite evening (discovering nits in my dd's waist length hair; 4yo pooing in his pyjamas because he couldn't be bothered to go to the toilet).

hoolagirl · 20/12/2006 01:12

Sorry AtterySquash but I found your post even funnier, doubtless due to the shit night i've been having!

DeepPannCrispandEven · 20/12/2006 01:19

can see boiler man's DW being an Mner.....

VeniVidiVickiQV · 20/12/2006 01:25

I'm sorry - I would have laughed too....

I did so when a work colleague disappeared behind her desk once because her desk drawer had slid open without her realising and as she turned to walk she tripped and just disappeared from sight!

I was still laughing as I went to help her up.

I say work colleague.....I was her supervisor

MerryChipmonkAndAHappyNewey · 20/12/2006 01:33

lazyemma, you have to do the ^^ for every word, not the whole phrase.

UnquietDad · 20/12/2006 09:16

Especially for VVVQV - enjoy...

Rocklover · 20/12/2006 09:21

I have to say, I have been laughed at before when I have fallen over and it is the worst feeling in the world. Surely make sure the person is ok...then make a quip or something to lighten the moment, if you must.

Quite how you lot were brought up I don't know!!!

charliecat · 20/12/2006 09:22

I was brought up by my mum who thinks me laughing at things like this is digusting..which makes me laugh even more