Tick tock: the one where Geller discovers Polly is no longer a doormat

[StuckInPollyannaMode]

AKA Co-parenting: I do not think it means what you think it means

Here we go again my lovelies! Will this be the one where I finally get divorced?!

Previous thread here

I have clock news! Turns out, no one wants it. Quelle surprise. Could I sell it? No, sez I, it’s worth ha’penny tuppence on a good day. Plus, no time.

Ha ha.

I suggested, because I am a kind hearted soul and because it’s already in a box and I don’t know which one that they keep the clock face and I get rid of the mechanism and the case. That appears to be a reasonable compromise. Pass me an axe.

The reason for the clock conversation? My brother phoned. My mother has given away my grandfather’s WW1 medals to a museum. WTF?! We’re going to try and get them back. She can’t see what she’s done wrong.

Solicitors on the other side for the house purchase are useless. Estate agent spoke to them today. They are awaiting proof of ID and funds on account?! WTF. I lost my shit a bit. I’d just come back from having a filling so I sounded three gins down, which I’m sure added to the effect.

Oh, and I haven’t stopped laughing for the last hour. A friend has found Geller’s profile on a dating app. It contains such gems as ‘addressing climate change one word at a time in my career as a professional’ and goes on to claim he ‘always has time’

Given me the best laugh I’ve had since my solicitor said she’d call me just to be sure that I wanted to file for absolute once the finance order is made…

Anyway, buckle up loves. It’ll be a ride, as ever…glad you could join me.

@Shortpoet

He addresses climate change one word at a time? What does that even mean?

This from the man who needs his own server to store just last weeks pontificating.

Here's hoping it means he is going to talk less out of his arse and stop emitting methane as a result??? Just a guess....

Oh I hope you and your brother manage to get the medals back.

Does the new house have a fireplace? Use the wood from the clock as fuel??
Good to see/read you seem back to your positive self.
(From a serial name changer who's been following avidly)

I don't think that man can do anything one word at a time.

@BluerThanRobinsEggs

I don't think that man can do anything one word at a time.

True....

And with his utterly wanky verbosity, the planet might be waiting a while for any help from him!

DD1’s issue with football isn’t football. It’s Dad. He’s a prick to her.

@BluerThanRobinsEggs

I don't think that man can do anything one word at a time.

@BluerThanRobinsEggs that proper tickled me 🤣 very true!

@StuckInPollyannaMode I do the same for rugby, no training = no match just common sense I think!

I don't think I have every posted on your threads Polly, but I have been following in awe of how well you have coped with everything. Just adding my voice to pp saying that I wouldn't sign the dollies up for anything else at the moment. There is far too much going on and gymnastics is a demanding sport that requires commitment and hard work. I think one sport is enough for now. Walking outside in a park or countryside together is much calmer.

I'm a lurker and think you're moving on so fantastically well. Just wanted to chip in about DD1 and football: I too would cut her some slack. I'm not sure Geller even thinks like that so it'd be nice for her to have someone recognise when she needs this.

I have had good success with my DC with allowing an occasional 'free pass' to get out of something. You agree a (small) number in advance of free passes per month/term/year whatever (depending on frequency of activity). I don't question at all when my DC chooses to 'play' their free pass - it's within their control when they use it. It gives them some autonomy, they know they are still expected to do the thing every single time (without nagging/cajoling) unless a free pass is played and it allows them to just have an 'out' which I think children all need on occasion.

Yes, it's important in all sorts of ways to attend the training sessions in addition to the matches. But IMHO I think 'almost all' is good enough - rather than every single occasion including the handful of times it's properly upsetting for the child to do so.

One word a time, means, "Climate change ? I. Don't. Care.
Do you like children ?"
& Do you have a comfortable salary ?

The dating profile is hillarious. I doubt you are the first women to sit and laugh at it.

I doubt you are the first women to sit and laugh at it.

amended

I doubt you are the last woman to sit and laugh at it.

Agree - we have all laughed at his words

Finally found you.

Thanks for the laugh @Polly

Q: is "I always have time" on the dating profile a misguided belief that he's getting the clock? Cos it's hard to see how else it could even come close to being the truth.

@P1ainJanine🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Gallery dating profile is just hilarious. He definitely can't be single can he. Got to fill that wirework role ASAP.

climate change one word at a time...the words are obviously blah blah blah - all talk and no action!

I am a massive advocate of children trying everything when it's financially possible and practical BUT if they go beyond a trial session they have to see it through to whatever the lowest commitment is (generally speaking a term and also balancing the cost of whatever uniform/equipment is required). Football and gymnastics are very different. I wouldn't refuse one on the basis of experience with the other but football obligations would have to fully conclude first and the above criteria met.

Oh you do all make me laugh!

God, Geller is such a wanker. Less than a week ago I told him to stop messaging me unnecessarily. I had over 5 messages from him yesterday. I haven’t read them. One is about football boots, another about a funeral I am going to this afternoon (for someone he never spoke to or met), another about a situation at school the girls are not involved in…it goes on.

I’m afraid the medals saga gets worse. Turns out, my mother didn’t give them directly to the museum. She gave them to a woman she found in the back of a magazine who has bought a whole load of bed linens and tablecloths from them, who promised to drop them off.

She’s now refusing to hand over the number of this random woman. I’m just hoping she’s honest and has either already dropped them off (I’m going to phone the museum this morning) or we can track her down and she’ll return them.

House seems to have totally stalled. Incredibly frustrating.

Oh - it’s a good job I didn’t get the axe out. SIL called. They DO want the bloody clock (now I’ve got to find the other bits, dammit) and will send a courier to pick it up.

Managed my first post Covid 5k run yesterday without too many ill effects. Starting to get excited slash nervous about skiing now - three weeks to go!

Fantastic news about the clock being gone soon...time was actually ticking for it's survival (I'll get my coat)

I do hope you manage to get the medals back somehow. I'd consider going to the police and saying that this randomer essentially saw a frail woman (your mother, play this up) and saw the medals and took advantage of her and you want them back.

The house will happen in due course.

As for Geller....well, I have no words on that situation.

It looks as if you need a special Geller-phone - one to turn on when he has the girls and you might actually need to hear from him... one that can be turned off at other times.

If he is somehow able to save the world one word at a time - he must have revivied a few rain forests so far. (Perhaps he just meant that he was not destroying forests any more - by putting all his words on paper these days?)

'by NOT putting all his words on paper these days'

Ugh! The incessant messaging! The object, of course, is to keep him front and centre in your 'mental line of sight'. He simply can't bear not to be the main concern of everyone in his 'orbit'.

Do you think it's time to have your solicitor tell his solicitor that unless it directly references arrangements/needs of the Dollies or the actual divorce legalities he needs to 'cease and desist'?

Of course, they want the clock. What on earth else did you expect? If you find the bits you find the bits. If not, you ship it off 'as is' and tell them you'll keep looking for them every so often when you have nothing better to do. The point being to get it out of the house.

I can't believe your mum gave something as precious as those medals to a total stranger. Do you know the magazine she's talking about? Maybe you could trace her that way.

I just can't fathom the conversation "Here is the linen you're buying, Total Stranger. Oh, and since you're out and about please take these medals to the museum for me. There's a lamb". I'd bet you a fiver she went right to the local pawn shop or a military memorabilia dealer.

Mmm I think your Mum's story is a bit sus too. Hope you can get to the bottom of it!

I think a Gellarphone sounds a great idea. Maybe a new email address just for him, too? You could always just set up an email filter so his emails go straight into a Gellar folder for even you have time/want to remind yourself how lucky an escape you have had.

Oh the clock.... what are your storage and handling fees, again?