I posted a while ago about my partner, I stayed with him and things were not too bad but occasionally the odd experience comes up and I don't know how to deal with it.
We've just come back from our first holiday, my kids were away with their dad so it was just me, DP and his son. We shared a room as it was cheaper and his son didn't mind.
Anyway on the first day there I left them alone in the room to go to the shop, when I came back to room was a complete tip, there were clothes all over the floor, sheets and blankets thrown everywhere, a mattress had been pulled off the bed and left on the floor, a dressing table knocked onto its side and there was chocolate sauce all up the wall. Turns out they had been wrestling which is fine, I dont oppose to people having fun but the mess was unbelievable.
I didn't make a huge deal of it, I just walked in and said "woah, it looks like a bomb has dropped in here!" and they were just laughing like mad. AnywayDP wanted us to go out for the day straight away but I said we should tidy up first, I was worried what the maids would think if they saw it like that. DP insisted that we leave straight away and it seemed pointless getting into a row over it so I agreed but left a "no maid service" thing on the door and we had a nice day out.
When we got back the room service sign was gone, I panicked thinking the maids must have been in but when we entered the room it was still a tip so I was relieved. Anyway a few minutes later the phone rang and it was the reception saying the manager wanted a word, we went down and he said he'd had a complaint from the maids that the room was in too much of a state for them to clean I told him I knew this and had purposely left a sign telling them to leave it and he said the maids had not mentioned a sign.
Anyway DP and his son were giggling throughout, I was hugely embarrassed so was a little defensive anyway so got a bit arsey with the manager but to cut a long story short(er) it turned out that DP had taken the sign off the door as we left purposely so that the maids would go in for a laugh.
I can't for the life of me think why he would do such a thing, he just said it thought it would be hilarious but how??
It spoilt the holiday in a way as the staff were funny with us from then on and I was so mortified when the manager asked us in front of other people to try and keep the room respectable.
I am currently studying psychology and can usually tell when people are trying to play mind games with me but I just cannot work DPs behaviour out. Could it be some kind of mind game or am I blowing it out of proportion?