So who was really snowed in and who skived off today?

Who the hell is Jizz McButtmonkey? ? (please don't make me search posts to find out)

And SophieM... what's this about putting shirts in the shower? I've missed something good here haven't I? ?

Jess, although flights to Oz are cancelled due to snow, i am under no illusion she will still be able to get here. ?

i HAVE to know the shirt story. Will the thread still be around on this?

Is this the same woman who went mental over her bathroom tiles?

Jizz McButtmonkey, from your member picture, do i conclude you are indeed the Baron?

Dat's de one ?

Pans- her husband wouldn't give her a lift to the station so she shoved all his shirts in the bath and turned the shower on

Its on the 10 things you never knew thread

I think if my wife put all my shirts in the bath and turned on the shower i d kick her out on her arse and divorce her. i d love to know how he reacted

Do you know what? Yesterday I stopped seeing the funny side of the bathroom tiles story. I didn't want to derail the thread, which was full of people being very supportive of each other, but 'flipping' and soaking all of your OH's shirts over a lift to the station is abuse. Imagine how we'd feel if a male hitcher said he'd done that to his wife. Then to post about it here really suggests that you see very little wrong with it.. It's somethjing I'd be really ashamed to admit. But maybe I'm just being sanctimonious? Heavens knows I have a foul temper - I just can't see myself going to those sorts of extremes.

Luthien i dont agree at all. i think she posted about it in the way she did because she felt ashamed of it. and i dont think that she thinks its ok at all. still, she isnt here to reply, and if there are many posts about this, then i d imagine she ll be pretty upset when she does read it.

Edited in light of Nicks post....

Nick - perhaps you're right, but I guess that's the problem with the written word and I definitely don't get the same vibe from it that you do. To me, Lili has never come across as the sort who feels she has to apologise or justify her actions to the posters here - and I don't mean that in a critical or negative way at all .

Yes, i agree with your second sentence. but in terms of the 10 things thread, i stand by what i said. what i really cant fathom is how she can acknowledge these "flips" yet not seem to do anything about it (that has been disclosed to us)

Actually, I think you've hit what bothered me right on the head there. And in light of that, I agree too, that without Lili being here I should shut up! I won't delete as I think that wouldn't be right at all.

Lili - if you return to this thread - I am sorry if what I have written upsets you

I hope for your sake it doesn't upset her as much as the tiles did ?

Sorry Lili

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Fark me people - 6 pages ?

Got into work by getting a lift from my husband luckily, otherwise would have had to have walked (about an hour, but quite steep down hill) , felt really ill though (dizzies playing me up) so went home at lunchtime, and luckily busses were back running then.

I am still feeling ill, so probably won't make it in tomorrow,but just due to the illness, not weather, as I think it will be better 2moro where I am

Ok, no idea what happened to my last post - it started with "Fark me people - 6 pages" and went on quite a bit more and now it's gone ? I've been washing H's shirts - how ironic ?

I can't remember all of it but it was along the lines of...

The shirt thing: Luthien, I'm not upset - you said what you thought, I don't see a problem with that. Nick was right in that I included in on the 10 things thread as a confession of sorts - sometimes I worry myself - I do have a tendency to 'flip' and I do think I am unstable at times. It doesn't happen very often (this being the first big looper incident since we got married!) but when it does it's like I just see red, there is no reasoning with me - I need to be destructive, although what worries me more is that I'm rational enough to not be permanently destructive, for example I wouldn't have dreamt of cutting up the shirts or doing anything along those lines. It was a more a "you're going to make me late for an important meeting so **** you, try and get to your meeting without a shirt"...

It's like a few minutes of utter madness and then a sense of calm comes over me. I felt really good about having done it for the first few hours and then the reality set in, so you're right in a way - initially I didn't feel there was anything wrong with what I'd done (and TBH several people IRL thought H deserved it but maybe they were just scared of me ?). The background that day was that I had an important meeting that morning that I had to be in early for - H takes me to the station everyday as I have no other way of getting there, other than a taxi which I usually order early on as I can wait forever. I'd asked H the night before if we could leave early and he said yes, he didn't need to be as early as normal but it would do him a favour to get in extra early anyway. Morning comes, I get up, keep trying to wake H and I get "in a minute" etc. it gets to 20 minutes before I have to go and I remind him of the time, then 10 minutes, and so on - then he says he isn't getting up and I'll have to get a taxi. In hindsight it's so stupid, and so not a big deal but I was already at bursting point with various work and home stresses that I lost it. Had it been any other day I'm pretty sure I'd have called him a few choice names and got a taxi.

Yes I might laugh about it but TBH in a mostly embarrassed fashion, if I didn't laugh about it I'd really scare myself. I acknowledged a long time ago that my coping strategy when it comes to stress is pants, I bottle it up for so long and then I explode although I'm not ignorant to my issues - I have taken baby steps to finding ways of managing myself.

H, after initially considering cutting up some of my clothes, realised he had been a selfish git and pushed me too far when I was under so much pressure - he apologised for making me late and made me dinner that night. I then had the pleasure of re-washing and re-ironing all of the shirts - which is my job anyway, so the really awful bit is H never suffered at all but I had to wash and iron them all twice and I HATE ironing more than anything ?

Anyway, too much heavy stuff - Pans do you want a KitKat, I bought 3 in Tesco as they had run out of milk - you guessed correctly, I got home tonight in record time ? I was already home when I started this all off [smug icon ?

I'm going to be snowed in tomorrow aren't I as punishment for smugness?

Found some bits of my missing post:

For what it's worth - I didn't set out to interrogate you all ? As I said, I was just bewildered this morning to get into work and have various emails from contractors and clients along the lines of "we are closed today due to snow" - these weren't companies of a handful of people but big companies, hence I found it hard to believe nobody had made it in, given most of them live in London.

I also never said working from home was skiving - working from home is working is it not?!

I know a lot of rail lines were stuffed and some of the tube lines were suspended at various points (each time I checked the TFL site it was mostly the ends of lines which wouldn’t have affected most of the people I know IRL). I wasn’t disputing that a. some people couldn’t get in, or b. that the trains and buses were crap – just that I couldn’t believe the majority of those who didn’t go in today genuinely couldn’t get in.

Yes I'm cynical (and a bit of a looper) but it's a bit of snow.

HH: Had I not been on the train when I'd got the call would I still have gone in? Yes, I work better in the office than at home and knowing everyone else was having problems I'd have gone in on the off chance nobody else made it in. Had I got to the station this morning and the trains hadn't of been running I'd have gone to work with H and tried to get the train from that line - that's not me being smug or "wow look at me employee of the year" - I work for a small company and it's important the office is manned, I also really love my job and we’re all quite sad and (sometimes a little too) dedicated to it so either way, I'd have at least tried to get in - which I suspect a load of people didn't do this morning. That said if I didn’t love my job maybe I’d have skived off today, actually I know I would have ?