Not The Annoyingly Trivial Things-Bitches be cray cray week.

The sheer meanness of some people.

Basically the GF was asked to babysit last night for her uncle and his wife as they had to show their faces at the customer Christmas party of the pub they own. The wife is a known wagon but the GF obliged because it's family y'know and she loves the little cousin she was to mind, and he has spent many an afternoon after school in her house.

Now, the uncle and the wife (well the wife in particular) have garnered a bit of a reputation among the other family members over being tight when offering any commensurate pay when it comes to child-care. Seemingly have gone through a tonne of external babysitters over their penny-pinching. They'd sooner buy a drink for one of their regulars (one person's regular is another person's alcoholic), than for any of their family.

Anyway, they had promised to be home before midnight as the wife made a point that "I have to work in the morning". But of course, GF got a text saying they were running late and didn't arrive home till 1. Earlier in the night, the GF discovered €20 in one of the cupboards and just knew that was set aside for her. And she thought "feck this, I'm going to ask for over-time".....

Just as an aside, she is out of the work at the minute, her health fluctuates up and down and she suffered a bereavement lately. And the uncle and wife know all this. It would have been a nice gesture to give her a few extra bob considering the time of year, (and the fact that she buys their child an xmas present), and the amount of time she minds the child after school.

But the wife wouldn't budge, and got quite aggressive in her tone when the GF was making a valid point about feeling under-valued etc......The GF actually started crying on her drive home, which angered me greatly when I heard. Of course the uncle was hiding behind the wife during the whole ordeal. He is from a large family, and well over half of them don't get on with the wife because they know how vindictive a person she is. Cunning, sly- all the hallmarks of a narcissist.

It seems to me there is a bit of spousal bullying going on- she married him and thinks she runs the pub when all she does is antagonise customers and family members with her lack of filter (and had a business of her own flop in the same town because she couldn't keep customers). I just worry about the kid in the middle of it. And I know it's not my place to get involved, but I will find it hard not to if I am present next time she makes a scene.

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

I don't ever plan to have kids and I'm with a woman so that rules out any accidents, be my friend I am always wary of friends having babies and delighted when I meet a couple who don't want to have any, though a friend of mine has been married for years with no interest in having kids and she'll be forty in January so I thought phew, she's a safe bet. Then she goes and gets accidentally pregnant and she's due in May, is no one safe?! :pac:

An old lady of my acquaintance used to say to ppl in the time before contraception, that "Sperm has a large head and getting you pregnant the only thing on its mind, so don't take chances with it"
Good advice even now.

Left my house keys on the bed last night. Boyfriend went to bed first. Boyfriend has been in work since 8am and I'm locked into the house. House keys are nowhere to be found, he obviously flung them somewhere last night. He isn't answering his phone. I need to go out. I'm fit to kill.

Another non mom here, TA over the years by people telling I'd change my mind. Eh nope. 41 now still don't want kids

I'm 33 with a 8 year old, when people ask when will I have another I tell them never because Ive only started having lie ins again

Got into a twitter spat with a rabid sjw(?) who kept posting how I was stopping her expressing her opinion when she was going on and on about the wrong thing on a tread. Her last post was to say that I had x amount of followers and a random other person (who I assume in her mind was connected to me had x.5 amount of followers)
x=a tiny amount of followers considering its twitter.

Ta1, that I don't know what she means by that. Can anyone enlighten me?
Ta2, when I asked the girls they rolled their eyes at me and told me to "get with the times"


Spent all afternoon reading information for an assessment, ta3 still don't have a clue what it's about.

That moment when youre bringing the bin bag of body parts down the driveway and it rips open

I'm 115 and until Gazorpazorp lady bots become available in this realm I ain't having no relations let alone kids. I want a Bandit jr who wants to eradicate the human race.

Stephen will be along soon to box you in the guts.

'Boxing Day' seems to be popular enough up here.