Would this make you mad.....?

[java]

Dh said"I will pick ds up today from taekwondo at 7"
Me"are you sure?"
DH'Yes"

So I drop ds off at tkd and head home with my other children. Thinking dh will be there as he promised. Well at 7 I get a phone call- Muffled dh talking from the bus(commuting) "Oh we hit traffic I am going to be late"
HELLO!!! How the heck am I suppose to get there to pick him up at 7 when you are calling at 7! Didn't you know you were going to be late 20 minutes ago and then I could have made it! And then the best part he says"I knew I shouldn't have called you"
Thanks - well I knew I shouldn't answer when you call
great start to the weekend. Love ya mean it!

 

[Pam]

While you can't fault the guy for the bus running late - you can be irate for him not calling you at least 10-15 minutes before 7:00 to inform you of that fact.

I would be miffed on that point myself.

 

[kellyg403]

When Dh and I first got together we had 8 children between us and all of them lived with us. All of them had activities etc. DH was the master of doing exactly what you posted. I agree, be mad about not calling earlier. I was able to FINALLY convince him that it is important to get to their activities a little earlier than the actual time after we had an incident with one of the kids. As usual, he didn't bother to call that he was going to be late and by the time I got to the practice field the coach and every other parent and child were gone. In Nov, it gets dark at 5. My 8 yods was sitting there all by himself. Turns out practice ended 20 minutes early that day. Was I one hot mama. And yeah, dh, the coach and the coordinator felt my wrath in NO uncertain terms. Yeah, I was not there on time, 10 minutes late but how many times I had waited on them when they were running late.

DH never forgot how blatently po'd I was that day and now 5 years later is always early if he goes picks someone up. Which isn't often, because I haven't forgotten either.

Kelly

 

[Cinderella2004]

When Dh and I first got together we had 8 children between us and all of them lived with us. All of them had activities etc. DH was the master of doing exactly what you posted. I agree, be mad about not calling earlier. I was able to FINALLY convince him that it is important to get to their activities a little earlier than the actual time after we had an incident with one of the kids. As usual, he didn't bother to call that he was going to be late and by the time I got to the practice field the coach and every other parent and child were gone. In Nov, it gets dark at 5. My 8 yods was sitting there all by himself. Turns out practice ended 20 minutes early that day. Was I one hot mama. And yeah, dh, the coach and the coordinator felt my wrath in NO uncertain terms. Yeah, I was not there on time, 10 minutes late but how many times I had waited on them when they were running late.

DH never forgot how blatently po'd I was that day and now 5 years later is always early if he goes picks someone up. Which isn't often, because I haven't forgotten either.

Kelly

Wow, Kelly. I can't believe the coach left. We coach a soccer team and would NEVER leave a child by themself. We have one parent who is ALWAYS late, the little girls tells us to just leave..."mom's always late". Uh. Don't think so, sit in our car with us Honey.

To the OP, I would be mad too. Good luck with your weekend.

 

[kellyg403]

Yeah, I couldn't believe it either. I thought they weren't supposed to leave. He ended up not being the coach for much longer for other reasons...in the middle of the season he was kicked out of the league for fighting, actual fist fighting during a game with a ref. Real stand up guy. But, even though I can't remember much about him, I trust he remembers me.

Kelly

 

[Cinderella2004]

Yeah, I couldn't believe it either. I thought they weren't supposed to leave. He ended up not being the coach for much longer for other reasons...in the middle of the season he was kicked out of the league for fighting, actual fist fighting during a game with a ref. Real stand up guy. But, even though I can't remember much about him, I trust he remembers me.

Kelly

LOL!! fighting with a ref for an 8 year old game.....what a guy!!!

I don't think they are supposed to leave. I know we've been told not to. They even told us to have extra water for the girls, because it's our responsibility to be sure they stay hydrated!!

 

[Luv'sTink]

Yep, I would be upset.

 

[ZipaDeeDooDah]

Dh said"I will pick ds up today from taekwondo at 7"
Me"are you sure?"
DH'Yes"

So I drop ds off at tkd and head home with my other children. Thinking dh will be there as he promised. Well at 7 I get a phone call- Muffled dh talking from the bus(commuting) "Oh we hit traffic I am going to be late"
HELLO!!! How the heck am I suppose to get there to pick him up at 7 when you are calling at 7! Didn't you know you were going to be late 20 minutes ago and then I could have made it! And then the best part he says"I knew I shouldn't have called you"
Thanks - well I knew I shouldn't answer when you call
great start to the weekend. Love ya mean it!

Oooooooo, my dh does that too and it makes me so mad!

 

[pearlieq]

DH has got a bad habit of doing that as well. He'll call me, say he's on his way, and I'll start fixing dinner to have it ready when he gets home. More than once he's called me 5 minutes after he was supposed to be home to say he got caught up and hadn't even left yet. So then I'm left with food that's going to get cold and dry waiting another 45 minutes for him.

Luckily after spelling it out to him a few times he "gets it" more and doesn't do it very often.