You Are Being Unreasonable - 051 - In which our husband needs a vasectomy and we steal nuggs from work

Episode Date: August 15, 2019

"Is it ever really a victory if at some point you have to eat McDonald's nuggets in a toilet in secret?" We're popping round for a quick yoghurt this week with some fresh Mumsnet threads for you. We discover a coven of witches eating McDonald's at work and investigate how to get away with nuggs theft. We discuss whether people landed on the Moon (they did) and then get into the shape of the Moon. We assess the idea of family passes for the NHS like at Alton Towers and ask our GP to do a vasectomy, look into our hearing, give us a smear test, and do a full health check in 20-30 minutes. Finally, we look into the economics of delivering a misdelivered package of nuggets to a neighbour versus the economics of delivering a box of popcorn at 100 miles per hour.

Hello, driving on drugs feels better when their prescription. All I know, the world looks beautiful, the world looks so damn beautiful. I feel fantastic, and I never felt as good as how I do right now, except for maybe when I think about I felt that day, when I felt the way that I do right now, right now. I feel fantastic, and I never felt as good as how I do right now, except for maybe when I think about I felt that day. Hello.

Hello, welcome to you are Being Unreasonable, a podcast of a podcast, about people being unreasonable on mumsnet.com. Yep, we're ready to record. You get tea, I got a yoghut. Yep. So I guess we're sponsored by tea and biffidus. Biffidus, digestivum or bifidus actorecularis? Oh mate, there's all kinds of bifidae these days.

Oh wow. Digestivum, good tummy, um, eating. Oh, wow. 16 billion live cultures in this yoghut. Goodness me. More, because it's out of date. Excellent. With that, shall we move over to the live culture?

of the Am I Being Unreasonable board? Let's do the speed round. Am I being unreasonable? Holiday near Barnet. No, go for it. Nothing wrong with Barnet. Am I being unreasonable to think siblings should be treated equally or at least fairly? Yeah, equally I think. Unless one is clearly better, like Jamie Lannister.

Right. Am I being unreasonable to think people who have become delicate? Yeah, snowflakes. And am I being unreasonable? Well, popping round, light-hearted. Light-hearted popping round. Not serious popping round. Not like when a policeman comes to your door. Just popped round to let you know about the demise of your loved one.

Oh, okay. Is any tea? I'll take some biffidus if you've got some. No one pops round for a yoghurt. That's not how you interact. Yeah. If one of my friends came around for a yoghut and didn't text me beforehand, so I'd have yoghits in, I'd be most put out.

Even if they'd text you before. wouldn't you be confused? If I came home to find that you were entertaining and it was just you and a group of people eating yogs. There were no teas or coffees or any other drinks or any other food. You were just all there eating yogs. I'm imagining, you know how in the American films the jock best friend comes over with the six-pack? Yeah. I imagine the jock best friend comes over with a six pack of yoghets. Let's do this. Live cultures. Let's regulate our alpiphanous. That's what that is referring to. Jugs need good bowel.

Let's do a thread, shall we? Am I being unreasonable to not own up to eating the nuggets? The other day, a couple of my workmates got McDonald's for lunch. They're in the break room while I was, but finished before me and left all their rubbish on the table. I got up to clear it and noticed a box of six nuggets have been left among the mess. A bit greedy, I demolished them. I was due on my period and trying really hard not to eat junk food, but I just couldn't resist them. thought they were not wanted. Anyway, about an hour later, my colleague came back from an

appointment, and one of the colleagues who had been to McDonald's said, your nuggets are in the break room. I then realised they weren't leftovers at all, and I'd eaten my workmate's nugs. I felt really bad, but was too scared to say anything, and it's turned into a bit of a witch hunt around the office. The thing is, so many people have been into the break room, it's almost impossible to pin it on me. I managed to get into work early the other day, slipped five pounds into my colleague's desk to cover the nuggets, then went out for coffee and came back to the office at my normal start time. But people are still going on about who the nugget thief is, and the longer it goes on, the more worried I am about saying it was me.

Haven't we getting trouble in the past, and by we, I mean I, for saying nugs too many times. Someone quite explicitly asked us not to say nugs less, but to say nugs never again. How many times have we said it already in this thread? Yeah, sorry, this is going to be a nugs-heavy episode. We are all about them nugs this episode. Well, they said nugs. Their username is... I realised they weren't left over as at all, and I'd eaten my workmates' nugs.

Their username is Nuggy thief, and I can tolerate nugs, but if anyone ever says Nuggy to me, I think, no, that's bad. Well... This is another classic one as well, where they've probably changed their username for the thread, but I like to think that these people have always had these username. names. It's some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. Like eight years ago when they joined Mumsnet, they were like, I'll just pick two words, Nuggy Thief.

And now they're like, the prophecy. Like a Twilight Zone episode. As was foretold, I did steal the Nugs. There's a forum that assigns you a random username, and that username will come true. Wow. One day someone logs on and gets presidential assassin. Dun-d-dun-dun.

That's nearly as dangerous as Nuggy Thief. Jordan Peel, get in touch, we've got your next film. I think we've invited Jordan Peel to get in touch with us before as well. That also has not happened. Our audience has expanded, but not to Jordan Peel. We will not stop saying Nogs. I will not stop comparing us to the McElroy's, and we won't stop offering ideas to Jordan Peel.

These are the things we know about our podcast. No, he's not listening. I'm glad you've brought this to my attention. Come into my office. There's Dr. Simon's office of how to steal food from work. Okay, tell me all of it. about it. There's a slider pamphlet over the desk, so you've decided to steal food from work.

Has it got five pounds, inexplicably slipped into it to cover some food you've previously stolen? Yeah, because I've already stolen the food of my client. But look, yeah, you gotta get away with this. How do you get away with this? You go out the next day, you buy your own nuggets and you make a big show of leaving them on your desk while you go to the bathroom. Slight of hand, you switch the nuggets.

full nuggets with an empty nuggets box and go to the bathroom and you eat the full nuggets. You come back to your desk, you open the box and you say, my nuggets are gone. Classic misdirection. Is it ever really a victory if at some point you have to eat McDonald's nuggets in a toilet in secret? I don't think that's a victory. I don't think that's a problem for this person who ate leftover nuggets from the rubbish pile on the table. Yeah, that in itself is pretty grim. The colleagues sound grim by just leaving this mess strewn everywhere. Yeah. But the fact that the AP was clearing away their messed in the first place, like, don't do that, love. Don't do this invisible labour where suddenly there's just

no rubbish there anymore, because it'll encourage them. It's just too easy to pin it on someone else to say, oh, I saw Sharon eating the nugs, because everyone will think it's you. Like, everyone will think, you know, she who smelt it dealt it. You say that, but there is a witch hunt going on, which suggests that there are people out there smelling it and not dealing it because we know that the O.P. ate the nugs and the witch hunt isn't the O.P. Now, so why aren't people blaming the leaders of the witch hunt? Mm, that's a good point. Yeah. Because presumably they were full of McDonald's food. They'd been seen eating it. And this is the

point. You have to be seen about to eat some nugs, but then they get stolen from you. So no one will suspect you. This seems very convoluted. It is convoluted, but they need to not own up to eating the nuggets. I think it, rather than doing this whole sleight of hand and eating nuggets in a toilet in secret thing. I think they should just get on with their job, mind their business, and then next time this witch hunt rears its head, just be like, why do you care so much? Did you eat the nugs? And then go back to what you're doing. And once you've said that, people will be like, yeah, they do care an awful lot. It was probably then. Yeah. And then you can just move on.

And you haven't blamed anyone. Like, you haven't told a lie. You know the question you're asking is entirely rhetorical. But now the seed is there. People will leave you alone. Yeah, you haven't lied to the Inquisitors. You haven't accused Goody Nuggets of being a witch. You just laid the seeds of doubt. Goody Nuggets. That's a very mum's-nesty username. I can see Goody Nuggets being a username. It were Goody Nuggets, the wife of the chicken farmer. Oh dear. But no, leaving five pounds, by the way, five pounds for McDonald's Nuggets. How many, Damn nuggets.

No. That's a lot of nuggets. That's more than six. Is that for the inflation for the days that have passed since the original incident? Yeah, the value of the pound has plummeted. That's not a joke. It's not a joke. I don't know why I'm laughing. We'd all be lucky to get bin nuggets in a couple of months' time. I can't wait to have the EU's bin nuggets. We send the EU 350 million pound a week.

I'd send them six bin nuggets instead. we send the EU 350 million bin nuggets a week spend those on the NHS instead nuggets for every patient oh no it's not really that funny because it's very likely to become a thing it is yeah I mean there's so much about this is just terrible really they shouldn't have left rubbish on the table no they're imagining a perfect sort of satanic circle of left

with the nugs in the middle. That's brave. That's brave to eat the occult nuggets. It's a witch hunt. Well, that's, yeah. Goody nugs left them. I suppose, yeah. Yeah, and McDonald's is quite salty,

so it's a ring of salt in classic witchcraft fashion. Yeah. With the nugs in the middle. Probably intended as a protection spell, but bullshit. Yeah. Should we hear from the thread?

Lots of people on the thread are saying, I can't believe that you ate rubbish. Well, she's not even rubbish. She ate nuggets. McDonald's nuggets. For some reason, someone said to the O.P. They should bake cupcakes and the OPE has said, yeah, I will bake cupcakes. Oh, because that'll make you look completely innocent and normal.

Just having a normal one. Bake nuggets into them. A little, there's a little surprise in every bite. Oh, I can't think of anything I want less than a nugget cupcake. No. Oh, that's a bad bake. That is a bad bake, no. People want to know about where the five are when.

which is a good question because now this person has just pocketed a fibre if I opened my desk drawn there was a fiver there and no explanation but the previous day my nugs had gone missing

I don't know if I put those two things together what if it had four nugs written on it in whiteboard marker well then I would just be like who left a fiver here

thanks all is forgiven re nugs or I would take company-wide email re the nugs C-C all dear all

You'll all be aware of my recent notes incident. No, this is just nonsense. There's no real consensus on here. It's a mixture of people unhelpfully saying that she should never have eaten the nuggets, but it's done now. People saying that it's now too late to own up, which I would agree with, and people saying it's never too late to tell the truth. But I think we know it is too late to tell the truth.

It is too late to tell the truth. You need to blame someone else. It's too late to apologize. Sure. That's what that song was about. Should you do another thread? Please. please. Am I being unreasonable?

Moon landings, ITV the astronauts, are as transparent as the whole hoax. Seriously, FFS, you can see the line of the horizon, they look green-screened on that shit, like when you went to the museum in the 90s and pretended to be Superman. That's the whole post. That's it? I don't understand it. Do you like me to read it again? No.

Lord, no. Okay, we usually go through these things picking out key sentences and key points Every sentence is key I would like to go through every word Okay Moon Landing's ITV The astronauts

Let's stop, what's ITV get to do with this? There was a documentary on ITV I think A while back The astronauts are as transparent as dot dot dot The whole hoax

The astronauts are as transparent As the whole hoax Yes So the astronauts transparent Is Neil Armstrong transparent? You know, in 9-11 conspiracy theories, there are people who say the government did it, and then there are the extremists that say there were no planes.

Yeah, that's because jet fuel can't melt steel beams. Okay. So, if the pinnacle of 9-11 conspiracy theorists is no plane, maybe the pinnacle of Moonland and conspiracy theorists is no astronauts. No astronauts at all? Yeah, no astronauts ever existed. It's not that they didn't go to the moon, it's that those were never people.

Oh. Maybe that's what they mean. I don't know what they mean. Why did they have their visors down all the time? To protect from the sun? Or because there were robots in there? Protect from the sun probably. Seriously, FFS, you can see the line of horizon.

Yes. Everywhere would have a horizon, though. Yes, you can see the line of horizon. The moon would have a horizon. No, if it was flat. Oh, wow. Yeah, I'm a flat mooner. Is this person that,

a former flat mooner, they're so convinced the moon is flat that the idea the moon isn't flat means there is no moon. There can only be a moon if the moon is flat. I'm a flat mooner. I believe we haven't been to the flat moon, but we have been to the round moon. A flat mooner just seems like someone shoves their ass out of their apartment window. Yeah. Okay, so this person's mift at the moon has a horizon. Yeah, that's bad. They look green-screened on that shit. On that shit?

That shit meaning the moon. Yeah. They look green-screened. I mean, that's not the case. No. I haven't seen the ITV documentary, but is it like a re-enactment on green screen? Oh, that would be glorious, isn't it?

It was very well-filmed, the moon landing. They consulted Stanley Kubrick and what cameras to take. Did they consult him, or did he do it? Moonroom. Like when you went to the museum in the 90s and pretended to be Superman. Which museum? I didn't do that.

And I went to Eureka when I was a kid. Which museum would have a Superman exhibit with a green screen in the 90s? This seems very sophisticated for a museum in the 90s. Yeah. I went to the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester as a kid, where you would expect a green screen

where you could be Superman because of its link to science and industry. Was that some feedback? you left as a small serious boy. I would expect a green screen where I could be Superman. Only learned about the coal industry and its formative part in Manchester's history.

You're so northern. It's the most northern thing I've ever heard. It's important. And cotton. But you never learned about the flat moon? No. I had to figure that shit out for myself. Yeah. Open your eyes, sheeple. Yeah, sheeple.

Yeah, so that is the whole... The whole... the whole O.P. I mean. Seriously, F.F. you can see the line of horizon, they look green-screened on that shit. Like when you went to the museum in the 90s and pretended to be Superman, the museum? Does this person think there is only one museum? That would explain how they have come to reach some of the conclusions they have in life, if they think there is one museum.

You think there's more than one museum? Open your eyes, else. Honestly, I have some YouTube videos that would shock you. And the other one's just green-screened on? Everyone's a false flag operations Jeffrey Epstein Pizza Gate It's all connected

Oh no, it's not though No There's no museums on the moon The flat moon or the round moon Both Would a flat moon only have flat museums Yeah It's like flat stand there

The 2D museum Where everything's 2D Yeah Would go to that museum Not gonna lie No that'd be That'd be good Pretty good

Yeah Like paper Mario Yeah, I want to see a 2D version of everything. Can we just look at this person's username as well? I don't normally make a point of reading out the usernames. But this username is, what the, what the, what the what? Exactly. You've summed it up.

Should we see what people on this road have to say about this? Why did Russia cooperate with this hoax which made them look weak in comparison with the US? What? I mean, what? Sure. The LP doesn't say anything about Russia. Then some people saying, oh, I bet you think the world is flat too. Effect, the O.P. is sitting at home laughing, like, oh God, they think the world's round. Even more stupid than I thought.

The world is round, the moon is flat. Now people are arguing about Kennedy. It took maybe 10 posts for people to start arguing about Kennedy. Oh, man. This is that joke where any friend Devolvent is talking about Stalin within a few posts. Now, people are talking about the TARDIS. Someone has said, you must be very young. Yeah, look, we joke around a lot on this podcast. I'm going to turn my chair around here.

Hey, kids, we joke around a lot on this podcast, but America did land on the moon in 1969. Yeah. That's just a fact. That's a fact that we have. The round moon. The round moon. No one's ever been to the flat moon. Not yet. This has got me wondering whether there's a conspiracy theory board on Mumsnet, and if there is, that is a special in the making. But for now, shall we move on? Yeah.

Let's move on to some good ideas, shall we? Are we? Oh no, we can't. We're on the Am I Being Unreasonable? Are I being unreasonable family appointments? I really wish GPs could offer family appointments. Every few months, something will come up with my family. Right now on the list are, husband needs a vasectomy, needs a referral. Daughter has a rash. Being to pharmacist and they say may need cream now, it's been there a while and nothing is shifting it. I need to face fact. I'm fast becoming death. My head. My hearing is in decline and I need to sort it. I have a sore foot from a running injury that won't heal after months. Need a physio maybe. I need a smear, I got a letter last week. I have a

white lump on my eyelid and it won't go. I think my husband is due a health check. We also have two ongoing pediatric appointments that were obviously processed through the GP. My idea is off family appointments. I reckon it will save the NHS loads. Instead of this one appointment one problem nonsense none of my stuff is urgent and doesn't require same-day appointment waiting lists will be shorter i reckon a decent GP could sort out all those problems in 20 or 30 minutes all the referrals prescriptions and a quick smear test i don't want to make several appointments it's silly i want to kill two birds with the one stone and we're being unreasonable to think this may be one way to make the NHS more efficient obviously there

will still be same-day acute appointments for urgent things. This person's come up with a great scheme. A scheme to fix things. A scheme to fix the NHS. A scheme in which they receive their smear test and their husband gets a vasectomy appointment while their kid gets to be there having a rush looked at. This is perfect.

What a great, perfectly normal day out for everyone. A GP's office is like a theme park. You should be able to get family tickets. Yeah. Yeah. Like some sort of horrible buffet going to the GP. Why are you talking about your vasectomy and you receive your smear test and your daughter's there? What is this person talking about?

I just... What are you talking about? Have the most sinister sentence his husband needs a vasectomy. Do you talk to him about this? It's not like when I say, oh, Ozzie needs his pill. Ozzie's a cat. He can't do these things for himself. If you don't want to have children,

And there's other ways to deal with that. He needs a vasectomy. And he won't sort this appointment out on his own. That's why she needs to get it covered in the family appointment. Jissing all over the place. It's like a cat. You need to get fixed because it won't stop screwing all the lady cats. He needs to get my husband spayed.

Yeah. No. Spray you in the bottle. Down. I'm going to get you in a... I'm just on the phone with them. No. Put it away.

In 20 to 30 minutes once I've checked off this list. No, so this is nonsense. Your daughter doesn't want to sit there while her dad talks about his vasectomy. I can't. And you get a smear test. You get a smear test. Oh my God. And you check on your white lump on your eyelid.

And the doctor does this in 20 to 13 minutes. I think husband is due a health check. You don't just get a health check through the NHS. Yes, if you've got private health insurance, I'm sure you can just get a health check. If I'm rocked up to our doctors and I was like, hello, I'm here for my health check, they'd be like, can you be more specific about what's wrong? If I was like, no, no, nothing's wrong that I know of. I just want you to check that.

They would be so mad at me for wasting time. You can't just go in and say, I need a health check. It's not like an MOT. There are not enough resources for that. And if the husband is due a health check, why aren't you? Why isn't your daughter? Well, he's recently had a vasectomy. Well, no, he hasn't.

that's the problem. He hasn't had it. He needs a vasectomy. He needs it. Can I just get my eye work sort of adjacent to the NHS high horse here? A vasectomy, he needs a referral. Okay, so he does need to go to a doctor for a referral. Fine. The daughter has a rash. They've been to the pharmacist. The pharmacist said it may need cream now. Did they get any cream from the pharmacist? Or did she say, okay, and then not buy any cream, and then come up with this scheme? so there we go there's one that could have been dealt with at the pharmacist I'm becoming deaf you bizarrely if you need your hearing checked go to a high street

optician they generally have the facilities to do that that's another one where you don't need to go to your GP you've got a sore foot and you need to go to a physio so I'd recommend going to a physio not your GP you get your smear test from the nurse if you try and get a doctor to give you a smear test they will tell you that you've booked the wrong sort of appointment you need to leave and rebook with a nurse when you get your Lester inviting you to your smear test, it says, please make an appointment with the nurse for your smear test. Please note a GP cannot perform a smear test. So, so far, the pharmacist, the optician, the physio, the nurse at the practice, you've got a white lump on your eyelid,

go to the doctor, sure. A health check, that's not a thing you get on the NHS. So all you need to do is go and get your white lump on your eyelid looked at. And two ongoing pediatric appointments. Right, but they're clearly separate appointments. She's mentioned that already. Bundle them up. I want them in my family bundle. So, you don't need to see a GP for the vast majority of this stuff, you loon. This isn't like sharing your Netflix password sneakily with your family. It's not. Oh my gosh.

Husband needs a vasectomy is top of her list as well. Like, is this top of her list because she feels like she wouldn't be in this situation where she has to organise family GP appointments if you got them a sexany long ago. Yeah. Maybe a lot of her problems can be solved if the husband and daughter were able to organise their own appointments. They don't need appointments with the GP. The doctor's not going to help

when the pharmacist has said get some cream for that rash. Waiting lists will be shorter, but waiting rooms will be full. Waiting lists will be much longer, because if the appointments are 30 minutes long, there'll be fewer appointments available in the day, won't there? The appointment at the moment is 10 minutes, so if all of the appointments are now 30 minutes, that cuts the number of appointments down

to a third of what's currently available, so that you can storm in there with your husband and your rashy kid talking about how he needs a vasectomy while she's so mortified that her stress rush grows. Actually, you're trying to live a nice life and your mum's constantly wanging on about how to fix the NHS and each idea is worse than the last. I don't know why this have wound me up so much.

Yeah, incensed. I am incensed and I shouldn't be. You didn't get this upset when someone ate the nugs? No. They were six golden nuggets. I think we should get family boxes of nuggets And that way there would be shorter wait times at McDonald's Because everyone would only need to order for their family

Right Just get a family box and share it out among the office Then you know there's no thieves Because everyone's had an equal amount of nugs Yeah To just socialism there Wow, look at Stalin This person just doesn't understand a complex system

and thinks they can do it simpler because they don't actually understand the complexities. I see it all the time at work in universities because, you know, some tech bro thinks they can solve universities because they haven't actually thought about the complexities of delivering learning to thousands of students, often with wildly different socioeconomic backgrounds, and even in different locations.

Tech bro, who came into work last week to talk to us, I'm angry about something else now. Yeah, we're all angry today. I mean, basically everyone is saying you're being unreasonable. Yeah, someone said, why are your D.Hs' appointment to your responsibility? Exactly. Yeah. You can get his own with a text to me if you're telling me needs one.

He just doesn't know yet. And someone else has said, a smear in front of the whole family is just awkward. Which is a very important point. This delivered package, are I being unreasonable not to let D.H. return it to the right address? Recently, my D. decided to work as an independent contractor. It's worked well for us as it has coincided with the

birth of our first child. DH can be miserly. E.G. the other day, I fancied having lunch by the river as the weather was perfect. D.H. reminded me of our financial situation and suggested that we go the following week as we had already been out plenty that week. I agreed. I reminded myself that we don't know where D.H's next role will be and I prefer not to dip into our savings. We are planning a significant extension. Anyway, a package has been delivered today, but it was supposed to be sent to an address four miles away. D.H. says he will drive it over later.

Am I being unreasonable to think D.H. is being totally hypocritical? I would prefer to let the delivery company deal with it. Why should we spend the petrol money? Heavy box. D.H. says it's the polite thing to do. I want to be able to enjoy this time with our first baby and not have to worry about money. despite adding a good amount DH has made me cut back

but we'll happily throw money now for no reason I know I'm being petty as it is only going to cost us a few pence but it's the principal am I being unreasonable and then in brackets it's mostly national speed limit

slash winding country roads to the address It's the principle of the fact It's the principle The principle I hate that it's the principle It's the principle always means I have no real argument here There's a lot going on here

that makes me think their overall situation is not one that she is entirely happy with and this is maybe the straw that's broken the camel's back. But if we take it at face value first and then unpick it a little bit, at face value, what the hell is wrong with you? How heavy is this box going to be this? It's something going to rack up your pectoral costs.

So what on earth are you thinking? We got a delivery that is clearly labelled from McDonald's 4 miles away and I think the box is full of nugs. It's really heavy. heavy. It smells of nox. Am I being unreasonable to not let my husband deliver it? I would prefer to have it sitting in a hole.

A giant sarcophagus of knocks. Yeah, you've got to deliver this box of nooks, because it doesn't belong to you. Surely as well, if the box is so heavy, you don't want it knocking around in your house, do you? No. Well, I mean, I was going to say maybe they've got plenty of room, but they're planning a significant extension.

Maybe when they've got the extension, it will be fine. And they'll have room for the box. Yeah, but until then. In the extension, close the door, problem solved. Wipe their hands now, yeah. Let's assume that this person isn't being unreasonable. And let's be solutions focused. I hate the phrase solutions focused.

Well, you're married to a solutions architect, so get used to it. I just think that when people say be solutions focused, what I mean is I'm not going to listen to your legitimate issue. So I'm not going to listen to that, but let's think of how to come up a solution that works. Why not combine this trip to the neighbour's house four miles away with a trip to somewhere else on the route? Why don't you have a picnic in front of the neighbour's house? Then you've got to go out and have lunch. Then you've got your picnic by the river. We don't know that the neighbour lives by the

river. Not by the neighbour's house. You've got your picnic. You've compromised on being by the river. He's compromised on not having a picnic. Yeah. Together makes the dream work. You get to the neighbour's house. They open the box. full of nugs and say, have some nugs for your trouble. You've got the picnic. Perfect. This is perfect. See, when we all just work together, teamwork. When we stop being so selfish. Yeah. For once in our lives. When we think that we can come together and do something as incredible as going to the moon, we can do great things, like going to the flat moon. Yeah, and having a picnic

in front of our neighbour's house. Of nugs. Called nugs. Maybe he's a contractor for his delivery company and he's too embarrassed to admit it and he's saying he's just doing it to be polite but it's his job he is the delivery company this independent contractor thing it's a bit precarious so he's picked up some extra work as a hermes driver he doesn't want to admit this because she sounds a little bit like she might be a snob wanging on about how much he earns in the significant extension so he's a bit shy and he's like no no i'll just do it it's a kindness but actually it's his job yeah he's the independent contractor for a delivery company Oh, another delivery to the wrong address. I'll just pop it out. I'll just...

Yeah. Oh no, we've got to the bottle of it. He's got a secret second job. Yeah. I don't drive, so I don't know how much difference it would make to petrol costs that this is a heavy box and its national speed limit. Is that going to make it significantly more expensive than if it were just a box of popcorn and they could do it at 100 miles an hour? It's an emergency. Go, go, go, go. tearing down the motorway. The fucking sinny world in Chisleton needed their popcorn in the next half hour. The Avengers Endgame is opening. Fine, not a hundred miles an hour. That would be more fuel economical, yes.

Okay. So it would make a difference. It's not significant at all. Right. So it's not worth breaking the speed limit to deliver popcorn. I don't think so. I mean, that is the economical way to do it, but we're talking pennies.

pennies on the dollar. Let's hear from the thread. I'd let the courier collect and re-deliver purely for the fact that if he does take it to them, what will prevent them from saying you kept it? Why would you... Why would you... Why would you lie?

...such suspicious minds, these people. I can't go on like this with suspicious minds. Your husband is right to count every penny and his rights to deliver the package. It's four miles, FFS. Unless you're driving a tank, barely any petrol will be used. I would recommend that if you are driving a tank,

don't go delivering stuff back to your neighbours because you'll terrify them when you park your tank outside will look like a threat it would be rightly perceived as a threat yeah they'll be like oh mate it's not our fault that our parcel went to your house and inconvenience you there's no need to bring a tank solution's focused again you could walk four miles

and have a lovely walk instead of a picnic they do say it's all windy country roads and stuff it might be that there's roads where there's no pavement and it's not particularly safe yeah and people go tearing down those roads delivering popcorn yeah 100 bals an hour all those popcorn delivery zooming by someone said

are you the poster who posted about the 400 pound pot of moisturiser recently real gotcha there from someone who needs to get out more goodness me we do a podcast about this shit the Ops come back and said it's eight miles there and back

oh yeah that's true oh that makes a no now that you've mentioned that it's eight miles there and back maths that none of us could have done The OP's also said It would have been a cheap day out If we'd gone for lunch It would have cost no more than 50 pounds

And now people are just like What are you on? What are you talking about? It's only five pounds For a box of nugs Yeah well she wanted 60 nugs, okay She wanted 10 boxes of nugs

She wanted to eat them By the river She's eating for two now The baby's being born Yeah she's feeding the baby I don't think you should feed A newborn nugs I don't know

Never had a baby No. I've never had a baby. I still think I wouldn't feed a baby nugs. This is just nonsense. People are just ripping her now because she said that she wanted to spend 50 pounds on lunch. Penny's on an eight-mile trip to be a decent human versus 50 pounds because he fancied lunch in the sunshine, not really comparable and you're being hugely unreasonable. Probably her husband just wanted to get out for a bit. Who could blame him? Yeah, doing his secret job. which he took partly for the money and partly so that he could get the hell out and partly who he can keep paying for these extravagant picnics and the extension and the 400 pound pot of moisturiser and the baby am i being unreasonable to put five pounds in a child's birthday card that's going to buy that kid a box full of nugs nice no am i being unreasonable to get a puppy uh no puppies are great

a little pug little pug sure Am I being unreasonable to not go to A&E? No, they don't do family appointments. That's the problem. It's just not economical. Yeah, if you're looking for a summer holiday day out, A&E is not the one. You're not being unreasonable. Yeah, you can't take the family.

And let's do one more. Am I being unreasonable to think subscription boxes are a swizz. Subscription boxes are a swiz. That's a shame. I was going to start on Am I being unreasonable subscription box? What would we put in it? Just things from the most reasonable. thread, so this one would have Nugs. Nugs and a fiver. Nugs, a book with the truth about

the moon landings. A £5 note. Yours for only £20 plus potion packaging. It'll be delivered by the last OP's husband. By which we mean it won't be delivered. It'll be delivered to a neighbour four miles away. And if they choose not to bring it round, blame the wife. Yeah, so that's the new You're Being unreasonable bucks. Yeah. Subscribe to our Patreon. It's, I don't know, 20 quid a month. Who cares? You can rinse people for these things. Yeah, absolutely. Get it delivered to your work address so you can open it at your desk really performatively

and everyone can go, ooh, what have you got? So, like, this is the first place I've worked in years when no one gets a subscription box turn up to work and I am living for it. Some shit from a podcast I'll listen to. This one's just loads of raisins. And then one of those stickers you get at the dentist that says that you've got good teeth. It sounds like got some bread and some oven chips. Oh, listen to the best of episodes.

Yeah. Cracking stuff. This one's just got a postcard from the Sistine Chapel. And then a little recorder of someone's screaming. Thank you for listening. Yeah, thanks as always. Follow us at why you being reasonable on Twitter. If you want to send us some threads, that would be great.

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