She Asked Her Husband for One Simple Favor—Put Dinner in the Oven—But He Rushed It to Get Back to His Video Game, Leaving Her With the Mess
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It can be very frustrating when someone rushes through a chore and leaves behind a big mess.
One mom of six ran into that after asking her husband to put some chicken in the oven while she ran to the store.
When she came back, she found raw chicken juice on the kids’ craft scissors, trash on the counter, and the baby gate left open.
She quickly realized he had rushed through everything so he could get back to a flight simulator game before he crashed.
When she called him out, though, he accused her of treating him like a child.
Read on to see who’s side you would take.
AITA for getting after my husband “like a child”?
40F, wife and mom of 6 (20–2). I was preparing to cook dinner when I realized that we were short on tortillas.
I asked my husband if he could put the chicken in the oven while I ran to the store. We usually cook together or take turns cooking, so he knows his way around the kitchen.
I returned home to find the kitchen baby gate open and no husband. I noticed on the counter the remnants of him opening the package of chicken with a pair of children’s scissors. There’s a drawer of utensils (including a knife) underneath the area where he left the raw-chicken-juice-covered scissors and trash.
When her husband came in the room, she asked him about the mess.
The kitchen shears are in the knife block, an arm’s length directly behind him. He chose to use the pair the kids do homework and crafts with and that are kept on the ledge in a pen cup.
When my husband came back into the kitchen, I asked, “Why did you use these dirty-*** scissors when there are a million other ways to open the chicken? Why is this mess still sitting here? And the gate was open. Boogie (2) could have been in the kitchen with the oven and stove on. What the heck were you thinking?”
He starts screaming at me, saying I treat him like **** and he’s not a child. It turns out he was playing a flight simulator video game in the bedroom when I asked him to help, so he was just trying to get back before he crashed.
AITA?
Yikes! It sounds like he did leave quite a mess.
Let’s check out how the readers over at Reddit feel about what her husband did.
Generally, this is how it works.
Lots of adults play games these days.
This reader thinks he was irresponsible.
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As someone once said: If the boot fits!
He says she treated him like a child, but he rushed through a household chore so he could get back to a video game.
And what’s worse is that he left a raw chicken mess behind and forgot about the open baby gate with a 2-year-old in the house.
If he wants to be treated like an adult, he should probably start acting like one.
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