Complicating the simple things........

Mr H likes nothing better than to take something that should be very simple, and complicate it in his inimitable AS way. I find myself being dragged into his AS (or is it ArSe?) world more and more and am trying very hard to stay sane and NT!

His family (2 sisters) are big on rules and rituals, which I guess is where he gets it from. His eldest sister, I am convinced, also has AS. She rings him every Sunday morning at 11am, give or take 10 minutes. Without fail. They have a stilted conversation that lasts about 5 minutes and is mostly grumbling and moaning.  I thought that the whole idea of a telephone is to keep in touch, not to be tied down with, in fact isn't that why we have answer phones and mobiles?

But mid week last week, there was a possibility that we would be out on Sunday morning, collecting our new dog, so on Wednesday  evening, after a bit of consideration and worry, Mr H rang his sister to "pre-warn" her that he might not be in on Sunday. Fine, so on Thursday, the rescue rang to say that we could collect doggle on Saturday. So he then rang sister to tell her that he would be in on Sunday. Note I say "he", his sister has no interest in speaking to me, it's not part of the ritual.

We collected the dog, she is gorgeous and has settled well with our other dog. Sunday morning we took them both to the beach, but our older dog is a bit doddery now and can't walk far, so we agreed that we would take new dog out again later. So at 10am, I asked if he was ready for us to try and wear Molly out..........."well we can't go until after my sister has phoned" he said
"We'll be less than an hour" I counter
"She might phone early" he said.
I took dog and walked her for over an hour, as I left, I said "I'm sorry but I'm not prepared to run my life around when your sister phones"
On my return, he said "she hasn't phoned yet, it's 11.10am"

In my world, I would have missed out all the complicated "pre-warning" rubbish phone calls, and rung her Sunday at 10 am to say "hi, ringing you early because we're off out for a walk"

How simple is that?

And just to add to the phone call nonsense, Mr H is away with work this week, he will be home tomorrow  (I just can't wait)
He has just phoned me, as he does at 9.15 every night when he's away. I can set my watch by him.
"I'm off to bed now, so I'll ring you in the morning when I get to work and I'll rung you when I leave work and I'll ring you when I'm about 10 minutes away"
Good grief! Maybe I just won't answer.