Rigid regimes......and losing out

Mr H loves to stick rigidly to his regimes and rules, and is adamant that he cannot move from them. One of his rules is that, when he works away, for 3 nights every other week he has to get up at 5.30am, therefore he has to go to bed at 9.15pm. On the dot. No question about it, he will go off to bed during an interesting TV programme because he has to go at 9.15. It's the rule.

So.......every 6 weeks or so, when he is away, he meets up with his daughter and son for a meal in the evening, usually at about 6.30pm. I would imagine it's a pretty sparse affair, they meet, eat, chat very briefly, and he escapes as quickly as possible to get back to his friend's house so that he can be in bed by 9.30pm (presumably before the witches get him!),  he has done his duty, all boxes are ticked.

But to throw a spanner into the works, his lovely 23 year old daughter has a new job as a nanny, she will be working until 7pm every day.

So the miserable tosspot that is Mr H, is planning to tell  his daughter that he can't possibly meet her at 7.30pm once every 6 weeks, because he has to get up at 5.30am, which would mean that he would get 7 hours sleep once every 6-8 weeks instead of 8! We are talking going to bed an hour later one night every 6 - 8 weeks! He has regaled me with this rubbish for several hours today, I have said that I think he is being a little selfish........I got a lot of abuse and whingeing about how his children don't fit in with his needs.

And I know this is all about the AS, but really it is not an excuse, he is a human being, a father, but what a miserable, self centred tw*t he is. He has no concept of the fact that other people have other plans too. If I was his daughter I think I would give him up as a waste of space.
All I can say is he will be damned lucky if these kids stick with him, his 2  eldest from his first marriage have no contact with him at all, because they, as adults, wouldn't jump to his rules, and consequently he has never seen his 4 grandchildren.
Sad but true. And entirely his fault. And so sorry that this post is so very negative.

Hannah x