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Irish Clovers:
....This just irked me to no end.

Ok, here goes.  DH has 5 older brothers and is the youngest at 44.  One of his older brothers is in for a major convention in town and is staying with my MIL.  So, MIL calls me last night and asked me to give BIL a wake up call at 7:00am.  Ummmmmmmm, where's the alarm clock?  "Well, he or I can't figure out how to use it, so make sure you don't forget."

After I picked up my jaw off the floor I reluctantly agreed and then voiced my irritation to DH who thinks I'm completely overracting and "it's a nice thing to do".  Well, fine but I'm NOT doing it every morning for the entire 6 days he's here and have instructed DH to bring over our spare alarm clock for him to use.  My thought is he is a grown man and if he can't figure out how to use his mothers alarm clock, GO BUY ANOTHER ONE.  I am not your wake-up service.  DH doesn't agree.

This "helplessness" runs in the family and DH was totally this way when I met him.  I put a stop to that quick, fast and in a hurry.

Side note, this brother owes DH a rather large some of money and has yet to pay it back so that's contributing to my irritation.

So, am I overreacting?

Sharnita:
Maybe overreacting the tiniest bit, though the mitigating factor of owing money might be considered. Has there been a schedule of payments that he missed or is it kinda vague?

If I was up anyway, I would probably just do it. I definitely would not set my alarm just to wake up to call him or anything. Why can't hubby give his brother the call and leave you out of it?

I definitely think DH doing a training on basic alarm clock use sounds good.

All in all, I'd be happy to do it for someone "in good standing" but not for someone who was already irritating me in other ways.

Irish Clovers:
There's supposed to be a "repayment plan" but he never sticks to it. 

behindbj:
"Hi!  This is your 7am wake-up call and reminder that you owe us XXXX dollars that you haven't been repaying regularly.

Have a great day!"

And, yes - I would actually do this.   But, that's me.

behindbj

CocoCamm:
If a grown man needed me to be his alarm clock at the request of his mommy, well I may just die laughing. honesly I dont know how you possibly kept a straight face.

I'm with you though. I cant stand helplessness. Its not cute or endearing, its pitiful. If I were you I would have ouright refused and not lost a bit of sleep over it. At the least I would make it your hubbys problem.

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