In long term relationships, you inevitably notice habits in your partner that get on your nerves. Leaving socks on the bathroom floor, not closing kitchen cupboards behind them, never taking the bins out: there’s always something.
And one woman has taken to Reddit’s Am I The Arsehole thread to tell the internet about an annoying (now viral) phrase her boyfriend keeps saying multiple times a day, which is pushing her to breaking point: ‘Do you want some Pwingys for the room’.
She explains: ‘Me and my boyfriend were on holiday in Tenerife a few months ago. We were in an all-inclusive resort and were standing in one of the shops in the lobby where you can buy extra snacks and stuff.
‘A very posh British man walked in with his 12ish year old son, and they were looking around the shop,’ she continued. ‘They went over to where the crisps were, and the boy seemed very interested in the Pringles. The father then asked him in a very cutesy, possibly over the top for his age voice, "Do you want some Pwingys, for the room?". Yes, he called the Pringles "Pwingys".
‘Me and my boyfriend found this quite funny,’ the woman added. ‘The first few days were fine, we were both joking about it and kept repeating it to one another as it was a funny way to refer to Pringles, especially as the man was talking to his son like he was a baby.
‘This was at the start of our 2 weeks holiday,’ the original poster [OP] detailed. ‘He did not stop saying "Do you want some Pwingys, for the room?" for the whole 2 weeks we were on holiday. He would literally say it at least once a minute. He would even torment me by starting a sentence completely unrelated to it, then finishing with "Do you want some Pwingys, for the room?" as some sort of sick punchline.’
‘It’s now been over 3 months since we've returned and he will not stop saying "Do you want some Pwingys, for the room?". It is driving me insane,’ she admitted. ‘I have begged him to stop but he honestly thinks I am just playing along with his joke. I can't have a serious conversation with him because he always manages to slip in "Do you want some Pwingys, for the room?".
‘This is a 5-year long relationship, and it was absolutely fine up until this point,’ she said. ‘This is the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with but now I don't even want to see him because I'm afraid of when he will say "Do you want some Pwingys, for the room?".
‘I am now refusing to talk to him unless he stops,’ she concluded. ‘I'm honestly afraid that he will say he's going to stop but then just carry on. Am I blowing this out of proportion?’
As with all bizarre relationship problems, the internet absolutely loves this crisp-related tale of woe and the saga how now gone viral on Twitter. ‘This is the most spectacular relationship problem I have ever read, shut down all the advice columns now,’ wrote one user. ‘Turns out once you pop you can’t stop,’ joked another.
‘I feel like this man knows that if he just keeps doing the bit for long enough, it'll eventually go from tedious back round to funny, and even the funniest it's ever been,’ theorised a third. ‘The long, long game. Pwingys on the deathbed, for giggles.’
But for the OP, this is seriously make or break—crunch time, if you will. She absolutely does not want any Pwingy’s for the room, but will her boyfriend ever take the hint? ‘NTA tell him the horse is dead, stop beating it,’ advised one Reddit user, while another sympathised: ‘A joke doesn’t improve with repetition or an increase in volume.’
Our Pwingy prayers are with her.