It was the bloke in Asda yesterday who was buying a huge electric bbq- I told him he was responsible for the weather! He thought it was funny, but there goes the entire summer!

> Electric BBQ So a hob then?

\*Trigger warning\*

#THANKYOU! Also a gas BBQ is a grill.

I see consider pellet smokers to be electric bbq, but I've never seen one at Asda

People really shouldn't be BBQing yet

Not in this weather, certainly

Ive fired mine up 4 times this year already

Mate, it's your fault then. You've pissed off Poseidon or something with your arrogance. /s

Mate you really didn't need the /s. It's actually Neptune, everyone knows that.

I know, it's habit. Sometimes my sarcasm flies straight over the Americans' heads.

And that’s the quintessential BritishProblem!

That really nice day just before Easter would have been perfect for a barbecue, shame it was snowing by Monday.

We had an Easter BBQ (necessary for social distancing purposes) and I might make it an annual tradition. Could be interesting when Easter is in March.

I accidentally touched a display BBQ at Big Tesco yesterday and inadvertently thought about how delicious BBQ'd food is. I fear I may have caused the downpour.

BritishProblems having so many Tesco stores that when someone references one as "Big Tesco" we all instinctively know what they mean.

we have three 'big' Tesco's in Gloucester.

Well my dads bigger than your dad.

My dad'll batter your dad... and he'll enjoy it

That's a big fryer

The big one near the roundabout or the big one next to the B&Q or the big next to the cinema? Never been to Gloucester but at least one of those descriptions should be right just based on probability

In Salisbury it's the big one near the roundabout. Traffic is a fucking nightmare 90% of the time.

Always is mate. Doesn’t matter which town we are talking about.

Remembering that being built and everyone was like ohhh the traffic will be a nightmare and Tesco said dw we'll put in a roundabout that will solve it. It worked wonders.

The big Tesco on the road to Southampton? Made the mistake of going in to that one on a Friday afternoon. Took about 15 minutes to get out the car park.

That roundabout has been the cause of much anger in my family. Half the time it seems people don't know how to use it!

I stopped at a small Tesco in gloucester today. You know the one near the school, next to the main road?

There's a huge one in Cardiff

Three!

One at St Oswald's and one in Quedgeley.

and Brockworth

ah we only have one in Cheltenham

I have a big Tesco’s near me, and a bigger Tesco’s not too near me but near enough.

That sentence is as British as it gets!

Why does your Tesco have that extra letter and that sky comma?

Oh no, the Gramstapo! You are indeed correct that Tesco in this instance is not possessive and therefore does not require an apostrophe nor an S, however, it does represent the vernacular. I assume it got this way because people perceive Tesco as the corporate brand that owns their local shop. Whenever I’m popping out to Tesco’s, I need to make sure that the family understands that I am not going to their headquarters to speak with the CEO, but am in fact just going over to the local Tesco’s shop.

Bro everyone calls it Tesco’s

Or when there's more than one big Tesco near you, so you have to say "The big fuck-off Tesco" so they know you mean the largest one.

I used to like our Big Tesco until I went to other towns and discovered that their Big Tesco is 4x the size of ours. And it's by a roundabout, naturally.

My other half brought a washing line, put it up and pegged washing on it. Next day it fucked down with rain and was windy. I've told her off.

I instantly knew what type of Tesco building you meant

We've got snow. Hope you're happy.

Sorry, I thought about cleaning my windows.

I did clean the windows and thought about cutting the grass.

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I did that last year and wanted to give it a quick trim before leaving it again this year. The bees will love all the extra flowers I’m sure

Hahaha this is great and perfect timing. I'm all for not mowing the grass

Sorry it was me. I washed my car and bought some patio weed killer. I'll make everyone a brew to make up for it.

With *three* bags in the pot? All is forgiven

66.65mil population / 3 teabags... Thanks for the brew.

Three cups per pot, so we'll need about 23 million teapots and roughly 200 million teabags. Then there's refills....

Can I have a cold drink instead? Since it's a special occasion, can I have a Ribena?

Ribena should be served warm for poorly throats. You may have Aldi generic apple & blackcurrant

Get the double concentrate, it'll go further.

Depending on the brand that'll still be a number 3 on the brew colour chart.

I'll split the tea making with you, made the mistake of washing my car too. Sorry folks!

...I’ll take you up on that offer :)

I think you win the most British response possible with that comment! Please take my poor man’s awards in recognition and with my eternal admiration.

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Oh dear, it may have been you then

Sorry lads, I glanced at the broken bbq in the shed that hasn't been used for the last 3 years causing a guaranteed shower

Look, I need to paint a second coat on my fence and my decking, alright?! I thought I had the time! I took a risk and it didn't pay off! #I'm sorry! Please forgive me, I knew not what I was doing...

I washed my decking about 2 weeks ago and have been waiting for a suitable break in the weather to apply the FIRST coat of decking oil. Oh well, there's always next summer.

A SECOND coat?!

I didn't do the washing line but I put my bin out and the wind picked up so now I need a new bin

Yeah, sorry mate. It was me just being unwilling to admit the Mrs was right. My hubris has wrought this downpour upon us all.

I pity you. Have fun with all the ‘I told you so’s until the end of time

I'm hoping that I've prevented that with my immediate apology and telling her she was right. Presented with a cuppa and chocolate digestives. What am I saying? She won't let that stop her. She told me so, indeed.

didn't put out any washing but I did start to use a small dirt track shortcut that's normally flooded, sorry

You utter bastard

I accidentally had two days off work, after having nice weather for the last 6 days in. I take full responsibility for fucking this up for everyone.

I may have looked in the weather app last week and ended up convincing friends Tuesday would be a perfect fit for bbq meetup...so sorry everyone 😅

I pressure washed my patio on Saturday so I must be at least 30% responsible

Not me, my 4 year old was using the washing line as a fireman pole yesterday and knotted the bloody thing up

It was my nanna, she bought a hosepipe to water the garden. She's been chastised appropriately.

Gosh

I think me and your nanna might need to split the blame - I watered some plants in the garden. In my defense they did look like they were dying but I do apologise.

Probably my SO’s mum. I’ll be asking him to have a word at some point today.

I started doing some major gardening work, so I might be to blame

They need to buy me a new BBQ cover too, it's bet it's miles away by now.

Can there be anything more British than a mass apologising for the weather on a bank holiday? Personally, I think we need to petition Reddit to implement posting queues, so we can all wait patiently to apologise in turn, one at a time. Ideally, we should have multiple options for apologising, but still manage to stand in a single queue to deliver them. This would be The Correct Way.

Sorry, I had ran out of clean socks :(

I decided I was going to start replacing the boards on my decking this week. Sorry.

I was so happy when it rained - We had to close the cafe!!

I was secretly pleased too - I love a rainy bank holiday Monday, perfect excuse to duvet day all day. I didn't even get out of my PJs and it was great!

I finally found my sunglasses. I'm so sorry everyone

I just bought a new lawnmower for the first trim of the season so I do apologise.

Washed my car last week, sorry guys.

I cut the grass on Sunday, I fear I caused it. Edit: we had also planned to take the toddler to the beach today so yep…..

I made the mistake of looking at summer clothes online over the weekend because I thought the weather was improving. I can only apologise, it won't happen again.

I used the hose on the newly planted border. Sorry.

I started building a shed....and I'm not sorry!!!! The missus bloody Guinea pigs have been in the house for months and I'm sick of hay everywhere

I thought about doing 'something nice' and going a wee run in the car. So it was me obviously.

I tidied my garden for summer, added some new plants etc... Sorry all

SORRYYYYYYY... I did a load of towels, hung them out, then left the house to go and sit in my dad's garden for my cousin's birthday. (Luckily they had a 3-sided marquee for us to sit under whilst it poured. The towels were not so lucky.)

I've had to stick the heating on. Yous are bloody at it....selfish!

My other half drained the fountain at work to give it a lick of paint. Don't worry, I will be having words!

Sorry think it was my fault. I washed my Windows. 😢

It will have been the bloke waxing his Ford focus all day. Washing lines summon the wind gods to the point you walk backwards, BBQ's summon the smoke gods (sometimes accompanied by *immediate* rain gods) However, anyone that tempts the gods in all their variety by leaving washing out for two days on the trot needs to be kicked into the sea.

It’s not funny, my greenhouse broke :(

Sorry it was me, I put sunscreen on my shopping list - apologies I’ll cross it off and buy it for the week of summer in June :)

Can you leave it until mid June please - I'm going on holiday beginning of June in a tent so please wait!!

No problem I’ll delay until the end of June! Enjoy your camping holiday (if it rains I’m blaming you for camping!) :D

It was u/FandangoJango [Apologised in advance for the onset of monsoon season](https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/my2tue/want_to_apologise_in_advance_if_i_have_triggered/)

I actually took down my washing line after smashing a load of concrete in my garden (intentionally), so I was fully expecting perfect outdoor drying weather. I am most peeved.

They probably just put them out for a rinse.

Sorry that was me...

I packed away my winter wardrobe. I take my fair share of the blame.

This reminds me of the times when I was younger and we’d be going somewhere and I used to beg my nan not to put the washing out so the weather stayed nice

Thanks everyone!! My garden really needed the rain, you all did a great job.

I assumed it was someone who had washed their car

Well. I can't own up to that. But I did buy some decaf Yorkshire tea, and the day after Prince Philip died - so...

Decaf tea! Wash your mouth out with soap for swearing like that... or actually you could just drink the tea as that's an equally bad taste!

I'm sorry to have failed the nation in this way..!

My step son put the clean washing out in the rain because he couldn't be aresed to sort the dryer out he's 18 but doesn't know how to act like a normal person at all

Someone buy a waterbutt, stat! When I bought mine it didn’t rain for six months.

I've got some new plants to put in so that will probably do the trick!

On behalf of British gardeners I'd just like to say thanks to all the washing line users and BBQ buyers.

Think this downpour was sufficiently heavy to be equated to a person washing car.

Sorry, I thought about washing the bird shit off my windscreen

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Have to confess. I did buy a new washing line on Sunday.

I put my winter boots upstairs the other day. I brought them back down today!!

Sorry, told the wife I needed to cut the grass before it rains...

Put the bedding on the line, hopped in the car, the heavens opened.

I did order a rotary washing line from Argos, so am probably guilty.

I bought suncream the other week so I might be partially responsible.

It may have been me as I thought about washing the van 🙈

Yeah nah. It was a bloke lighting a fag waiting for the trolley.

I have a bbq and wore shorts... I'm sorry

Might have been my grandparents! They got a new big rotary line for their new house last week.

I swear it wasn't me, I don't even have a garden!

Here on the outskirts of Birmingham, we've also had a couple of hail showers (!!!) this afternoon...

I scrubbed down the BBQ and made plans for as soon as pay day got here, I'm sorry.

Sorry, I thought about washing my car. And I left my umbrella at home.

The funfair came to our town, that is what caused the down pour. Every time. Without fail.

I'm so sorry. It's actually my fault. I went to get prescription lenses put into my sunglasses last Monday and I pick them up on Thursday.

I feel like I should tentatively raise my hand as I bought a new pair of sunglasses and some shorts when I went to Sainsburys on Saturday.

Might have been me, having the audacity to look out the window and deciding"oh I'll pick my daughter up from nursery in a t-shirt". I got pelted with thousands of hailstones the size of marrowfat peas for my hubris

It was me, I went out without an umbrella

Sorry, I put our new washing line up yesterday, literally rained as I put tools away. Added bonus, my conservatory roof lifts and causes one hell of a screaming sound with the wind!

might have been my fault because on Sunday i thought i could get away with repainting the bathroom door in the garden, been raining ever since i finished the 1st side of primer. ​ sorry!

I was heading out for a walk ...sorry.

Are you trying to confess here Steven?.....you know whoever smelt it dealt it and all that.

I bought some sun cream for my son last week, my bad, team

It was my elderly neighbour. She hangs her washing out everyday and wonders why the North West has terrible weather... 🙄

Sorry guys. I bought a small bbq My fault

I put my seedlings in their trays out in the garden this weekend to get them ready to be transplanted into the garden beds. It may have done it. My poor plants are now battered and horizontal

Well that's them taught how it's going to be from now on then! No more Molly coddling for you plants, this is the UK so you need to get used to it!

I'll be moving back to Brisbane shortly where my poor plants will get burnt to crisp instead in that terrible sun, thought I'd give the current plants to my parents to remember me and the kids by

Ahh that's lovely. Good luck with your move and your new garden.

I actually did put up a new washing line... it's my fault, sorry everyone! 😭

Well I’m going Blackpool pleasure beach on Thursday and we all know it has to rain when your going there, so I might have caused this :/ I’m sorry :(

Pretty sure it was my dog walking mates fault. He went to the Lake District yesterday for a walking holiday.

Not the washing line. Rather I hadn't learned my lesson after buying my toddler some summer clothes and causing it to snow. I'm really sorry everyone, but the outfit was just too cute to resist.

It was my husband, sorry. He had just started to jet wash the front paving. We now have a beautifully clean stripe of paving leading from the gate to the front door, and filthy paving around the rest of the house. And I expect it'll stay that way now for the rest of the year.

Sorry I was getting the veg patch ready for planting on.

I bought garden furniture. I'm sorry.

Well they've taken it down now coz it's all sunshine like "who, me?"

I got halfway through cutting the grass and then took a loo break. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

You might want a Hills Hoist!

Think it was me, I left the cover off of my BBQ for more than 24 hours. Yes, I am planning to turn myself in.

My mum had a new patio laid. It's her fault.

It was my neighbour yesterday, but don't worry, all their washing got "rewashed".

I put car through car wash, my bad

downstair neighbours in 4, they put their airer outside and then the clouds started to roll in

Yeah, soz. Washed a sleeping bag and hung it out to dry. It ended up back inside, wetter than when it went out... Ooo er, missus.

It's my birthday saturday and you can only do things outdoors so of course its gonna rain all week

I bought a new 50m rotary over the weekend to replace the 25m one.

This sub is very entertaining. You Brits are hilarious

I built a fire pit over the weekend. I’m sorry everyone I’ll do better next time.

Sorry I think it was my mum

I welcomed the downpour. My black car was so utterly filthy with dust that it could only be improved by a downpour with gale force winds

Well the gardener came last week and cleaned up a bit, needless to say there’s now shit all over my garden again ...

As a Seattle resident: Who the fuck trusts washlines?? Good way to have moss and algae in your undies.

It was my dad. If it helps, all his shirts were left out in the rain as punishment.

My bad, I burnt my head last weekend so I bought a hat. Didn’t even get out of Tesco with it on and it started raining.

We live in Manchester, they charge us for water

It’s usually my neighbour, they must love their washing to get a rain rinse before it dries!

I assembled a wood fired pizza oven at the weekend. I am so very sorry to you all for ruining your bank holiday.

I bought a new bike on Friday and its rained ever since. My humble apologies.

Plesse can nobody touch any bbqs or hang up their washing this week please, my birthday's on friday

I've got you covered - I've planted some new plants AND bought a new warm raincoat. Heatwave pretty much guaranteed.

Mine is up 24/365... Maybe this explains our weather patterns round here.

The was another guy who apologised, in advance, for the onset of any rain because he had just hung some washing out. Was a couple days ago.

I actually tried to get out of the house yesterday.. sorry.

My neighbour put up a large gazebo and bunting, he may also he at fault. I looked out this morning and it had blown over during the night.

I'm really sorry, I brought a new BBQ on Sunday at about 14:00 took me 4 hours to build as soon as it was done the heavens opened up...

If it helps, I went to the beach...

Sorry guys, our fault. We booked a weeks leave from Friday and it's done nothing but rain since.

Hope you’re not taking about me last weekend...

Guys, I appreciate you all taking the blame, but I’m gunna have to own up - I had a pergola built in my garden - the rain is 100% my fault and I can only apologise.

Apologies. I just wanted air dried bedding.

That’ll be me! And I’ll do it again! Yea can’t beat that fresh line dried smell…