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Frequent
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MsPen
Age: nearly 30 MIL Age: old enough to
know better
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Frequent
Fry Her TM
- MsPen /Posted: 16-APR-08
SMIL has this weird idea that reprimanding your children
causes them to be bad. Case in point, we were at the dinner
table and DS wouldn't eat. I told him that he needed to eat.
He proceeded to engage in behavior inappropriate to the dinner table.
I calmly but firmly told him to knock that nonsense off, and SMIL
said, "You know, if you didn't get into a huff about it, he wouldn't
do it." Wait, what? My kid was misbehaving, and I'm
not supposed to tell him not to because it will somehow fuel further
misbehaving? You'd think her theory would be proven wrong when
he stopped acting up, but nope. It was because I stopped paying
attention. In what freaking world is letting your kids do whatever
the he!! they want until they get tired of it the definition of good
parenting? In another incident later that evening, SMIL asked
DS about his current obsession. He's young, so he fixates on
things, but this one is getting somewhat obnoxious. Still, SMIL
asked him about it, then turned to us and said, in a holier-than-thou
tone, "You know, if you didn't bring it up all the time and call
such attention to it, he wouldn't fixate on it so much."
WHAT? WAS I HUFFING GLUE OR SOMETHING? SHE WAS THE ONE
WHO MENTIONED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. Not to mention the fact
that fixating on a TV show or toy isn't going to cause lasting damage
in his life. Grow up, SMIL!
Signed - Two MILs For The
Price Of One
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- MsPen /Posted: 15-APR-08
Whilst trapped in the car with MIL, she decided to
spout off her ideas about a certain nationality. "The (name
of nationality) would sooner stab you to death than look at you."
"The (name of nationality) will rob you blind if you let them."
"The (name of nationality) aren't as innocent as they would like
you to believe." I'm (name of nationality).
Signed - My MIL Got Her
Anthropology Degree At Out Of Her Butt University
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- MsPen /Posted: 3-APR-08
MIL called me today to tell me that someone close to
her had died last night. In the middle of my sympathizing and
saying all the things you say when someone has lost someone close
to them, MIL admitted that she's not sure if this person is actually
dead or not. She just assumed that they were dead based on the
fact that someone else said this person was "not doing very good"
last night. She has no idea if this person is alive or not,
but she's calling everyone to announce the death based on second hand
information.
Signed - Don't Ever Become
An Undertaker, MIL
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- MsPen /Posted: 18-MAR-08
DH and I were drop dead sick. MIL said, "Let
me bring you some homemade soup to get you well." What
a nice sentiment, right? No. After the soup was eaten
and she was ready to leave, she asked us for a check for thirty dollars
to pay for the supplies used to make the soup.
Signed - Thanks, But Red
and White Cans Only Cost A Dollar
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- MsPen, 1 of 4 needed /Posted: 25-JAN-08
SIL called me. No "hello", no "how
are you doing?" Her opener was, "I've always hated
your DH for stealing my childhood." WHAT? She went
on to explain that because their parents were not taking care of DH,
she had to drop out of college to care for him herself, and she resents
him for it. Here are the problems with this story: 1)
College is not "childhood". Childhood is when you
are a child. You go to college as an adult. 2) She
dropped out of college because she got pregnant. 3) DH
was sixteen years old at the time, so he really didn't need to be
taken care of, nor did anyone ask her to quit and care for him.
4) DH didn't even know his sister had dropped out, because she
lied to everyone and said she was still going for over a year after
she dropped out. She never even came back home!
Signed - At Least She Got
Her Honorary Doctorate In Crazy
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- MsPen, 2 of 4 needed /Posted: 26-JAN-08
Late last year I developed a deadly allergy to one
of my favorite fruits. MIL brought a huge jar of jam made from
it to my house, held it up and said, "I have your favorite."
She then gave it to my DH and said, "It's all for you, since
she can't have it anymore."
Signed - You Can Take A
Shot For Allergies, But There's No Shot For B!TCH!
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- MsPen, 3 of 4 needed /Posted: 26-JAN-08
A family member whom DH and SIL were very close to
recently died. DH and I went to buy flowers. "We
should really call your sister and see if she wants to go in on these,"
I told him, because, clearly, I was on meth that day or something.
But, I figured that if we combined our money, we could afford something
bigger for this relative, who they both cared about very much.
We called SIL. Of course she wanted to go in on flowers!
She loved the deceased so much! She couldn't come to the flower
shop for a few minutes to help her brother pick it out, but she could
tell us what she wanted it to look like, how big it should be, etc.
We told her how much the final arrangement would cost and what her
share would be of it. She said that it was no problem, and she'd
pay us back at the visitation. As I stated before, I must have
been high. Both visitations came and went. The funeral
was over. The graveside service was finished. The funeral
dinner came, and she still didn't mention the money. Someone
complimented the arrangement that we'd picked out and SIL immediately
jumped in and said, "That was from my family. Oh, also
[DH and I] chipped in." No, we didn't "chip in,"
we paid for the whole thing and you need to pay us back still.
But you don't say that kind of thing, because it's just tasteless.
Finally, when was she was getting ready to leave DH discretely asked
her, "Do you have the check for the flowers?" In came
the drama! Loudly, and in front of the whole family, she yelled,
"I can't believe you'd ask me that! Of course I'll pay
you back, but asking me right now, when I'm grieving, is tacky!
I will send you a check, but I will never forgive you for acting like
this, right after [relative] has just been buried!" WHAT?!
Of course, it is nearly six months later, and no money. The
nicest part of it all? Someone in this relative's family sent
SIL a Thank You card for the flowers.
Signed - In Lieu Of Flowers,
Please Send Family Drama
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- MsPen, 4 of 4 needed /Posted: 29-JAN-08
Every year, Christmas has to be some kind of drama
surrounding SIL's family. MIL always insists on having the whole
family come for Christmas, which usually involves DH and I rearranging
our schedules, and, in many cases, taking time off of work to achieve
this. Even after all the trouble we go to, SIL rarely shows
up. We are always told that Christmas will be on a certain day,
and if we cannot make it on that certain day, we will just have to
miss it. I've always figured that this means that SIL is more
important than DH to MIL. This year, SIL and Uncle can make
it on a certain day, but DH works. MIL said, "That's okay,
you can come and bring my GS." Great, but what about her
son? I called SIL, who said that the certain day MIL picked
doesn't work for her, either. I confronted MIL about it.
She said that we can change it to the date that works for both of
us. Cut to a few weeks later. MIL was at my house, sitting
on my couch, and said, "We're changing Christmas back, because
Uncle can't make it on the new date." She told us that
the change was at the request of SIL, who can't make it on the new
date anymore, and that it is the only date SIL and Uncle can both
make it. It's too bad that DH can't be there, and they'll have
to get together after the New Year. I lost my MIND. I
have never been so enraged in my life! If SIL can't make it,
heaven and earth must move. But, the one year that it's impossible
for us to juggle our schedule, we're told it's too bad? Furthermore,
since when is Uncle more important to her than her SON? That
is the most messed up thing I've ever heard. The year before,
he didn't even show up to Christmas! In the end, the date was
changed. MIL called numerous times to accuse us of always skipping
out on family gatherings (when it is her DD who does this consistently)
and to warn us that we'd "better not cancel" on her.
She told us that, thanks to our unreasonableness, she will never do
Christmas ever again. Fine with me, because after the date was
changed to a mutually agreed upon one (and we found out that no one
was able to make it to the date MIL insisted we have!), SIL didn't
even bother coming!
Signed - Christmas Is A
Time For Giving - Me A Headache
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