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Mother-In-Law Stories
January 12, 2006
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My MIL is passive-aggressive.
In fact, she almost always gets her own way. When they purchased
the home that they now live in, they had a neighbor who shared a
back property line with them. This neighbor's lot was a pie shaped
lot. It was quite large and very wide in the back. In the corner
of his yard he had two beautiful golden spruce trees. They were
magnificent. MIL didn't like these trees because they "impeded"
her view of a mountain over 200 miles away. Anyway, she wrote the
good man a letter, asking him ever so politely to "top"
these trees so that she could have her view back. He responded
with a polite decline. She then upped the ante and wrote letters
to his dental practice, his neighbors, and the editor of her local
newspaper. When said man went to the police and the police informed
her that she could be charged with harassment and that the dentist
could sue her, she gave up. Three months later the trees died.
No one knows exactly what happened, but, needless to say, the dentist
moved his family out of the neighborhood. Another family who had
a dog whose barking had been bothering MIL as well left the neighborhood,
too. Wanna trade?
Signed - Should Have
Seen It Coming With The Nut Job
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My ILs came to visit
us. Amazingly, I really like my MIL, even though I am not a religious
person and she is. But, even if she does not approve, she respects
my beliefs and never said anything against them. The problem is
my FIL. I barely had the time to know them, since they live in
a different country and they met me at the wedding. However, my
FIL always "jokes", and in the process he tries to made
me look dumb. Excuse me. I am an engineer, for crying out loud!
They come from a very chauvinistic country, and I believe that he
doesn't like the fact that his DIL is hardworking and, I admit it,
opinionated. When I was reading a copy of "National Geographic",
he said, "I bet you can't understand it." He said that
joke because we speak the same language, and he thought that it
was funny to say that I cannot read in English. Excuse me. My
TOEFL score is 260/300, enough to take a graduate program at any
university in the US. I am currently taking some classes, and I
returned home early once. We finished the chapter - and what did
he say? "I bet you flunked the exam." He has his whole
family wait on him, and I believe that it's incredible that during
the whole trip, paid by us, of course, he had never volunteered
to pay even for a coffee.
Signed - Not Amused By
Bad Jokes
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My MIL is either stupid
or just selfish. Not long before my wedding, MIL and I were still
at the stage where I just wasn't up on all her shenanigans, and
we were still on speaking terms. She'd call me at work to confer
advice or ask me questions about the wedding plans. It was all
very pleasant. During the week before the wedding MIL still had
not bought a dress. She had told me some time before that she had
made a terrible gaff at BIL and SIL's wedding when she "accidentally"
wore the same color as the bride's mom. She went on to say what
a big deal it was to THEM, and how she was the poor victim. I actually
felt sorry for her and told her so. So, what did she do? She came
down and started asking what my mom was wearing for the wedding.
I thought, hmm, something's just not right. I did tell her that
my mom had picked out a couple of things and that she was trying
to decide which one she'd wear. One night, my parents, the FILs,
DH and I went out for dinner so that our parents could get to know
each other. We then went back to my parent's house for coffee.
While we were there, MIL asked my mom what she was wearing to the
wedding. My mom showed her the two outfits, which were two different
colors. My mom had bought both and was trying to decide which she
liked better. It was at this point that I realized, for the first
time since I'd known her, that MIL was up to no good. I gave my
mom a heads up about what she'd told me about the other SIL's wedding
already, and, thankfully, my own mom knew what she was really wanting
to know. She kept asking my mom over and over, "Which color
are you going to wear?" Finally, I guess my mom told her that
she just couldn't decide. So, what did MIL do? She went out and
bought the exact same color as one of the outfits that my mom had
bought. We did not know what color she'd picked, we were just glad
that she'd finally gotten something to wear and would shut up about
it. Unfortunately, the dress that MIL wore was almost the same
exact color as the suit my own mother wore that day. Luckily, the
materials were so different that MIL's dress didn't look too much
like the same color as my mom's. But here's the thing, if the idiot
complained that her other DIL's mother was pissed at her for doing
this at her DD's wedding, why would she be stupid enough to do it
again for her other DIL's wedding? Oh, and she did try this stunt
again. She tried it at my DD's christening. She worked her butt
off trying to find out what I was wearing so that she could go out
and buy a dress or suit the SAME color as Me - the mom of the baby
being christened. Or, should I say, the egg donor.
Signed - Sick Of Her
Games
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