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Mother-In-Law Mall
A place to find great gifts!
and products related to mothers-in-law and other family members.
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Mother-In-Law Stories
January 9, 2008
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Frequent
Fry Her TM.
- AWorldAwayFromNormal/Posted: 9-JAN-08
My DH has one of those 2 syllable names that
is commonly shortened to 1 syllable. You know, names like Deborah,
Alison, Catherine, except it's a guy's name. His whole family calls
him by the full thing. He introduces himself as the full thing,
but he really doesn't care which one you call him. From pretty
much day one, I called him by the shortened version. I like it
better that way. One day I called DH (then BF) shortly after we'd
started dating. MIL answered. I asked for him by the short version.
She replied, "X? There's no X living here. You must have
the wrong number." I apologized and dialed again, thinking
that maybe I'd misdialed (I'd called before and gotten through,
so I knew it was written down correctly). MIL answered, and again
I asked for him by the short version. MIL proceeded to yell at
me that I was "a dumb bleepity bleep (accusing me of being
promiscuous, but in less polite words)" and that I should clean
out my nasty, dirty ears and listen when things are said the first
time. Needless to say, I was appalled! I quickly hung up and didn't
try to call again. I saw DH (BF) at school the next day and asked
him to write down his number again, because something had gone wrong.
I explained what had happened and he started blushing. He then
told me that he'd overheard the yelling and insults, but not the
first phone call. She'd refused to tell him who was calling and
what they wanted, so he didn't know that it was me. I've since
learned that MIL gets offended when people give her grandkids nicknames.
She once said, "What right do you have to go changing someone
else's name?? You didn't give birth to him!" Right.
Signed - She Didn't Give
Birth To Them, Either
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Worst gift: I was in
my 20s when DH and I were still dating. His mother was mad that
he moved out of her house and in with me. For a birthday present,
she went to a dollar store and got a bunny rabbit made of resin
on a book or something. The "present" looked like it
was missing "happy 1st birthday" (probably the reason
it was at the dollar store). It weighed about 5 pounds and made
a wonderful clatter spiraling down 6 floors in the garbage chute
that night!
Signed - Made A Wonderful
Clatter
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Worst gift: DH and I
were married early in December in a rugged and snowy state. We
had a very small wedding in a resort town that was about 2 hours
away from our families. Not a single member of his family showed
up because it snowed a few inches the night before the ceremony.
All the other guests made it without any problems. I duplicated
a snapshot of us in our wedding attire and included it in all the
Christmas cards that we sent out that year. I forget what DH got
from his mother that year, but I got the snapshot that I sent in
a yard sale frame, complete with missing glass, bent decorative
paper and tarnish. Oh yeah, and we did not get a wedding gift.
Oh well, at least she can't . . .
Signed - Frame Me and
Send Me Back
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