VENT My MIL drives me crazy sometimes.

amymom wrote: Hi! Thanks for listening! My MIL drives me nuts sometimes! She lives with us and is 87 yrs old. She is just fine, no Major health concerns and she still gets around on her own. I take care of the household! Anyway, sometimes she does things that just makes me bonkers!! So first tonight, my daughter was running the carpet sweeper and Grandma says --- "oh honey I just clipped my toenails could you run the sweeper over by the davenport" Well, I'm like eww gross!!!!! and everyone is trying to figure out what a davenport is. Come on!!! who cares --- she left her toenails on the carpet floor in front of the couch in the Living Room!!!

So then later we are washing the dishes (no dishwasher). So Grandma is washing (usually hubby's job but he's not here tonight); DD and I are drying and the dishes are done and I look over and Grandma is cleaning out the strainer in the sink, you know it catches all the little stuff so it doesn't go down the drain and you can dump it into the garbage can. Well, what does she do with the little things that were stuck in there, she puts them down the drain and runs hot water so it will melt them?!?! WTH. I say, that will clog up the sink, I can just put them in the trash and she says oh no the hot water will melt them. Have you ever heard of anything so dumb in all your life?
Now I wonder when I will need to be calling the plumber for what's down the kitchen sink. OH boy!!

Well, I think later I will start a MIL thread, cuz I have some really dumb stories to tell and they have nothing to do with her age, she has always had a weird sense of logic!!! I'll leave those stories for another thread but right now I just need to vent these two things.

Thanks for listening!!!!! (Anyone want to borrow a Grandma for a few days??? )

luvbug00 replied: No Thanks, all the old people in my life are quite enough thank You!!! Hope your day get's better!

mammag replied: Oh my! I've been there. While our house was being built we were living with Chris' mom. She's in her early 60's so it's not her age either but she did some stuff that made no sense whatsoever! It would drive me crazy sometimes!!!!

In fact, she did something last week that made me thing "WHAT??" She brought my kids a box of brownie mix that had artificial sweetner so they wouldn't be eating so much sugar "it's not good for them"(they were okay) anyway, then 15minutes after getting here and giving it to me she taught the kids to put extra sugar in the lemonade you buy near the orange juice because it's "not sweet enough".

Hmm, you're vent became my vent didn't it...... I have a feeling all of us really could come up with some great MIL stories!

Anyway, sorry she's driving you nuts!

JessC replied: Thats crazy! Hopefully soon she will not be so annoying!

BUT, you can keep grandma

mckayleesmom replied: Oh No....you two have not seen a crazy mother in law until you met my ex's mother...


We never got married,,,because I called it off and she was alot of the reason. Im glad she didn't become my mother in law.

This lady hated me....can you imagine someone hating me . She hated all her sons girlfriends and wives...so I was only hated by association I guess.

Story 1.

Me and my ex lived in the apartment above hers...it was a duplex. One day I was getting ready to leave for work and couldn't find my keys. Looked for about an hour...called work and told them I would be late. Ex jerks mom asks if I found them yet...I say no....She never offers me a ride to work and since she was heading back to bed..I didn't ask, but it still ticked me off because she didn't offer and new I couldn't find them. So I decide I will just walk to work..no problem...It starts raining half way there..I get to work soaked and break down crying (emotional day...that lady made my life hell)....Anyways...my boss tells me to sit in her office to dry off..Then she comes in and says "Brianne..you are not going to believe who just pulled up....ex's mom)..... . She waited to give me enough time to walk and then came up...What a #$%^&. Then my friend Justing stopped into where I worked. Since he lived down the street. I asked if he would take my spare Key (I kept it at work) and drive my car up to me when I got off and I would give him a ride back home...no problem..He brings up my car. When I go to leave...me and my friend Justin find my keys in the car...I locked them inside. My ex was a real uptight person that would give me a lecture for leaving them in the car...So instead of telling him..I hid them in our room so that I could pretend to find them later (briannes brilliant plans )....I would just say that the dogs must have gotten ahold of them and playing with them.......Anyways...I get home from work and ex boyfriend wants to go into town...We go...On the way home he calls his mom and is talking. When he gets off the phone he says..."my mom found your keys"....Great...im thinking she found them in the room....Playing along I say 'where did she find them"......him...."Outside under a tree in the yard"......... WTH........That lying little snake of a woman......


Later that day....I was so angry and in a pissy mood....I snapped at ex boyfriend and he said..."what the heck is wrong with you" and I said "your mom is a dang liar...thats whats wrong with me"......Then I told him the truth...He almost passed out...but knew it was true...cause thats his mom for ya.


BTW...thats just one story. Too many to tell about Mommy Dearest.

mammag replied: Good grief! That woman really was a psycho! So Anne, are you feeling better about your mil already? You probably want to go give her a big kiss now, huh?

kit_kats_mom replied: lol! Well, maybe she meant divan

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/...disambiguation)

Divan also is:
divan, a kind of couch

Insanemomof3 replied: No thanks, I have my own MIL to deal with LOL. Thank GOD she doesn't live with me though.

mckayleesmom replied: Isn't a davenport like a chair...a lazyboy chair type...??....

amymom replied:
I always think of it that way. But she has always called a sofa a davenport. I will have to do a dictionary search just like Cary did. Oh some day.

Brianne --you probably have some funny stories too.

Jeanie -- no -- no big kisses yet. But I love the sugar story.

b&bsmom replied: My MIL used to leave within seeing walking distance. It was basically across the street but there was a small grass area in between. She is a very nosy woman. However now they live about a mile away which is nicer. A funny story is:

One day after we were married we had closed and locked the front door and decided to "fool around" Anyway I stopped and said did you hear a knock dh said no about 15 min later we get a phone call ( surprised she waited that long) she said she tried to drop off some coupons for me but the door was locked so she left them under the grill. How embarrising. And wouldn't you have been embarrased so I would have just pretened I was not even there.

I have sooo many stories. Things were so bad that we were going away one time with them for a week and I went to therapy a few times before we left so I would have my sanity. What is funny is the therapist said "she is a bitch" lol

Sorry I have so many of them it is hard to stop. Hope this helps you

Josie83 replied: Lol Anne!! I'm sorry that she's driving you crazy. I think you're doing well for having her living with you too

At this point I have to tell you that I love my MIL to death . . . she is fabulous and I wish she was around more often! My mother is an absolute tyrant with the compassion of a rattlesnake, but Jason's mum is just so lovely!! xx

amymom replied: oh yes my MIL is very nice and sweet and would do anything for you .... just incredibly dumb sometimes.

Here is another story: Years ago ... Before my time and I've been around 20 yrs. My Brother-in-law and his new wife had moved into a trailer, a mobile home. Well they measured the living room to go buy a new carpet. It was 10 feet wide and 8 feet long. So they go to the carpet store. Mom is going to buy the carpet, very nice of her. Well BIL keeps picking out these pieces and says -- Mom we like this one, she looks at the tag says NO. Moves on. Well that goes on for about 2 hours. Finally, BIL says Mom we've looked at every carpet here that is the right size, I like them all can we just pick one. She says: "Right size! They are all wrong they are 8 X10 you need 10 X8. Your room is wider than it is long!" Well to this day, she keeps saying you can't put an 8x10 carpet in a 10x8 room. And she is adament that she is right and cannot understand anyone saying anything different.

Josie83 replied: That is hilarious!! That really is too much xx

amymom replied: Ok here is another one:

When my husband took me to meet his mom & dad for the first time, we had to travel 6 hours and stay overnight. Well, Mom invites everyone to come to dinner the day after we arrive. Now, my FIL was on a strict diet of can haves and can't haves. He was diabetic with a heart condition.

So there are to be about 25-30 people for dinner and she cooks a roast beef. (I can't remember what type but it was a roast in the oven.) There was a ton of other food too, but the beef is the story. I awoke very early that morning and could smell the food cooking already. We were having dinner at 2 or 3. So around serving time, I go to help her in the kitchen, and she says to me, "I hope you don't mind dear, but I have to cook the roast for a really long time, because Dad can't have any red meat, so I need to cook all the redness out of the meat." WTH. Cooking the meat well done doesn't erase that it is a red meat! The beef doesn't suddenly become poultry or something. She had cooked this 10 lb roast for about 8 hours! Can you imagine how dark and dry this beef was? Yuck! But this is her thinking. So I never tell anyone she tells me that it is so the meat is no longer red. I listened to my husband complain many times about how terrible the meat was but.....

So years later I am talking to her son, my BIL who is a chef, and we are discussing how Mom always cooks the beef till it is really dead! And I come to find out that she had never shared this red meat thing with them. So I tell BIL and DH the story of my first family dinner with their mom and they can't believe I still married into this family!!!!!

Hillbilly Housewife replied: You know how ''couch'' is kinda slang for ''sofa''?

''divan'' is french for ''sofa'', and we say couch too.

A davenport is not a couch at ALL. It is a small desk, writing desk, with lots of drawers.

Sound familiar?

Kaitlin'smom replied: oh my we do have some interesting tails of MIL

okay I am still laughing about the 8x10 vs 10x8

my only funny thing is DH grandfather still refers the fridge as an Ice box

A&A'smommy replied: I couldn't live with my MIL she was WAY too particular!!! But EWWWW about the toenails that is SOOO gross oh and the sink thing I do that But were renting a piece of crap so I don't care anyway sorry she bugs you!!

SOUTHERN MOMMY replied: The sink thing well, i have been guilty of that too but only every now and then

mckayleesmom replied: By the way...My mil now is great...we get along fine.