Taking It Personally

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[quote]sen say wrote:

  1. How do you handle it when it’s the same person 52 weeks a year putting down what you’ve bought to eat and drink and it’s your mother in law?

Thanks.

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You have a problem here. You could serve her the finest cuisine available to you and the best she has ever had but I have a feeling she doesn’t like her daughters choice of suitor. You basically.

There is a good reason why mother in laws are hated by a good proportion of people.

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I have a good relationship with my in-laws, and will welcome them into my house if they need us to one day. With that being said,

Tell your MIL that if she does not like the food she can leave. Get up in her grill and smack her upside the head. She will either learn to like it or she will stay away. I hope your wife understands she is your wife first, and her mother’s daughter second. If your wife does not understand that then there will be an issue down the line.

Hopefully you did not give her XL crabs as in

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[quote]Edgy wrote:
you left out the most important part of this conversation…

does she take it in the ass?

srsly - [/quote]

Are there any elderly women that don’t?

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[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Edgy wrote:
you left out the most important part of this conversation…

does she take it in the ass?

srsly - [/quote]

Are there any elderly women that don’t?
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I hear it works better than prune juice at loosening stool.

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[quote]Ripsaw3689 wrote:
I hear it works better than prune juice at loosening stool. [/quote]

Hear? Something tells me you have more experience than that cowboy.

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Does she complain about most things? If so then I guess there is no reason to take her complaining personally. Some people just like to complain, yeah. Can be hard to be around them, for sure.

I guess I’d just say that if they don’t like it they are welcome to bring it (the wine, the crabs, whatever) next time.

With the wine you could ask them what kind they like for that price. With the crabs you could say you went to wherever and that was as best as they had - do they know a different place where the crabs are better? Maybe you learn something… Maybe they just like to complain (yeah, when you were young the crabs were huge)

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[quote]sen say wrote:
How do you handle it when someone doesn’t like something you’ve bought and they tell you this directly.

Here’s some examples:

  1. Wine. I bought some red wine. Nothing fabulous. Ten dollars a bottle roughly. I had guests that said it was too fruity and declined to finish their glasses. Like I said it wasn’t phenomenal wine, but it was red wine which is what they asked for and it wasn’t bad.

  2. Crabs. Brought home two and a half dozen Extra Large crabs. They didn’t look like XL crabs when I bought them, but I’d driven to the restaurant 15 miles away and was looking to buy the biggest crabs I could and these were them and the price wasn’t bad. Had a guest over and she couldn’t stfu about how they were’t XL crabs. Kept saying they tasted good, but NO WAY were they XL.

3)Cheese, booze, other similar items. Same scenarios as above.

Basically,

  1. How do you handle it when someone doesn’t like something to eat or drink that you have bought?

  2. How do you handle it when it’s the same person 52 weeks a year putting down what you’ve bought to eat and drink and it’s your mother in law?

Thanks.
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[quote]sen say wrote:

Basically,

  1. How do you handle it when someone doesn’t like something to eat or drink that you have bought?

  2. How do you handle it when it’s the same person 52 weeks a year putting down what you’ve bought to eat and drink and it’s your mother in law?

Thanks.

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Have you tried hitting her?

Otherwise put it in her pooper, that’ll straighten her out.

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Everytime some chick got mad at me for giving them crabs i gave em the number to a local dr’s office, simple.

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1.Cut hole in seat of chair where she sits
2.Attach remote controlled Sybian in aforementioned hole of chair as replacement seat
3.Wait for old concrete knickers to sit
4.???
5.PROFIT

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[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
Everytime some chick got mad at me for giving them crabs i gave em the number to a local dr’s office, simple. [/quote]

Ha !

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Put her food down in front of her and say;

?HERES YOUR FOOD, IF YOURE GOING TO COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN NOW?

TWO THINGS CAN HAPPEN;

  1. She complains immediately which is exactly what you suggested she do (loss of sense of control for her, you win.)
  2. Just to spite you, she doesn?t complain (which is exactly what you want, you win.)

My dad is a master at passive-aggressive and we had to deal with it, lol.

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[quote]sen say wrote:

[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
As noted 2 posts down from the original, I reversed the in-laws. Hence the time warp.

I tried to fix it immediately, but for whatever reason, when I try to edit anything here, it doesn’t stay edited.[/quote]

WTF are you trying to say you old addled bastard? [/quote]

That sometimes I wish I was Swiss.

I think they are pretty laid back, eat chocolate, and play with rifles and clocks.

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[quote]Jewbacca wrote:

[quote]sen say wrote:

[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
As noted 2 posts down from the original, I reversed the in-laws. Hence the time warp.

I tried to fix it immediately, but for whatever reason, when I try to edit anything here, it doesn’t stay edited.[/quote]

WTF are you trying to say you old addled bastard? [/quote]

That sometimes I wish I was Swiss.

I think they are pretty laid back, eat chocolate, and play with rifles and clocks.[/quote]

Apparently they also have a pretty impressive production line of ceramic knife sets. Always wondered what was with all those clocks, that whole country must look like the rapist’s shop in Pulp Fiction.