What’s the most trivial yet irritating thing that your in laws have ever done?

[Mistlewoeandwhine]

Mine is that I’d just had our first child. MIL announces that she will take me for shopping for the baby and coffee. This is presented as a huge treat. Everything I pick up in the shop, she says it is loud or tacky. Eventually I have a few beige and powder blue things for my child (not to my taste at all) and when we get to the till, she steps back and let’s me pay for everything…
Then to make it worse, she cheerily says she’ll get coffee for us and comes back with one minuscule brownie on a plate which she cuts in half and gives to me. “Half is enough Mistletoe,” she tells me. (I am fat and she doesn’t like fat people).

She didn’t even buy my baby anything!

Does it have to be inlaws specifically? What about parents or siblings or friends?

Let themselves into the decorated reception venue to have a look around before the ceremony. It annoyed me, but I know I'm unreasonable

Gave me house magazines to look through for projects to keep me busy. I had a two year old under assessment for ASD, a newborn and we were moving house 😂 she's lovely but seemed completely obvious to the fact that I had enough on my plate!!

Mil spent half of my wedding day debating with me why I wasn't going to change my surname. My wedding day!!! I mean, it was as cheap and cheerful as you can get, but it was still my wedding day. She was really, really annoyed and offended that I wasn't going to change my name to dh's surname. It's not even her surname either, as she's remarried and took his surname. Every argument for changing my name she put forward, I agreed with and said dh should really consider changing his to mine. Her husband was killing himself laughing. I sort of enjoyed myself, but it was very irritating that she chose to bring this up over drinks at the "wedding reception" (room in a pub)

there are so many

Made sure I knew that the reason they didn't see their first grandchild, DS, until he was 7 weeks old was because MIL didn't want to leave their cats alone.

Refusing to visit us and insisting we visit them instead, 200 miles away, because they are so busy (and can't leave the cats alone ofc) They are both retired and financially very well off... we have a toddler and jobs, plus a cat and guinea pigs 😆

Insisting I accept 'a gift' of DHs dead granny's shoes...

Refused to come to any pre wedding events, under various illogical, ridiculous (and funny) reasons, including they might spill their drinks (invited to drinks) and they might make crumbs or dribble soup (invited for lunch)

Texting DH on the morning of our wedding to tell him to 'have a nice life' 🤣

There are many more 😆

@boydy99 sorry these are hilarious

So many. SO MANY.
Me, to MIL: "where would you like to go for a walk?"
MIL: "I don't mind, anywhere."
Me: "Great, let's go to the park."
Two hours later, MIL to DH and FIL: "Oh, I so wanted to go and see Little Venice, but Pufffykins took me to Kensington Gardens instead."
😬😬😬

Planning around baby DS's nap times, we invite them to brunch at 11. They turn up at 1. "Brunch is an odd meal, so we came for lunch instead. Such a shame you are putting DS down for his nap, can't you keep him up?"

Inviting them for dinner when DS is three weeks old, I suggest they come early - at 6ish - so they can see him before he goes to bed. "We'll bring supper," they say, kindly. They arrive at 7.30, DS is asleep. I say that they can creep in and see him. "He's definitely asleep," FIL shouts back down the stairs to MIL, whereupon DS wakes up. Also, if transpired they hadn't brought supper, "We had a late lunch, so aren't very hungry." So I spent 45 minutes re-settling DS before nipping out to the Coop.

DS is now 10. It has not got easier. I try so hard....