What’s a weird thing your In-Laws do?

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I was thinking there about how my BIL maintains that all families are a little bit weird to someone else.

Thought he was being flippant but then I remembered that my in-laws keep their family toothbrushes and toothpaste in a drawer in their bathroom. If you need a bit of floss after Sunday lunch you need to stick your hand into a sticky, damp mass of plastic and bristles.

What slightly weird things do your in-laws do?

I love this!!!

I’ve never read it but I’ll take it as a compliment…?🤔

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@Okaygoahead My dp insists on sitting in the cinema til the very last credit has rolled because "if it was me I'd want someone to read it." He will be found dead in his seat one day.

I love this!!!"

It's all fun and games until you're running for the last train.......🤣

This is my father. Ham radio is his thing, and I think significant numbers of his peers that I've met/heard on the radio are likely to be ND.

The thing that blew DH's mind was that my dad talked almost EVERY SINGLE DAY for over thirty years to an Australian ham radio operator (until the other man died in his late 80s), but all that was ever said was (a) an observation on the signal strength as experienced by each and (b) an observation on the weather by each. They never expressed the remotest interest in one another's lives, didn't know what one another did for a living, whether they were married or single or had children or not -- anything.

The fact of the contact was the NB thing, not the content.

But sometimes there's a post-credits scene. Like a bonus track on an album.

I know 😂. I had a friend who wrote plays and wrote for tv. He had a notebook with him at all times. When he heard stories like these he used to say “ Mind if I write that down? “ He explained that writers rarely have to make things up. 🌺

WHY don't people just put the lid down?

No-one in my family inc DC and DGC ever leave the lid up

My mum always stopped for elevenses back in the 50s/60s. And that's the time friends would be round too

Milky coffee and ginger biscuits. Yum

If you think people would be up at the crack of dawn, that would be the break between breakfast and lunch.

And tea at 4 would keep you going till dinner/supper

Where I worked, you wouldn't have been allowed to!

When mil and fil visit

he wandered the lounge and kitchen electrc shaving his jaw and chin . wander wander wander I was mortified who does that ?

I agree, @Nanny0gg - women in those days (who stayed at home) would have a physically tough day cleaning the house, washing the clothes, shopping for food (very few women had a car and very few houses had fridges) and cooking. They needed a sit down at 11 o'clock! And of course they didn't have the distractions we have now, where we might sit down for five minutes to check social media and realise an hour has passed.

How old is she?

Monday was always washday back in the dark ages

But it's fascinating!

And on the whole, light-hearted!

My friend and her sister call each other 'Auntie' even when their (adult) DC aren't around!

I thought more of an observation than a judgement?

My Dad only talks about the local council and, bizarrely, Donald Trump. He can expertly weave them into any conversation. Sometimes even together.

A gravy one Mil made a big show at sunday lunch of granules and boiling water in a plastic jug stirred and stirred and then poured over your lunch tada.....

My stepmother did that. Had to be Lurpack

And actually, it's delicious!

As it should be!

One day my DGC will get it...

Waste not, want not!

Have milk on puddings/desserts

Not quite the same, but my grandmother always referred to her neighbour and best friend of 50 years standing as “Mrs Wilson”. I think she did use her first name to her face, but she would never have referred to her by it when talking to my dad. I remember her telling him “poor Mrs Wilson is in hospital” once, even though he’d have been over 60 by then and could probably have coped with hearing her first name 😁

Lol! In her opinion maybe drinkers only drink on a park bench and from a brown paper bag

Yep. She was absolutely bloody nuts. 😂.