What’s a weird thing your In-Laws do?

[FirstFallopians]

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?

Do you not put the lid down?

(I'm getting obsessive about this! I hate an open toilet)

Your DM sounds amazing!

No, I never put the lid down. I live alone, nobody is going to look into my toilet except me!

I'm wondering if my daughters in law think I'm weird now! We always have a birthday dinner, the birthday person gets to choose what's on the menu and it's something that we always look forward to.

Absolutely no expectations that 'you must come' but it's a great opportunity to spend time together in our busy lives.

It's not the looking (although very bad feng shui!) It's what you're spraying round the room...

And again, I reiterate, does anyone know ANYONE who has got ill this way? Or is it just the thought of poo germs being 'sprayed around the room' that makes people cringe? Because if they knew what goes on in the great wide world, they would struggle to leave the house - 'poo germs' being contained largely in the toilet, otherwise wouldn't anyone who stands in a room with a toilet and flushes it be dead by now?

Us too! 🤣

You are focusing on germs when people are talking about poo. If you accidentally got shit on your finger, would you wash it off, or suck on it? I couldn't care less if my shit is infectious or not. I still don't want it in my mouth.

I doubt it, it is just a silly old wives tale as I said earlier. That people actually believe 'poo particles' travel like that shows that people are still gullible and susceptible to believing anything.

Nope not a"silly old wives" tale
Mythbusters actually did this on the show 😂
Every time you flush contaminated water droplets are sprayed into your bathroom by aerosol.
All hard surfaces will be contaminated
Personally my toothbrush is covered and in the cabinet.

Picture Jim & Barbara Royals house, the Sunday dinner episode with tinned fruit for pudding…

We were invited for lunch every New Year’s Day.
They would physically take the dining room table, chairs and emergency chairs, and place it the (tiny) living room.

FIL would carefully take a sheet of paper, cut it up and write everyone’s name , fold it like a house roof to make name places for everyone. (There were 5 of us in total).

The TV would be on all day with football and sport with FIL of course in prime place to watch it while eating.

There was no conversation between any of us due to the football and the volume of the TV.

Every year.

Well, until I declined the invitation after the 2nd year.
MIL did all the donkey work, FIL sat himself at the head of the table knife and fork in fists waiting to be served.

they would never come to us when we invited them because “it’s weird not being at home on New Year’s Day” apparently.

I hate to harp on about this, but I am fascinated...

surely your towel, your flannel, the soap...they are ALSO covered in 'poo particles' whenever you flush? And every surface?

If this was actually a real, genuine health hazard, you'd think self-fumigating bathrooms would be a thing, wouldn't you?

I refuse to be browbeaten by poo germs/particles. I also kiss my dog. I know what I'm getting into...

I know someone who butters cold toast until the butter looks like a slice. Has teeth marks running down when she bites into it.
First time I thought she was having cheese.

I was brought up to eat everything at the table and with a fork and knife.
Didn't realise this wasn't a thing until I was in my teens.

DMIL is another one who brings random food when she comes to visit, even at Christmas.
We had a small fridge and small kitchen and would actually say not to bring anything as all covered.
Half a lettuce, one tomato 2 beef burgers, apples, brown bananas, half a home made cake etc. All thrown out once she leaves.
One year I kept it all and offered it back when she left, looked at me as if I was mad.

Someone else eats pasta with fruit, oranges to be specific.
A bowl of cabonara with orange segments resting on top and alternating mouthfuls.
I was too gobsmacked to ask.

Well mine aren't because I flush with the lid down 😂
The bit about the tooth brush in the cabinet was because the Op thought it wierd her ILs kept theirs in a drawer .
I kiss Dcats soft head constantly but I prefer butt germs kept in the loo thanks!

Ps flannel 😳
Washed after every use but its a facecloth, make up remover thingy

I would totally believe this. The parody is only a tiny stretch. I often wonder did my Dad inspire uncle Bryn from Gavin and Stacey.

lol 🤣

If anyone watched the Christmas ep of Motherland, the parents did bring with them half an onion that they kept in the daughter's fridge, when they came for Christmas... more common than I thought!

My parents do bring opened bits and pieces but not actual bits of veg!

My family has a ton of made up words that partners are often bemused by. I think lots of families have a variation on that though. We also weren’t allowed to have food anywhere but in the dining room and had to take our shoes off in the porch. I still do it now, people think I’m odd always taking my shoes off when I visit but it doesn’t feel right wearing shoes in a house!

Also, slight derailment, people keep referring to ‘milky coffee.’ Do you mean a latte, a regular instant coffee with extra milk or something else? I’ve never heard the expression IRL and I’m curious!

When I have a milky coffee, one every day, (but not a set time, I hasten to add!!!) it's a mug of hot milk, then add coffee and stir! I don't know how anyone else does it, but that's how I do it. I had a workmate who would only let me make her one, as I did it perfectly for her! I didn't think you could get a milky coffee wrong, but I do know what she meant now!

This is how my mother did it,she didn't want to 'waste milk' making one for my father.

Why not your son? Is he not responsible for the white washes too?

Because you’re more likely to roll your eyes at your own mother telling you how to do the washing, whereas your MIL telling you feels interfering and judgemental. Stop looking for sexism when it isn’t there.

We do this, just don’t see the point of a bin.

MIL puts the loo roll on the holder the wrong way round so it goes behind rather than in front. I used to change it back until I realised it was always like that so it must be her preference.
Luckily she's a step MIL so I don't have to worry that my DCs are going to have wrong way round loo roll genes