About 30 years ago, we had taken our children to the coast. My DSis and her DH had decided to join us. To keep the costs down we had taken a picnic, I had warned her that’s what we were doing and she said she would do the same.
They arrived about half an hour after us with no sign of a picnic, when it came to lunch time, they just helped themselves to ours,” they knew I’d make too much”.
Money was tight for us, we hadn’t planned on taking the DC on to the pier and the funfair, just some running free on the beach in the fresh air. BIL kept on and on about going to the fair, I explained we didn’t have the budget for that so we wouldn’t be able to go. He offered to treat my dc, who then got really excited. All of the rides were paid for by tokens, each ride being worth a different amount. We get to the ticket booth and he decides he doesn’t want to buy any more than necessary, so he tells my children to choose 1 ride each, that only cost 1 token each. He then starts walking around, counting up the number of tokens he needed for the rides he wanted to go on. My dc were small and needed an adult to ride with them. He refused to waste his tokens doing that, we ended up buying enough token so that my DH and I could ride with them.
We left them on the pier to make our way back to the car, I was less than impressed, my DS asked for a sandwich and when I open the box to pass him one, they’d eaten the lot! To add insult to injury, they then come strolling down the road, him scoffing fish and chips, her with a massive ice cream.
Many years later my son and his gf found themselves pregnant in their late teens. My DSis offered to sell me a pram that she had used for both of her children and then stored in her loft for 15 years, for almost as much as her PIL paid for it brand new.