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"I can't eat too much Christmas lunch, I'm too full of pringles". WTAF?!!

290 replies

Flubba · 27/12/2011 07:01

Okay, so custy clearly wins on the shit Christmas front, but I'd like to hear your crappy Christmas stories. It'd give me good cheer! Xmas Grin

Mine was the line "I can't eat too much Chritsmas lunch, I'm too full of pringles " from my FIL after I'd been preparing and cooking all fecking morning and then some. Xmas Angry Xmas Hmm

for the sake of those getting their Christmas knickers in a twist about this not being an AIBU Xmas Wink, here goes...

OP posts:
andaPontyinaPearTreeeeee · 27/12/2011 13:11

My mum arrived yesterday (does boxing day still count for this thread?) with a Sainsburys bag full of random crap from the lost property box at her work. This was in lieu of presents.

DSS wins the Innapropriate Present of the Year award though, IMO - he was given a Willy Grooming Kit (complete with 'bracelet', brush/comb and moisturiser) by his MOTHER.

Thumbinnapuddingwitch · 27/12/2011 13:12

Wow.

Megatron - good for you - don't phone her!! Let her come to you (or not) - she has been unbeLIEVably rude to you! If your BIL and DH can see this, you have to let them guide you - it was an utterly bitchfaced thing to do to you and should not be glossed over as nothing.

Flubba - your FIL is a rude idiot as well.

Fairytight - argh! I'm glad you can chuckle over it now but seriously, talk about cutting noses off to spite faces! And eating bloody butterkist when they'd had the option of a fabulous meal! Xmas Shock

I have been ranting elsewhere so have got it a bit out of my system - but DH bought me a granny scarf instead of the lovely lacy job I'd shown him - he claims he couldn't remember the one so got me one he thought was my style (which is insulting in its own right!) and now he's angry with me for not realising he'd done his best and he never wanted to do presents anyway because it's too much fecking trouble for him and he wishes I hadn't bothered to get him presents (that he liked) because he always says he doesn't want presents (so he can get out of buying them for other people, mostly). Way to make me feel completely shit - my hurt feelings have now been mutated into guilt for making him feel bad and guilt for bothering to buy any presents at all and general fucked-offness that my hurtness has been completely invalidated because he tried his best.
Obviously not completely out my system then - sorry! Xmas Blush

FellatioNelson · 27/12/2011 13:18

OMG Megatron that is definitely on a par with Custy's Christmas - honest to God, what the fuck id WRONG with some people?

And who just 'pops out' for lunch on Christmas Day, and manages to still be somewhere by 1.30? She must have booked/planned it all that way surely? Un-fucking believable.

Them, I mean, not you. Grin

G1nger · 27/12/2011 13:18

droves "Don't have receipt , so can't exchange it for the one I do like "

Yes you can. Tell them that no you don't have the receipt because it's a Xmas present. I've done it loads of times.

handbagCrab · 27/12/2011 13:20

Not as bad as others...

My parents and mil invited themselves over for Xmas day. I had a baby 4 weeks ago by emergency cs and I'm recovering from that and a secondary infection. I'd already ordered an m and s ready done Xmas dinner that we were planning to eat over a few days so at least there was enough food. But my parents are obsessed with home cooking. So they prepared and ate a 3 course meal on Xmas eve for themselves and mil and told us that they were cooking a homemade Xmas dinner on boxing day. They ate a small amount of Xmas dinner that myself and husband prepared between looking after the baby on very little sleep. We threw a lot of it away. They didn't bring any champagne like we do when we go there for Xmas as they had apparently drunk enough the night before. Most of the conversation over dinner was about the home cooked food they had made/ were making for themselves.

This was the first Xmas it was to be just me and husband with our new baby and they managed to come in at the last minute! We're going to have to go away next year, I can't see any other way out.

SolidGoldStockingFilla · 27/12/2011 13:29

Bloody hell, sympathies to all of you dealing with horrors. The only blight on my Xmas was the complete absence of working DVD player in mum's house, which would have stopped DS getting a bit fractious at one point as he got several DVDs as gifts and I had rather planned on letting him curl up in front of at least one so us adults could have a gossip, but still...

moonbells · 27/12/2011 13:29

Yikes I'm glad mine seem fairly normal. Though we did end up going to the Christmas Queen last year (AKA my SIL) and though we did tell her that there are certain things I don't eat for good reason (like nuts) there was still a pointed silence about the turkey dark meat (apparently I was supposed to tell them in advance that I prefer it).

I took a bottle of white wine because red gives me clonking migraines. They didn't open it.

The thing that upset both of us though was the insistence that we eat at 3. DS is used to lunch at 11:45 to 12 (that's when nursery serve up) and so they were expecting a 3yo to go three hours without food? Huh?

This year DH told them it was the year for us to stay at home so it was just the three of us. We skipped starter, we skipped pud, ate loads of main course and just did our own thing. (With red cabbage Xmas Grin) and we had a lovely lunch.

Tomorrow I go to my P. Then I'll probably have some tales to tell...

ScorpionQueen · 27/12/2011 13:32

Megatron Your MIL would have had the meal booked for ages and had planned this in advance. The caah.

Malificence · 27/12/2011 13:35

Thankfully not our family but an inlaws parents who happened to be where we were visiting on Xmas day ( we usually try and time things to avoid them because he is such an arrogant and ignorant git) - we spent half an hour like this > Shock as she pointedly kept referring to her newborn grandchild as it Angry he has been born with health problems , they don't know quite what the problem is yet but it seems v. serious.

She said that she wouldn't write it's name on a card because the name is ridiculous , I won't say it here because it is very unusual and quirky , pretty much everybody hates the name but their baby, their choice imo.
She finished off the conversation with, "if they can't find out what's wrong with it within a fortnight, it will probably die."
Nasty bitch.

G1nger · 27/12/2011 13:38

moonbells you weren't really expecting them to serve at 12pm were you? Couldn't you have just given your child food at that time and then offered more at 3pm?

FellatioNelson · 27/12/2011 13:43

Slight non-Christmas related hijack alert*

A similar thing happened to me once Mega. It was BILs birthday and SIL wanted to throw him a family party but she hates entertaining and having anyone but her own parents in her house-- so she asked us if we would host it at ours, as her house was too small apparently.

She asked me to do a lunch buffet for about 15-18 people and she would give me the money for the food. She couldn't actually help me do any shopping or cooking or cleaning, because she lived a two hour drive away. They wanted to arrive at 10.30 am so they could leave home early and miss the bad motorway traffic, but I said I couldn't really cope with having them there that early and could they please arrive (SIL&BIL, her parents, siblings and DNs etc all en-masse) at nearer to 12.00, as I couldn't get the food done and manage to put the hoover round etc., and get myself looking decent if I had a houseful by 10.30am. Not an unreasonable request, I thought.

So they all turned up at about 12.30-12.45 (so late then Hmm) and said they couldn't possibly eat a thing because they'd all only just had a huge Little Chef breakfast. Shock Because I asked them to come a bit later and they'd decided in advance that they would be stopping for breakfast, so it was my fault basically, that their breakfast had been a very late one, by messing with their plan to arrive at my house at the fuck of CRACKING DAWN.

So the lunch buffet sat there going limp, and being conspicuous by its vast quantity. And to add insult to injury she'd asked me to make a dessert, which no-one was then allowed to eat, because her mother had decided to make BIL a cake and 'she's gone to a lot of trouble' and it wouldn't be fair to her if the children all filled up on my pudding and didn't have room for her mother's cake.'

So I know how you feel. Like you want to run out into the woods and scream like a lunatic at the moon. Grin

StealthPolarBear · 27/12/2011 13:47
Shock Did she even thank you?
FellatioNelson · 27/12/2011 13:51

Oh yes, they were all very grateful. Bizarrely. And we had a nice day in the end - I've learnt to not hold grudges or I'd have exploded years ago. She's lovely really, my SIL, just a bit of a queer one at times, with odd ways. She would not have meant any harm by it at all, and she'd be devastated if she thought I was angry with her. I'm sort of used to it now. Grin

chubbybunny · 27/12/2011 13:51

Arsenic petit fours for the rellies, anyone?

Some of these people are so unbelievably rude and thoughtless that I hope you never invite them again.Angry

You have all shown enormous restraint. I would have been arrested for murder or assault by turkey leftover.

CuriousMama · 27/12/2011 14:02

Sorry moonbells but you sound like one of the people we're talking about Xmas Grin

FellatioNelson · 27/12/2011 14:09

Moonbells it's pretty hard to get a full Crhistmas lunch ready for your own family and guests much before 3, especially if you want to be able to have a reasonably relaxing morning opeing pressies, putting on a bit of make-up etc. Are someone else (who was cooking for you!) should have planned that the whole family should have sat down to an enormous roast at 11.45-12.00 because of one three year old?

You are mad. Just give your child a decent late breakfast then leave her next to the tin of Quality Street and get over yourself woman. Grin

FellatioNelson · 27/12/2011 14:10

Oh FFS that was so full of typos. Hope it makes sense. Confused

pepper09 · 27/12/2011 14:16

We had dinner at my best mates house. She burnt the cauliflower, burnt the Yorkshires (then served them upside down so no one noticed!) Forgot the sprouts and dropped the gravy!!

Best laugh we've had in ages! Grin

clam · 27/12/2011 14:24

moonbells I don't suppose they were expecting your 3yo to go without food for three hours. I daresay they thought that you, as his parents, would ensure he had a snack to keep him going. They were probably more concerned with preparing and serving up a complicated meal for a large number of adults.

And why couldn't you have asked if you could have a glass of white when they were pouring red?

mummymccar · 27/12/2011 14:37

Gosh, some of these are awful!

My Xmas was quite lovely as it was just myself, DP & my dad but halfway through the day my Dad let slip that my Grandpa had had another stroke a week ago. He genuinely had no idea that I didn't know as my mum's family had decided not to tell me as I'm 31 weeks pregnant and had been in hospital with stress related contractions the night before it happened. Nobody to be angry at at all as every one was acting in my best interests but I couldn't really enjoy Xmas after that Sad

purpleknittingmum · 27/12/2011 15:32

what shocking stories!

Now I am a bit of a fussy eater but I am sure when I was a kid I have had red cabbage and I like it, never had it since. If I was sat at that meal with everything in serving bowls like that, I would have taken the opportunity to try a little bit. So what if it isn't normally served with Christmas day dinner (we like yorkshire puddings so have them!) I would've said 'ooo yes, I'll just have a bit first to see if I like it...' can only eat carrots in circles?!

My mum and stepdad come over now on 1 Jan as it is our daughter's birthday, he only eats fresh veg (I am a lazy cook and use frozen most of the time!) and it has to be boiled not steamed the way I cook it! I did a Hmm last year, and made sure he got his veg! When we get meals cooked for us I have never asked for my veg to be steamed or anything!!

custardismyhamster · 27/12/2011 15:49

Oh good god, some people! I prefer my veg steamed like purple does, but I wouldnt even ask how the veg was made at someone else's house, wouldn't cross my mind. If someone had the red cabbage (which I don't like) I'd say ooh that is such a lovely colour, I wish I liked cabbage and could have some.

Megatron do not ring the cowbag MIL

CuriousMama · 27/12/2011 15:53

Now you're confusing me, you're not custycustardo are you?

PigletJohn · 27/12/2011 15:59

DP moans a lot if lunch is not at 1pm so I made salmon and prawn starters with champagne cocktails to stave off the pangs while the turkey and parsnips were finishing.

I think with people who can't cope with a different mealtime you have to do something to keep them happy.

CuriousMama · 27/12/2011 16:06

Or they could cook themselves??? Why the fuck can't people wait a couple of hours for a meal when there's people starving in this world. Makes my blood boil Xmas Angry ........and breathe.