MIL and a Wet Kipper

[piedpiper4]

Just to say....I know that people have a lot of more pressing worries than this, but humour is needed before I explode please!!!

I have the dreaded MIL from hell staying with us at the moment. After 25 years of living hell, I can safely say that evil does exist, and at this present moment it has its feet on my sofa!

Lunch time today, my dd(7) was eating her soup, when Granny suddenly stands up saying she's going to get a spoon. DD tells her she has a spoon for her yoghurt, to which Granny replies that she needs another spoon so that she can eat some of DD's soup!

Even though I asked MIL not to touch DD's soup, she still proceeded to get her spoon and eat some! (I'd left the room when she did this, and DD was shocked that an adult would act this way...have had 'the chat' with DD and said it's OK to say no to Granny). A chat will be had with MIL later, but think it would be less than positive to act at this second!

OK, so my dilemma is this......whilst I don't condone violence, WIBU to hit MIL around the head with a wet kipper or some other Benny Hill esque stunt?! Jokes please, because I really feel I might explode.

Thank you!

I'm likely to stab your hand with my fork if you try to take food from my plate....my sister's a nightmare for it....YANBU-slap her hard!

Put it like this ER: Granny came for Xmas last year and didn't bring a thing, not even a xmas card or presents for DD (her only grandchild) - luckily I had suspected this might happen and had pre-wrapped something and just put it under the tree. So no I can say with absolute certainty that she wouldn't share a thing. There is a lot more to this, which is why I have reacted so strongly to this today. Sorry for dragging everyone in, I just needed something fun to cheer me up.

Can you do the "I'm squishing your head" thing when she's not looking. Childish, but works for me on occasion when people are getting on my wick

YANBU OP, If you tell someone to please not do something that directly affects your child, then they better goddamn listen or leave.

Perhaps dd would be hungry still if she didn't get the full bowl of soup. It is direspectful and undermining or the MIL.

Shesparkles- I'm with you, thats exactly what a fork is for, IMO.

Yes, give her nothing but soup, but serve it with a fork!

It sounds very odd behaviour to get up from the table, help yourself to a spoon from the host's kitchen, and start eating soup out of another person's bowl! I could understand nicking a chip or something off a plate - but actually putting your spoon that had been in your mouth in another person's half-eaten soup . That's just incredibly rude and bizarre. Not to mention the whole taking food off a child thing.

In all seriousness, do you think she's getting confused or forgetful, or behaving out of character? Might be something to keep an eye on.

It's one thing to try a spoonful of soup if it's offered.

But to take it when you have been expressly asked not to - especially when it is from a child - is wrong. Especially if it is by an MIL who feels entitled to do whatever she wants in life in general and has form for this sort of stuff. Do you know how much of the soup she had - was it a few mouthfuls or half of it or more?

Definitely think you need to encourage your dd to share all of her granny's favourite meals - and be there to back her up if her granny refuses to share 'No no, it's alright MIL, I told her to share your pudding as you shared her soup, it's only fair'. And for you and dh to share it too so that you MIL gets very little of whatever it was she liked.

Plus other strategies to stop her from doing it again. The tempting one to dream about is accidentally pushing the soup towards her to share it so hard that it slops all over MIL but then you would end up with the mess to clean up so that only works at MIL's house and not your own :o