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To tell them to find their own way to the airport in a foreign country

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EspressoMonkey · 20/01/2013 09:30

First of all, sorry, long story and first world problem.

DH, DCs and i live abroad for DH's job. We live in a rented house close to DH's work as it is not really easy for foreigners to buy property where he works. I miss England and our lovely home there, so last year DH bought me a Ski Chalet as a birthday present / thank you for leaving your family and job in England to follow me around the world, present. He insisted it was my chalet, i could decorate it how i wanted etc, do what i wanted with it.

The chalet is in a fabulous ski resort and to me it is very much our home. We spend most weekends there, we do not rent it out as a holiday chalet.

Last year MIL asked whether HSIL and her uni flat mates could visit for a weeks snowboarding holiday. I was reluctant to agree. DH's does not really know his HSis and when she has visited us in other homes she has been very messy (straightens hair over sink leaving behind lots of hair etc etc) and she never helps out at all. Reluctantly i agreed, MIL insisted her friends were nice and they would help out and babysit DCs in exchange for free board.

HSIL and her friends booked plane tickets which meant they landed late at night with no way of getting to the chalet so DH drove a 6 hour round trip to collect them from the airport.

They have been here all week and as i guessed, have been hard work. They have done nothing to help out around the house, not bothered to help with dinner or clean away afterwards, not helped with DCs or bothed to even buy me a bunch if flowers or some chocs to say thank you for having them. We all eat together but they talk amongst themselves and make little conversation.

On Wednesday DH was called back to work with a crisis, leaving DCs, myself and HSIL and her friends. Since then they have been worse, going out at night and getting drunk and returning at 2/3am and waking DCs and i with their noise. Last night things worsened. DCs and i were woken at 3am, i could hear male voices and smelt cigarette smoke. Our house is strictly non smoking, especially as we have a baby. I went into the lounge and interrupted the party. I asked the young men to stop smoking in my home and to please leave as i didn't know who they were. The young men were local lads and were very apologetic for smoking and waking us and explained they didn't know it was a private home. As they left one of HSIL's friends, under her breath, called me a snotty cow. I turned around and politely challeneged her on her comment. She repeated it and called me an old hag too (34 BTW, she is 20).

I went back to bed fuming and in tears. This morning i woke them all up at 8.00am. They are due to fly back home tonight and i assume were expecting DH or me to take them to the airport. I explained that because DH was not here and because we had had a lot of snow lately and the minibus was snowed in, they could make their own way back to the airport via public transport. I was not driving them 6 hours round trip. They had 12 hours to get back to the airport themselves. The journey is a bus and two train rides and takes a total of 3.5 / 4 hours. An hour later i heard the door bang and went to their rooms. They have left and take all their stuff. They have not said good bye. The room where the two girls were sleeping has been trashed. Make up; lipstick, foundation and other stuff has been smeared into my beautiful new White Company bed sheets. It doesn't look like an accident as it is on all the pillows, duvet and sheet.

I phoned DH at work and told him what had happened. It was a broken line and DH was v. busy at work so i know he wasn't really aware of the whole story as it was hardto talk. But he questioned whether i had checked they had money to get to the airport and whether the trains were running. I hadn't. I have checked since and the trains are running. But have i done the right thing? AIBU?

OP posts:
MrsKoala · 25/02/2013 15:07

Hilarious. Grin sounds like a sit com. Will DH bring it up with MIL? Just think you could have them visiting for a dirty weekend of skiing and skinny dipping!!

PessaryPam · 25/02/2013 15:59

With a hot tub naturally.

JengaBlock · 25/02/2013 16:03

Barry is a classic!

CSIJanner · 25/02/2013 16:06

Can i just stand forward and ask for this entire thread to be placed in the classics please mods? The story and twists are fantastic!

I did think HSIL wouldn't have shown her face but I would have last an invoice and the entire group of girls were as cheeky as f*.

As for Big Barry and mini-Barry - my gasted is flabbered! Does Big Barry look like Harry Styles as he also has a penchant for the older ladies...?

EspressoMonkey · 25/02/2013 16:10

We do not have a hot tub, thank God. Have a pool and sauna though. Oh dear God i can just see it now. "AIBU to think that MIL and her toy boy should wear bathing costumes when using our pool and sauna?" Most people here do use saunas naked. DH and i are prudes though and have a strick code of no nakedness, apart from when we are alone of course!

OP posts:
dinkystinky · 25/02/2013 16:13

ROFL!

LemonBreeland · 25/02/2013 16:17

Wow this really is becoming sitcomesque. I also think it should be in classics.

EspressoMonkey · 25/02/2013 16:18

Big Barry is not unattractive. Which makes the situation more Hmm. MIL does not look good for her ages.

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DeepRedBetty · 25/02/2013 16:23

Well I really wasn't expecting that! Another vote for Classics here... if Ruth Jones does MN she could borrow some of this for the next series of Stella Grin

Tee2072 · 25/02/2013 16:31

::mouth open at latest update::

BiddyPop · 25/02/2013 16:34

So, when are you going to restock your cellar at the chalet, so that MIL can come to visit with BF Barry (and will you have to provide a cot for Baby Barry)?!!

Well done on your forbearance in so many ways this weekend!! (I'd have been shrieking about the chalet, and then either falling around the place laughing at Barry or wouldn't be able to hide the shock at him (which probably depends on the outcome of the shrieking and if there was wine with lunch)).

diddl · 25/02/2013 16:42

There used to be a series called Soap-anyone remember it?

"Confused? You won't be, after this week's episode of...Soap."

"MIL does not look good for her ages."-both her real & admitted ones??!!Grin

Bobyan · 25/02/2013 16:42

Thoughts of Barry and mil sitting naked in your sauna. Boak.

sicutlilium · 25/02/2013 16:45

[imagines weekend at Chalet Espresso in which Big Barry cops off with SIL in the sauna and OP is left consoling MIL with DH's champagne and minding Baby Barry]

QOD · 25/02/2013 16:51

Sooooooo gutted that you didn't comment to bigger Barry about "your dad this and your dad that"

Haha would have been hilarious!

Tee2072 · 25/02/2013 16:51

I did have that thought, diddl. Grin

Whocansay · 25/02/2013 16:53

I seriously hope that you aren't going to let them abuse your facilities? The image of you MIL and Barry going at it is not one you want in your head, even if they looked amazing! You can clean the pool / sauna, but they don't, as yet, do brain bleach.

Grin
pigsDOfly · 25/02/2013 17:14

I remember Soap diddl. I think I remember this episode as well, or something similar.

Sounds like the new BF has serious oedipus issues. Ew.

MIL sounds nuts.

Not sure I'd have let HSIL's behaviour be brushed aside as easily as you have OP. But then I'm probably not as forbearing as you.

EspressoMonkey · 25/02/2013 17:23

Big Barry and Baby Barry are not stepping foot in my Chalet.

Had a long chat with DH. Big Barry met MIL in January, so very new relationship, yet Big Barry was keen to meet DH. Seems strange. DH is very worried about the situation. He is having Big Barry investigated. On that note i think i had better withdraw from the thread for now.

OP posts:
EspressoMonkey · 25/02/2013 17:26

Whocansay LOL at brain bleach

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JessieMcJessie · 25/02/2013 17:26

You couldn't make this up! TBH, I'd forgive HSIL everything in light of the Barry and BabyBarry situation at home.

diddl · 25/02/2013 17:29

He's having his Mum's boyfriend investigated?

For what?

Bad taste in women?

SoleSource · 25/02/2013 17:31

Yanbu they seem vile! The cunts! Grrr

HorribleMother · 25/02/2013 17:48

(sorry for shameless) .

pluCaChange · 25/02/2013 18:18

I am often impressed by MNers' powers of exposition, but that update was a masterpiece! Very suggestive, yet it left all the OMGs and speculation to others.

Bravo!

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