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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:
SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/01/2021 14:52

Can I say - I have No Objection To Zombie Threads (some of them are brilliant), but I would like a warning.

Someone suggested a banner. Someone suggested a different colour - either would be great!

EggyPegg · 26/01/2021 14:53

I too was wondering how the HSIL had managed to get a skiing trip in. It wasn't until I saw mention of the trip to the UK that I looked at the date properly.

Like others, I don't care that it's a zombie thread, it is magnificent. And it's only got a finite amount of times it can be revived. Soon it'll be full and we shall read about Big and Little Barry no more. Embrace the resurrection!

callmeadoctor · 26/01/2021 14:56

In my mind the OP shagged one of the ski instructors (who obviously fancied the pants off her!). Dumped poor DH but kept the ski chalet as hers.Grin

SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/01/2021 14:57

I did wonder at the having a holiday in a ski resort but my eyes saw the date as January, didn't register 2013!!

Same here - I thought Switzerland (or wherever) must be comparitively safe, what with all those nuns and goatherds keeping to themselves and all . . . Grin

I also don't know how this was ressurected but it @EspressoMonkey is still around it would be great for an update. I suspect MIL and HSIL will have been the source of much more CF'ness and bonkers behaviour since then!

I agree!

OP'S should have a legal obligation to keep feeding us vipers if threads get resurrected!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 26/01/2021 14:58

@callmeadoctor

In my mind the OP shagged one of the ski instructors (who obviously fancied the pants off her!). Dumped poor DH but kept the ski chalet as hers.Grin
But only because her DH refused to tell his horrible mother off, and demand the cost of the sheets from his spoiled brat of a HS.
BingBongToTheMoon · 26/01/2021 15:04

Take photos and send them to your MIL.
They WILL be going home bitching about you.

BingBongToTheMoon · 26/01/2021 15:05

Oh shirt, sorry, I never noticed it was a Zombie.

BeeDavis · 26/01/2021 15:05

I personally wouldn’t have let them stay anyway.. but that’s done now. Get straight on the phone to MIL.

hollyhope · 26/01/2021 15:30

Barry was asleep in his Moses basket
Love it

Fuckingcrustybread · 26/01/2021 15:38

@BeeDavis

I personally wouldn’t have let them stay anyway.. but that’s done now. Get straight on the phone to MIL.
Mil might be a bit surprised at a phone call about the holiday in 2013!!
letsmakethetea · 26/01/2021 15:47

I thought this sounded vaguely familiar as I was reading it - turns out I enjoyed it the first time round! I'd love an update from the OP Grin

billybagpuss · 26/01/2021 15:49

@callmeadoctor

In my mind the OP shagged one of the ski instructors (who obviously fancied the pants off her!). Dumped poor DH but kept the ski chalet as hers.Grin
No her DH sounds lovely
ShinyMe · 26/01/2021 15:59

Oh god, I miss ski resorts! I spent a year as an au pair in a Swiss ski resort in the 90s, and the ski resort staff vibe thing was amazing. Job was crap, but oh my goodness, those ski instructors were FUN. 100% they were trying to shag OP. Ah, happy memories. Smile

ktp100 · 26/01/2021 16:11

@SparkysMagicPiano

Take photos and attach them to the message/email

@ktp100

what would be the point of doing this when the original post is from 2013?

@SparkysMagicPiano

Oh the irony of you going to the trouble of messaging to sarcastically bitch about me not realising it was a zombie thread when YOU missed my next message (directly beneath my first post) pointing out I'd realised it was a zombie thread.

Wind your neck in, hun.

user1471565182 · 26/01/2021 16:15

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh furious theres no update. I tragically actually remembered this thread just from the name.

Peakypolly · 26/01/2021 16:29

HSIS may be a Mum by now! Would be great if she is on here and comes across this thread.

CleverCatty · 26/01/2021 16:29

Looks like OP last posted back in 2013...

SparkysMagicPiano · 26/01/2021 16:30

@ktp100

mea culpa Blush

crosstalk · 26/01/2021 16:32

Agree with PPs. All OPs of spectacular posts should be legally committed to return with updates every year.

This was 2013 so the step sister is now 27. Presumably OP and DH didn't go to graduation or wedding and firmly crossed her off the Christmas list? Even Baby Barry is well out of his Moses basket being currently tutored at home by Big Barry who is on furlough.

Is OP still in her chalet? with DH sequestered in Sydney since he got stuck with quarantining after another business trip? what's happened to the polite ski instructors?

VinylDetective · 26/01/2021 16:55

Well, that was really entertaining. Just the thing for a nasty grey lockdown afternoon.

Lindylindyloo · 26/01/2021 17:02

I don't think you're being unreasonable at all. They behaved really badly!

KittensKnitting · 26/01/2021 17:07

@IrmaFayLear

The worst point about this thread is I remember it as if it were yesterday !! Something has happened to my perception of time Confused
I remember this thread so clearly - I’m shocked it was so long ago Shock.
Crookairroad · 26/01/2021 17:37

I can’t believe this post was 2013. Where does time go.

TonMoulin · 26/01/2021 17:40

They are 20yo they can check if buses and rains are running all on their own.

I’d take photographs of how they left the room and send that to your MIL saying that HSIL ain’t welcome to your house anymore.

TonMoulin · 26/01/2021 17:40

Oh bugger!! It’s a zombie!!

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