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AIBU?

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Original poster

to think that 'we're free in the afternoon'....

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namechangesforthehardstuff · 05/08/2013 14:07

...does not mean 'arrive at 12.07'?

Dh has just had emergency surgery and is laid up. Have dd (3) at home. Pils have invited themselves over. Not the best relationship at the best of times because they are such selfish arseholes

So dh said 'we're free in the afternoon' so that I wouldn't have to cook for everyone and lo and behold there they are on the doorstep at sevenminutes past noon. FFS Angry

So have just made a sodding frittata for everyone. How do you even spell frittata? Grrrrrrrrr.

And yes probably AIBU. But they brought a fucking cucumber with them. Who turns up at their child's house after he's just had a fucking operation with a fucking cucumber?

It might prove a vegetable temptation too far...

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Wibblypiglikesbananas · 05/08/2013 14:37

Bizarre, bizarre, bizarre! I'd be peed off at the early arrival, but I'd be more peed off that the most they could muster in terms of help was a sodding cucumber (though the jokes you'll get out of it for years to come may well be compensation!).

Flowers? Yes. Chocolates? Yes. Magazines and newspapers for the one who's laid up to read? Yes. Grapes? Yes. A sodding cucumber? WTF? Did you ask them what they had brought if for?

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namechangesforthehardstuff · 05/08/2013 14:43

Quenelle this is a woman who, when asked to pick up some talcum powder to bring for us in the maternity unit, handed it over and said 'HERE'S THE RECEIPT'. There is no shame here. None at all.

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namechangesforthehardstuff · 05/08/2013 14:45

We've given up.oretending they're normal people Wibbly. We just try to space visits very very carefully...

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Lanceolate · 05/08/2013 14:45

Were you not tempted to slice it, arrange it into a fan shape and serve it on a platter with a tomato rose?

Quenelle · 05/08/2013 14:48

Oh dear. Can you reciprocate when you visit them? Hand over something random like a small trowel and say 'this was £4 in Wilkinsons. I have change of a fiver'.

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namechangesforthehardstuff · 05/08/2013 14:48

Holy crap! FIL JUST WASHED UP!

Total man-in-an-emergency washing up as he has only done plates but clearly some acknowledgment of the seriousness of our situation Grin

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namechangesforthehardstuff · 05/08/2013 14:49

Loving trowel and tomato rose...

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kaosak · 05/08/2013 14:49

Brilliant!

I would say afternoon is definitely after 1.30pm-2pm, certainly not midday which let's face it is barely more than morning Grin!

ComposHat · 05/08/2013 14:50

Perhaps with your husband incapacitated they thought the cucumber might be handy for attending to your womanly needs?

PoopMaster · 05/08/2013 14:52

Grin Arf @ this thread!

WillYouDoTheFandango · 05/08/2013 14:53

How funny! I'd have been tempted to top and tail the cucumber and sit and eat it like a banana. If they looked at you askance you could have offered them a bite. Go on OP, outweird them and report back.

Wonderstuff · 05/08/2013 14:53

Fantastic, you made me smile!

CountryWisdom · 05/08/2013 14:53

next time you visit them, present them with a half eaten packet of polos

MintyChops · 05/08/2013 14:53

Imagine if they had brought a pineapple and you had followed your instincts with it......

Quenelle · 05/08/2013 14:54

If I said 'we're free in the afternoon' to my parents my dad would come over at 2pm and my mum would turn up about 5.30pm. They never turn up together so their visits stretch to three times longer than they need to be. And Dad's told us all their news before Mum arrives, which always pisses her off.

Travelledtheworld · 05/08/2013 14:54

Choking with laughter on me afternoon cuppa !
My in laws never bring ANYTHING when they come to visit whereas my parents, (who are both now dead bless them) , used to turn up with a huge box of home grown fruit and veg, cakes, bottle of GIN etc.

DiseasesOfTheSheep · 05/08/2013 15:03

Perhaps with your husband incapacitated they thought the cucumber might be handy for attending to your womanly needs

Oh good god, where do these people come from! Frickin' mental - I mean what thought process led them to "cucumber is the acceptable thing to bring today!" Grin

I'm sorry you're stuck with such folk, but I'm very pleased you shared Grin

giraffesCantWearSuncream · 05/08/2013 15:05

Lmao at cucumber pic appearing

LegoLegoEverywhere · 05/08/2013 15:48

I did intend to offer some soothing advice but I'm too busy crying with laughter over the cucumber.

helenthemadex · 05/08/2013 15:54

perhaps they had read this before they came

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namechangesforthehardstuff · 05/08/2013 15:59

Ah. Cucumber is homegrown. Apparently 'we've had a glut of them. Don't know how to get rid of tthem. I've been making currry with them...'

Now in the hands of a talented chef I think a cucumber curry is probably a light and delicate thing. But allied to MIL and a tin of Vesta...

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PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline · 05/08/2013 16:05

Cucumber curry? The mind boggles.

This thread has cheered me up though so thanks OP! Smile

Trills · 05/08/2013 16:08

You could put cucumber slices over your eyes so that you don't have to look at them.

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namechangesforthehardstuff · 05/08/2013 16:10

I'm hoping to provide a 'Be grateful for your PILs' service on MN Grin although I'm aware there are much worse...

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JaneFonda · 05/08/2013 16:40

Trills :o

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