to want to twat my mil over the head?

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She made a lovely roast beef dinner and then proceeded to not only hold her knife wrong, but also used a spoon. A fucking spoon to shovel it into her mouth.

ugh. took her about 5 minutes to eat the mountains of food as well.

Someone eating their dinner with a spoon would put you off eating yours? Really?

Someone eating their dinner with a spoon would put you off eating yours? Really?

Someone eating their dinner with a spoon would put you off eating yours? Really?

Whoops :-)

Stay at home and make your own roast dinner. Talk about ingratitude!

Does anyone remember spoon and pusher sets for babies? Maybe you should get her one of those...

poor woman having such a nasty judgemental DIL.

How bizarre. I'd have confiscated her dinner and told her she can have it back when she can eat like a big girl

Is she very old? Could she be going a bit senile? Though you'd think a woman who made a beef dinner could eat it sensibly.

Worra make that a ham hock

She's not old at all. no idea why she did it.

I am not horrible. This was a light hearted thread but as ever the PO are on form

just so you know I love my mil to bits she just occasionally does things that make me want to scream. along with using a spoon today she also says "I'm not being funny but" and "can I just say..."

I wasn't being a bitch. I just found it weird that she used a spoon.

I answered YANBU without reading the post. The desire to twat MIL over the head is the default state of mind of any of our species who has one.

It is weird if she's never done it before. Especially stuffing a tea towel down her top to boot. I didn't rtft before I replied thinking this was lighthearted and funny. Well, you did post in AIBU- should have put it in chat

NBU at all.

My BIL eats like a starving alsation. He attackes all the food on his plate and hacks it into smallish pieces then hooks both knife and fork under some food and sort of throws it upwards, towards his face. He then chases it back down to the plate.

It looks weird, his head bobbing up and down, dog chewing, slurping noises followed by the back of his hand being dragged over the bottom of his face before he starts again.

He once inhaled his Sunday lunch so quickly that the other guests hadn't even picked up their irons before he enquired after seconds. His mum, who was just bringing her own plate of meat to the table, handed him her plate and turned back to carve herself some more. He had finished off all the roasties and parsnips before the last 2 guests and his mum had got a look in.

So I don't think you are being U in any way, just a bit shocked and in need of a place to leave the 'Wassat?' feeling

My friend's ex DIL once tweeted from her room, on Boxing Day, about how boring her Christmas was. This after eating a dinner her MIL had cooked, all other family visiting and enjoying themselves. She stayed in her room complaining online all evening. Never lifted a finger to help for the four days she stayed either. Oh to be a Mother-in-Law!

How can you hold a knife the wrong way? What is the right way? Surely you just hold the thing so you can cut your food/shove it on your fork

NoMama starving alsation.

Poor MIL op, at least she was using cutlery!

What does dh say?

Holding a knife like you would a pen is wrong

Who decided that?

Oh come on... OP is clearly meaning no malice. If you cannot tell this is light hearted i think you actually may be as annoying as the mil in question.

Get a sense of humour people, FGS.

I might add, it works both ways. Dils are tolerated at best most of the time too...

Needless to say, I have a mil from utter hell.

What KeepOn said. Don't make the OP put the dreadful "lighthearted" in the thread title. It shocks me a bit that some of the old-timers have gone PO too.

YANBU OP. It's very weird. But not as bad as my uncle who has been known to ignore the serving spoons on the table and help himself to seconds from the veg with the fork he's been eating from. Dirty fecker.

Was it perhaps a gravy-based spoon usage? ie a device to enable consumption of enough jus?

Although even that would appear a tad obsessive.

I think that's odd if she doesn't usually do it.

I remember mopping up gravy with bread or using a spoon to consume the rest of the gravy after eating the meat & veg of a stew with a knife & fork.

Never after any other meal though.

OP-you should have asked her if she'd run out of forks

Who decided that?