My mother is, shall we say, hard work. She has a very bad temper and if anyone ever goes against her she flies off the handle and will not talk to them for as long as it takes for them to be the ones to make the first move. My dad, my sister and me often have discussions about it and say how horrible she can be to people, but just try our best to keep the peace.
Anyhoo, this afternoon she phoned my BIL who was working with me today to ask if he would go round tonight and help move some furniture, he said fine. Anyway just before we left work I said phone her and ask if it can wait till the morning as me and DH are going round anyway as she was going to look after our two DDs so we could go to the cinema, and we would move everything round before we went. Btw we never ask her to watch DDs at weekend so this is a super rare event. She said that was fine. He did say he would do it if she wanted but still she said no it was fine.
Five minutes later she phoned back to say I had interfered and she wanted it done tonight and to not bother coming round or drop the kids off as she isn't going to look after them anymore and hung up. I was in total shock. Really was. My BIL was quite shocked as well and said that sounds like something my mother would normally do. So AIBU? I thought I was just saving him going round tonight as he would have been walking home after which is a 40minute walk.
Just to add if I don't phone and apologise she won't speak to me until I do. I actually can't stand this bizarre behaviour anymore. You just never know what is going to set her off.