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crazy stories from when you met in-laws' for 1st time (funny)

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pinkiepie1 · 06/02/2017 16:20

Just was wondering if anyone else had any funny stories from when they met in laws for first time or if I just have all the strange luck lol

So years ago when first went round to new boyfriends house (we were teens, he still lived with parents) for the first time he told me that his dad worked nights and that I needed to be quiet... Fair enough.
Bout an hour later I needed a drink and asked to get a glass of water, got to the kitchen found the glasses just as im about to take a sip their huge cat jumps on the counter making me shriek and smash the glass on the floor.
Next thing bf father runs down the stairs completely naked holding a golf club.
Well we all stand in silence me covering my eyes and bf dad going red and running back upstairs.

Does anyone else have any embarrassing in law stories?
Im poorly with horrible cold could do with a few laughs.
Thanks xx

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DearMrDilkington · 06/02/2017 18:00

told her to stop being silly and she replied with "Why don't you just call me a twat?"

I'm crying with laughterGrin. Although I think I would have died on the spot, what a thing to come out withGrin!!

NeedsAsockamnesty · 06/02/2017 18:11

My daughters ex once arrived at ,y house and let himself in (was not expected) to find me for some reason almost naked and doing weird stuff on a wii board.

Thirtyrock39 · 06/02/2017 18:14

Was at inlaws really over heated house, fainted in front of everyone cos was so hot - everyone assumed I was preggers (wasn't) -and when I came round mil was loosening my trousers as she thought that would help and then made me sit in the corner on a chair facing the wall to 'cool down'

TroysMammy · 06/02/2017 18:16

amusedbush fanny like a dropped lasagne Grin Grin Grin

notmymistake · 06/02/2017 18:22

I've nc for this as it's somewhat identifying. We met at Thanksgiving (some of DH's family are American), along with other guests. After the meal, a chocolate fountain was set up. Some of us discovered that if you put grapes in the very top part (where the chocolate comes out) they bob around amusingly. Very thankfully, I wasn't the one who put the last grape in. It destabalised the pump, and as a result chocolate was sprayed around the room - the table cloth was covered, and the floor and furniture were definitely hit. It did break the ice!

amusedbush · 06/02/2017 18:25

TroysMammy

Grin
Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 06/02/2017 18:28

The first time I met my mil I ran into her on the landing wearing nothing but a teeny tiny towel (she wasn't meant to be there). The second, 'official' meeting my mil was so drunk she fell off of a bar stool.

Talcott2007 · 06/02/2017 18:35

My plane was very delayed on my 1st visit to meet the ILS so by the time DP and I arrived at their house it was really late and they were about to go to bed - lean in for the typical enthusiastic European cheek kissing greeting and in process FIL's dressing gown comes undone revealing that he is not a fan of pj's!!

Andrewofgg · 06/02/2017 18:39
  1. I knocked on the door, it was answered by future-MIL with an iron in her hand with no plug on it.

"You must be Andrew - can you fix a plug?"

"Yes"

"Come in then".

If I couldn't fix a plug perhaps I'd still be single.

amusedbush · 06/02/2017 18:41

Snoopysimaginaryfriend

Are you my brother's girlfriend? That sounds like the behaviour of my mother! Grin

SnugglySnerd · 06/02/2017 18:48

The first time I met my fil was at a football match. I'd already had a few lunchtime pints with dh and future fil bought more before the match and at half time. By the second half I was plastered and shouting and swearing at the opposition.
Luckily fil was quite impressed by this behaviour and we have been to many, many matches together since!

Cocolepew · 06/02/2017 18:51

We went for a meal. Future mil asked if we were late because we were having sex. We weren't late but had been shagging 😀
She then asked if I had any Papal blood in me (shes a NI protestant).
Then at the end of the meal declared she didn't like me and left.
She wasn't too happy when we informed her we were getting married after 3 weeks together.
We hate each other still.

Doublemint · 06/02/2017 18:52

Flew to another country (long haul flight) with my boyfriend to meet his dad and stepmum when I was a teenager.

The first morning my boyfriend goes for a massive shit in the loo, showers and goes downstairs (he didn't tell me about the shit). I get up, go for my morning wee and flush.... nothing happens. I panicked a bit and flushed again and again. The toilet bowl fills with water right to the very top. I realise I should probably stop flushing now.

Creep downstairs to find boyfriend and tell him what's happened. He discloses about his giant shit. His dad appears wondering what we are skulking in the hallway for as he's done pancakes for breakfast. My boyfriend in a really "this is a total cover story for my gf" voice says he's done a big shit but for some reason i have broken the toilet . He even said "I know it looks like this was Doublemint, because she's just come out the bathroom but I assure you it was me."Angry

His dad had to get an actual plunger and unclog the toilet. All before breakfast.

They blatantly all thought it was me and the more my boyfriend tried to convince them the bigger hole he dug.

PeppaPigTastesLikeBacon · 06/02/2017 18:53

Not the first time but the second (which makes this worse??)
She came up to speak to me at a sort of family event at her dads house. I asked her who the fuck she was and then went a puked in the toilet (I was hammered 🍹).
Luckily she doesn't remember it

StumblyMonkey · 06/02/2017 19:03

When my ex-DP met my parents for the first time they'd not long been back from a holiday to Italy and had taken to have a flaming shot of Sambuca with a coffee bean on the top (a bit Hyacinth Bouquet I know).

Anyway we retired to the living room after dinner, my DM handed him his Sambuca; he didn't quite have a stable hold of it and it dripped on to his hand and then caught alight!

He was always quite crap in a crisis so just jumped up and ran around the lounge screaming and flapping his hand around. It wasn't painful (the fire was just burning the alcohol off, it wasn't burning his hand) he was just panicking and his panicking was very high pitched.

DM and I were shouting "Put it under the tap!" through laughter and tears rolling down our eyes Grin

FurryLittleTwerp · 06/02/2017 19:06

The first time I met my then BF's father, we were staying with his DF & DSM. We were both students & it was the holidays.

The first evening he barged into the room I was staying in, when BF happened to be in there with me (we were just cuddled up on the bed, fully clothed) & proceeded to have the nastiest, most vituperative rant I have ever heard at him for a good twenty-thirty minutes, all about his various shortcomings & profligacy with money Hmm he was crap with money & DF would just bail him out

Every couple of minutes he'd say to me, in a completely normal voice, "Sorry you have to hear this, Furry," & then carry on. He wouldn't let me leave the room, either - I was mortified. Confused

DappledThings · 06/02/2017 19:10

Not me but a friend brought her now Exh home the first time and her dad secretly filled his coat pockets with the family silver so when he put on to leave he could accuse him of stealing it all. Not sure that joke set things off very well

StrawberryShortcake32 · 06/02/2017 19:31

Love all these stories.

My DPs mother invited me to stay for dinner once. Knowing I was a vegetarian she served up this rice bowl thing she made with chopped up bits of bacon in. "I can't be bothered to make 2 of these, you can just pick the meat out" she said . I never accepted a dinner invitation again.

We were shopping in Debenhams once and I tried on this dress, she said "once you lose that tummy it'll look lovely on you".

Thank goodness we aren't together any more!

TheCakes · 06/02/2017 19:36

I just got disgracefully drunk.

caz323 · 06/02/2017 19:43

My very first meeting with my first serious BF's parents was memorable. A very long time ago now but I've never forgotten it.

After a nice meal, we moved to the sitting room where there was a nice open fire. After a few minutes, BF's mum gets up to stoke the fire. As she bent forward to the fire, she let off the longest, loudest fart. OMG, I've never tried to describe a fart before, but it wasn't like a little raspberry noise. That would've been embarrassing enough. No, this one had to be THE mother of all farts! It had volume and duration!

And bless her, she handled it so well by saying "do pardon the wind"! How I managed to stop myself from collapsing in hysterics, I don't know.

Rachel0Greep · 06/02/2017 19:47

proceeded to have the nastiest, most vituperative rant I have ever heard at him for a good twenty-thirty minutes

I read that first as vituperative FART Grin

DeathByMascara · 06/02/2017 20:05

Dh & I met in Australia when I was having a year out. We spent the best part of a year over there together, then his visa was revoked & he came home a couple of months before I did. We missed each other horribly & spent loads of time on the phone, email, etc. We also exchanged nudes, first and last time.

When I flew back to the UK, i went to his parents place first. First time for meeting them, just off a 26 flight - all went well! A couple of days later however, I decided to get some photos printed. Used one of those diy machines in ASDA to print them off, but the machine froze. While one of my nudey pics was on the screen. Mortified, I started giggling with my hands over the screen, which drew the attention of MIL. DH at this point also had his hands over the screen to protect my modesty. Undeterred, MIL attempted to peel our hands away from the screen to see what we were covering up. She eventually saw me in all my tits-out glory and shuffled off to continue shopping.

Nude pics are bad. Don't do them.

MichaelSheensNextDW · 06/02/2017 20:09

Doublemint my story is horribly similar, except it was me Blush

PIL lived not far outside Oxford and as they were expecting us at suppertime we had lunch in Oxford itself and bought a few bits and pieces in the Covered Market.

Very taken with the huge fresh raspberries, plums and figs, I had a lovely feast in the car, feeling very smug about all the vitamins.

Met PIL-to-be, liked them, all went well. Everyone went to bed at a reasonable hour.

As soon as I lay down to sleep, I felt the most ominous shifting in my guts, and realised with horror I was going to have to use the bathroom.

Nothing so excruciating as trying to pass esssentially a cow pat volume of hot, soft poop - with accompanying bovine wind - in the utterly silent, middle-of-nowhere, immaculate bathroom next to PILs bedroom. Giving birth to two children with only gas and air was far less painful.

On flushing - oh, cringe - the toilet bowl filled to the point where I thought it would overflow. And didn't go away. So I'm using the toilet brush as a plunger, in agonies of shame at realising PILs must be able to hear everything through the adjoining wall.

Eventually the blockage clears and thankfully I find bleach in the cupboard and ensure everything is restored to civilisation, leaving the window open a crack to deal with the poisonous stench.

Coming downstairs to breakfast in the morning, FIL claps DH on the back, saying "Still producing the biggest turds known to mankind, I see!" and to me, "How ever do you put up with him, we heard him banging around clearing up the evidence in the night!"

Eleanora · 06/02/2017 20:21

Hilarious MichaelSheen!

Continuing the toilet theme... The first time I stayed with the ILs I didn't realise how security-conscious they were (locks on doors, windows, security systems everywhere). I had to use the bathroom rather urgently and afterwards needed to open the window to try to freshen the air.

The second I opened the window a loud burglar alarm started, at which the entire family (future MIL, FIL, DH) came sprinting up the stairs and piled into the bathroom to shut off the alarm, only to be confronted with a delightful aroma.

Excruciating...

tasteslikechicken · 06/02/2017 20:22

Was a wreck meeting my now DW's parents for first time at Sunday lunch. Suggested she drop me at reading services and I'd buy a book to read and she could pick me up on way back. No deal. Got to quite grand house and sat down for roast beef etc. I think I'm quite well mannered and considerate. The nerves were in charge though and I just got my head down to busy myself with something to do and ate my lunch. With one roast spud and two carrots left, now MIL said to FIL, "would you say grace please, Keith" I looked up to see all he family waiting patiently to start. The shame!