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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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tasteslikechicken · 06/02/2017 20:27

My wife's would read. On a ferry to a remote part of Scotland to meet OH's parents I decided I looked a bit scruffy in leggings. Decided to change into jeans. Fetched them from luggage just as ferry docked. Proceeded to take them off, just as I was getting feet through Jean legs DH peeps horn and pulls up alongside parents who were enjoying an evening stroll along the shore road. DHs father got quite the eyeful!

RainyDayBear · 06/02/2017 20:27

DP and I had been friends for a long time when we got together. He was briefly living back at his parents too. I stayed the night and he went to work - went to let myself out and found the door locked! Had to wait for his Mum to get up, made awkward conversation with her for a bit and then left!!! We have never discussed it.

Loubymoo27 · 06/02/2017 20:31

My now dh was quite jetlag geddit after flying home from Brazil. He was telling me and my mum a story about a women who became I'll on the plane but instead of saying spasm he said orgasm! 12 years later and we still wind him up about it!!!

lurkingnonparent · 06/02/2017 20:33

My mil is basically a lovely version of hyacinth bouquet. She knew I had done a degree in theology so hoping to impress the first thing she ever said to me the moment we met was "so, what do you think of women priests?" It was obviously going to go one of two ways. We disagreed on that and I was panicked but reader I married him and she is a lovely mil (apart from being wrong about women priests, which are a brilliant thing in my opinion).

FurryLittleTwerp · 06/02/2017 20:58

Arf at "vituperative fart"

Rachel0Greep · 06/02/2017 22:04

Sorry Furry

Kathrino · 06/02/2017 22:17

I went to stay with DP (now DH) and his parents for the weekend now long after we got together. After a really unsettled nights sleep in the brand new spare bed they'd bought for the occasion, I woke up to find that I'd managed to crack the wooden bed frame in my sleep and the bed had collapsed under me. DH's parents said they heard some strange noises in the night and I'm sure they think we broke the bed shagging (we didn't at all!)

AstrantiaMajor · 06/02/2017 22:23

We were teens when we met. Once a fortnight I would go to his house. Sit in the living room to watch tv. Parents would stay in the kitchen. When it was time for me to leave they would call out, "goodnight dear'. I never actually saw them until we had been dating for 6 months.

MermaidTail7 · 06/02/2017 22:25

First serious boyfriend at uni... First summer holidays apart...I travel down to spend a week with staying with him at his family home where he lives with his DM...within an hour of meeting hid mother she takes me to one side and tells me she doesn't like me, and that I shouldn't get too comfortable as she prefers his last girlfriend who her son "will get back together with eventually".... She wasn't wrong mind....

MrsFrisbyMouse · 06/02/2017 22:25

Age 17. Trip to local theatre to see Lady Chatterley's Lover with full frontal nudity. I was sat between my future parents in law.

MaidOfStars · 06/02/2017 22:27

The first meeting, maybe a year in, overnight at the IL's house:

My MIL served me tea in a china cup and saucer. It was the source of much amusement over the years, from her strictly builders-tea-in-a-mug family. She always claimed to not know what came over her. Felt like a right dick sipping from this while everyone else wrapped their hands around big mugs.

The next morning, she wandered into the spare room and surprised me sleeping. Having assumed I would have bedded down with my now-husband, she apologised and walked out, the parting shot being 'I knew you were going to be a nice girl'.

She died a few years ago and I miss her a lot. The cup and saucer story formed the basis of the eulogy at her funeral.

EyeStye · 06/02/2017 22:31

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perfectlybroken · 06/02/2017 22:39

Naked vicar, on the landing, twice. Nuff said.

calli335 · 06/02/2017 22:43

First met mine at a restaurant and after saying the initial hello, they then completely ignored me for the whole meal! Can remember thinking perhaps I should just get up and leave

icelolly99 · 06/02/2017 22:57

Sat down to dinner and was served with a large, plain portabello mushroom and a whole leek. Both boiled. Nothing else.

My husband thought I'd gone quite mad after finding me in fits of giggles after reading this.....hilarious!

enfru · 06/02/2017 23:02

Thinking back over the years I've never done well with initial meetings of BFs parents
Very first boyfriends mum called me by his exgfs name for the entirety of our short 6 month romance.

BF at age 16- went round to his house and met his parents who then proceeded to give us both the birds and the bees talk as they were going out leaving us alone for a couple of hours. His dad even said to BF "I know you want to get your leg over but it isn't happening today"!!!

Exhs family were ok to start with- we lived with his dad for a bit as we had just left uni. Once I had a day off midweek from work, decided to have a bath, fell asleep with the door open, dad came home from
work early- I didn't hear him and he saw me in all my glory as the bathroom was at the top of the stairs.
MIL hated me, first time we met she spent the whole time talking about and petting her baby- my now exh.
When we got engaged she didn't talk to him for a month, when our son was born she insisted on coming to stay at our house but then proceeded to say my exh had abandoned her as I ended up being induced so he was at hospital with me and she was at our house alone. She then wanted to go shoe shopping instead of coming to see DS.

UnbornMortificado · 06/02/2017 23:07

The first I met my partners parents I was getting kicked out a psychiatric hospital for having sex with their son.

We are now married with a baby on the way, I love my in-laws. Very understanding.

weeonion · 06/02/2017 23:30

Dp and I had been out clubbing until 8am and in our somewhat "enhanced" state decided it would be a good idea to head to my folks to introduce him to my family.
Just before we got there, dp took cold feet and with a comedown kicking in, took refuge in their hedge. I was standing persuading him it would be ok when my grandmother and other relatives arrived. Dp stuck his head out of the hedge and said hello. My father came out to see what the commotion was about. My mother for some unknown reason decided to come and coax him out with a very large glass of whiskey.
He downed that and left the hedge.
My grandmother wouldn't talk to him as she thought he looked a bit "fenian" (horrific bigoted northern Irish protestant) so my father and brothers lept to his defence. My mother kept dp supplied with whiskey in the kitchen whilst major family argument ensued in living room. My father chucked grandmother out and to celebrate invited dp out to his garden shed to sample some of his home brewed Clove rock poteen. Lethal stuff and normally sparingly shared at funerals and wakes. Both of them came in sloshed, having bonded over nearly a full bottle. Dp told my father that he should be very proud to have such a sexy daughter, that I hadvshagged quite a few blokes and that my mum was a bit of alright too. I looked on in horror but after a few dreadful seconds of silence, my father burst out laughing. Dp ran off and chucked up in my mothers yukka plant's pot and ended up crying in an embrace with my body building older brother.

For some reason, my family fell in love with him that day and still do to this day.

SundialShadow · 07/02/2017 01:46

Not DH but and ex-bf. About 20 years ago, we went home to his parents for the weekend. It was my 1st time meeting them. We pulled up the drive in the dark and parked in front of a large old house. His parents came out of a side door. I said something to the effect of "fab place.... which apartment is yours?" After a few seconds stony silence, his Dad told me the whole place (a massive freaking manor house) was theirs.

One summer I stayed with the PILs for a week so they could get to know the baby better. It was baking hot that summer. One day, alone in the house when they were both out at work, I got out of the shower and just stuck the baby on boob and sat on the bed as he fed away. My FIL chose that day to nip(!!) home from work to take me out to lunch. The bedroom door was wide open.....

It took me years to be able to look him in the eye again.

amusedbush · 07/02/2017 09:03

My grandmother wouldn't talk to him as she thought he looked a bit "fenian" (horrific bigoted northern Irish protestant)

My grandad is the same way. So, I married a lapsed Catholic and took his Irish surname

VocabularyLikeASailor · 07/02/2017 10:05

It wasn't the 1st time I'd met my in laws but I'd been with DP for a few months when his parents went away for a week (we were 17 at the time). DP had a tattoo on his back a couple of months ago that his mum knew nothing about. I'd gotten up early to clean the house for when they got back, they arrived back at roughly 11am. DP is still in bed his mum goes up to wake him. All we hear down stairs is "what the fuck is that on your back" me & his dad downstairs were crying with laughter. She comes down & says sorry for the profanity but it's fucking awful. 17 years later & we get on brilliantly xxx

weeonion · 07/02/2017 10:07

Amusedbush - she was horrified when I gave my daughter's Irish names. She never referred to them using their real names but used what she considered to be "English" versions.
She NEVER spoke to my dp ever. Totally blanked him. My folks eventually went NC with her over her attitudes.

amusedbush · 07/02/2017 10:12

weeonion

Sadly my grandad was diagnosed with dementia a couple of years ago so he still spouts his sectarian nonsense but he has no understanding of who we are. I really struggle because I'm angry at his views but I can't be angry with him anymore, if that makes sense?

Bigfishlittlefishtwoeggsinabox · 07/02/2017 12:11

I'll set the scene.
Febuary 14th 2010, It was a bitterly cold night with a slight damp breeze in the air, i had been with dp for only 4 months and it was the best our first valentines day together, we were both excited and dp had planned a special evening for us ' movies and dinner' but I thought to myself 'no big' make it extra special .

So I took myself off to ann summers to buy the sexiest outfit I could find, happy with my purchase I got myself all dolled up in stockings, suspenders, furry handcuffs the whole shebang.

6pm I start getting glammed up to go round to dps house in my sexy police officer get up, Covering what's left of my modesty with a trench coat.

I get to dps knock on the door, coat wide open with lube, handcuffs and whipped cream in my, expecting my sexy dp to open the door and ravish me, ha no, who opens the door? Yep mil who dp had called to come round as he's back had gone and she was the only one with a key.

I have never been so embarrassed in my life and to this day her pet name for me is "officer big"

Camomila · 07/02/2017 12:23

I cried

First time I met DHs parents we went out for a meal and the back to theirs for a cup of tea. They put the to on and the last half an hour of titanic was on. 'Nuff said really.

They were very understanding though as apparently everyone cries at titanic.

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