To ask the silliest things people have said to you. (Title edited by MNHQ)

[Mightymelon]

Mine’s just told me that when DH and I have a daughter (not anytime soon it would seem) I will have to stop dying my hair as it sets a bad example but it would be fine if we had sons.
She has a daughter, and has been dying her hair since 1972... 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️🙄

Does anyone else’s Mil say rediculous things you have no idea how to respond to or just mine?

Regale me with strange MIL stories so I don’t feel so weirded out 😂😂

As a MIL x4 I'm not offended and would be the first to laugh if one of mine thought I'd said something stupid and put it on here!

what a nasty thread!!

We are talking about moving to live somewhere more rural as we currently live on the doorstep of a huge polluting refinery. My MIL said we’d be better off with the chemicals and fumes rather than take our chances with the toxins from plants and hedges. Funny woman, who disagrees with every decision we’ve ever made.

Not MIL, to even up the thread, but a neighbour some time ago:

"I'm glad we are in a recession, now the young people will know what it's like to struggle, like we did."

WTAF???

She asked whether the baby slept and exP said not at all and she said "why's that my darling? Don't you love your mummy? Do you hate her and want her never to sleep again?" I burst into tears! Breaking up with ex was a double success as I got rid of her too

WHAAAAT????

MIL told me that I was starving DS when he was a newborn because apparently my breast milk wasn’t “nutritional enough” because he didn’t most of the time feeding... she’s a real gem....

"clearly very well meaning women’s mouths" - who just happen to be MILs........

Spent, not didn’t... bloody phone....

We were at a buffet restaurant. DH was at the buffet. MiL told FiL that they had better wait until he came back before they served themselves as I wouldn’t be able to cope on my own. I am a sahm. God knows how she thinks they’ve survived so far.

What LucilleBluth said.

When MIL had just carved a big chunk of plaster out of the wall with a kitchen knife (very helpfully trying to fix a light switch without speaking to us!), my DH kind of lost it at her and then phoned me while I was on the way home from work so that I would get some warning and not just see it when I got home. We were selling the flat and had a viewing booked for that evening, I was 6 months pregnant and he was worried it would upset me

I suggested she go for a walk to get coffee so that DH and I could deal with it. I was not best pleased and didn't really want to have to speak to her until after we'd at least decided what to do.

Her response to him (in email form, so I've seen it!):
"Darling, I'm very worried that crazychemist is abusing you. You clearly wouldn't have been so upset about me helping with the housework if you hadn't been afraid of how she would respond"
She then went on to make various recommendations of who he could report me to or counsellors he could seek advice from.

At least we had a good laugh together reading the email!
(We still haven't sold he flat though)

HI
I’m truly sorry if this upset anyone.
I’ve reported the post and asked if they can either generalise the title or delete the thread.

Our drive way has a hump in it leading up to the wall at the back.
I had parked our new car at the back over the hump.
MIL said she didnt like the new car cos it didnt sit right and was built all wonky.

We were getting a new kitchen fitted.We had some glass doors and some lights to go into the cupboards.MIL tells me I dont need lights in the cupboards because they were oposite a window so I could see what I was getting out.Also no need for a intregal door on fridge because I would make life hard for myself because I wouldnt know where to find it lol.

My Granny owned a Bentley and after my DGF died she employed a chauffeur. She was in the car when they pulled in for petrol, and wound down the window, waved the attendant over and gave him a guinea, saying 'fill her up please and keep the change'. It was 1977. She'd been carrying a guinea in her bag for 5 years after they ceased to be legal tender!

I'll do a FIL one to keep people happy.

I have longish hair. I'd just had DD1 a fortnight before and one of the first things out of his mouth was 'So when are you getting your hair cut into a proper style?'

I asked why I'd have my hair cut.

'Because you can't have long hair now you're a mother.'

No-one had explained that to me at the NCT classes.

Something MIL says with increasing frequency, and which makes my blood run cold (and DH's too, if that helps!)

"I've made a decision - I'm going to have it done / I'm going to buy it."

In recent months, we've had to stop her being conned out of huge sums of money for quite a few things that she doesn't need, but has been persuaded to buy.

Like:

Having all the trees in her front garden cut down because a 'nice lady gardener' knocked on her door and said the work needed doing urgently.

Having a sales rep round who stayed for hours and convinced her she should have a stairlift fitted. She doesn't need one.

Being persuaded to have a whole new bathroom fitted because her nice plumber suggested it as an alternative to replacing a cracked shower screen.

Spending hours reading the dozens of tat catalogues that fall like confetti through her letterbox, and ordering tons of stuff because she believes that she has been 'specially selected as a loyal customer' to receive a discount. This one is particularly hard to stop, as we usually only find out about things when she has to return crap that doesn't fit/doesn't work and we have to take it to the Hermes counter for her.

Just waiting for the next one now...

Good grief, there's nothing wrong with the thread, OP, I blame the heat.
If some people were only intelligent enough to look at other threads if they don't want to join a particular thread.
perhaps I should have a go at those in gardening as my dh does this and I'm not really interested.
Or shock horror, I might just miss that board.

One day I may be a MIL

Maybe I will have the delight of being laughed at on a "Don't older women say stupid shit, especially if I am married to their son thread"

Oh joy!

My MIL said I loved male attention.. because I gave my BIL a cigarette... which he asked me for

Both my MIL and my nan said the reason why my Ds was crying all the time was because I was holding him too much.

Actually no he had CMPA but you know, carry on

OP isn't saying all MILs say stupid things. She's just asking for funny stories about yours. It could just as easily be a 'funny things your dp says'. If your MIL has never said anything ridiculous then just don't contribute to the thread. Some very sensitive MILs people on this thread. Crack on OP

it seems to have touched a nerve on here

A bit of light-hearted fun, there was similar threads about parents, children, or what stupid things posters themselves have said as parents. Nobody got their knickers in a twist! MIL are not a protected species...

" MIL are not a protected species..."

Of course they aren't. They aren't fair game either-to continue your analogy.

And it doesn't say "funny" things. It says "stupid" things. Not sure you'd get away with that for any other group.

When I was a seriously tired new Mum my MIL said

‘oh well, no-one had ever died of sleep deprivation’

I managed not to kill her and spent the rest of the day finding examples of death by sleep-deprivation.