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AIBU or is my FIL a massive CF?!

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Crummyfunnymummy · 19/02/2019 20:43

Ok, so this happened a while back but I’ve never forgiven him! (Though this is meant to be a bit lighthearted). While I was on maternity leave with DC2 PIL asked if they could stay the night. They live a couple of hours away and were visiting relatives who live another 5 hours drive from us (so a 7 hour journey for them). They wanted to stay the night here to break up the journey. Fine with me. My MIL does loads for us and we get on well. My FIL is fond of food so I bought in croissants and posh jam so I could make them a nice breakfast. I should also add that on Mat leave I survived on sugar! Looking after my 2 DC during the day while my DH was at work and BF my DC2 during the night meant I was exhausted. So I had bought myself a delicious triple chocolate muffin and was saving (and very much looking forward to) it for my breakfast the next day. My PIL were going to stay the night, get up, have brekkie and get on their way. I got up and asked my FIL if he would like me to make him a croissant. Ooh yes, says he. Would you like it warmed?, I ask. Oh yes, lovely thanks. I set about croissant warming. Erm, could I have a piece of toast while I’m waiting?, asks FIL. Of course!! I make him some toast with aforementioned posh jam, then a few minutes later a lovely big warm croissant. Anyway, they get on their way. DH goes to work. I run around tidying up, giving DC their brekkie etc. Finally I sit down at about 10.30 with a cuppa and my lovely delicious triple chocolate muffin (I’ve not eaten yet. Muffin is my breakfast. I know, I know, not the healthiest but hey ho, I’ve been up 2 or 3 times to BF in the night and have a looooong day ahead). I open breadbin. Muffin is not there. I look in the cupboards (has somebody moved it maybe??!) Nope. Not in cupboards either. Am starting to panic now. Where is delicious triple chocolate muffin?!! In desperation I ring my DH. Have you eaten it? Have you hidden it? Er no, my DF ate it, was his reply. WTAF??????? cry I. Why? Why did you say he could have it?! I am distressed. DH knows this muffin is key to the day’s survival. Why has he wantonly given it away? Apparently he didn’t give it away. No. My FIL ate it and then told him afterwards - having obviously gone through my cupboards and breadbin on a food hunt!!! Which actually is (a) rude to do in someone’s house I think and (b) just greedy! I’d already made him a croissant (warmed!) and toast (with posh jam!) and it’s not that they hung around for ages after breakfast and got hungry again. They got on their way not long after breakfast. DH said it wasn’t a big deal. Muffins don’t cost much. It was a big deal to me! As you can probably tell as this was 4 years ago and I’m still not over it!! Lol! I was upset about the muffin but I think it was more the greed and bloody audacity of having been put up for the night and made a nice breakfast he then went scavenging through my kitchen, found a SINGLE muffin (triple chocolate!!!!) and didn’t imagine someone might be saving it but just thought he’d help himself! I wouldn’t have minded if there had been 2 but there was only 1! Tell me he is CF of the highest order and IANBU to be fuming! Still!!!!! Angry

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Di11y · 19/02/2019 21:17

i feel your pain! last week I bought a pack of 4 caramel slices, I ate one and dh ate 2. so the last one was obviously mine. in a uncharacteristic fit of generosity I cut it in 2 so dh could share, and when my back was turned he ate both pieces!!!!!! I actually cried! Blush

Dutchesss · 19/02/2019 21:19

YANBU
If it were my muffin I'd hold a grudge for 10 years minimum. Good on you for being lighthearted about it after a mere 4 years.

anmh · 19/02/2019 21:19

“Beat him to death with a muffin.“

This made me laugh out loud!

lisasimpsonssaxophone · 19/02/2019 21:20

I would genuinely, most definitely still be furious about this after 4 years! YANBU.

NearlySchoolTimeAgain · 19/02/2019 21:20

I bought some posh jam in preparation for my tea and toast after my HB with DC2.

The HB didn’t happen and when I returned from the hospital a week later the jam had been eaten! 🤬 That’s pained me for nearly 13 years!

Crummyfunnymummy · 19/02/2019 21:21

Di11y that’s plain rude. Why did he think you’d cut in half? Hope he choked on it!! Wink

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AnastasiaVonBeaverhausen · 19/02/2019 21:21

You should give him the Bruce Bogtrotter treatment - buy him a box of ten and make him sit at your table until he has finished every. Single. One

@Kathulu - I need more info on these crisps. Cheese crisps are everything.

AlpacaLypse · 19/02/2019 21:22

You never ever ever eat something especially if there's only one of it in someone else's house. It might have been a present for someone else for instance. And it's not rocket science that 'popping out to the shops to get a replacement' isn't an easy option. Apart from anything else if guest was that desperate for a Triple Chocolate Muffin he could have popped out to the shop himself.

@ThighOfRelief would probably suggest you have a nap. And then use an Integral Garage to dispose of the body.

chocolatebuttonsandcheese · 19/02/2019 21:22

I can't believe I just read that massive thread about a muffin

GregoryPeckingDuck · 19/02/2019 21:23

If it’s any comfort poor sod isn’t going last long with a diet like that. Looks you your OH is in foram early inheritance.

Crummyfunnymummy · 19/02/2019 21:23

Ah so holding a grudge for 4 years over this seems perfectly reasonable to some people? Huh, in that case I’m going outside to dig a FIL sized hole in my garden in preparation for his next visit!!!

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TruffleShuffles · 19/02/2019 21:23

YABU for not foreseeing this! My FIL goes on the hunt for the posh stuff in our cupboards as soon as he walks in, me and my DH have learnt to hide it if we know he’s on the way. He is an absolute hoover when he is at ours, you would think the MIL starves him! Reading this thread it appears it’s a common FIL trait.

Crummyfunnymummy · 19/02/2019 21:24

chocolatebuttonsandcheese no one made you read it!!! Although your user name is making me hungry....

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Crummyfunnymummy · 19/02/2019 21:28

Truffleshuffles I’ve learnt my lesson! I buy stuff I know they like now. Lots of it! And I hide my stuff. Because unless I do this he will eat the stuff I’ve bought specially for them and then move on to scavenge around for more (of my) stuff!

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lisasimpsonssaxophone · 19/02/2019 21:28

It’s not just about the muffin though is it? Reminds me of a few threads on here about husbands eating stuff that was clearly not for them (kids’ Easter eggs and the like) which just shows such a total disregard for other people. My partner and I both love our food and are no strangers to pigging out but we would never just take something that wasn’t ours and stuff it in our faces! It’s a horrible trait and it would put me right off that person.

glenthebattleostrich · 19/02/2019 21:28

Send a glitter bomb every year on the anniversary of the muffin theft.

Spacie · 19/02/2019 21:29

4 years is nothing. My DM still tells a tale of how her FIL ate the portion of homemade soup she had saved for herself 50 years ago

rosablue · 19/02/2019 21:29

Next time you are at his house, work out his favourite treat that mil doesn’t like and empty his stock of them just before you leave so he doesn’t discover they have gone before you leave..,

SecretLimonadeDrinker · 19/02/2019 21:30

I feel you OP!

When I was on mat leave with DS1 money was very tight and DS fed all the bloody time and didn't sleep. MIL came over for a visit about 10.30 and I begged her to look after him while I had an hour sleep. The previous day I had spent the last of my money until payday (only a couple of days away) and bought some nice sliced beef and a small crusty loaf. I had half that day and saved the rest for lunch. I got up an hour later MIL said she got a bit peckish and that she had made herself a sandwich, yes she had eaten my lunch. Angry

I cried after she left!

Kathulu · 19/02/2019 21:32

Well @AnastasiaVonBeaverhausen - XL Cheese crisps are a Cumbrian delight. Much larger than the average packet of crisps with a lovely mature cheese flavour. They can be quite salty but believe me, after a night on the drink there's nothing better. Except maybe a cheesy chip with gravy and vinegar. (But that's a perversion for another thread GrinWink)

Crummyfunnymummy · 19/02/2019 21:33

Oh SecretLimonadeDrinker I think I might have a sympathy cry!

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AnastasiaVonBeaverhausen · 19/02/2019 21:34

@Kathulu I've just googled them. They look immense. I'm going to order them 😄

bananamonkey · 19/02/2019 21:35

This is a grudge I’d totally hold forever.

I really want a chocolate muffin now, stupid low carb.

Kathulu · 19/02/2019 21:35

@Crummyfunnymummy - sorry should have made it clearer my FIL was the fat bastard crisp knicker Grin (I'd happily leave him though!)

Kathulu · 19/02/2019 21:36

@AnastasiaVonBeaverhausen - you can thank me later Wink