We arranged a time for MIL to come and see us over a weekend in a month or so. Time co-ordinated with plan BIL has regarding her visiting them as he works in an industry where they do 5 weeks on and 2 weeks off and her trip to him would be on a break period. We also offered BIL etc some social distanced hospitality that same weekend MIL would be here before MIL moved across to him for the rest of her stay.
Response was that they had presumed that actually we would have MIL during the week. We work from home and as BIL is off but we aren’t. So that’s weirdness number 1. That was a week they chose, not us.
However, when we say during week wouldn’t work, we are told by BIL that whilst they will take us up on the hospitality we offered them for the original weekend, MIL and them had decided we should have MIL on a specific but totally different weekend on the grounds that if she came to us first before she spent time with them at the other time we would now be breaking social distancing rules.
As it goes as we can’t do their presumed weekend and have told them so but am I right in thinking that none of their thought processes makes sense but that they just want to dictate when we host? Or have I missed something.