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Tell me your funny IL tales

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Frankola · 01/06/2021 20:48

Sometimes I really can't help but think that my DHs family are genuinely insane 😂

My SIL is currently playing a game of "hide the wedding date".

So the story here is that she has booked her wedding. Announced this on Facebook (obviously). And asked my DH, her brother, to be a part of the groomsmen.

DH said lovely, yes and asked what date the wedding was. She is genuinely, honestly, no word of a lie refusing to tell him?!!!

How can he agree to a date he doesn't know? Why would she hide this?! 😂

It's almost as funny as them turning up to our wedding with a full tin foil packed picnic as they didn't know if a hotel venue booked for the entire day would provide food? 😒

Or the time that my DH hurt his back back was bed bound for a week. His mum and sister turned up and took over the house. Insisting on doing everything for DH and in turn insisting I do everything for them! This ended up with them telling everyone who'd listen that they had to "come to help care" for DH, making out I did nothing for him in that time. Well obviously I didn't when they made it so I was relegated to waiting on THEM hand and foot instead!

Do I have the strangest ILs? Please say it isn't so?!

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Carandi · 02/06/2021 20:42

I'd had a miscarriage a couple of weeks before my SIL wedding. The next day my husband went to pick up his DM as she was having a practice make up session near where we lived. She walked in our house and saw all the sympathy cards and flowers and said nothing. When she came back she handed me a small bunch of flowers that had u doubted LG been bought at the local garage.

A few days later, even though I was still unwell and extremely upset, she expected me to pick her up (half hour drive away) and take her to her DDs hen party (a further hours drive away), have nothing to drink (as wanted me to to drive) while she got drunk, and then do the whole return journey. I refused.

She wore a white dress to my wedding.

Greenrubber · 02/06/2021 20:43

Some of these are shocking 🤦‍♀️

Longdistance · 02/06/2021 20:45

I’m currently holidaying on the Isle of Wight and I can guarantee you that mil is at my house (she lives a few hours away). She’s obtained a house key from fil (her ex dh) and is using my house as a hotel to visit her friends. We’ll get back from holiday, she’ll stay one night and then piss off and not even babysit.
We went in our two week holiday a few years ago. The internet was naff where we were, but I managed to check the cctv randomly, to be met with mils car on the driveway Hmm

CandyLeBonBon · 02/06/2021 20:46

@Longdistance

I’m currently holidaying on the Isle of Wight and I can guarantee you that mil is at my house (she lives a few hours away). She’s obtained a house key from fil (her ex dh) and is using my house as a hotel to visit her friends. We’ll get back from holiday, she’ll stay one night and then piss off and not even babysit. We went in our two week holiday a few years ago. The internet was naff where we were, but I managed to check the cctv randomly, to be met with mils car on the driveway Hmm
WHAT???? Change the locks woman!!! 😱
Longdistance · 02/06/2021 20:55

I would, but I give a key to fil who helps with childcare and the odd thing here and there. He’s a sap like my dh who won’t say anything.
I thought it was the end when somehow mil had a spare set of keys. I asked for them back as the house was for sale. It didn’t sell, so we’re back to square one 🤦🏼‍♀️

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 02/06/2021 21:05

@CrystalFlyer Grin

I was just so surprised, many of my wtf moments with her and the clash of two cultures, she also had the unique ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time Smile

Still miss her buckets though!

Joeblack066 · 02/06/2021 21:06

@Cocolapew

Mil cried really loudly at our wedding and said she would have preferred it to be her sons funeral. She wore white to the wedding and threw a tantrum when I turned up in pink. She disappeared between the service and hotel, apparently to go home for her glasses. She threw another tantrum when we hadn't stopped everything to wait for her. She was away for nearly 3 hours. When we were on our honeymoon she went into our flat and rearranged everything. All rooms, cupboards, drawers, etc. She even moved our bed. She also threw away any paper work that didn't have DHs name on it. It was my flat before I met him and I hadn't changed anything yet. I lost insurance papers, mortgage agreement etc. She also moved my very dear to me and expensive Prince records to cupboards that had heating pipes going through them and turned the heating on full blast. In July. They were all warped. This was only in a space of a few weeks. I don't have time to put any more Grin
This woman is deranged and horrific! You must really love your DH!
RaptorInaPorkPieHat · 02/06/2021 21:09

Are we going for funny strange or really properly scary weird? As I can do the full rainbow Wink

Over the space of about 4 months during my pregnancy (we had 3 cats - two of which had come to us after the death of my DM 6 months previously) this was the main topic of conversation over the phone to DH:

"When I got pregnant my MIL told me to get rid of my cat"
"Are you getting rid of your cats"
"I could rehome a cat"
"I could rehome Cat A" (My mothers cat)
"Can I have Cat A"
"Can I have Cat A"
"Can I have Cat A"
"Can I have Cat A" repeat ad nauseum for a month or so...

She then wrote to my grieving DAD to ask if she could have the cat.

At this point, I went full batshit crazy at DH (who had caused this, because he was too much of a coward to directly say no to his mother at the start of this nonsense) for a full weekend until he rang his dad to tell his mum to cut it out. It was a full on scene of Bat Shit Crazy me behind DH on the phone to FIL with Bat Shit Crazy MIL screaming behind him.

The next week, I was signed off for the remainder of my pregnancy due to high blood pressure. At no point did we rehome any of our cats.

This is one of the funny weird stories. It got a lot less funny towards the end of the pregnancy Hmm

CandyLeBonBon · 02/06/2021 21:10

@Longdistance

I would, but I give a key to fil who helps with childcare and the odd thing here and there. He’s a sap like my dh who won’t say anything. I thought it was the end when somehow mil had a spare set of keys. I asked for them back as the house was for sale. It didn’t sell, so we’re back to square one 🤦🏼‍♀️
What a nightmare!
Aprilwasverywet · 02/06/2021 21:13

When we told mil I was pregnant she whispered to me when dh was out of the room that accidents happen and how much his ex had wanted his babies..
She never bothered with ds whatsoever.. We went nc.

3Britnee · 02/06/2021 21:15

His mum and sister turned up and took over the house. Insisting on doing everything for DH and in turn insisting I do everything for them! This ended up with them telling everyone who'd listen that they had to "come to help care" for DH, making out I did nothing for him in that time. Well obviously I didn't when they made it so I was relegated to waiting on THEM hand and foot instead

Why would you let that happen Confused

jayho · 02/06/2021 21:15

exmil repeatedly called me by my ex's former girlfriend's name, when challenged said 'ahh but we really liked her so you won't mind'

same woman during a stay at our house 'popped out' and came back with a bag of cleaning products she 'thought I needed'

her again, after fairly ruinously expensive jaunt to west end musical neither me or dexh liked, asked her what she'd enjoyed the most and she answered 'the walk back to the car'

gah2teenagers · 02/06/2021 21:34

@Longdistance

I’m currently holidaying on the Isle of Wight and I can guarantee you that mil is at my house (she lives a few hours away). She’s obtained a house key from fil (her ex dh) and is using my house as a hotel to visit her friends. We’ll get back from holiday, she’ll stay one night and then piss off and not even babysit. We went in our two week holiday a few years ago. The internet was naff where we were, but I managed to check the cctv randomly, to be met with mils car on the driveway Hmm
Change the locks. Just imagine the next time she tries to let herself in. Does she leave it clean. Change the sheets. Eat your food. So many questions........
DeathByWalkies · 02/06/2021 21:39

My lovely Irish mil had a brother in a home in Ireland, one day the home rang and said he was poorly.
MIL dutifully took herself off to BHS and bought a fine black suit and hat “ to “look nice at the funeral” - I was like WTF! He’s not even dead yet!

I'm reminded of my FIL - we realised that his suit had been eaten by moths, and so took him to M&S to buy a new one. Cue much time in the changing rooms with a very patient tailor.

On the way home in the car, a little voice piped up from the back of the car - "you're going to bury me in that suit, aren't you?"

SILENCE.

We buried him in that suit.

Longdistance · 02/06/2021 21:53

Well, she changes the sheets at least. But, then does some ‘tidying’ and I can never find anything. ‘I’ve ironed’ and then can’t find where she’s put it. Food wise I’m not sure, as there’s loads of food in our house Blush I’ve a pantry and freezer full.
She uses my home like a stop off place to see her old friends from when she lived down here.

pinkstripeycat · 02/06/2021 22:00

My mil (no longer with us) used to steal glasses, plates, cutlery, ashtrays, menus and matchbooks (until I told her it’s ok to take the matchbooks) from pubs and restaurants. I found 4 of my glasses in her suitcase when she came to stay. She said she thought they were hers! Mine matched, none of hers did and why would I end up with her glasses? We lived over 100 miles away from the ILs thank goodness.

BrownEyedGirl80 · 02/06/2021 22:07

@jayho my mil did the same.She soon stopped calling me dh ex name when dh told her that if she didn't pack it in he would call her partner by her exes name.It worked.

bishbashbosh2020 · 02/06/2021 22:09

MIL is an alcoholic who causes trouble and upset at every opportunity, thank goodness DH is NC now after a terrible event earlier this year.

FIL has never met our DS, because we forgot to send a birthday card 5 years ago... (yes, more backstory but genuinely has not met his GS because we forgot to send a card).

I could go on forever, ha!

Cocolapew · 02/06/2021 22:09

This woman is deranged and horrific! You must really love your DH
Thankfully DH always had my back, I'm not a walkover so things got a bit, um, spirited, between me and MiL.
We haven't spoken to her or my equally vile FIL for years.

NFLwidow · 02/06/2021 22:14

My mil was overbearing, crazy and a massive god botherer. She hid her pain of chrones disease for years from everyone and I wish I’d still got her wittering on for hours every day. She went too soon

snowone · 02/06/2021 22:15

I won't write what my PILs do as it's probably too outing but I just have to remind myself on a daily basis that they are not my people - they are his! 🙈

I love PILs dearly but my god they do my head in, they have the strangest thought processes and reasoning and I just don't get them at all!

TheRebelle · 02/06/2021 22:22

Once FIL drove 20 miles to our house, when he knew we weren’t in, to post a blank birthday card through the door for DH to send to him, DH has never forgotten his birthday or any other event and always does him a Moonpig card with a naff message inside just how he likes it. We’ve also come home to packets of ham that MIL has posted through the letterbox.

crazycanuck · 02/06/2021 22:28

When we went back to the Channel Islands from Canada a few years back for my late MIL’s funeral, her sister (my DH’s auntie) said to my then 10 year old DS, purposely in ear shot of me no doubt, that he should stay there with her and send mummy back to Canada on her own. 🧐

UniversalAunt · 02/06/2021 22:29

Oh please change the locks.
Go full on with retina or fingerprint ID system to get in...anything!

OwlIceCrem · 02/06/2021 22:30

My gran once said to my dad in front of us all “you’ve gone from bad to worse” skewering her DIL1 (my DM) and DIL2 (my DSM, who was also present) in one fell swoop. It’s a shame neither DM or DSM are on mumsnet as I’m sure they could add plenty to this thread!

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