Keen to know if IHBU at all here?
Visited in laws today. Asked them to let me know the date that some theatre tickets have been rescheduled for. It's been rescheduled after it was cancelled due to Covid.
MIL says, oh, we emailed you. That's strange I say, I've had no email. They swear blind they emailed DH and I but I've had nothing and nor has DH, so no idea when this show is meant to be at all.
MIL says to check on her wall calendar, which I do. I note that the show is on the same day as my own dads 70th birthday dinner. Note this is some 5 months away.
I say to MIL, very sadly, that I think we'll have to miss the theatre because it's Dad's big birthday meal - which she'd have had some awareness of because his b'day (along with the age) is also on her calendar. Other family members are going to the theatre so they wouldn't be on their own.
Anyway, MIL flips!
MIL snaps: "Well, the theatre has been confirmed for ages"
Me, taken aback: "Sorry, but I didn't know the date"
MIL: "We emailed you"
Me: "I never got it"
(At this point FIL says he'll forward it again. We wait for the email. Lo and behold they had emailed but used my defunct email address from 15yrs ago and not cc'd DH at all).
MIL: "Well, when did your dad book in this birthday meal?"
Me: "Recently, but it's irrelevant because it's his 70th and I'm not going to miss it, I can't change his birthday"
This went on and on. To the point where I had to walk out.
I understand MIL is upset, but I'm sure these tickets could probably be moved to another date if they are that keen for us to go with them. She's normally lovely, very normal tempered, and very sweet/ understanding, but I saw an unpleasant side to her over this today. I just can't understand her position at all.
AIBU to be really baffled by this behaviour and somewhat peeved she'd expect me to have done anything differently?