To ask you to whinge about family holiday behaviour with me?

[LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet]

Can we please have a collective (light hearted) whinge about how annoying family can be on holiday. Currently with extended family in France on day 5.

• People seem to not want to talk to me until the nanosecond I open my book. Then they want to tell me about their colleague’s bowel disease, or tell me about this film they saw that they can’t remember the name of synopsis of, or ask me inane questions about my favourite biscuit. I’ve read the same page about 15 times today
• For some reason the whole party has decided that I am full knowledge of where everybody’s suncream, athletes foot cream, sunglasses, goggles, towels and toothpaste is. And looked surprised when I say I have absolutely no idea, I didn’t even know you brought a blue towel.
• Over politeness about what time to eat and when. Lots of “I don’t mind, you decide” “Honestly I’m not fussed, I’ll eat anything at any time”. Ok, what about pizza at 6pm? “Oh god no not pizza and 6pm is FAR too early”.

I’m currently on a sunlouger hiding from everyone

Being me your trivial complaints!

Not quite the same but heading off tomorrow on a family holiday. Running round after everyone packing all day and have to face dealing with the DC in an unfamiliar environment all week. Honestly it'd be less stressful to stay at home...

Once went away with ils. Chalet next door to us. Insisted they had 1 dc in with them as we needed 2 cots.
Slept very little as was awoken regularly by an alarm.
Fil had set his at hourly intervals to check on the dc they had in their chalet.
Ds was a toddler...
He was also shattered the whole week from lack of sleep.

Constantly get this with in-laws.

'Oh we are easy don't mind when we eat we'll do whatever suits you best'

Then when I say that no eating at 3.30pm doesn't suit us at all she goes all quiet and then decides to do a buffet to make it easier and suit everyone (meaning my SIL) so everyone can have it whenever they want and she'll have it ready by 3.15pm ish. I tell her once again doesn't suit us we eat 6 ish and she just says it's fine so me and my kids have either nothing left or food out going dry and stale for hours. She never ever gets it and it never ever suits us

Siblings leaving their children with us (we have kids of our own), fucking off back to bed and then not saying thank you or acknowledging anything about it.

Siblings being too lazy to get up to their 2 year old in the middle of the night and letting them roam around the holiday house full of hazards (including an indoor pool -locked but still worries me!) in the middle of the night.

Siblings not getting up in the morning and letting their kids come and wake us up.

This was way worse in past years and my mum told them off 😁

People interrupting others in the middle of talking - just thinking out loud about food shopping etc in the middle of an interesting anecdote or something

Loud eating and scraping knives across plates

Shit jokes that you can’t even tell are jokes

Completely unable to come up with a plan, then once plan is decided upon, completely inflexible if people want to splinter off it’s like a personal attack and offends is taken

must do everything together all the time (6 kids and 6 adults, unlikely to all be satisfied!)

luckily this is across 2 separate sides of the family so never all at once.

(I’m perfect of course 😇)

Oh, belching from the depths of a rotten belly, and then not even acknowledging it 🤢

‘Is this your tea? Whose tea is this? Is this your drink’ YES I JUST MADE IT I AM LEAVING IT THERE TO COOL WHILE I TIDY THIS AND MAKE THE KIDS A SNACK AND FIND THIS THING I LOST CALM DOWN!

Setting forth tomorrow to join adult offspring and grandchildren. Quite apprehensive. Planning to agree with everything suggested, but think it still won’t be quite right.

I’ve decided not to bother this year. With the memory of moaning kids from years ago, mixed in with the airport queues, I decided not to bother. I’m enjoying the quiet as most of my road seem to be away at the moment.

This is adorable but I can see also hugely irritating 😂

Dsis constantly tries to dump her children on me to go shopping or go for a nap. She's done it when I had a newborn and she's done it when I had a stomach bug. But I'm always too gobsmacked and too much of a pushover to protest.

At our last family holiday cottage week I seemed to be the only person who realised that dishwashers need unloading and reloading, despite there being 8 other functioning adults. I was definitely “house mum” for the week and it as exhausting.

Oh and also we all contributed to food for the fridge/cupboards to last the week. Only it didnt last long as BIL and SIL saw it as a free lunch for their giant daily picnics that they took on every single day trip.

Currently on holiday with DH and 2 teenagers. Private Villa,own pool, teenagers body conscious and unsociable.

Nothing to do
pool not cool enough
waking them up too early/late
not going in the pool when they want to
picking restaurants with too much seafood (we’re on an island in the Med)
too many people
too quiet

DH bumbles around, disappears snorkelling or drowns himself in gin/whisky.

we’re sat with some wine now, listening to the waves breaking on the rocks. But the mosquitoes will bit me to fuck and back for the sake of their damneggs, so even they want a piece of me.

Another one.

I think there must be magnets that attract the bottom of everyone else’s feet to the top of mine, because every single fucker has stepped on my (granted, rather large) clodhoppers this holiday. Why must they stand so close?! And it bloody hurts too

@MassiveSalad22 are you OK ? 😂😂 you’ve made me chuckle there!! never related more to the ‘is that your tea, whose tea is this’ comment

3 hour car journeys with ils whilst they try to navigate google maps and arguing in the front whilst Me and OH trying to play the number plate game in the back 👍 fucking great vibes

Db and sil just sitting on their phones while everyone else has to keep an eye on their kids.

I should have mentioned that said kids are hard work feral.

@NotSoSlimShady8 home today! 😄

FIL used to get up at 6 am every morning and make the most disgusting tea, entering our bedroom saying best part of the morning. Going out to dinner with Great Aunt, who was in her 80’s, saying every single time, how it was very expensive and portions were too big. We ordered sandwiches in a museum cafe once, they all came with chips, Aunt said I didn’t order chips, I’m afraid I lost it, grabbed the chips and said “there you go, no chips”. She was lovely, but had to watch her money most of her life and she did appreciate what we did.

Last time we holidayed with PILs. Had several really good breaks with them over the years but it definitely gets harder when they are old, as in 80ish.

So the house we rented had one double bedroom and a bathroom downstairs and then two more bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs hence it made sense for PILs to have downstairs room so they didn't have to tackle stairs and me, DH and teenage DD would sleep upstairs.

What we didn't factor in was that PILs would go to bed about 9pm every night and since their room was next to the living room we would then feel we needed to keep the noise down - no music, no DVDs, quiet conversation only.

However when they got up early the next morning it never seemed to occur to FIL to do the same for us. We would be woken up at 7:30 to the sound of FIL crashing about in the kitchen slamming cupboard doors and exclaiming at the top of his voice that he couldn't find anything in this kitchen, how on earth does this wretched coffee maker work and he can't even go out to the bin because we had taken the keys to our room. (We hadn't the keys were exactly where we had all agreed they would be kept.) In the end one of us would have to get up to sort them out.

And of course old people feel the cold more so on lovely warm summer evenings when I was setting the table on the terrace to eat outside FIL would mutter about needing a jumper and having to wrap up warm.

We went on a 2 night city break but apparently everyone is upset that it was not in Birmingham for the games. It seems to have passed everyone by that I did in fact send them all the info on tickets for said games, asked them what they would like to see and then to let me know. As no bugger did, I did not book anything so we did not go. This is my fault for not reminding them.

Dd 14 obsessed with going back to the apartment to just sit.

One teen wants a beach day another a pool day. One wants to shop another is too hot. It rarely syncs.

I’m currently away with my extended in law family, the first once since we had a baby. My god I am going out of my mind.

• MIL is very overbearing and panicky and keeps going on about my DC wearing a hat, needing water, needing changing, needing a nap etc etc like I’m not the one that’s kept him alive for over a year now
• All of them watch sport 24/7 when we’re in the house and it’s driving me insane
• SIL flaps about and wastes so much time when getting ready, makes everything a chore when it doesn’t need to be
• DH keeps sodding off for hours on bike rides
• SIL’s kids are at that annoying age where they want to inanely talk to you about every thought that comes into their brains
• FIL keeps making comments about my food choices
• MIL doesn’t drink and keeps tutting whenever anyone else opens a beer

My only respite is that our DC naps for 2 hours in the morning so I can sit on my own while they go out.

Home tomorrow. Never doing this again.

Oh yes the faffing ages to get ready. Why do people faff!

@MassiveSalad22 oh my god my ILs are exactly the same! We’re in 2 separate houses (thank god) so every evening I leave a small pile of things to take back next door on the windowsill by the back door and every time it all gets brought back in and dispersed around for absolutely no reason.

IS THIS YOUR TOWEL? Yes I left it by the door to take back. OH RIGHT. IS THIS YOUR BUTTER? Yes. Why has it been moved ffs leave my shit alone!