I live in a tourist area and so family and friends always want to visit. Not got a problem with it, we have spare bedrooms and I like showing them all the places of interest, as we get days out too!
last week, my husband’s wife and her husband came, for a week.
I’ve only really met him before at weddings or other family events, so only a few hours at a time. So to have him for a week……!
he is quite well travelled. He likes to make sure everyone knows this….. he is the “been there, done that, bought the t-shirt etc” for all the places. If you have been to one of said places, he did it bigger and better than you. Any conversation about anything was peppered with “well when we were in Philadelphia/Iceland/Istanbul/Timbuctoo…”. After a couple of days of this it was getting wearing!
During any conversation, he had to literally take over….. and even when we were trying to watch a little bit of tv, he talked over it, and about nothing!!! Eg, as it was warm I served ice cream after tea one evening- thus followed a 10 minute “speech” about all the different ice cream flavours, where he’d had them, which brand was best……and so on! I zoned out after the first minute!
Honestly, I think he qualifies as the most boring relative I have…. Anyone else got one? How do you deal with them?