Annoying guests light hearted

[NimbleHiker]

I will start. My mum has come to stay. Every time i ask her if she wants a drink she says what have you got? I told her that the options haven't changed since the last time i offered her a drink. I have had to listen to an endless monologue about what was in sainsburys yesterday. To top it off she got me a box of chocolates and she has eatten them.

Reminds me of Keith's questionnaire in The Office.... (about a minute in to this clip)

To top it off she got me a box of chocolates and she has eatten them.
I'd have put them in the cupboard to enjoy on my OWN later!

MIL will bring her tablet and play angry birds at the dining table- will full sound on. Also takes personal calls on speak phone and could be on the phone 30mins whilst still at ours.

My mum scrolls on her phone and she refuses to wear headphones when she listens to music.

She's your mum, cut her some slack

If you have dc get them to draw up a menu. Every time just point to it.

I have cut my mum a lot of slack over the years.

I do wish people wouldn't spoil threads with sanctimonious nit-picking.

My dad is also a fan of the hopeful questioning about food/drink, in case I've magically discovered a portal to Waitrose in the back of the kitchen cupboard since he last had to put up with whatever unacceptable shite he's been served (I keep in a perfectly normal range of food and drink, usually bought with at least a nod to what I think he will like).

My pet hate is guests who cannot wrap their minds around the fact that your home might be different from theirs.

My ex-partner's family used to have a really irritating habit of referring to anything they thought was essential with the definite article, to imply it was so absolutely standard everyone would have it. You'd serve a meal and get 'where's the brown sauce/ the grated cheese/ the gravy?' The expectation was you'd have these items just kicking around, however little they had to do with the specific meal you'd cooked. But you couldn't just grab a block of cheddar and a grater and explain actually, you hadn't planned on serving grated cheese with the roast chicken so anyone wanting it ought to grate their own. They'd be bemused and offended you didn't have it all ready, pre-grated, the exact brand they liked.

Drove me absolutely fucking nuts.

It sounds like you don't want her there. How sad. I wish I had a mum I could invite to come and stay.

🤣😂 I forgot how good this was! I’ll have to watch it all again!

Yeah OP, you complete bastard, you could have at least put ‘light hearted’ in the title 😂

Ha ha!

I can identify with the drink offer issue. It's something Motherland got absolutely right!

When I used to ask my Mum or in-laws (all sadly now deceased) if they'd like a cup of tea or coffee, there followed a good 5 mins of discussion about what time it was, whether I was having one, whether it was any trouble etc etc.

AAArrrgghh!! It drove me bonkers. I just wanted a straight answer and a decision. Happened every single time.

I miss them all though!

Er...did you see the 'light hearted' in the OP? Or just decided to ignore it and be snide anyway?

Typical MN.

ha! My SiLs and I could write a book on our lovely but very fixed-mindset in-laws! The routines around what time of day which hot drinks / foodstuffs are acceptable/not acceptable and when are only funny because both MiL and FiL are absolute sweethearts and we all adore them.
The only really frustrating one was early in my marriage we had everyone over to us for Christmas (about 10 people) and FiL was horrified that we were serving Yorkshire puddings with goose! He still talks about it occasionally 🫣

But I think the etiquette here is to say ‘I’m going to have a cup of tea woukd you like anything’. Or ‘I’m going to have a glass of wine as I prep dinner. Can I get you red, the white isn’t cool but will be in an hour. Or you can have a G&T’. I’m very much a pack animal and will have what others are having.

my annoying guest my gripe tho is when people take all the sheets of the bed when leaving and leave it in an unhelpful pile, usually in the floor and with the mattress protected off as well like why do I need to wash that. Seriously guys I could have just made the bed and it would have at least been tidy and not needed my attention for a few weeks til I needed to clean it for the next guest. Now I need to wash it immediately or let the cat sit on the duvet inner / bare mattress then clean all the hair off it. And if I don’t have guests for a few weeks I’ll either need to still make it to keep it safe from the cat then unmake it and wash it all over again so they smell fresh or accept they won’t smell as nice. Stripping the bed is the opposite of helpful thank you

i adore my mil,honest to god,i worship the ground that woman walks on

shes my hero and the strongest woman ive ever met

but will she sit down and chill?

will she fuck

i keep jobs just for her

last time i had her (a 78 year old woman) armed with a paintbrush and a tin of paint,going over any marks on my paintwork and she sorted out my pantry

she also cleaned my windows,dusted my whole house and sorted out my airing cupboard

i feel bad as shes not a spring chicken but trying to get her to sit down and chill is imposable-ive tried

i find its better all round if shes kept busy and shes happy to do it

its that or we'd drive each other potty