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AIBU?

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To begin to have thoughts about sending my brother in law a poo in a bag!

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Helium · 20/12/2008 20:29

ARGH!! My brother-in-law comes to visit my dp about every quarter for a boys type weekend. Lots of staying up til the early hours drinking, reminscing lads stuff I suppose.
I always try and make him feel welcome despite him being 'difficult' sometimes; e.g. refusing meals I buy for/prepare because he's not hungry or wants to save himself for beer..??! or the time when he refused to answer my 18 mth old asking him a question with the response "oh I dont do children - cant be bothered to intereact" plus farting extremely loudly and finding it funny...anyway...
everytime he comes he always leaves some sort of 'present' such as his empty packet of cigarettes secreted about the house so we find them weeks later (behind a book on the shelf/underneath a nice piece of china etc)
This time he flicked his butt ends into the garden and put a big can of windscreen wash into my lavendar bush.
AT first I didnt realise why it was there -and got really upset as litter seems to very easily find its way into the front garden and makes us looks trashy and I'm still trying to make at least a little bit nice to live in given that where I live isnt exactly Blenheim Palace. I wondered why some passerby would do such a thing - I even had an argument with dp about it as straight after finding this I was looking on the net for a new place to live!!! The penny dropped with us both when we realised who it was as he had been to a car store earlier in the day.
He also does it to our next door neighbour (a good friend) who he sees on the weekends he visits. We've spoken to him about it, tried to 'laughingly' get him to stop and ignored it.
ARGHHHHH!!! AIBU

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Janni · 20/12/2008 20:39

First of all, forget about 'laughingly' getting him to stop doing these things and secondly, this is your DHs problem, not yours. You need to be very clear with your DH about your groundrules, particularly in a household where there is a young child, and your DH needs to sort it out with his brother.

I speak from bitter experience of my own DHs brother who abused our hospitality for years and who was the source of many unhappy conversations where I would moan and DH would say he'd speak to him but not do so.

Get your DH to sort it out now or this young man will get worse.

Helium · 20/12/2008 20:40

Thanks for that. I have tried - lol@'young man' - he's 36!!!

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Janni · 20/12/2008 21:06

My DHs brother is now 37 and as bad as ever - it's just he's now in Spain, thank God, so I don't have to see him any more!

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