Omg such anality from pil. Come and share your anal behaviour stories (lighthearted)

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We are with pil at present and they are very sweet but so bloody uptight about everything.
Bil has been away for a week so he left car with pil so that it "wasn't left in the street" it has a steering lock on and fil takes it for a drive each day! The car is an old banger worth about two hundred quid.
Kids can't even eat a banana without a table cloth,mat and plate
Leaving the house to walk to shops is a major ordeal. Costs hats gloves change of shoes everything switched off at the wall last minute run upstairs for wallets. I could have been there and back.
So I'm asking you to entertain me with similar stories to help me through the day.

Lol at some of these
My ils aren't funny, just toxic, but my dm on the other hand cracks me up.
dm won't purchase anything online as she thinks fraudsters will fleece her, so gets me to use my card instead
She constantly charges her mobile, if it goes anything below 0 back on charge it goes
She also wears a wooly hat indoors if i'm cooking and an overtop as she can't stand the smell of food on her
I feel mean putting these, but it's so funny...

We have to do 3 Euphemia

My mil goes through all of her junk mail and cuts off her name and address before binning them....

I have to text when I get home. But only my father because mother cannot use her very basic phone. They live 15 minutes away by car on good roads.

My DPs once stayed at our house to babysit overnight one Saturday. They were security obsessed and decided to put DH's wallet somewhere safe rather than leave it out overnight for the (non existent) burglars to find. Monday morning saw a frantic search for said wallet as a taxi waited outside to take DH to the airport. DPs had forgotten to put it back. It was located after a rather tense early morning phone call to DPs.
DF now no longer with us, but DM still driving me mad with door closing, locking, unlocking, checking, rechecking etc before leaving the house.

My mother also gets very anxious at the thought of buying anything online, because of course, as soon as she clicks 'place order', a beacon flashes across the internet to all of the fraudsters and she will definitely have her account cleaned out.

She is perfectly ok to do her banking online though, because you can trust banks can't you?

My brother tried explaining that even banking online is targeted by fraudsters occasionally, and that it always paid to proceed with caution, but mother says that is scaremongering.

Oh and she puts her iron back in the original box (in original plastic bag, with original plastic tie thing) after she uses it. Iron is at least 5 years old.

My Dad gets very worried if he finds an odd screw/nail/washer random bit of plastic on the floor. He goes all round the house, wondering where it could have come from. It really bothers him if he can't reunite the lost 'bit' with it's rightful home. Lots of head scratching and 'I can't understand it, do you know what it's off?' to my poor DM.

littlemisssarcastic - those fraudsters arewatching my mum too, although apparantly my credit card is imune to possble fraud so I can buy stuff on her behalf, she then transfers the money via her on-line bank account!

Ha ha ha ha ha aJumpedUpPantryBoy

DM won't let me use sharp knives or the potato peeler without close supervision and regular "Ooh be careful, I haven't got time for a trip to casualty today and I can't leave him here with the oven on". Him is my middle-aged husband

I feel guilty posting as my DPs are so lovely, however has anyone mentioned the weather forecast yet?

Must be watched at least twice a day and duly noted and discussed. Whether they are going out is irrelevant as they never go far and take the car everywhere, however imagine if they missed and got caught in a hurricane..

DM always wants us to squeegee the shower after use too.
She bleaches the dishtowel several times a day.
She wipes kitchen surfaces and floor, bathroom surfaces and dining room table about a million times a day.
Slightly OCD, definitely.

DF saves e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. Milk in Canada comes in bags that you put in a plastic jug. He cuts the tops off, rinses them out and keeps them. There are thousands in a drawer. He also saves the business section of the newspaper with the idea that he will one day go through them all and clip out and save interesting articles. The piles are a serious fire hazard in the garage and basement and date back to probably 1978. Every day.

FellatioNelson Sparklingbrook ipswichwitch ILs post-shower tile protocol does indeed involve chamios leather, squeegee scraper and drying all thier own toiletry bottles and bar of SOAP with a special micro cloth and then they are place in the cupboard where the water heater is kept. It isn't just that the bathroom must have no evidence of moisture, there are special towels/potions or tools to get to the requisite dry state. FFS.

The only good thing is that it probably isn't my turn to have a shower anyway.

Crazy bunch of bananas.

Ooh Egg the dry bathroom thing is very odd. They must despair when the com here with our wet bottles all on show and water on the shower screen. Disgusting really....

Weather - we live 150 miles away from FIL. Every time he rings he asks what the weather is like and if it's different he seems really shocked. We get a lot more snow but I'm not sure he believes us.

DF presses the mile counter every time he puts petrol in the car. Results are talked about at length.

DM does three rings as her home signal.

My parents.
Phones never on. Will send ONE text only ( not to waste 10p) and then turn it off again.
Excess boiled water from kettle kept in flask to save money.
ALL leftovers always eaten even of they are out of date/ stale/ tank and tasting of Tupperware they've been kept in for weeks. Don't put butter or milk in mash- waste.
Shop at Aldi.

However, they own several properties, have better pensions that our generation ever will and have 3 foreign Hols per year.

Tis just mean ness not frugality. Makes me so mad I spend more than I can afford in everyone else to over compensate!

My PIL live an hour away.
They drive over with a rug & flask of coffee in the car. Then they bring clothes to change into.
Before departure they change into their 'driving clothes', apply lipstick (MIL) then do 10 checks on the car. We receive a call to say they have arrived safely.
Weird, how you get used to it.

Yes to shower protocol - you have to open the window and hang towel outside even in winter. I am not completely convinced thatbtheynare washed after we leave but instead simply "dried" and put back in the airing cupboard. There is no heating in the bathroom and the water comes in a dribble. I would never dare to have a bath - that would be totally prolifrigate. Oh and the 'airing' cupboard is in the I heated bathroom... Which seems to be totally pointless from an airing perspective.

Yes to random items of reduced fprice food cooked together.