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.

Nobody's mentioned hearing aids yet. More specifically, not turning them on in case the batteries run down. There are at least one set of spare batteries in the case. But no, these are for emergencies.

Shortly after we moved in with mum, we had to have the entire kitchen refurbished when the gas cooker (circa 1968) was condemned. Well actually, the gas engineer cut off the entire gas supply to the first floor because it was such a hazard, but that's another saga...

Anyhoo, we boxed up no fewer than 8 packing cases of kitchenware, along with 6 packing cases of cleaning materials and equipment of every description - some of which actually pre-dated barcodes.

Every fecking blunt knife, broken sieve and handleless saucepan since the 1950s had been hoarded in that damn kitchen.

Shall I share what we found lurking in the walk-in pantry and at the bottom of the coffin-sized chest freezer?

I never have my mobile switched off - because I don't know how

(My work mobile I can switch off.)

My Dear Old Dad hates to waste food (throwback to his years as a child in the post war rationing).
So he'll put a couple of leftover fishfingers on a plate in the fridge. And has no truck with Use By dates.
We went on holiday a few years back (DF,DM, Ds ,DD and me. DH had the good sense to stay at home, he was working).
My DF had the leftovers for the previous meal each day.Some very odd combinations too.
I told him he had to cover the leftovers (I even bought foil dishes). Otherwise I'd open the fridge to find goodness knows what sitting there

Oh I had a conversation with my mum the other day about "how you record television programmes now".

She still has a TV with a video player, they are thinking of replacing it "what about one of those iPlayer things?"

Well possibly mother, but you'd need the internet. "Ooh no, we don't want that".

They don't have a computer. They just use me as Google.

Brecon - Grandma-in-law does this too - she will ring and say, all accusing "I phoned you twice at the weekend, you didn't answer". Well no, we were away. She won't leave messages asking for a call back, either - so psychic powers are clearly needed.

Lapsed - yes. You can't tell us about coffin sized freezers and not tell us what's in them.

70isaLimit - your dd is like my DH. We call him the 'dustbin' and we do a great pedal bin imitation when he gets really 'bad'.

• Well, we cleared the coffin freezer out in 2010. I had a wee bet on with DB. He reckoned there would be stuff from the previous millenium in there.

He won. A packet of stewed apple (from our own trees, natch) dated 1998

My mum and dad are in their 70s and have always done 3 loads of washing A DAY. They live in a big house but there's just the two of them. If she is carrying the washing through to the other end of the house and drops a sock / jumper on the (usually just washed) floor then she washes the whole lot again. It drives me mental.

Also when we were growing up we had to wear shoes at all times - not even slippers - shoes - even if walking from bed to loo in the night. Needless to say I can't bear to wear shoes indoors nowadays and not can my kids. This is ok because they are the grandchildren and can therefore do exactly as they wish.

Dh already rolls his eyes that I can't go to bed until the dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer have all been attended to, the downstairs light is on (for the nocturnal wanderers), the thermostat has been turned down. Oh and for washing I have a spare sock drawer and I put the bedding into a pillowcase, I of course know that my ways are just more efficient! Heaven knows what my SIL/DIL will think of me!

Drying soap. Brown arse flannels. Posting lists back through the letterbox to yourself. This is gold. I have been meaning to go to bed for an hour and just can't. stop. reading!

Yup - they are so fecking RICH. My mum had DF to ferry her around in a huge car all her married life, and NEVER learned to drive herself, but berated us (skin, non-car-owning, bus-using Londoners) for using a taxi for a £5.00 trip from the railway station, when we had a toddler and luggage for a 2 week Xmas visit!

Years ago my otherwise very lovely SIL refused some real coffee we had brought as a present to her house because it is carcinogenic . This woman has a 40 a day fag habit so it seemed a bit rich coming from her. At that time she was about 30 years in, and very well so it seemed. It did make me laugh and we took said coffee back home where we enjoyed it.

30 yrs in to her 40 a day habit, I meant

My dad won't wear his hearing aids. It drives me mad. The TV is insanely loud.

And he lies about it...

My dad lives with us, he is eighty one. To put it in perspective, before Christmas he painted the windows for me.

We have too many takeaways. On a good footy night he will take his upstairs and watch the footy in his room. He will have the second half of the takeaway (which has been unrefridgerated in a warm room) for breakfast. Or some pieces of ham he brought in from a meal he had out yesterday, similarly unrefridgerated. How about the times he gets a Kentucky while out, brings it home, eats some out, some for lunch and some for the following breakfast. I don't know how he has survived! Bringing food home so it isn't wasted - no problem. Bringing home food so that sit until it has created a tenancy - problem.

He sometimes complains he has tummy problems. No kidding!

(my dad is lovely, though, and he puts up with me)

In many respects though, the pre-war generation were environmentalists avant la jour, even if they think it's all 'hippy nonsense' now. Those habits have stuck, my mum was (and is) a devoted recycler.

And I really hate to admit this, but the portion control thing - well, very few of that generation are particularly overweight. I'd rather risk being porky myself though than deprive my guests of a few roasties at lunch or have visitors leave the house feeling hungry!

xfil used to make dynamo labels to put on every battery ever used which showed the date battery was inserted into the appliance. When asked why he told me that he liked to see how long they had lasted.

He used to keep a battery cupboard with new and used ones in. He used to like to test them with his battery charge checker of a Sunday.

My elderly uncle won't believe that an automatic washing machine can be easier to use than a twin tub.

Maryz, this will probably out me to any family members on here, but several years ago, my aunt invited my DM, DSDad and DGF for Xmas dinner. After about an hr of sitting round talking my grandfather announces whilst this must be fun for everyone else he can't hear a thing because his hearing aids are at home. My DSD then very kindly offers to make the 45min round trip home to pick up the hearing aids.

DGF then spends the rest of the morning not wearing them because he's only got 1 set of spare batteries with him. By the time dinner is served DSD is looking a bit like this . At which point DGF announces that it all looks and smells very nice but he'll be unable to enjoy any of it because...

... he's left his insulin at home.