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.

This is great ok....

M and D also watch weather 37 times a day ...then moan as it changes. Every time you use a cup bowl etc it has to be washed and dried and put away. She moans if I'm in the shower to long yet fills up a bowl of water for two mugs.

PIL to many to say my personal favourite is putting the house applance 'birthdays ' on the Calender every year.

Alway has hair cut every Friday at same time , eat same meals on same days . Whenever I go for dinner( not often now) thankfully she takes that long to serve up she then microwaves each dinner one by one :) by the time she has done that I have finished . Odd odd odd

"SparklingbrookSun 06-Jan-13 18:35:21

My DM doesn't like to go out in the morning if she is going out in the afternoon."

yes me too, or in fact, at all
That's dreadful

SPB. Only one trip a day is allowed.

I spoke to my mum a few days before Christmas, and mentioned I was going shopping, eventually she realised for last minute gifts and said she thought I meant our food shopping. I'd done that the day before, just a normal weekly shop. "Oh, when are you going to get all your food shopping".
"Well we're at your on Christmas day, ILs on Boxing Day, so just a normal week for us, shopping wise"
"But don't you need all your food for Christmas?"

we went round like that for a while. I'm still not sure what she meant. Obviously we bought the odd festive treat - yule log, mince pies, clementines, but we had no food shopping that would have necessecitatied a mad panicked dash round M&S on the 23rd.

My friend's mum who is very anal, put a rubber sheet on the bed her dd was sleeping in as she was pregnant and worried about her water's breaking! She was 30 weeks.

I have been reading this all day! So funny. My MIL and parents have very odd habits, but this is the one that comes to mind... when MIL gets up in the morning and uses the bathroom she handwashes her knickers and hangs them over the shower door. Regardless of the fact that the next person to use the shower will have to move them...

ugh yes because if your DD wnet into labour 10 weeks early the main worry would be the mattress

So does that mean she only has 2 pairs then?
You know what to get her for next Christmas then - either a 5 pack of knickers from M&S or a washing machine, depending on funds :o

I just remembered my nan hated anything in her bin. If we took fish and chips she would ask us to take paper home as she didn't want them in her "ash bin"
She was the same with wrapping paper too even if the bins were going the next day we had to take it home.

My mum never visits without a bag of biscuits or half a cake they don't want! Not great for the diet lol

My FIL does the 'disappearing act' trick whenever MIL puts a meal on the able too.
it's so rude!

Yep DH does too. Then he tells the DCs off for the same - they should have been prepared

Hadn't thought of that! Yes, she has a machine. But it isn't used for "smalls"... not that they are small. They are enormous!

My dad keeps everything in the original box. Sat Nav - ceremoniously taken out for each journey as required, then carefully replaced and all the sticky tape on the box resealed.
He uses a letter opener for all post. He has a special refillable pencil which he must use.

This thread has made me cry with laughter. There's so much that's familiar.

DF also waits until the food is on the table to disappear for 15 mins. It annoys me so much that at mealtimes I give a 10 minute warning. When dinner is ready I wait a few minutes and then we start. If you aren't at the table, we don't wait. I do expect DC to ask if they can leave the table.

DP's dad announces to the whole room "I'm off to the loo for a little while". It means he's going for a poo.
And he and DMIL are shameless about farting :o

Is you partner Anthony from the Royle Family Pseudo?

Ha ha no! FIL doesn't say it with relish, more like he feels like he has to account for his whereabouts at all times! However, you'll be able to work out where he is, because guaranteed you'll need the loo and he'll be in there. They only have one....

Aah right Pseudo not 'Im going for a tom tit' then rolling the newspaper under his arm then?

Definitely not! And the farting is just very matter of fact, with no 'pardon me' or anything - even with non related company in the house!

My DP was brought up by his Grandparents, and we love them dearly, they do many of the things above. This thread has made me laugh and cry, as they are in their 90s now.

DP's idea of interior design was much influenced by them, when we first moved in together in the 90s, instead of buying cheerful things from Ikea like everyone else, he wanted a faux mahogany monolith with a glass front for the displaying of knick knacks/ china (none of which we owned) His lovely GPs donated some of their Tupperware collection which I still use

We lived with them for 6 months when Ds1 was a tiny baby, they were so kind to have us, and I sort of morphed into their routine: cooked breakfast every day, coffee at 11 (with warm milk), all PM activities to be completed in time to watch Countdown and have a little snooze. I became a retired person at 28, it was like being anaesthetised, weird but nice.

I haven't seen my ILs for over a year, then it was dinner out and 30 mins for coffee on our way to the airport - at OH's insistence.

OH, though, does the unplugging thing. He did try to dictate that I must unplug everything in the kitchen, so I asked him to pull the fitted oven out of it's space so that I could unplug it. He saw the light. I see myself as being cruel to be kind, whenever he starts obsessing about the banal I exaggerate it so that he can see he's being rediculous. I just couldn't live with most of the people you good people are putting up with describing here. grew up like that and I can't go back to it

I can see the sense in planning meals if you are busy or on a tight budget, but even then you can allow some flexibility. Oh, and don't get me started on the airing cupboard. OH keep talking about it wistfully, my washing is dried outside with twice the radiation level you get in the UK, it's bone dry if it were to be any drier it would be dust.

Gosh dh has just pissed about for five mins whilst dd and I waited to eat our dinner which was on the table.
I told him I'd put him on this thread so I have.

Random things that either MIL or DPs or DH or I do-

MIL
peels cucumber
warm plates
stores everything in fridge including bread and ketchup
serves children's dinner 30 mins early so it has time to 'cool down' and therefore their food is cold when they get to eat it
Makes different food for children than what she makes for the adults.
if you don't drink your cup of coffee immediately then it is whisked away as it is 'too cold'

DM
never refriderates cooked leftovers from roast dinners, at a push she will put the leftover meat into the microwave to 'stop the cat getting to it'
always serves out of date 'bargains', rarely pays full price for any food
hoards food - I cleared one of her cupboards out last week. One shelf was crammed full of packets. Some dated back to 1998.... She is bound to have gone into the bin after I have gone and got it all back out again.
On the same note she had 15 packets of bread sauce mix - for emergencies? we only have it at xmas..
Stores her clothes wrapped in tissue. Also packs her suitcase by wrapping items in tissue paper.

DF
will not throw out yesterday's paper - consequently he has a pile of old newspapers 2 feet high next to his chair in the living room
Folds his coat and DM's coat beautifully before placing it carefully into the boot of the car, even if the back seat is empty.
Snips out coupons for discount on his daily newspaper if any is available and takes full adavtage of it.

DH
Orders his books by author and date on the shelf.
Likes to collect sets of things - books, CDs DVDs etc and then display on limitless storage units.
Will not let me paint anything in the house, as apparently I don't do it properly.
Leaves it to the last minute to arrive anywhere - airport for instance. Drives me mad as I have to be there hours ahead of time to be sure.

Me
Likes to put items onto the conveyor belt at supermarket in the order they will be packed away at home. So first I put shelf by shelf for the cupbaord, then fridge stuff, then freezer and then bread and so on... They then have to be placed into the correct pack for ease of unpacking. DH is not allowed to help as he gets it wrong. I also do not want staff to help with packing as they get it wrong too.
If dishwasher is not loaded correctly then I have to unload and redo it.
I have to be first to bed on the day I put clean sheets and duvet cover on the bed. I get very upset if DH beats me to it.

I know spb, she is a very loving mum, but her house is spotless! She includes what new bedding she has bought and what she's achieved in the garden in her annual round robin.