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.

We had this with PIL. We dont really have roasts. So we get a gravy boat and about four packets of bisto in the post. They also do a roast every Sunday and bicker the entire time. It’s so much work and very tiring but you know, Sunday.

My own mother is like that with the plates and coasters and sitting down to eat.

Great thread! My nan used to reuse bread wrappers. And would double/triple wrap anything she gave you. All her kitchen cupboards and fridge were almost empty so god knows what she ate. She lived to 93.
My other nan who is still alive at 97 and going strong, does similar to another uptrend. She makes a pan of something or other ,leaves on the hob and eats ot all week!! Not refrigerated! She has never ever been ill!
My mum is now mid 70s and is the worst of the lot. Everything has a place, strict daily routine that they struggle to deviate from even when my son was in intensive care and I needed their help.
If you don't drink your cup of tea within the first minute she gives it to you, she keeps reminding you about it.
They have a brand new dishwasher that is never used . They use it to store oven ware.
They keep trays and pans and a chip pan will old fat /lard in them and reuse it multiple times .
Dad keeps every screw etc he sees even though he hates doing diy and is terrible at it. He has a double garge full to the brim . It makes me sad to think when hes gone the whole lot will just go in a skip or to the scrap man.
Even if my mum is terribly ill, she would never ever sleep during the day and absolutely never get into bed during the day. I love lying on my bed multiple times a day lol

Never?

That’s dangerous on a slip road joining the motorway.

Not in 2013 I didn't.

Ahhhh so nice to see this thread again. I am 'upthread' with a different name and I've just had a lovely hour scrolling back though.

Sadly my lovely parents are no longer with us but when clearing out their stuff I found a stack of papers in a draw in a console table in the living room, and each one was a hand drawn diagram of something in our house - an appliance or similar - with my dads annotations. My favourites were one of the Microwave with the words 'Microwave - alternative to oven' at the top. He had re-created all the symbols but seemed most interested in the defrost function which was very heavily annotated and had had notes like "Is it thoroughly defrosted? Check!!" on it. And my second favourite was a very detailed one of the remote control for the TV - each button was drawn and labelled, but also had annotations like "DO NOT PUSH THIS WHILST RECORDING" and "Press to rewind. Press twice to fast rewind. Three presses is too fast". I have this diagram folded in my purse as we speak.

You would be forgiven for thinking that they had no instruction manuals and that there wasn't a box file in the cupboard with a Dynamo label saying 'Appliance Instructions 1998-Present Day'. I miss them.

Also @LizzieVereker's description has made me chuckle many times over the years. I can relate as it's exactly how my DP was raised and what he thinks 'good looks like' and it's the perfection of the use of 'monolith'.

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)

I need someone like him to come and make an instruction diagram for my TV remote. I only use about four of the buttons and daren't press any of the others in case I never find my way back!

@Piknik - I once did a set of instructions like your dad's, for my mum - so she could watch and record Freeview on her TV. It covered two sides of notepaper, because she needed to use two different remotes - one to switch on the TV, and the other for Freeview and recordings.

To my knowledge, she never once recorded a programme!

The sweetest thing is that he had also done diagrams for my mum for household things he considered 'her domain'. He was actually a very 50/50% housework dad - cooking and cleaning possibly more than mum, but he would never dream of using a kitchen appliance like a blender or magimix. So these were mums things and there is a diagram of the Magimix with lots of --> ? pointing at things he didn't know the function of and never got round to checking.

They are beautifully drawn actually. I might actually frame a few a stick them in the loo!

It sounds like his notes would make a fantastic book!