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

[ledkr]

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.

Thanks recharge, it still tastes shit though.

This thread is so funny.

My ex MIL used to produce these elasticated sleeve things that she'd made for us to put on our lower arms when we washed up ' to keep our arms clean' .

Watching my parents dish up a meal gives me the screaming ab dabs . Each plate is named after us by Dad, then Mum will repeat the names and always gets them in the wrong order. Cue much huffing from Dad who goes over the names in the 'correct' order.

Dad (pointing at each plate). me, you, Doin , Doin daughter , Doin partner.

Mum: you, me, Doin partner, Doin, Doin daughter.

Then there's the great song and dance of who wants what veg which is always put on the wrong plate anyway. We have to suppress our giggles now.

Oh Sauvignon it is foul. Dry. And cold. Because the gravy is fucking useless.

I have no idea what airing is . Is this exposing washed and dried clothes to warm air for the purpose of what? How dry can laundry get? Oh oh, is MINE dry enough? Is there a special device that I can use to check?

If washing isn't totally dry, it goes in the dryer for 5 mins. Slatternly fluff and folds means washing is dry. Isn't it?

Pil's are exactly the same with brands and usual shops.

They shop in Asda and farmfoods, thats it. Now I know lots of people have a preferred supermarket but they literally don't set foot anywhere else ever. Not even for a pint if milk. Regardless of the fact that there is a tesco, Iceland, sainsburys, aldi, morrisons, lidl, 3 co-ops, and a spar all within a 3 mile radius.

I happened to mention that I liked the new morrisons (it's one of the fancy new ones with the mist things over the veg!)

They declared it "far too dear" as they'd been for a look round when it first opened and the Clover was £2 a tub

FIL has drawn a line on their kettle so the exact amount of water is boiled for their favourite mugs ("I'll have to pour this into my mug, this one makes me wee"). They boil the kettle separately for their two drinks even if 4 hot drinks need making, simply to enjoy the satisfaction of being spot on and be able to say "Yessssss, got it right"

DM turns everything off at the socket, and then complains that her Sky+ failed to record again when she was out/in bed. She seems to think her presence powers electrical items, not what comes through the sockets.

They go to Morrisons at 8am, even though they are retired. Dad has to take the cool bags for the frozen stuff even though the trip home is a mile. In the car.

My dad always has to put his sat mac on even for journeys that he knows like the back of his hand. He faffs and faffs on getting the wires in just the right place, polishing the screen and programming it in. I once suggested that he possibly didn't need to bother putting it on to drive back to his house from mine ( we've been living in the same place for 7 years and P's visit regulally) as the kids were getting antsy but he insists that he needs it on so he knows what the traffic is like... Not that it would make any difference to the route as he wouldn't take an alternative route even if it was predicting 5hr delays.

Not my relations but a friends parents regulally do an inventory of the kitchen cuboards and have a list taped to the inside of the door with what they have and their use by dates. Food must be eaten according to date order and they get very upset if a tin of soup that goes off in May is eaten before a tin that goes off in March even if we were talking about 2020. Nowt queer as folk!

My mother lives with the dustbuster in her hand.

Last time we were at her house, pre-children so years ago, we had more or less just arrived from the UK (she lives in Florida) and my husband had gone to lie down and she starts hoovering. A bare floor that was so clean you could eat off it. I actually had to say 'Mom, husband is trying to sleep!'

And she still didn't stop until the small amount of dust she had spied was gone.

Haha Tee my DM has a trusty Ewbank carpet sweeper and a dustbuster.

Sauvignon - do we share pils?
Also MIL will be up and down all meal rewarding the gravy because it has gone cold.
That everything else was stone cold because she took so long faffing around seems to escape her

Eggrules - you must have an airing cupboard. My DM is still AGHAST that we bought a house without an airing cupboard. She simply cannot compute how we can possibly manage without one (tumble dryer, radiators, cupboards....).

My DM also does the socket switching off... after every time she uses the kettle it is switched off at the wall. Really annoying!

Every now and again my DH snaps with the food weighing/counting (normally towards the end of our annual holiday with DM & DF), and starts questionning why my DM is in charge of deciding how many potatoes he is allowed - SACRE BLEU! My DM just looks completely baffled that anyone may want anymore than has been specifically allocated/planned for.

Sparklingbrook Another weird foible is not keeping beer/lager in the fridge. Noted and agreed. Red wine DOES go in the fridge???

After 25 years, I do not understand my PILs bathroom use/ shower schedule. I know they involve:
Priority pecking order(most important, maybe you shouldn't be getting washed?);
If the bath or the shower is used;
Tile drying protocol;
Volume of hot water usage;
Which towel are to be used and how they are left afterwards;
etc.

The only one I follow is the one I [now] fully understand; toothbrush and toiletries must NOT be left in the bathroom in between daily usage. They have thin lips and about it but we really can't understand what the feck is going on.

I realise I am ranting now, but this thread is seriously cathartic!

BooCanary - an airing cupboard! I have vaguely heard of them but don't know what it is. I don't think I have one.

egg airing, according to MIL means going outside on the line, then in tumble dryer for an hour on high, then ironed on max, then hung on hangers in airing cupboard. You then can't wear it for about 12 hours.

My MIL, when invited for Sunday lunch or Christmas dinner would turn up at 11.30 as lunch should be on the table at 12pm on the dot in her opinin.I started making sure it was ready later and later but she would sit at her seat until it was ready, even though she was encouraged to play with her DGC until it was ready. She would then leave half an hour after finishing the meal, she lived alone and had nothing to rush home for and the DC beg her to stay and play.

When we went there for a meal she would be so anxious and refuse help that it was uncomortable to watch.

Rewarming the gravy

Aaargh! Room temp beer and lager! Yes! I thought it was just us that suffered this at the hands of my DF!

mayaswell it is not just the cupboard I am missing; I had no idea there was a drying ritual and period of abstinence ritual. Is this what happened before central heating?

FIL once spent an entire Christmas sulking because we'd kept beer in the garage, when we knew he likes it at room temperature. There was no option of just waiting for it to warm up, he knew he would have no longer fancied a beer by then. MIL was disappointed with me and whispered 'You know he won't have it cold like the youngsters'. He was in his early 50s then, so not exactly at the point that doing anything out of the ordinary might have been the last thing he did.

Omg. Jean has a ewbank. It lives in the same cupboard as the proper Hoover. If there is dirt on the carpet and it is not one of the days on which proper hoovering is allowed (Tuesdays and Fridays) then the ewbank comes out and it's rubbish. Why not just get the Hoover out and do the job properly?

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.

Ledkr, are we related? Are you actually staying with my BIL and SIL? Sure must be. Surely.

My mum is like this. Everything is planned, dinner is always at 5pm etc etc.

She is horrified that i dont iron my bedsheets and my pjs. She is even more horrified that i dont own an iron at all.

Gets up early then moans that shes tired because "she had a bad night". Shes retired and could lie in til midday if she wanted.

Set days for doing the food shopping , specific days to wash items eg a towels day, a bedding day and so on.

Shes getting worse as she gets older im sure of it.