That annoying guest - what is their christmas crime?

[MrsWhites]

So everyone has a guest or someone in the family if you don’t host who will do something seemingly innocent that will piss everyone off? Who is yours and why? I’ll go first -

My sister because she uses all the gravy and doesn’t get off her arse to go and make more! No matter how much gravy we put out she will always use most of it! It’s got to the point now where we put the gravy boars furthest away from her so everyone else gets a go first!

My sister and BIL who at every opportunity bring up injustice in the world, politics and how we shouldn’t be enjoying Xmas day because of all the starving children in the world… why are you here then helping yourself to all the food and bucketfuls of wine you haven’t contributed to?!

You can get them in bars. https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/quality-street-green-triangle-chocolate-sharing-bar-84g/115049752?srsltid=AfmBOorB5NJreolfym81mP_mTG6mu6VpUpenqmb-hudI23KoFg4mtAGv

Probably because you invite them. Why do you?

Or fill your own tin at John Lewis.

Oh wow thank you. Christmas made for me now.

Annoyingly it’s not up to me, my mum is the host! When I take over hosting (hopefully soon!) they will not be ‘gracing us’ with their presence…

That is horrendous. Did they show up?

Ah, I see!

DP used to do this - fine in his own house, his house, his rules. Then he moved in with me… nope.
His “way round” drove me mad, so every single time I went upstairs I turned it back round to my way. 3 years living together, he gets it right!

What does it matter?

I don’t have an annoying guest thank goodness. Love them all being here!

@Scout2016

"It's not even like pigs are my favourite animal or anything."

Well they should be!

Is there something wrong with putting a bit of ketchup on the side of your plate on Christmas Day? My dad and I always did this. I didn't realise it was so terrible. Tomato ketchup is far nicer with roast potatoes than some weird jelly made out of berries surely.

No, of course there isn’t, it’s just pure snobbery.

I've no idea - I will never know why she ate it and it was a couple of minutes later she was sick. It was the first Christmas I had with my lovely in-laws and they were mortified.
She's in her 90's now but I've never given her mash since. It's bizarre because she eats roasted and chips with no ill effects 🙄

My mother 'helping' by taking on simple tasks and asking so many bloody questions about them while I"m trying to do something else, my brain is scrambled. Please, just sit down. I'll put the cheese out.

My mother-in-law constantly trying to hug or touch me while I'm holding hot things or turning the potatoes over. I get over-stimulated easily at the best of times, Christmas dials this up to 11. Please, just sit down and touch someone else.

Every year, without fail.

I like hosting but don't want to interact with any of the guests until I'm sat down with a glass of wine.

A lot of these stories are not funny. There are some disgusting and horrible people that you’re inviting into your homes and allowing them to treat you with utter contempt and disrespect. Why?

Yes I know I’m being a fun sponge, the fun police or whatever, but this is truly awful. I don’t understand why so many of you are doormats and putting up with the horrid behaviour - and don't say because they’re FAAMMMIIILY

The ketchup on the Xmas dinner reminds me of a woman I used to work with many moons ago. Her adult children still lived at home and she refused to allow them to smother the food she had cooked, in ketchup. Her words "Im not slaving away in the kitchen just for you to slather ketchup all over it"
Fast forward nearly 50 years and I say the same to my adult children when they come round for a meal 🤣🤣

MIL, I am nc with her and DH very low contact. PIL always had Christmas djnber in their house, just the two of them and we would invite them over usually on the 28th for dinner.

MIL is coeliac. Every year we made sure her dinner /dessert was gluten free and no cross contamination. She questioned everything we gave her. Every year she would go home and ring my DH to say she felt unwell and there must have been cross contamination. The next few days would be spent in bed informing everyone she was 100% coeliac and that we made her unwell. No MIL, perhaps it was the tub of Roses / Quality Street and the Pringles you scoffed when you got home. Glad I don't have to deal with her anymore.

Why, though?
It doesn’t diminish the underlying food in any way. Why would it be ok if you’d just produced oven chips and fishfingers?
Let people (particularly when they’re grown adults) season their food how they please.

My mum is so annoying. I always warn her that dinner will be ready in 15 minutes. She always anounces that she needs a pooh when i am about to serve. She is incapable of flushing the toilet so the bathroom stinks. She never blows her nose so snot dribbles everywhere. I also get subjected to endless monologues.

Exactly!!

Ketchup on a Christmas dinner?! Absolutely rank. Not to mention totally classless.

Yes, because brown sauce is the only sauce that should be on your Christmas dinner.