I know this topic has been done so many times before, but I thought I would share mine. I visited my dental hygienist today for my three month appointment and she asked (as they do) if I was Ok etc. and had I had a good belated Christmas etc. and asked how I was doing. I answered that I doing Ok, nothing special and that Christmas had been a quiet affair as usual. She then proceeded to tell me about her Christmas (while I was at her mercy and couldn’t answer her). Her story certainly kept me amused whilst she did her bit.
She became a mum to a toddler about 2/3 years ago and reduced her hours to look after the child and to save on nursery fees. Her sister also has a child, who is primary school age and who also reduced her working hours to accommodate school runs and pick-ups. She works part-time in a supermarket (this is relevant). Well, at Christmas, my hygienist has hosted for a number of years because her house is bigger and lately it was because she didn’t want the hassle of taking a small baby to someone else’s place. It was agreed that all parties (my hygienist’s family, three, her sister, three and her parents would contribute to the food cost). They always split the food three ways but agree that the booze, not associated with the meal, would be bought individually. My hygienist likes sparkling wine and treats herself on special occasions (think sparking wine, not Champagne, but like it but a lot cheaper - say about £10/£15 a bottle). The parents buy quality draft beer/lager, which both SILs contribute to) and they also buy a bottle of Bailey’s which her mum drinks (only a couple of glasses and usually takes the bottle home with her, as no-one else drinks it). The red/white wine for the meal is included in the food budget.
Well, every year my hygienist buys the expensive sparkling wine she likes and shares it (bearing in mind her father and two SIL’s only have a token glass and prefer their beer (MIL also only drinks her Bailey’s). Every year the sister brings with her cheap Prosecco or whatever’s available to her in the supermarket where she works, which she buys heavily discounted, as she works there, and looks out for the wine offers. Every year, said sister arrives, and says that the wine she brings isn’t chilled and drinks her sister’s more expensive stuff, and usually takes the wine she brings with her home, as her sister doesn’t really enjoy it.
Anyway (I was just nodding my head - as I couldn’t answer her, whilst she was relating her tale) she told met what she had done. She was absolutely sick over the years of her sister drinking her expensive wine and taking her own wine home that she formed a plan. She bought a couple of bottles of the usual wine her sister brings and put it in the fridge with her usual wine. For the pre-dinner drinks she got her DH to “help” serve the drinks and promptly poured the expensive wine to all the glasses bar her sister, who got the cheaper wine. (Bear in mind that her DH, sister’s husband and parents couldn’t really tell the difference on this token bubbly and were happy with their beers/baileys to drink afterwards).
She said her sister screwed up her nose when she tasted the wine, and said it didn’t taste like the usual stuff her sister served (bearing in mind this was the wine she brought and liked). They had their lovely meal, with red/white wine, and afterwards my hygienist’s husband topped up the beer drinks whilst she was loading the dishwasher. My hygienist and her sister continued to drink wine, but only the sister drank the cheap wine.
On leaving in their taxi (no-one was driving), my hygienist then presented the other cheap bottle of wine that she had bought to her sister to take home (as she always did) saying that, as it wasn’t chilled, they drank her wine instead! My hygienist said, that the picture on her face was a picture, and she couldn’t understand why her sister’s wine wasn’t as good as usual!
In context, she does get on very well with her sister in all other respects, and her sister is far better off financially than her, as her husband has a good job and is well paid, as opposed to my hygienist’s husband who is self-employed and his wage isn’t constant, particularly in the winter months.
As I was rinsing my mouth, I laughed and said her story cheered me up. It wasn’t so much of a “CF revenge” story but getting the comeuppance her sister deserved for all the years drinking her expensive wine, and then taking her wine home too, so never contributed to the sparkling wine, although she and her husband certainly did contribute to the rest of the budget.
Tell me YOUR CF revenge stories, as this one made me smile. Not so much in a nasty way, but how glad you were to see their comeuppance.