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This is always one of my favorite threads.  Usually, I just kick back and enjoy some schadenfreude while reading other people's stories.  But this year is different.  My wife and I have been on the ou

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took the boys and the wife to Tahoe for skiing and poker. Best thanksgiving ever.    

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My FIL asked me if I wanted a cup of coffee when I got up this morning. I said yes and he proceeded to pour a cup and put it in the microwave. As he hands it to me he tells me that it was from yesterd

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On 7/13/2019 at 2:58 PM, Lobo said:

Also, let's just all stop and acknowledge that Armybrat's Las Vegas agenda is as fucking boss as anyone else I've known and I have seen some serious partying in that town. . 

+1.  And he conveniently left out the part about doing stripers off Mrs. Brat's ass.  But we know that's part of the agenda.

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On ‎7‎/‎13‎/‎2019 at 8:59 PM, UpperWestside said:

When you say South Dallas what do you mean? 

I was born and spent the first few years of my life in Oak Cliff.  Then the rest was spent between Pleasant Grove in South East Dallas and just south of Dallas in the Desoto/Lancaster Area. After that my mom married a guy in the military and that's where the bases comes in.

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On 7/14/2019 at 8:14 AM, slorch said:

LOlz.

 

people without political buthurtness dominating their lives actually enjoy my company.

Bitchass motherfuckers who get their feelings hurt because we might disagree tend to be pretty uncomfortable.

I don't bring the shit up, but i will respond if asked.  The FoxNews bullshit cited in the post, for example...  it should have never been turned on in the house.

Sorry for CR, but that is what your post is rooted in.

They knew 6 months ago i was going to be there.  They had plenty of time to bail.  Hell, the issue is that they insisted we all be together the whole time.

 

You should have asked your husband to step up and tell the family that the two of you were going to go out and have fun, and if they wanted to join you after their nap, you'd be at (wherever you wanted to go).

 

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18 hours ago, tbone_ said:

I have 3 step siblings all with kids in Houston. Every year we do a group spring break ski trip to Colorado. 15 in the whole crew. 7 kids from 4-14. Not a dud in the bunch. It’s a blast.

 

Y’all need better families.

 

Sounds like good genes.  So, from their point of view there might be one dud in the bunch.

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Damn.  I forgot about this thread until it got resurrected by Slorch.

My wife's grandfather passed away 10+ years ago.  My in-laws inherited his "fish camp".  Double-wide trailer on Toledo Bend.  They've done a great job fixing it up, built a nice metal barn with a 1-bedroom apartment above, new pier and floating dock, etc, but it's still an East Texas double-wide trailer.  In-laws are both retired now, so they spend damn near half their time there.  They love it.  For the last 5+ years, we've spent the 4th of July there.  We'd probably go there more often, but it's a 5-1/2 hr drive and tough to justify for a long weekend.  Plus, accommodations are tight, even when it's just our family of five.  It's usually a nice getaway and something different for our kids.  My oldest loves to fish, so he's in heaven.  In-laws love having us up there and usually cook some fantastic meals.  I have a BIL as well, and he's typically come up there for a day or so over that timeframe. 

Only downside is that the place has had somewhat of a black cloud over it.  Four years ago, my middle son tripped and cut his head open on the floor vent of the double wide trailer.  9 stitches at the Jasper ER.  Two years ago, my oldest son almost lost his pinky finger when the tow rope of the tube my FIL was pulling got wrapped around his finger.  Fileted it to the bone.  27 stitches but avoided surgery.  It was nasty.  So, again, this place is a good / bad place for us.  Chalk this year up to a bad experience.  I guess we're in a biennial cycle.

Within the past three months, BIL has gotten engaged.  He's 33.  She's 30.  She has two kids that are 16 and 13.  You do the math.  Two different daddies (obviously).  They're getting engaged, and my wife volunteered to host the wedding and volunteered me to cater it and officiate it.  This was a result of them "not having any money" even though he makes $80K+/yr and she has a decent job as a phlebotomist.  That's a little back story for what went down over the 4th.

All four of them are coming up the day after us.  My family is now cramming in the 3-bedroom double wide with the in-laws, and BIL and his family has the 1-BR apartment.  They have the better set-up, but we're fine on our end.  I have a special needs son who needs his own room, so my wife and I are in another small bedroom, our daughter is on a pallet at the foot of our bed and my oldest is going to sleep on the couch in the living room.  All good.

Upon arrival, soon-to-be SIL walks up and first words out of her mouth to me are, "did your brother-in-law tell you that he knocked me up?".  Awesome.  Let's break out the champagne.  Their two shit-head boxers come barreling around the corner and immediately start fucking with my lab who's one of the most laid-back chill dogs ever.  They instantly start growling and biting at him and we have to separate them.  And they bring their cat.  Who the fuck travels with a cat?

Shit (kind of) settles down, and they want to do their cake tasting in preparation for the wedding.  My wife made six different mini cakes for them to try so they could choose which ones they wanted for the bride & groom cake.  This was a logistical feat just to transport them to the lake.  BIL takes his first bite, spits it out, and says "this tastes like ass, it has carrots in it".  Well, no shit.  It's a fucking carrot cake.   My wife bites her tongue, but you can see it starting to fester.

Later that evening, my son and the 13 YO soon-to-be cousin are out fishing on the dock.  We see my son walking back at a brisk pace.  He comes walking up with tears welling up in his eyes.  He's shirtless, and he turns around.  He has a topwater lure with BOTH treble hooks firmly embedded in his back.  Dipshit cousin thinks he can out-fish / out-cast my son and is trying to show off and snags the shit out of him even though he was on the opposite side of the dock.  I still don't know how it happened.  Somehow, my FIL and I were able to get the treble hooks out.  It required cutting off barbs and pushing them through the skin.  He was brused and bleeding, but we avoided an ER visit.  So, that was a small victory.

It's been an eventful day, so about 11 PM, my family is ready for bed.  My oldest (treble hook victim) wants to go to sleep.  We're shutting it down for the night.  BIL throws a hissy fit because he can't stay up late and watch TV on the only TV in the joint (living room where my son is sleeping).  He storms off to the barndominium cussing like a sailor.  He tells me that he, "can't believe I'm raising such a pussy for a son."  WHAT?!?!?  I follow him up the hill and we exchange words.  It didn't come to fisticuffs, but it's the closest I've come to slugging him.

Next day, things seem to have calmed down.  After lunch, his boys want to go tubing.  My son joins.  BIL is nowhere to be found.  I drag them around the lake for 2+ hours.  We have a great time.  We come back and I'm ready for a cold beer.  I come in and BIL is asleep on the couch in the middle of the living room.  I'm trying to be the bigger man and I try to be quiet, but somehow I wake him and he says, "can you make any more noise?"  It's fucking on.  I go out on the patio and crank up some Willie Nelson.  I turn it up to 11 ten feet from where he's sleeping.  FUCK.  HIM.

My wife is helping my MIL to prep for the evening's fish fry.  My wife is making dip.  Now roused from his slumber, BIL comes to take a bite while she's still prepping it and proceeds to tell her how fucking disgusting it is.  My wife (who is an incredible cook) loses her shit.  She drags him outside.  I miss the start of this b/c I'm pitching washers and enjoying Willie.  All I catch is him calling her a "ThunderCunt".  While that's an awesome insult, it's not so awesome when it's directed to your wife.  I drop my washers and set down my beer, but by the time I get over there, my wife is on him like a spider monkey.  She is lambasting this poor, pathetic dipshit with the full fury of 33 years of pent up anger.  I just sat back and watched.  Soon-to-be SIL comes out and gets caught in the crossfire from my wife.  She gets an ear full as well.  It was a thing of beauty.

BIL and SIL head up the hill to the barndominium.  Thank goodness, all of our kids are out on the dock with FIL and missed the shit storm.  BIL comes back down, tail between his legs, a few hours later and apologizes profusely.  Says he's off his meds, stressed out by the new kid on the way and the wedding and SIL just lost her job.  Whatever.  Doesn't give you an excuse to act like an asshole.  They leave the next morning.  The rest of the stay was peaceful and quiet and we caught fish and swam and did all the normal lake things.  

So, as it stands now, we're still hosting the wedding.  Invites have been sent and my wife didn't want it to seem like she was the bitch that caused the shit storm.  Also, my MIL is the consummate enabler and basically guilted my wife into keeping it on the calendar.  BUT, we're not catering for them.  And I'm not officiating.  And neither of us want anything to do with him for the foreseeable future other than the wedding.  And, I booked them a room at the JW Marriott for the night of the wedding using my points.  And that's been cancelled.  The end.  

 

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Next day, things seem to have calmed down.  After lunch, his boys want to go tubing.  My son joins.  BIL is nowhere to be found.  I drag them around the lake for 2+ hours.  We have a great time.  We come back and I'm ready for a cold beer.  I come in and BIL is asleep on the couch in the middle of the living room.  I'm trying to be the bigger man and I try to be quiet, but somehow I wake him and he says, "can you make any more noise?"  It's fucking on.  I go out on the patio and crank up some Willie Nelson.  I turn it up to 11 ten feet from where he's sleeping.  FUCK.  HIM.

My wife is helping my MIL to prep for the evening's fish fry.  My wife is making dip.  Now roused from his slumber, BIL comes to take a bite while she's still prepping it and proceeds to tell her how fucking disgusting it is.  My wife (who is an incredible cook) loses her shit.  She drags him outside.  I miss the start of this b/c I'm pitching washers and enjoying Willie.  All I catch is him calling her a "ThunderCunt".  While that's an awesome insult, it's not so awesome when it's directed to your wife.  I drop my washers and set down my beer, but by the time I get over there, my wife is on him like a spider monkey.  She is lambasting this poor, pathetic dipshit with the full fury of 33 years of pent up anger.  I just sat back and watched.  Soon-to-be SIL comes out and gets caught in the crossfire from my wife.  She gets an ear full as well.  It was a thing of beauty.

This is where your story got REALLY good.  If I were you, I would have taken my beer, gone right over to them and just popped a squat and watched it.  I love it when adult siblings get in fights.  I just wish my wife would do this with her sisters.

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I have a feeling the 2019 version of this thread will be very good.

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On 7/13/2019 at 9:09 AM, slorch said:

First time on a family vacation with multiple families involved, staying at mega house in NM.  This vacation was planned half a year ago, and we followed through on it despite having my MIL's funeral this past Monday. It was supposed to have no children, with an emphasis on the girl cousins on my wife's side of family getting together. One of them started to bring one of their kids, but caught on that this was not what everyone else wanted for the vacation.  They actually did not come at all, which is fine.  We all get here on the following Tuesday.  Everything's cool, but they want to go to bed around 9:30 PM.  Hey, we just had a major emotional event with the funeral and it it has been particularly exhausting for my wife and SIL.  I get it.  We crash and start the real vacation on Wed AM.

I wake up at 6AM Texas time...because that's when I virtually always get up when I'm not working.  I piddle on the computer, sit outside on the deck and watch deer coming in the eat the corn from below the 2nd story deck.  We're in the mountains and it's about 58 degrees.  Perfect.  Absolutely refreshing on vacation. Everyone else starts getting up around 9, we visit, and then everyone gets showered and dressed to go into town at 11:00AM for lunch.  The town has a crapton of shops and places to look, with an emphasis on New Mexico/ SW culture and decor.  I hate shopping, but when I am here with the wife, enjoy meandering through the shops and looking at what they have,  Wife is completely looking forward to shopping all day, or at least from lunch till dinner.  This is her wheelhouse for vacation fun time.

We eat lunch and  go to one furniture store which has some really, really cool stuff that we like. we are there for 45 min or so.  BIL has to go back to house for some meds, which is about 10 miles away up the mountain.  OK, whatever.  I am the DD for the trip, so I take him.  When we get to the house, he says he's going to take a nap and he'll catch us at dinner.  No worries.  I go back down to catch up with the ladies. I get back and the other ladies are ready to go back to house... it is 2:30.  Really?  My wife is disappointed, but whatever.  maybe everyone is still tired from the funeral( and week preceding.)  We go back to house and within 15 min, everyone is asleep except wife and I.  WTF?  I am all about resting up and getting refreshed on vacation, but I didn't come all the way out here to fucking sleep all gotdam day. You motherfuckers didn't even get out of the rack until 9.  So...I start drinking.  LOlz.

It gets up to about 95 that day, which is very warm for the area.  AC is set on 78 and doors are wide open towards the back deck, which is usually awesome when the highs are in the 70's/80's. AC has no chance to keep up. I am sweating my ass off...on vacation.  Wife can see I am starting to get pissed/ increase pace on the beer.  We talk and I tell her I understand all of the tiredness of the others and what not, but I am not doing that all day for the rest of the week  We have 3 vehicles and we are not locked in to doing everything together, especially if that is limited to 3 hours of fun shit per day.  Nobody is more than 6 years older than I am.  I am 48.  This fucking place is starting to feel like an old folks home.

Thursday- cold front blows in and it is freaking awesome in the low 70's all day.  Doors are shut because it is too cold.  Are you fucking kidding me?  It is spectacular weather versus a Texas summer and NOW you want to close the doors out to the deck? I open every window in our bedroom and turn the fan on...LOlz  Same morning schedule and we drop the ladies off after lunch while my BIL and I go to GoCart/ arcade place.  I play pinball for about 3 games and offer to pay for his games, but he cannot see the game in what was admittedly terribad lighting.  We go ride the go-carts which is pretty fun.  We do 2 races.  "We better go check on the girls..."  Waaat?  It's been like an hour.  We show up and the ladies are in a small winery.  they had only gone to 2 shops.  "welp.  Let's go back up to the house..."

OMFG!!!  Even my wife is wondering WTF.   We get up to the house and I tell everyone I am leaving and going to casino.  i leave for about 3-4 hours, get back at 7 pm.  Dinner is half over and they are getting ready to call it a night. Unbelievable.

Yesterday...virtually the same routine, only when we get back to the house, BIL turns on Foxnews and insists that we should catch up on current events.  At this point, I feel like I am in a very, very bad movie spoofing how rotten vacations can be. I tell wife I 'm not sitting there watching the agitation channel all afternoon.  We (thankfully) decide to all go out to casino and try their very nice taproom and eat dinner.

Dinner was nice and the drinks were excellent.  When we got there though, we went in the casino and it was already, "Isn't it time to go eat?"  "There is nothing to do here."

I'm sorry we left your fucking nap mat at the house you motherfuckers.

We had debated going home today after lunch or tomorrow.  Yeah, we gone today.  I cannot handle this any more.  All that's missing is Nurse Ratchet.  I guess the scary part is wondering if I am that close to being "old."  I swear it was 3-4 hours of activity per day and then it was nap time.  Fuck that.  Never again. I hung out with my grandparents a lot of my life and they were way the fuck more active than that at a much older age.  We like doing shit on vacation... not sitting at the house all fucking day. WE COULD DO THAT AT FUCKING HOME!!!! We went on vacation to do things we don't get to see and do all of the time.

Any of you assholes go on vacation to sleep?  I mean 4-5 days in a row?  grown ass adults with no kids...

If you ARE limited in your desire for activities, DO NOT insist that we all do everything together.  This is what we're doing... you can come and go as you please.

It's a long ass rant, and I apologize; but Christ almighty, I do not understand people sometimes.

 

This post covered it all.  There was a spot in the beginning that made me feel calm and relaxed....like a vacation should.   There were parts that I could feel the aggravation.  There were parts where I could feel and smell the cold fresh air.

Of course, unfortunately there's the part where I could feel the urge to go maniacally homicidal.

Well done Slorch, I felt like I was right there with you.

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2 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Anyone else's 70 year old drunk as hell father go up to an asian family, make squint eyes, and say "ching chong chow" in their baby's face?

No, but when we got to Nashville last week, we were waiting for my MIL's boyfriend to come pick her up from the hotel at which we were staying.  Two boys and I were hanging out by the truck while my wife got the room key.  Two very nice black women who had just finished their shifts as housecleaners walked by and started talking to my youngest about his stuffed animal.  They were really sweet, asked his name, what his stuffed animal's name was, etc... They then proceeded about 15 more feet to a bus stop.  MIL comes out and yells, "Were they asking for money!?!?"

F's sake.

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On 7/13/2019 at 12:21 PM, Player said:

Sounds like the rest of the group hit their recommended daily allowance of slorch, and hit the eject button. LOlz.

Well, the jerk store called and said they were out of allowance for you, something, something, something...

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On 7/14/2019 at 12:28 AM, Lobo said:

Yeah, like TrashMaster G pointed out.....I assume you meant pharma rep.  Like one of those 35 year olds who aged out of her Hooters uniform so she got some smart fitted polos, an expense account, and some free samples and works outta the house in that she sets up calls to myriad medical centers around her to bring Johnny Carinos and some free samples of Fukitol-tH?  

Or are you talking about a licensed, degree holding Pharmacist, who has the state board under the impression her business and dispensary is located in her home?  If so, there's a lot more going on here than her mowing habits.  She set up a compounding practice and she ain't selling antibiotics.  

No shit, name, address, and phone number please.

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16 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

No, but when we got to Nashville last week, we were waiting for my MIL's boyfriend to come pick her up from the hotel at which we were staying.  Two boys and I were hanging out by the truck while my wife got the room key.  Two very nice black women who had just finished their shifts as housecleaners walked by and started talking to my youngest about his stuffed animal.  They were really sweet, asked his name, what his stuffed animal's name was, etc... They then proceeded about 15 more feet to a bus stop.  MIL comes out and yells, "Were they asking for money!?!?"

F's sake.

'No. Would you buy them if slavery was still legal?'

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2 hours ago, Spaulding Smails said:

 I still don't know how it happened.  Somehow, my FIL and I were able to get the treble hooks out.  It required cutting off barbs and pushing them through the skin.  He was brused and bleeding, but we avoided an ER visit.  So, that was a small victory.

So, as it stands now, we're still hosting the wedding.   

Treble hooks ordeal sounds incredibly painful. Your son is a trooper. Glad he's ok.

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Forgot about this thread.

Only thing I have to update is that we went to the in laws boat over Memorial Day and I sheepishly got the MIL admit to that she loaned my BIL some cash to buy weed because he "needed" it.  He's 27, works about 8 months out of the year, and lives at home.

I remember back to the good old days when I was going to law school and working 30 hours a week on top of that, and there was clearly something wrong with me because I wouldn't spend $500 to fix the AC in my $2000 car.

Smails, that story was epic.

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On 7/14/2019 at 8:20 PM, tbone_ said:

I have 3 step siblings all with kids in Houston. Every year we do a group spring break ski trip to Colorado. 15 in the whole crew. 7 kids from 4-14. Not a dud in the bunch. It’s a blast.

 

Y’all need better families.

 

So you're the family asshole eh?

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17 hours ago, Spaulding Smails said:

BIL and SIL head up the hill to the barndominium.  Thank goodness, all of our kids are out on the dock with FIL and missed the shit storm.  BIL comes back down, tail between his legs, a few hours later and apologizes profusely.  Says he's off his meds, stressed out by the new kid on the way and the wedding and SIL just lost her job.  Whatever.  Doesn't give you an excuse to act like an asshole.  They leave the next morning.  The rest of the stay was peaceful and quiet and we caught fish and swam and did all the normal lake things.  

On the one hand, I'd like BIL to get back on whatever meds he needs, on the other hand I greatly desire on off the meds BIL wedding adventure.

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Timely thread:  I posted last week we've got pretty good family relations except for 2 people, a bitch of a step mother, and a conniving, bitch of a sister in law....

Dad has a river house.  We don't go often because the step monster is a bitch.  My brother, who lives 4 hours away in NC. asked him a week ago if anyone was planning on using the river house the first weekend in Aug. (it has 3 bedrooms and a futon).  Nobody was gonna be there that weekend so we (my brothers family, and me and the wife would like both of the extra bedrooms for Friday and Saturday).  Dad says, no problem, glad you can come down.

Fast forward to yesterday, and my brother says hey, let's cook dad a belated birthday dinner on Saturday afternoon (his actual birthday will be a week before that), and take him fishing with a buddy of ours who lives there.  So, he sends out a group text saying hey everybody, dad told us nobody was using the cottage that weekend so we're gonna use it, and we want anyone who can make it/ doesn't have plans to come down for the day, and evening to have dinner, and go fishing. Not a big deal if you can't make it, it's just casual, and kinda last minute planning. 

The half brothers wife says they have plans already, but will cancel them to come down for the dinner (it's only about 90 minutes from town to the river house). The step sister says I'm already gonna to be in the area at another party, but will cancel, and come to the dinner for dad, she lives about a half hour from the river house.

My brother says great, we'll buy all the food, and have a friend cook everything for us 'cause he's a friggin great cook, and he's our fishing boat captain that day. Just chip in for a portion of the food, no pot luck !! (the sister in law would bring a bag of potato chips while we're supplying scallops, shrimp, fish, crabs, etc.if she could get away with it).

I tell my brother he better send out one last group text REITERATING that he already asked dad if anyone was gonna be there that weekend, so we wouldn't be stepping on anyones toes had they already made plans to be there. Brothers last message was:  Just reminding everyone since no one was planning on using the cottage that weekend we're taking the extra bedrooms Friday and Saturday, so there isn't an extra bedroom, but of course everyones welcome to crash on sofas, the floor, set up a tent for the kids under the cottage, etc. etc. We'll make it work out.

First thing from the step brother is who's gonna take dad, and the wife back to Richmond after dinner.  Of course they have their bedroom as always. End of subject. I send a PM to the brother betting him $20 there will be a scheme hatched or bitch fit thrown within 24 hours from the conniving SIL. 

This a.m. brother gets a message from said SIL that she's irritated that she won't be able to spend more time with my brothers daughters (all day, and into the evening apparently isn't enough time). She feels that she's been made to feel unwelcome that she can't stay overnight (which of course is BS), and how do my brother or I get to determine who stays in the bedrooms anyway  ??!! (we didn't, dad said no one was using them so we claimed them).

She's welcome to spend all day with the girls (who don't want shit to do with her in the first place 'cause they don't like her, and she's a dog on your leg, trying to weasel herself into anything you do).  The half brother wasn't dating her more than a couple weeks when she started calling my father, and step mother, mom and dad, she has some issues.

They're welcome to crash there that night, there just aren't enough bedrooms for everyone to have one, (and she already said they had no plans to come down anyway).  It's a small cottage so that's going to be tight if they do.  Why they want to suddenly stay is beyond me.  Actually I'm pretty sure she's angling to make sure they get the cottage if anything happens to my dad, so us being there is a threat to her perceived future ownership.

This is potentially gonna be no fun while she's there, stuffing her fat face, and bitching about why can't they can't have a bedroom. The step mother will just sit on her perch, and bitch she doesn't like the water, and make very lame remarks, generally making me, and the brother feel unwelcome.

We're gonna fish a looooooong time that day, smoke a lot of weed, and I'm going to drink a lot of Mountgay and tonics,  if I have my way.  She nor the SIL will go fishing, so that's nice at least, but the wives will have to endure their passive aggressive BS while we're fishing.

 

 

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We haven't had a group family vacation since The Incident.  We were in Colorado with wife's parents and brother's family.  As I've mentioned before, they're all overly polite, except MIL is very passive aggressive and everyone accommodates that. They also have a downright pathological need to eat meals together.  ALWAYS.  When we're trying to plan activities, no one actually ever expresses a preference, they just say, "We could do this..." and so we waste massive amounts of time talking about what we could do instead of doing things.  And when it's time to pick a restaurant, everyone will say, "Oh, any place is fine," even though it's not, because MIL can't eat spicy foods and basically won't eat any meat except chicken.  So it's about the third day of the vacation, and I'm already frazzled by two days of this, and I'm starving, so it's time to eat.  And the any-place-is-fines start up, and I suggest a place and get "No, Mama is not going to like that place."  I suggest another and get, "No, they won't have anything Mama will like."  And I lose it.  "What happened to ANY PLACE IS FINE?!!??"  Told them I was going to find food and they could eat where they wanted to eat.  Wife tried to stop me and I told her to piss off, that I was DONE.  10 minutes later, she found me in the bar with a plate of nachos and my third cocktail.  She didn't talk to me for the rest of the trip, so win-win.

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44 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

We haven't had a group family vacation since The Incident.  We were in Colorado with wife's parents and brother's family.  As I've mentioned before, they're all overly polite, except MIL is very passive aggressive and everyone accommodates that. They also have a downright pathological need to eat meals together.  ALWAYS.  When we're trying to plan activities, no one actually ever expresses a preference, they just say, "We could do this..." and so we waste massive amounts of time talking about what we could do instead of doing things.  And when it's time to pick a restaurant, everyone will say, "Oh, any place is fine," even though it's not, because MIL can't eat spicy foods and basically won't eat any meat except chicken.  So it's about the third day of the vacation, and I'm already frazzled by two days of this, and I'm starving, so it's time to eat.  And the any-place-is-fines start up, and I suggest a place and get "No, Mama is not going to like that place."  I suggest another and get, "No, they won't have anything Mama will like."  And I lose it.  "What happened to ANY PLACE IS FINE?!!??"  Told them I was going to find food and they could eat where they wanted to eat.  Wife tried to stop me and I told her to piss off, that I was DONE.  10 minutes later, she found me in the bar with a plate of nachos and my third cocktail.  She didn't talk to me for the rest of the trip, so win-win.

I just go isolate myself in the upstairs bedroom when the in laws family drama/alcoholism/bi polar disorder all comes out in one fell swoop over Christmas. The wife always gets super pissed at me just up there drinking beer and watching ballgames but self care uber alles bitches. Holidays should be relaxing.

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My in-laws visited last week.  My wife told them they could come for 3 days so they booked a 6 day trip.  We told them if they came they had to take the kids and do something each day because one of us would be working at home every day.  On the second day MIL called and said they'd done everything on their list so could they just hang at the house the rest of the day.

FIL hijacked the remote every night and watched NBADL to "scout for his fantasy team." MIL would order a big meal at every restaurant we went to and then take 2 bites and act like it was dog food.  When they left they asked when we were coming to visit.  Yeah, we'll get back to you!

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18 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

They cant hang at home with your kids?

 

 

Nice of your wife to put a day limit on how long her parents can stay there. You both sound like a couple of turds

 

While I'm trying to work? Nah, it's not optimal to have 4 people hanging in my house being loud as fuck because my in-laws don't understand basic courtesy.

Her parents are fucking assholes that have treated her like shit her entire life. Her mom has called her fat, called her ugly, attacked us as parents, criticized our marriage, made fun of my grandfather when he died, called my mom names for no reason....

They have 3 daughters and only one talks to them more than a few times a year.

I could list 20 years of them being pieces of shit but it's easier to forget they exist for 360 days a year.

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2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

We haven't had a group family vacation since The Incident.  We were in Colorado with wife's parents and brother's family.  As I've mentioned before, they're all overly polite, except MIL is very passive aggressive and everyone accommodates that. They also have a downright pathological need to eat meals together.  ALWAYS.  When we're trying to plan activities, no one actually ever expresses a preference, they just say, "We could do this..." and so we waste massive amounts of time talking about what we could do instead of doing things.  And when it's time to pick a restaurant, everyone will say, "Oh, any place is fine," even though it's not, because MIL can't eat spicy foods and basically won't eat any meat except chicken.  So it's about the third day of the vacation, and I'm already frazzled by two days of this, and I'm starving, so it's time to eat.  And the any-place-is-fines start up, and I suggest a place and get "No, Mama is not going to like that place."  I suggest another and get, "No, they won't have anything Mama will like."  And I lose it.  "What happened to ANY PLACE IS FINE?!!??"  Told them I was going to find food and they could eat where they wanted to eat.  Wife tried to stop me and I told her to piss off, that I was DONE.  10 minutes later, she found me in the bar with a plate of nachos and my third cocktail.  She didn't talk to me for the rest of the trip, so win-win.

Have you tried making Mama pick the restaurant?

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While I'm trying to work? Nah, it's not optimal to have 4 people hanging in my house being loud as fuck because my in-laws don't understand basic courtesy.
Her parents are fucking assholes that have treated her like shit her entire life. Her mom has called her fat, called her ugly, attacked us as parents, criticized our marriage, made fun of my grandfather when he died, called my mom names for no reason....
They have 3 daughters and only one talks to them more than a few times a year.
I could list 20 years of them being pieces of shit but it's easier to forget they exist for 360 days a year.
Oh.. disregard my post hahaha
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2 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

While I'm trying to work? Nah, it's not optimal to have 4 people hanging in my house being loud as fuck because my in-laws don't understand basic courtesy.

Her parents are fucking assholes that have treated her like shit her entire life. Her mom has called her fat, called her ugly, attacked us as parents, criticized our marriage, made fun of my grandfather when he died, called my mom names for no reason....

They have 3 daughters and only one talks to them more than a few times a year.

I could list 20 years of them being pieces of shit but it's easier to forget they exist for 360 days a year.

Sounds exactly like my parents.

They piss and moan about me not coming around. Then act like complete cunts when I do.

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2 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

While I'm trying to work? Nah, it's not optimal to have 4 people hanging in my house being loud as fuck because my in-laws don't understand basic courtesy.

Her parents are fucking assholes that have treated her like shit her entire life. Her mom has called her fat, called her ugly, attacked us as parents, criticized our marriage, made fun of my grandfather when he died, called my mom names for no reason....

They have 3 daughters and only one talks to them more than a few times a year.

I could list 20 years of them being pieces of shit but it's easier to forget they exist for 360 days a year.

I understand.  I'm not sure I'd want them taking my kids away from the house though.

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I actually felt really guilty about my drunk post from 2 days ago.  I normally don't talk behind the backs of others.  That being said, this thread does serve as a bit of - crap, I'm drawing a blank on the word... 

Did I mention that my 40 year-old SIL is decorating her house in a Harry Potter theme?  No, she doesn't have children.

Also, my MIL spent last weekend at Comicon or some shit.

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 Harry Potter theme is really not that bad    

 There’s an outside chance are young family will buy the house in a few years and actually not mind that that is the Decour 

 My 41-year-old sister-in-law has decorated her home in a farm dog theme.   As they have no children and are considering moving back to her hometown, I can only assume the resale market will involve exclusively serial killers And or the president of the James Herriot fan club of eastern Kansas.  Yep, same girl that wants to do a family reunion in Branson.  I offered Austin, Texas but she felt there’s “not that much to do down there.”   

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