I sympathise, I do, they sound awful.
But "not feel[ing] like I have to walk on egg-shells in my own gaff" is a You problem. I'd be making omelettes by now.
Agreed, this thread is just a bit.....
Growaset and tell them.
Years ago me and the bride had a tiny flat, one bed. The loo was is an alcove in the middle, it had a door but it was so small shutting the door was tricky, so we never bothered.
The in-laws came to stay, and for a year the neighbouring flat was an air BnB so we booked it for them. It was 20 seconds door to door.
One morning they were round after breakfast and suddenly decided they wanted a dump. Both of them. Did they walk 20 seconds back to their own loo? Did they ****. They queued up to shit in my tiny flat
I was ****ing raging
Ah bugga.
They've gone, but still giving me grief.
Sat down to watch some stuff on TV. HDD empty! Then it dawns on me. There is stuff on there. 7 mins of some Olympic event. Someone tried to time shift TV. Usually I have a 64gb usb stick in but I'd mistakenly left my HDD connected. Appears someone saw a message to "format" the HDD so guess what... Wiped 2Tb so they can record less than ten mins of half an Olympic event. Wife says that's my fault, apparently.
They’ve gone, but still giving me grief.
Just set them to vibrate or silent, problem solved.
I think a local STWer to your in-laws needs to head round with the frozen sausages and piss frisbee.
(Google's piss frisbee)
Ahhhhh Well if anyone's down Cornwall way I'll send their address and you can piss-frisbee them. The only issue is they would not really notice the smell over the existing smell of x day old piss. So more "piss-frisbee to the power of 10". Although laundry has been done and the house has been Dettol-sprayed. Now my house smells of Dettol and piss.
...I mean who sees the option to format someone else's HDD and thinks "aye, let's do it!". Thank fk for a fibre connection and 1000Mbps. Or at least thinks "I don't know what format means, or what it might do, so I'll choose the no option".
This was highly entertaining, thank you.
Although I do feel sorry for you - they sound awful.
This reminds me of the time I against my better judgement agreed to go on holiday with my In Laws.In fairness to me we had gone to Florida about a decade prior and had quite a good time, lots of time round the pool with my young at the time kids, some time at the theme parks (their stamina roughly matched the stamina of the kids, bit of free childcare.
Cut to this time - tail end of COVID - decide to rent a holiday house. By the time we put in all the must haves from their end (close to stuff but away from "people") along with it being dog friendly the old middle of Venn diagram was looking mighty slim.
Ended up on the edge of a village in Pembrokeshire - nice part of the world, plenty of beaches and places to go.
Did they want to leave the house? Apparently not. They literally spent almost all their non-eating waking hours glued to their iPads, mainly on Facebook and audibly complaining about the GBNews talking points of the day.
Some slightly odd behavior from the Stepmother-in-law in relation to her dog. Feeding it a ham sandwich with a knife a fork was a highlight. Why it has skin and gut issues is a mystery though... :rolleyes:
I have no idea why they bothered to be honest - they just did the same things they would have done had they stayed at home.
We just left them to it to be honest and went out and had fun.
There surely must be a better term for a piss-frisbee. Pissbee? Friswee?
Frispee (freezepee)
I never quite understand all the Aussie "soap dodging poms" jokes. Now I do.
This is how my last family break ended...
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/well-that-ended-well/
...never, ever, again!!! 🙂
My daughter still won't have anything to do with my niece.
This thread as well as making me chuckle reminds me how lucky I am with my inlaws (actually not that lucky as my Fil was an absolute diamond but sadly passed away 18 years ago way too soon) and my Mil whilst a bit scatty would certainly not format my TV HDD (if I had one - who has those anymore???) and spends her time arranging coffee mornings for Syrian refugees (in Holland).
How can anyone not wash properly for that long? I get itchy if I wear the same T shirt for longer than about 10 hours......
No idea. Hell, I've put on freshly washed t-shirts and changed cos they don't smell right!
Taking a positive - at least they came. I invited my folks over for Christmas but Mom's decided she doesn't want to fly and Dad says her "confidence isn't there any more". I mean, how confident do you need to be to sit on your bum for 24 hours, drinking and eating and watching movies? That's essentially all she does at home hehe. Sad that she won't come as we can't afford to fly back to UK any time soon, no interest in seeing the grandkids. 🙁
Can't pick ya family can ya?
We have a family member who takes an annual bath. As a teenager it was a joke, however as I got older and this person occasionally came to stay in my house, it wasn't pleasant. Finding bits of dead skin from their feet in the bed was a definite 'vomit' making moment. Apologies if you're eating while reading this.
Sad aphex_2K that your mother feels unable to fly to see her grandchildren, but I suspect there's more to it than that.
People ask, was it hard for me to move to Aus.
Nope. I get as much contact from them as I did when I lived in the same town. They even moved from the Midlands to South Wales to be CLOSER to my bro, but have been there twice in over a year! But moan at him that he must have "forgotten where they live" if he doesn't go see them.
I can't fix them. They won't even try, so I enjoy the sun and the beaches and zero comms.
Can’t pick ya family can ya?
Just keep on going.
They even moved from the Midlands to South Wales to be CLOSER to my bro, but have been there twice in over a year! But moan at him that he must have “forgotten where they live” if he doesn’t go see them.
My dad and step mum live about 20 minutes from my brother and his wife. 20 minutes of empty country roads. They've been that close (or closer) for the best part of 15 years.
They see each other (planned) about once every two years. They occasionally bump into each other walking their respective mutts about once a quarter... Talk for about two minutes and then make their excuses and leave.
Dad occasionally tries to organise a visit, you know, like you do. Mothers day, Fathers day, Easter, Christmas, New year. Except my brother runs various restaurants, and has done for the last 20+ years... So that never happens.
Mum lives 200 miles from him and sees him every 10-12 weeks.
My in laws (ex laws?) are brilliant, even though i've been divorced from their daughter for several years i still get invited to family events, birthdays etc.
My father in law's wife once invited us over (very rare, like first time in 10 years but only 1/2hr away) wouldn't let us in the house and then when we all decided to walk the dog along the river dropped us all off and ****ed off shopping...
jesus christ whats wrong with people?
Mrs DB was adopted as a baby - her adoptive mother is 91 and is living in a care home in Dorset, has a son that lives 10 minutes away and a daughter that lives in Kent but they rarely call or visit her. Mrs DB has to typically endure a couple of calls per day - she was her carer for 15 years, but it’s the main reason we now live 500 miles away as it was mainly grief and no gratitude. Fortunately Mrs DB managed to track down her birth father and family living in Oz and has a weekly Zoom with her Aussie mum.
People ask, was it hard for me to move to Aus.
Nope. I get as much contact from them as I did when I lived in the same town. They even moved from the Midlands to South Wales to be CLOSER to my bro, but have been there twice in over a year! But moan at him that he must have “forgotten where they live” if he doesn’t go see them.
My Mum would happily move to Oz, but Dad has been over once in 20 years. Stepdad is probably past flying that far now. I Skype regularly and probably have better conversations with them... But it is a shame my kids don't really know them.
Currently at Doha on the way for a visit on my own.
My Dad (Scotland) has visited my sister (Australia) more than he has visited me (England).
