A month with the Mother in Law
Jul 25th 2011 | 1:17 pm
#16
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Re: A month with the Mother in Law
Nemesis.
Its too hot. Its too cold. The mosquitoes are terrible. Its always raining. Canadians are scruffy. Canadians are stupid. Canadians have no taste. Canadians have no idea about anything. Canadians are Canadians.
We go to the supermarket. "That's not like our chicken" We see some mushrooms, "Oh they won't taste like our mushrooms" We arrive at the checkout, eyes of the other shoppers and checkout person burning into me like lasers from a James Bond movie. "Oh its so expensive here" "Oh its nothing like the quality from M+S, the fruit and veg are terrible" I start to fantasize about her death, its painful, the death not the fantasy.
Its too hot. Its too cold. The mosquitoes are terrible. Its always raining. Canadians are scruffy. Canadians are stupid. Canadians have no taste. Canadians have no idea about anything. Canadians are Canadians.
We go to the supermarket. "That's not like our chicken" We see some mushrooms, "Oh they won't taste like our mushrooms" We arrive at the checkout, eyes of the other shoppers and checkout person burning into me like lasers from a James Bond movie. "Oh its so expensive here" "Oh its nothing like the quality from M+S, the fruit and veg are terrible" I start to fantasize about her death, its painful, the death not the fantasy.
Jul 25th 2011 | 1:18 pm
#17
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Jul 25th 2011 | 1:19 pm
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Jul 25th 2011 | 1:20 pm
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Jul 25th 2011 | 1:21 pm
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Re: A month with the Mother in Law
Now my step-mother...that's a whole other story. :curse:
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Jul 25th 2011 | 1:32 pm
#21
Pea Brain
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Re: A month with the Mother in Law
I'm numb to it now
She's getting the hang of my furrowed brow, squinted eyes look. Bites her lip and shuts up. As MIL's go, she's not a bad old fruit really. She knows I have a tractor and front loader, so the threat of a quick burial hangs heavy in the air.
Jul 25th 2011 | 11:28 pm
#22
Slob
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From: Ottineau
Re: A month with the Mother in Law
Christ!
My only came for the weekend. I still ended up with the cleanest and tidiest garage in North America.
My only came for the weekend. I still ended up with the cleanest and tidiest garage in North America.
Jul 25th 2011 | 11:37 pm
#23
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Re: A month with the Mother in Law
It is times like these that being really anti-social pays off in spades. A visitor for a month is not a visitor, that's a bloody tenant.
Jul 25th 2011 | 11:38 pm
#24
Displaced Disgrace
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From: HRM N.S.
Re: A month with the Mother in Law
Since the stroke she finds it harder to hang upside down in the root cellar but the abilities to sense human fear & smell a single drop of blood from 4 miles away remain intact...
Jul 26th 2011 | 12:24 am
#25
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Re: A month with the Mother in Law
There's a valuable lesson to be learned here, Rae. I'll bet you do a much better job of vetting the parents of your next wife.
Jul 26th 2011 | 12:35 am
#26
Slob
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From: Ottineau
Re: A month with the Mother in Law
It's hard to nag someone you can't communicate with.
Jul 26th 2011 | 1:36 am
#27
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From: Calgary, Alberta
Re: A month with the Mother in Law
My MIL (Russian, speaks very little English) is in the middle of her second 6-month stay with us. House gets cleaned, dogs get walked, darling daughter is looked after at weekends, food is prepared, my ears don't get bent... I don't know what you're complaining about
Jul 26th 2011 | 1:40 am
#28
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From: Was Calgary back in Edmonton again !!
Jul 26th 2011 | 2:56 am
#29
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Re: A month with the Mother in Law
I banned my ex-Swiss MIL & physically removed from our house. 1)We had a small party/BBQ and as she was anti alcohol she emptied every ones glasses of wine/beer.
2) She "kidnapped' my parents !!!!!! Mum & Dad came and visited us shortly after our first daughter was born in Switzerland. MIL thought it was too much stress on us and the baby to have visitors, so invited my M&D on a train trip to see some of the lovely Swiss mountains, but failed to mention she was really taking them to Rome for 5 days. M&D jumped train in Chiaso and left her at the station.
Jul 26th 2011 | 3:02 am
#30
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Re: A month with the Mother in Law
My mother-in-law's dead
