Petty Holiday Vent thread 2022

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are headed back to my hometown to visit family. They don't live in an area where there is a hotel nearby and my mom's downsized house is too small to accommodate us.

That leaves my useless brother, whose entire existence is managed by SIL. They have never visited us in 20 years, or hosted overnight house guests. Not even their kid's friends.

They don't have an extra bedroom, which is fine. They do have a finished basement with a tv, ping pong table, and gym, which is where we will be staying. I asked about sleeping arrangements and he said DH and I and our teenage son could share the sectional sofa. They don't have any plans to set up a mattress or inflatable bed (money is not an issue).

So on top of loading up the car with our luggage, food, and gifts, we will also need to cram in an inflatable bed.

Ummm, no and no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are headed back to my hometown to visit family. They don't live in an area where there is a hotel nearby and my mom's downsized house is too small to accommodate us.

That leaves my useless brother, whose entire existence is managed by SIL. They have never visited us in 20 years, or hosted overnight house guests. Not even their kid's friends.

They don't have an extra bedroom, which is fine. They do have a finished basement with a tv, ping pong table, and gym, which is where we will be staying. I asked about sleeping arrangements and he said DH and I and our teenage son could share the sectional sofa. They don't have any plans to set up a mattress or inflatable bed (money is not an issue).

So on top of loading up the car with our luggage, food, and gifts, we will also need to cram in an inflatable bed.

Stay home.

OMG this poster is insufferable!!! Did they reply to EVERY post??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the kids to chipped in to surprise MIL with new washer dryer. Yet nobody wanted to pay for installation, asserting that it is super easy to DIY, a waste to put someone to plug in a machine etc.

DH paid for installation anyway (29 dollars), but MIL refused delivery man’s offer to install because “he is just a delivery man, what does he know about installing appliances?”

Welp. None of us knows how to install a washer dryer so it sits in the middle of the garage in the packaging waiting for someone to watch a YouTube and try to get it to work.

Happy Christmas everyone! We’ll be celebrating at the laundromat this year.

Oh my god!!! What an idiot!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad we gathered at my in-laws to watch everyone stare at their phones in the same room.

Anyone want to take the dog on a walk with us? No.
Play a game? No.

They don't even talk. Why are we here?

Story of my life!

+1 it's SO BORING

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm cooking/brining Christmas dinner at my parents house. They're local but due to health issues my parents can't easily leave their house. Not ideal but its okay. My Mom just called me to see if they're anything they can get to help with dinner. I guess that's a nice gesture but I do all their grocery shopping. So if I had said, yeah I think I need some more butter what would she have done? Add it to the list of groceries I buy for them?

Thank you! I love it and can relate. Bless her heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MIL lives with me temporarily due to some health issues. She began baking cookies three weeks ago. She left out one cookie per person after baking, then put the rest in tupperware and stored them in her room. I assumed she was saving them to give to friends or something. Low and behold, she brought them all out last night and declared that I don't have to bake any cookies for our Christmas Eve family & friends gathering because she has dozens of (rock hard, not very interesting) cookies. I'm still going to make cookies, but I'm trying to figure out ways to tell the guests to avoid the old cookies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the kids to chipped in to surprise MIL with new washer dryer. Yet nobody wanted to pay for installation, asserting that it is super easy to DIY, a waste to put someone to plug in a machine etc.

DH paid for installation anyway (29 dollars), but MIL refused delivery man’s offer to install because “he is just a delivery man, what does he know about installing appliances?”

Welp. None of us knows how to install a washer dryer so it sits in the middle of the garage in the packaging waiting for someone to watch a YouTube and try to get it to work.

Happy Christmas everyone! We’ll be celebrating at the laundromat this year.

Oh my god!!! What an idiot!!

The best part of course is how everyone treated *us* like we were the idiots for wanting a professional to install the machines.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My in-laws keep parking in my driveway. We have absolutely no parking issues on our street. Plenty of spots yet they choose the driveway. Directly under my son’s basketball hoop.

Teach your son how to ask his grandparents if they can please move the car so he can play basketball and then delete this post. This is a really dumb vent, PP.

It's perfectly petty.

No it’s not! How would they know not to park in the driveway? Perfectly petty is being mad they park 4 feet back from the hoop so a second car won’t fit, or something. This is just poor communication.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad we gathered at my in-laws to watch everyone stare at their phones in the same room.

Anyone want to take the dog on a walk with us? No.
Play a game? No.

They don't even talk. Why are we here?

Story of my life!

I almost wish the wind would take out the internet.

I know where the router is...

This seems like it needs to go on a tacky Christmas sweater!

[Anonymous]

Venting at myself (kind of) and our house (mostly). I just put a pillow—a single pillow—on top of my husband’s side of the closet, on the wire racks. The entire thing came crashing down. He and his dad seem happy enough to be going to Ace, so I suppose all is well.

[Anonymous]

DH’s parents insist on mashed rutabaga in addition to all the actual good sides of a turkey dinner, so my house presently smells like dirt and ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’re at my SIL’s. I’m a coffee addict and usually power up with several shots of espresso during the first couple hours of the morning. SIL has two options for coffee: (1) single-cup pour over, which takes 7 minutes start to finish for one measly cup at a time, or (2) a $900 espresso machine you need an engineering degree to operate. I feel like the Goldilocks of coffee.

I would think you would be heaven PP with #2. You get to make many fancy cups right at home!

Lol! Except I’m working on East coast time from the west coast, so I’m up at 5:30, about 3 hours before everyone else. An airplane-decibel coffeemaking is not feasible, even if I do get a lesson how to use it. Maybe the PP who commented about addiction has a point!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’re at my SIL’s. I’m a coffee addict and usually power up with several shots of espresso during the first couple hours of the morning. SIL has two options for coffee: (1) single-cup pour over, which takes 7 minutes start to finish for one measly cup at a time, or (2) a $900 espresso machine you need an engineering degree to operate. I feel like the Goldilocks of coffee.

I would think you would be heaven PP with #2. You get to make many fancy cups right at home!

Lol! Except I’m working on East coast time from the west coast, so I’m up at 5:30, about 3 hours before everyone else. An airplane-decibel coffeemaking is not feasible, even if I do get a lesson how to use it. Maybe the PP who commented about addiction has a point!

***Starbucks VIA***

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’re at my SIL’s. I’m a coffee addict and usually power up with several shots of espresso during the first couple hours of the morning. SIL has two options for coffee: (1) single-cup pour over, which takes 7 minutes start to finish for one measly cup at a time, or (2) a $900 espresso machine you need an engineering degree to operate. I feel like the Goldilocks of coffee.

I am hard pressed to understand your complaint, unless it is, "I am too dumb to operate a coffee machine."

Thanks for your sweet response. Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

DH went out to buy the ONE singular gift he was assigned to buy (for his mom, but I told him what to get and I got his other family gifts!!) and I miscalculated how much butter to get and asked him to grab some while he was out. I specifically said “make sure it’s real butter, not margarine”. What did he come back with? Margarine of course.