Petty In-Law and/or house guest vents

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I know it's not the same, but my peeve is guests who have to have COFFEE OMG coffee first thing. I drink coffee. It's made by 7 am at the latest. But my priority is getting up with my daughter and getting her needs met. My parents and in-laws are practically chomping at the bit. If I don't set it up the night before, my dad rattles around at 5:45 making it. At least he's clean about it. My MIL will get grounds and water everywhere. With my ILs, I make a full pot, have one small cup myself, and they want another full pot.

It's just like...calm down. When I'm a guest in someone else's home, I drink a cup if there is a pot, when it is made, and I don't go sniffing around for it.

"It's not important to me, and thus it shouldn't be important to anyone!"

Set up the coffeemaker the night before. Leave the stuff out so they can make a second pot if they want one. Buy cheap coffee if this is a budget issue. Otherwise, stop policing what other people ingest.

Good Lord. You don't want to talk with me in the morning before I have coffee. Do what the PP suggests and just set it up the night before, or ask them too. Some people just drink a lot of coffee--as this thread suggests, better that than alcohol!

Automatic coffee makers are pretty cheap these days. It might not be a bad idea to set up a second coffee maker just for when company is over. You can have both makers make the coffee early in the morning so it is there for the addicts when they stumble out of bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My ILs leave a trail of crumbs, Splenda crystals, empty wine glasses, and empty coffee cups all over the house. They're like Hansel and Gretel leaving their trail of crumbs through the forest.

My mother does this, and it drives me bonkers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I know it's not the same, but my peeve is guests who have to have COFFEE OMG coffee first thing. I drink coffee. It's made by 7 am at the latest. But my priority is getting up with my daughter and getting her needs met. My parents and in-laws are practically chomping at the bit. If I don't set it up the night before, my dad rattles around at 5:45 making it. At least he's clean about it. My MIL will get grounds and water everywhere. With my ILs, I make a full pot, have one small cup myself, and they want another full pot.

It's just like...calm down. When I'm a guest in someone else's home, I drink a cup if there is a pot, when it is made, and I don't go sniffing around for it.

"It's not important to me, and thus it shouldn't be important to anyone!"

Set up the coffeemaker the night before. Leave the stuff out so they can make a second pot if they want one. Buy cheap coffee if this is a budget issue. Otherwise, stop policing what other people ingest.

Good Lord. You don't want to talk with me in the morning before I have coffee. Do what the PP suggests and just set it up the night before, or ask them too. Some people just drink a lot of coffee--as this thread suggests, better that than alcohol!

Automatic coffee makers are pretty cheap these days. It might not be a bad idea to set up a second coffee maker just for when company is over. You can have both makers make the coffee early in the morning so it is there for the addicts when they stumble out of bed.

Or people visiting someone else's home can RELAX. No one should have to buy a second coffee maker--cheap though they may be--because some people can't wait a freaking hour for a cup of coffee, or QUIETLY press "start" on a coffee maker that has been set up for them the night before and pour themselves a cup. No one NEEDS coffee first thing. Really. You can even go without food for a day, I'm just saying. Coffee addicts just think they are soooo cool and special because they are jonesing for their joe. "DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME BEFORE I'VE HAD MY COFFEE" is the most irritating sentence in the English language. Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Not to derail this lovely thread, but what would you all do? I enjoy coffee and so does DH. FIL never makes enough coffee and it's normally at least 2 hours old when I come downstairs at 8am. I have no clue how to work their coffee maker and they don't have scoops for their coffee. I've asked for help, but MIL doesn't know how either (it's a weird coffee maker from the 80s) Is it rude to bring a coffee maker and put it in my room? They all think it's crazy for me to want more than 1/2 a cup of coffee. And they don't stock creamer. Petty, but it's basically all I want in the mornings. They'd be highly offended if I went out for coffee by myself every morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate it when people (my in-laws) put bags, like handbags or backpacks, on furniture. I know you had that on the floor of the bathroom at the airport and now it's on my new;y upholstered chair? Who doesn't put a bag on the floor (or a chair without fabric)? Does this make me crazy?

This is my pet peeve as well. The worst culprits are those who place their filthy bags on my kitchen counters or dining room table. Why do I want some slob's purse or bag that they had on a public bathroom floor on my freaking dining table? People are so disgusting!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I know it's not the same, but my peeve is guests who have to have COFFEE OMG coffee first thing. I drink coffee. It's made by 7 am at the latest. But my priority is getting up with my daughter and getting her needs met. My parents and in-laws are practically chomping at the bit. If I don't set it up the night before, my dad rattles around at 5:45 making it. At least he's clean about it. My MIL will get grounds and water everywhere. With my ILs, I make a full pot, have one small cup myself, and they want another full pot.

It's just like...calm down. When I'm a guest in someone else's home, I drink a cup if there is a pot, when it is made, and I don't go sniffing around for it.

"It's not important to me, and thus it shouldn't be important to anyone!"

Set up the coffeemaker the night before. Leave the stuff out so they can make a second pot if they want one. Buy cheap coffee if this is a budget issue. Otherwise, stop policing what other people ingest.

Good Lord. You don't want to talk with me in the morning before I have coffee. Do what the PP suggests and just set it up the night before, or ask them too. Some people just drink a lot of coffee--as this thread suggests, better that than alcohol!

Automatic coffee makers are pretty cheap these days. It might not be a bad idea to set up a second coffee maker just for when company is over. You can have both makers make the coffee early in the morning so it is there for the addicts when they stumble out of bed.

Or people visiting someone else's home can RELAX. No one should have to buy a second coffee maker--cheap though they may be--because some people can't wait a freaking hour for a cup of coffee, or QUIETLY press "start" on a coffee maker that has been set up for them the night before and pour themselves a cup. No one NEEDS coffee first thing. Really. You can even go without food for a day, I'm just saying. Coffee addicts just think they are soooo cool and special because they are jonesing for their joe. "DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME BEFORE I'VE HAD MY COFFEE" is the most irritating sentence in the English language. Get over yourself.

You have quests. Having a guest means you need to slightly change your morning routine by simply taking 2 minutes to make a freaking pot of coffee. Instead, you just go about your day like no one's around.

Frankly, I find that passive aggressive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:my inlaws (both parents and all of the sibs) always sit on the furniture with their feet curled up under them - not just resting on the furniture but really digging and rubbing into the fabric. Gross!! We don't do shoes inside the house so this is their bare skanky feet rubbing into the upholstery (shoes doing this would be worse of course but both are totally unacceptable in my view). who does this???

I'll join you on this one. MIL does this at her house, but she's recently been visiting more often due to our new baby and sat on the couch with her bare feet bent along side of her. She then proceeded to touch her feet (seemingly not conscious of it--hoping, at least as that is gross). I kept DC away from her the rest of the visit, but was prepared to ask her to rewash her hands if she wanted to hold the baby again.

OMG -- YOU NEED MEDICATION

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to derail this lovely thread, but what would you all do? I enjoy coffee and so does DH. FIL never makes enough coffee and it's normally at least 2 hours old when I come downstairs at 8am. I have no clue how to work their coffee maker and they don't have scoops for their coffee. I've asked for help, but MIL doesn't know how either (it's a weird coffee maker from the 80s) Is it rude to bring a coffee maker and put it in my room? They all think it's crazy for me to want more than 1/2 a cup of coffee. And they don't stock creamer. Petty, but it's basically all I want in the mornings. They'd be highly offended if I went out for coffee by myself every morning.

You can buy Land O'Lakes Mini Moos and have all the creamer you want.

How weird is this coffeemaker? It's hard for me to imagine that there are no intructions for it anywhere on Teh Interwebs. But if not, bring a drip cone and filters and explain that you have despaired of ever learning how to use their coffeemaker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I know it's not the same, but my peeve is guests who have to have COFFEE OMG coffee first thing. I drink coffee. It's made by 7 am at the latest. But my priority is getting up with my daughter and getting her needs met. My parents and in-laws are practically chomping at the bit. If I don't set it up the night before, my dad rattles around at 5:45 making it. At least he's clean about it. My MIL will get grounds and water everywhere. With my ILs, I make a full pot, have one small cup myself, and they want another full pot.

It's just like...calm down. When I'm a guest in someone else's home, I drink a cup if there is a pot, when it is made, and I don't go sniffing around for it.

"It's not important to me, and thus it shouldn't be important to anyone!"

Set up the coffeemaker the night before. Leave the stuff out so they can make a second pot if they want one. Buy cheap coffee if this is a budget issue. Otherwise, stop policing what other people ingest.

Good Lord. You don't want to talk with me in the morning before I have coffee. Do what the PP suggests and just set it up the night before, or ask them too. Some people just drink a lot of coffee--as this thread suggests, better that than alcohol!

Automatic coffee makers are pretty cheap these days. It might not be a bad idea to set up a second coffee maker just for when company is over. You can have both makers make the coffee early in the morning so it is there for the addicts when they stumble out of bed.

Or people visiting someone else's home can RELAX. No one should have to buy a second coffee maker--cheap though they may be--because some people can't wait a freaking hour for a cup of coffee, or QUIETLY press "start" on a coffee maker that has been set up for them the night before and pour themselves a cup. No one NEEDS coffee first thing. Really. You can even go without food for a day, I'm just saying. Coffee addicts just think they are soooo cool and special because they are jonesing for their joe. "DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME BEFORE I'VE HAD MY COFFEE" is the most irritating sentence in the English language. Get over yourself.

After many years of being my father's daughter I have determined that I don't want to talk to him before he's had his coffee. He will walk to the McDonalds by our house to buy a cup if it isn't brewed the moment he wakes up at 5 o'clock a.m. He's my dad, he's done a lot for me, it's the least I can do to set up the coffeemaker the night before. And it's a lot less noisy than him trying to open our sticky front door in the wee hours so he can make his escape to McDs. I will save my houseguest rage for my clueless, spoiled SIL.

[Anonymous]

For the dueling coffee rituals: how about a travel-sized French press? That solved my similar problem for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I know it's not the same, but my peeve is guests who have to have COFFEE OMG coffee first thing. I drink coffee. It's made by 7 am at the latest. But my priority is getting up with my daughter and getting her needs met. My parents and in-laws are practically chomping at the bit. If I don't set it up the night before, my dad rattles around at 5:45 making it. At least he's clean about it. My MIL will get grounds and water everywhere. With my ILs, I make a full pot, have one small cup myself, and they want another full pot.

It's just like...calm down. When I'm a guest in someone else's home, I drink a cup if there is a pot, when it is made, and I don't go sniffing around for it.

"It's not important to me, and thus it shouldn't be important to anyone!"

Set up the coffeemaker the night before. Leave the stuff out so they can make a second pot if they want one. Buy cheap coffee if this is a budget issue. Otherwise, stop policing what other people ingest.

Good Lord. You don't want to talk with me in the morning before I have coffee. Do what the PP suggests and just set it up the night before, or ask them too. Some people just drink a lot of coffee--as this thread suggests, better that than alcohol!

Automatic coffee makers are pretty cheap these days. It might not be a bad idea to set up a second coffee maker just for when company is over. You can have both makers make the coffee early in the morning so it is there for the addicts when they stumble out of bed.

Or people visiting someone else's home can RELAX. No one should have to buy a second coffee maker--cheap though they may be--because some people can't wait a freaking hour for a cup of coffee, or QUIETLY press "start" on a coffee maker that has been set up for them the night before and pour themselves a cup. No one NEEDS coffee first thing. Really. You can even go without food for a day, I'm just saying. Coffee addicts just think they are soooo cool and special because they are jonesing for their joe. "DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME BEFORE I'VE HAD MY COFFEE" is the most irritating sentence in the English language. Get over yourself.

After many years of being my father's daughter I have determined that I don't want to talk to him before he's had his coffee. He will walk to the McDonalds by our house to buy a cup if it isn't brewed the moment he wakes up at 5 o'clock a.m. He's my dad, he's done a lot for me, it's the least I can do to set up the coffeemaker the night before. And it's a lot less noisy than him trying to open our sticky front door in the wee hours so he can make his escape to McDs. I will save my houseguest rage for my clueless, spoiled SIL.

Oooh, do tell, do tell!

[Anonymous]

How about a $30 Mr. Coffee that turns on when you press the "ON" button? Set it up the night before.

Here's a secret: Those of us who really like a cup of coffee first thing in the morning really DON'T care if it's an Organic Sumatran Blend hand-harvested by virgins or plain old Folger's.

Put a carton of milk and a carton of half&half in plain sight at eye level in the fridge. Place a bowl of sugar and a couple of mugs by the machine. Maybe add a note that says "Good morning! Coffee's ready to brew -- just push the green button. Milk and cream in the fridge!"

No noise. No fuss. Happy guests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate it when people (my in-laws) put bags, like handbags or backpacks, on furniture. I know you had that on the floor of the bathroom at the airport and now it's on my new;y upholstered chair? Who doesn't put a bag on the floor (or a chair without fabric)? Does this make me crazy?

This is my pet peeve as well. The worst culprits are those who place their filthy bags on my kitchen counters or dining room table. Why do I want some slob's purse or bag that they had on a public bathroom floor on my freaking dining table? People are so disgusting!

You are gross if you put your bag on a restroom floor. Who does that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I know it's not the same, but my peeve is guests who have to have COFFEE OMG coffee first thing. I drink coffee. It's made by 7 am at the latest. But my priority is getting up with my daughter and getting her needs met. My parents and in-laws are practically chomping at the bit. If I don't set it up the night before, my dad rattles around at 5:45 making it. At least he's clean about it. My MIL will get grounds and water everywhere. With my ILs, I make a full pot, have one small cup myself, and they want another full pot.

It's just like...calm down. When I'm a guest in someone else's home, I drink a cup if there is a pot, when it is made, and I don't go sniffing around for it.

"It's not important to me, and thus it shouldn't be important to anyone!"

Set up the coffeemaker the night before. Leave the stuff out so they can make a second pot if they want one. Buy cheap coffee if this is a budget issue. Otherwise, stop policing what other people ingest.

Good Lord. You don't want to talk with me in the morning before I have coffee. Do what the PP suggests and just set it up the night before, or ask them too. Some people just drink a lot of coffee--as this thread suggests, better that than alcohol!

Automatic coffee makers are pretty cheap these days. It might not be a bad idea to set up a second coffee maker just for when company is over. You can have both makers make the coffee early in the morning so it is there for the addicts when they stumble out of bed.

Or people visiting someone else's home can RELAX. No one should have to buy a second coffee maker--cheap though they may be--because some people can't wait a freaking hour for a cup of coffee, or QUIETLY press "start" on a coffee maker that has been set up for them the night before and pour themselves a cup. No one NEEDS coffee first thing. Really. You can even go without food for a day, I'm just saying. Coffee addicts just think they are soooo cool and special because they are jonesing for their joe. "DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME BEFORE I'VE HAD MY COFFEE" is the most irritating sentence in the English language. Get over yourself.

You have quests. Having a guest means you need to slightly change your morning routine by simply taking 2 minutes to make a freaking pot of coffee. Instead, you just go about your day like no one's around.

Frankly, I find that passive aggressive.

This. Learn so basic hostess skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don't put your feet up on my coffee table with your shoes on! You are already ignoring my preference for shoes off in my home--why are you putting your shoes on my furniture?

RELAX for once!