Here we go...ILs and Family: Fourth '19 Edition

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"A breakfast bar with no breakfast...how dreadful."

-Dwight from 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' voice

It's a lovely, clean space that has never supported a breakfast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just love how the fruit can only be eaten outside.

I know.

My guests can eat wherever they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just love how the fruit can only be eaten outside.

I was reading through the thread to see if anybody else caught the outside part. She mentioned it a few times.

So crazy lady:
1) We are only allowed to eat from the fruit bowl outside of her designated meal times
2) Said fruit must be eaten outside for fear of it making a mess (really, how much of a mess can an apple or banana make?)

Can you please come back to clarify your stances on bathrooms? Do you also limit the amount of food each person is allowed to have at your designated mealtime? How often do you have people at your house? Do you ever have people over for a BBQ?

[Anonymous]

I finished a huge project in the morning and then we watched Stranger Things while trying to comfort the pets, scared by the big boom boom noises and the storm.

We ate whatever we wanted, too.

[Anonymous]

Who are these people closing the kitchen? Wth. I would never stay with relatives that did that. That is a control issue for sure.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours. Of course the kitchen is closed! Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon. Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.

Young kids can’t go from 7 am until 4 pm! Do you have little kids? I’m not for the snacking all the time but this is crazy.

This is why there is a serious obesity epidemic. Young children do not need to eat greasy convenience food. If they are hungry between meals they should get an apple out of the fruit bowl, sit on the front doorstep and have a nice, healthy, nutritious snack. They do not need a bacon, nacho cheese, funion burger.

Keep trying, babe. I'm 5'8" and weigh 145. I run every day. My kids are both big swimmers and are active at play. Those of us who are *active* need regular meals at regular meal times. My kids are bean poles, by the way. Sorry that you have family members who are obese or struggle with weight yourself, as your projections and vitriol lead me to believe.

We ate a nice meal at Panera and will eat a NORMAL amount of food later; we don't do the two plates of food and two plates of pie thing that a lot of people do at BBQs and other special occasions.

Do you get it--the kitchen is CLOSED, as in no apple from the fruit bowl. My mom seriously closes the kitchen--no small cubes of cheese to go alongside celery for a snack, which is what we would do when meal times get thrown off by holiday schedules at home if we were, say, going to my aunt's house for a holiday meal at an odd time.

My mom has every right to close her kitchen. She does not have the right to complain and try to keep us home when we get in our own car and take our own kids out for a decent meal.

Maybe you're the gorge-r type who goes back for seconds and even thirds at Thanksgiving or holiday BBQs or what have you. We don't eat like that. People who "fill up" at buffets gross me out. Sounds like you're the type.

Slam dunk--tell her, PP!

I totally agree that it is absurd when people expect children to "fill up on a huge breakfast" so they can last until, say, 4 or 5 p.m. for a holiday meal, BBQ, buffet, or some such. Especially when the "fill up" breakfast is...wait for it, cereal? What? If you're not serving a substantial, protein-rich breakfast.

I am also not the type who can gorge at any sitting, even Thanksgiving. I just can't beyond a normal meal range and feel comfortable, that day AND the next day. It's not worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just love how the fruit can only be eaten outside.

I was reading through the thread to see if anybody else caught the outside part. She mentioned it a few times.

So crazy lady:
1) We are only allowed to eat from the fruit bowl outside of her designated meal times
2) Said fruit must be eaten outside for fear of it making a mess (really, how much of a mess can an apple or banana make?)

Can you please come back to clarify your stances on bathrooms? Do you also limit the amount of food each person is allowed to have at your designated mealtime? How often do you have people at your house? Do you ever have people over for a BBQ?

I definitely noticed and was also reading to see how people responded to the eat the fruit outside part, and I think you are absolutely on target bringing up bathrooms. You're probably not allowed to come back in to use the bathroom after allo that roughage because you have sticky residue from the fruits on your fingers. You can just stay outside until it's time for the barbecue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just love how the fruit can only be eaten outside.

I was reading through the thread to see if anybody else caught the outside part. She mentioned it a few times.

So crazy lady:
1) We are only allowed to eat from the fruit bowl outside of her designated meal times
2) Said fruit must be eaten outside for fear of it making a mess (really, how much of a mess can an apple or banana make?)

Can you please come back to clarify your stances on bathrooms? Do you also limit the amount of food each person is allowed to have at your designated mealtime? How often do you have people at your house? Do you ever have people over for a BBQ?

I definitely noticed and was also reading to see how people responded to the eat the fruit outside part, and I think you are absolutely on target bringing up bathrooms. You're probably not allowed to come back in to use the bathroom after allo that roughage because you have sticky residue from the fruits on your fingers. You can just stay outside until it's time for the barbecue.

An outdoor shower and towels have been graciously provided for your use if you must eat a kumquat at 1 p.m.

-Burger King Lady

[Anonymous]

Moving away from crazy burger king lady.

I've come a long way with my inlaws and for the most part our visits are generally fine. There are plentiful bedrooms, the AC is great, there's a pool, kids are old enough to do their own thing.

They have a geriatric dog that they feed from a fork, sitting the dog on the kitchen island.

It never fails that right when it is time for a meal, it is also time to feed the dog, on the kitchen island. Just wrapped up lunch with me and kids sitting att kitchen table, 2 feet away from the island where the dog was sitting and being fed smelly dog food right next to us. UGH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moving away from crazy burger king lady.

I've come a long way with my inlaws and for the most part our visits are generally fine. There are plentiful bedrooms, the AC is great, there's a pool, kids are old enough to do their own thing.

They have a geriatric dog that they feed from a fork, sitting the dog on the kitchen island.

It never fails that right when it is time for a meal, it is also time to feed the dog, on the kitchen island. Just wrapped up lunch with me and kids sitting att kitchen table, 2 feet away from the island where the dog was sitting and being fed smelly dog food right next to us. UGH.

But not too far from BKL. She fascinates me!

[Anonymous]

At SILs home. They don’t believe in wasting water, so they don’t flush after using the bathroom. They dont think they need to flush that “minimal” waste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At SILs home. They don’t believe in wasting water, so they don’t flush after using the bathroom. They dont think they need to flush that “minimal” waste.

They’re not wrong. We don’t impose that practice on guests, but...they’re not wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At SILs home. They don’t believe in wasting water, so they don’t flush after using the bathroom. They dont think they need to flush that “minimal” waste.

Please tell me they are just - if it’s brown flush it down, if it’s yellow let it mellow...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At SILs home. They don’t believe in wasting water, so they don’t flush after using the bathroom. They dont think they need to flush that “minimal” waste.

They’re not wrong. We don’t impose that practice on guests, but...they’re not wrong.

+1. The truth is that we should all be doing this, despite the ick factor....

[Anonymous]

In a unified theory of DCUM can the Burger Ling / Closed Kitchen lady tell us if she is or is not the same woman who thinks dinner party guests only need 3 spears of asparagus each?

Also why do I have a hunch that BKL is a MIL who does not get along with her daughters in law? Actually that doesn’t make sense. I bet BKL only had daughters because she wouldn’t have made it through tween/teen years with boys with her weird food restrictions intact.