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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents are obsessed with the garbage too.  To a point I get it - they are in the South where you have the giant roaches - palmetto bugs.  But there house is so clean.  I'm like relax for a week or few days while we are there.  Everything goes down the disposal that can - if it is a banana cut the stem off.  If it is smelly it immediately gets double bagged and put into the garbage.  We are all afraid to throw anything out and tend to just leave piles of stuff by the kitchen sink.

Only they can clean up the kitchen.  Or cook.  To be fair - they buy good food and are awesome cooks.  But you can't help.  Then they complain about how tired they are.  I try to remind them that they trained me how to load a dishwasher but its not good enough.

Can't drive their cars anymore - this is new one - because it new car is too complicated and we can't manage it.  Nevermind that we had the same car in stick.

Can't have a key to their house because they only have one good one.  But, the door must always be locked.  Can't go out for exercise and not lock the door.

Never enough food in the house and if there are good left-overs - you cannot eat them.  I used to do grocery runs but now not allowed to drive car. And yes, next time I will rent a car but again - this is a new one.  Had to Uber to see friends last visit.

Cannot open a second bottle of wine if it might not all get drunk but also not allowed to bring your own wine because they have plenty. [/quote]

We have a similar key situation at my mom's. There are two good keys but we are not allowed to borrow my parents' keychains. Fortunately I still have my housekey from when I was in high school, so if I need to run an errand or go for a run, I use that. But I can't tell my mom that I have a key because she will have a total freakout about a "good" key that is out in general circulation.

My parents also have doors that cannot be opened because they might not close again. You basically walk around their house holding your breath and hoping you don't accidentally violate one of the many rules that may be actually be arbitrary or may be the only reason the house is still standing.[/quote]

What is a good key?!?

My ILs have forgotten to return our keys more times than I can count. Last time my MIL was here, she forgot again and she had borrowed our daughter’s key because we simply hadn’t gotten around to having yet more sets cut from their previous visit and H insisted she mail it back this time. We had to share house keys for a couple days before it arrived. Where the numerous other keys have gone, I know not. I do blame H for this one as it is now my ritual when they depart to say “John, Sue, we need the keys back.” I wasn’t home for the last visit.[/quote]

In their minds, the original keys they were given when they bought the house.   And they have no copies around...don't believe in locksmiths?[/quote]

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