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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you are a bad host.  You obviously refuse to take responsibility as to why your MIL feels compelled to offer guests food.  BECAUSE THEY ARE STARVING!!!!!!!!!!!@[/quote]

You really need to take some medication.  No one is starving at 3pm and requires wine and snacks. But go on with your crazy self. It’s amusing. [/quote]

You're gaslighting.  This hostess needs the meds for her severe OCD and rigid meal restrictions.  [/quote]

I’m gaslighting someone who posted in all caps that at 3pm, people are starving followed by 10 exclamation marks when none of that was true? Really? Yeah, no. Please enlighten us to the post where OP has rigid meal restrictions and where she says no one can eat outside of the regular meal times. What page and time stamp? [/quote]

Un read the OP its right there. Not at 3. Only at 5 when the host will serve those things.[/quote]

OP has also said several times she has an OPEN KITCHEN POLICY.[/quote]

Then stfu a time snacks at 3.[/quote]

You people are honestly animals. I’ve been an overnight house guest at my ILs plenty of times. They have an open kitchen policy. But I know full well that some of the special items are meant to be special and communal for cocktail hour or special wine for Easter dinner. I do not scoop a portion of the artichoke dip MIL made for Thanksgiving appetizers, nuke it and eat it the night before Thanksgiving. I do not break into the carrot cake DH’s cousin made for Easter dinner at 11 a.m. because it looks good and I’m peckish. I know if I’m hungry I can always go get a snack, but I know that special foods are for everyone to enjoy together, not for me personally to dig into whenever.[/quote]

Where did any of that happen? She’s whining about a bottle of wine. No one served dinner at 3. [/quote]

If an expensive wine was selected to be paired with dinner, a host absolutely has the right to be miffed if someone randomly breaks it out in the afternoon. I regularly am a host to my family and DH’s family, both for short visits and overnight; I am also frequently a guest at my family’s homes and at DH’s family’s homes. We all enjoy wine, but would honestly never dream of going breaking out alcohol in each other’s homes without asking. At my family’s summer house, there is a specific fridge where sodas, beer, etc., are available all day. But granddad’s liquor cabinet is not up for grabs; granddad makes cocktails at 5, it’s a tradition and I would never go help myself to his Bombay Sapphire without asking. [/quote]

She’s hosting multiple people. She better have more than one anyway. She sounded woefully underprepared.[/quote]

Just because one or two posters MAKE UP the scenario where OP literally had one bottle of wine for dinner does not make it true. Grasping at straws.[/quote]

Then why was she put out that the wine was for dinner? Who has such limited quantities available? Makes no sense. She sounds like she’s putting on airs but not able to actually pull it off. [b]I have a wine cellar[/b], there’s plenty of wine. This would never be an issue.[/quote]

Oh, sure, sure you do. People with wine collections are *the most* particular about what bottle people grab. 
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