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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really get the complaints about inlaws not "serving" you lunch.  Cant you just open the frog and get something out? I wouldn't expect to be served multiple meals at someones house.  [/quote]

I don’t think you understand the dynamic with these older people. You can’t just open the fridge without horribly offending them and causing a family row. Nor can you bring the food. Which is why that one poster has to fake that she won the Harry and David gift basket. [/quote]

I don't get this.  Yes you can.  Your spouse was their child.  They grew up in that house opening the refrigerator and making themselves food when hungry when parents weren't cooking.  But now as an adult they are too afraid to open the frig? Grow a backbone.  This is insane.[/quote]

I can open the fridge at my ILs all I want. It isn’t going to magically make food appear. We learned the lesson of their weird food issues the hard way after a cross country flight and then a 1.5 hour drive to their house to find that there was no food because lunch was over and they hadn’t gone to the grocery store yet for the exact ingredients for dinner. It had never previously been an issue so we were not anticipating it but we’re anticipating having a late lunch at our 1pm arrival.[/quote]
I guess those of us who are having trouble understanding how this works would just go to the store to stock up, or go out to eat, or both. I mean, it might be a problem on day one, but then we’d figure out how to solve it. There were people posting who had gone for days grumbling about the food situation but not fixing it because someone might get mad. THAT’s just crazy.[/quote]

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