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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MIL has a second dining room table with chairs she never uses (it is a large open concept Texas-sized dining room).

On special occasions when it would make sense to put the two large dining tables together, she doesn’t. Instead she adds two card tables to the regular dining room table. One of the card tables is incredibly heavy and she stores it in the attic and brings it down and that is a whole dangerous production every time. The tables aren’t even heights or shapes, either.

And she won’t even use the other dining tables’ nice chairs, either—she brings out folding chairs. So there we sit, crammed around this makeshift stupid table on wobbly chairs, while this whole other never-used dining table just sits there. Madness!! 
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omg, that is insane![/quote]

Thank you for acknowledging how odd it is! Every year someone suggests pushing the two big tables together, and every year MIL pretends not to hear. Since nobody wants to make and host the big family meals, we pretend we don't care, either. At this point, we've all adapted to the Frankentable, although one year there was a memorable incident with a giant platter of deviled eggs that slid into the gap and went EVERYWHERE.

The "display-only" dining room table continues its vigil over the family's major holiday meal events, wishing and hoping that someday, it will be promoted to the big leagues.[/quote]

My husband's aunt had a display-only dining table! It  was in an alcove on the other side of the family room.  But she didn't go to any lengths to have everyone sit together... if we didn't grab a seat at the main dining table, we had to pick anywhere else but the second table. Couple of seats at their cluttered breakfast nook table, couch, Lazy Boy recliner. Outside in the cold. [/quote]

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