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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 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.

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.

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.

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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 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?

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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.

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

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

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

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