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doing my nut already; still 2 days to go.....
Topic Started: Oct 15 2007, 11:44:25 AM (170 Views)
Lynnj
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Yes there are still 2 days to go before the inlaws arrive and already i'm ropable.

It all started a week past sunday............ It was around 6pm, we were just sitting down for tea when the phone rings (why can they always time it to be just as your arse hits the dining chair after your 3rd trip back into the kitchen for something, just when you think "thats everyone else sorted now i can eat my tea just before it gets stone cold") "hello it's only me" (said in an insipid voice), so i listen for a couple of minutes then switch off as i ponder just how cold my tea will be when i eventually get to eat it. I can't really remember the point of the phone call but during the conversation it came to light that she thought they left on tuesday when infact they leave on monday, i had this vision of a scene from that program about Heathrow airport with Jim Berjerac's voice saying "H&J have just arrived at the airport, they are travelling to Australia to visit their grandchildren, H has just handed over her tickets and discovered that their flight left 24 hours ago" followed by my MIL blaming the airline for it, much weeping and wailing and a frantic phone call to me because aparantly i can fix anything travel related (this is a myth by the way). So i managed to convince her that it was monday they were leaving and got her to check all her documents to make sure everything was as it should be and all was well (except my tea).

Conversation then changes to the kids and she comes out with the classic line "of course we love the big 2 but the little 2 don't know us, but i suppose thats just one of those things" WTF is that supposed to mean i think as i glare at the child who has just taken the last peice of garlic bread and prod at the edge of my lasagne thinking, I spent hours cooking this and was so looking forward to it, but i suppose thats just one of those things!! mental note "don't cook anything nice for tea on a sunday anymore cos some one always phones to spoil it".

Fast forward to Saturday, ring ring "Hello it's only me" (even more insipid voice) "they've changed our flights to a day later and we have to pay 60 pounds to change our domestic flights what are we going to do" So i eventually find out that they have been called on saturday morning to say that there is a schedule change on their return flight and they now leave a day later, as their uk domestic flights were booked seperately they have to pay to change them. So i then have to find out if this is a scedule change or if some numpty has mucked up the booking and they have just used the schedule change as an excuse, except my internet is down, so i try to talk her through it........OMG..... now to listen to her talk about the internet you'd think she was Bill Gates but after 30 mins of trying to get her to find the airlines website i lost the will to live and went to a friends house to use her internet and do it myself. I sorted it out and got John to call them to tell them what to do and she said "we'll just leave it as it is because we have E tickets and i wont be able to settle while we are there incase it's wrong and we don't get on the flight" AAARRRGGGHHH like i had nothing else to do on saturday night!!!

Add to this the fact she is a hypocondriac (sp), and was moaning about how she hasn't slept for 2 weeks because she is "coughing and coughing and coughing" and doesn't know how she will be on the flight. Honestly i have never heard her so miserable, if she didn't want to come she should just have said so, in the end John said "we'll see you on wednesday but could you please leave your grumpy disposition in the UK or you'll be on the first flight back"

Gee the next 7 weeks are going to be fun :wink:
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Lynnj
15th October, 2007 - 10:44am
in the end John said "we'll see you on wednesday but could you please leave your grumpy disposition in the UK or you'll be on the first flight back"

:lol:

sounds like you need to invest in an answerphone!! :thumbsup:

Seriously, hope the next few weeks arent as stressful as you expect :hug:
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Soapy


so everythings going as exprcted then :P
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Bridiej
15th October, 2007 - 12:03pm
sounds like you need to invest in an answerphone!! :thumbsup:


I've got one but I'm one of these people who has to answer it "just incase its something important". I think i should record a new message "feck off I'm at my tea" :thumbsup:
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15th October, 2007 - 12:04pm
so everythings going as exprcted then :P

probably better to be honest, at least she hasn't outdone her comment last visit...."i was going to buy you something nice from next then remembered they don't do a big enough size for you" bitch..... she knows i hate next :wink:
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OMG she sounds just like my mother :crazy:

Lynn, I really do feel for you, try not to bite your tongue too much or you'll cut it n half !

I like John's parting comment, I wish my OH was like that instead of just moaning to me. Still, looks like we have a year off :thumbsup:
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Lynnj
15th October, 2007 - 02:08pm
I've got one but I'm one of these people who has to answer it "just incase its something important". I think i should record a new message "feck off I'm at my tea" :thumbsup:

I never answer the phone if I'm eating! (And quite often ignore it at other times - esp if I think it might be the out-laws! :rolleyes: )

That's what the answerphone is for - screening! If it's important they can LEAVE A MESSAGE.... :D :D
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Lynnj
15th October, 2007 - 09:44am


Conversation then changes to the kids and she comes out with the classic line "of course we love the big 2 but the little 2 don't know us, but i suppose thats just one of those things"

On top of all the other replies - What on earth is that crass comment supposed to mean? :angry: Stupid cow!! Sorry, but we've two grandchildren in the UK we don't know but we still love them. Just the same as we loved our nephews over here for all the years before we met them.

I think you should move in her with me while she's staying. Leave her to visit her son and get to know her grandchildren and you can rest.
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15th October, 2007 - 02:23pm
I never answer the phone if I'm eating! (And quite often ignore it at other times - esp if I think it might be the out-laws! :rolleyes: )

That's what the answerphone is for - screening! If it's important they can LEAVE A MESSAGE.... :D :D

screening....... i'll give you screening..... phone rings just now, I'm sat in front of the pc ordering some photos online so i yell at the kids to answer the phone, of course nobody bothers so the answering machine picks up and the person at the other end hangs up....... so forthe rest ofthe day i'm left wondering was it an Indian trying to save me money, was it the MIL up at 6am checking that today is monday and yes she does have an appointment with Jim Bergerac at the airport or was it simply someone calling up for a chat and i missed them.......

basically i'm just a sad git who doesn't want to feel like i'm missing out :crazy:
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you'll be ok when O is older, as soon as our phone rings it's a mad dash to see who can get to it first, it's usually my eldest who then disappears into her room with it :rolleyes:
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OMG Lynn sorry but I had to laugh :lol: I can't wait for her visit and your osts about it as I can feel the comical tension growing beyond all scopes even now :lol:

I do think her comments were very rude regarding your kids - I hate that sort of thing and sounds like my step mother.

I never answer the phone when I'm eating or chilling out as recently I've got to the point where I think my time is just that and if it was that important they will call back. I'm also terrible at leaving my mobile in silly places and as we are over the block most of the time at the moment I hardly speak to anyone nowadays :rolleyes:
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Moved here to escape parents & inlaws ,dont tell me they visit :wacko: :wacko:
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rjs
15th October, 2007 - 03:43pm
Moved here to escape parents & inlaws ,dont tell me they visit :wacko: :wacko:

:D :D :D
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Lynnj
15th October, 2007 - 12:10pm
probably better to be honest, at least she hasn't outdone her comment last visit...."i was going to buy you something nice from next then remembered they don't do a big enough size for you" bitch..... she knows i hate next :wink:

what a bitchy thing to say :(


I feel for you Lynn I really do. :kiss:
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rjs
15th October, 2007 - 01:43pm
Moved here to escape parents & inlaws ,dont tell me they visit :wacko: :wacko:

yes and going by some of the visitors that some of the posters have had - they expect it all for nothing too :whistle:
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you have to remember that this is all done a little tongue in cheek for your amusement and sometimes they can be nice. But my MIL is not renowned for her diplomacy or tact and has a nasty habit of speaking before she has checked that her brain has woken up, her worst attribute has to be her hypocindria, she never has a cold always flu, she doesn't spew or puke always vomits (i hate the word), a couple of memories of her "illnesses" are.... her being carried off the aircraft on the way back from our wedding in the states as she had food poisoning, mind you she had eaten every meal on the flight and never left her seat and when DJ was 4 months old and was ambulanced into hospital with suspected meningitis we called to let her know and she said, oh yes i've been inbed all day too with an awful sore throat (that one always makes my hackles rise when i remember it).

But like all house guests their little ways bug the hell out of me and i'm sure its the same for them, but it does allow me to vent here and make some of you smile. In the words of my German friend (said in a heavy german accent) Visitors are you know like the fish, after 3 days they get the really bad smell.
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Lynnj
15th October, 2007 - 07:31pm
Visitors are you know like the fish, after 3 days they get the really bad smell.

That was a favourite saying by my step mother and after their last visit when they filled the caravan loo only to announce it on Roy's and my birthday and anniversary morning!!! Needless to say Roy still say they stink to this day :lol: (I hope she never reads this :blushing: ) It gave a good laugh especially as she gave Roy the infamous Christmas patterned loo roll as a Christmas present which he has kept especially for her next visit :lol:

There is nowt as queer as folk Lynn and it is good that you can find the funny side of your venting :yes:
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ohhhh myyyyyy fekkkknnnnn gord!!!!!!!!

and i thought my relis were bad!!


:flowers: :flowers: :flowers:
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Ahhhh, popcorns popping, feet are up,
Next installment please :more: :whistle:


LMAO re the SUNDAY NIGHT thing! Every fcuking sunday, EVERY WEEK its the same :angry: :rolleyes: :wacko:
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Hevs
15th October, 2007 - 01:51pm
Ahhhh, popcorns popping, feet are up,
Next installment please :more: :whistle:


LMAO re the SUNDAY NIGHT thing! Every fcuking sunday, EVERY WEEK its the same :angry: :rolleyes: :wacko:

one maore day to go ... d'ya reckon there are any finger nails left??


:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Well I'm lost which day are they arriving now???? :lol:
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When they go home to the UK, someone in the family should just turnoff the ringer on the phone about 30 mins before dinner..... then you won't even know it rang!

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Snappy
16th October, 2007 - 09:49pm
Well I'm lost which day are they arriving now???? :lol:

:lol:
me to
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are they here yet ???? :crazy:
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ohippy
17th October, 2007 - 11:40am
are they here yet ???? :crazy:

:lol:
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Lynns to busy doing the final preparations to impress the rellies :lol:
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This should be fun. Bring it on Lyn :thumbsup:
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