Your best In-Laws story

She also, as I said, has lived with us for 7-plus years and still can’t drive more than two miles from our house without getting lost.

 

If my mother lived with her mother-in-law, there would have been blood. They didn't dislike each other, but were two Irish American women who kept grudges and had a scorecard.

 

I have almost no in-laws left. Just two sisters-in-law and a brother-in-law estranged from his sister.

 

Danielle Day-Lewis could play one or both in the movie.

 

I grew up with my mom making primarily village Chinese food, something with sauce or gravy at every dinner meal, usually stir fry.

Went to in laws for first time and there’s:

baked chicken
Baked potato
Steamed broccoli

Not a drop of sauce to be seen, no butter, maybe salt and pepper. I practically choked at dinner. I learned I had it pretty damn good growing up.

 

Can anyone explain to me how this thread survived this post?

The instructions were "The cringier the better." That maxes out the Cringe-meter in my head ...

 

I think I tend to be ignored, or at least not encouraged.

 

Odds are you recorded it, though.

 

When my now-wife and I started dating, my in-laws invited us over for dinner. My MIL made steak and mashed potatoes.

I was trying to make a good impression. I knew whatever was put in front of me I had to eat and smile. But that steak was waaaay beyond well done. She must have cooked it for an hour. It was like trying to eat a shoe.

Then she asked me if I would like the "pan treasure." And before I can ask her what the hell "pan treasure" is, she dumps all of the grease and fat from the steaks out of the pan and onto my mashed potatoes.

I spent the next few decades avoiding anything she had a hand in cooking.

 

Nope.

 

My mother-in-law loudly and regularly busts ass in the common areas of my house.