Tell Me Some "Why My Relatives Drive Me Crazy" Stories

[Disney Doll]

We all have relatives who drive us crazy, right??? Well, let's hear them...let's hear the stories. Don't limit it to in-laws...let's include siblings, cousins, anyone!!!

 

[chager]

Ummm.....I have way too many....maybe I should write a book about them!! My latest is a relative's constant..."I'm Sick" in a whine voice. It actually comes out..."I'm seeick" This is something I have heard ALOT lately whenever she doesn't want to do something!! She is in her 40's and ALWAYS has an excuse as to why she can't do aomething. It usually starts with the above quote!!

 

[Mercy]

Ok, I have one... this is my DH's cousin's wife... got it!

Ok so this gal does nothing but complain, now mind you, she does not have to work, her DH has a very good job. They live in a 3/4 million $$ home in a very nice part of town. This home has been totally decorated by professionals. They also have a new 6 bedroom house at the beach, 1/2 block off the beach, with a beautiful new built in swimming pool with a water fall. She spends the summer at this beach house, poor thing. They vacation several times during the year at various island resorts... because she needs a break!! Matter of fact, they just had their kitchen remodeled and it was SO stressful, her DH had to take her to Puerto Rico or someplace.

They have 3 beautiful children who go to the finest of schools. But because she has 3 kids, we are all suppose to feel sorry for her hard life. GIVE ME A BREAK! SHE HAS IT ALL!!! And yet all this gal can do is COMPLAIN!!! I'd love to live her life for just one year.

 

[FINFAN]

How's this...my BIL dad passed away last Friday. My sister called to get my brothers # and 'NEGLECTED " to tell me about her FIL during the phone call. I found out thru the obits. the night after the wake. Nice. All I can think of is how my nephews must've felt about losing one of their Grandpa's and I was not there for them or BIL. This could be one for Dr. Phil.

 

[onecoolmama]

My Aunt is a DOOZIE! She is all about feelings and being emotionally scarred. One time I was driving in the car with her and she proceeded to tell me how much my life sucked and how hard I had it and how I was sure to need therapy for everything that went wrong in my life. I should mention that I was 12. I told my mom I didnt want to ride in a car with her anymore.

She is also EXTREMELY high strung. She had a dinner party with all families. She had names at every seat. My cousin switched her name with her sisters name, they were sitting right next to each other...well my aunt FREAKED out at my cousin( who is not her kid) and told her not to touch anything else.

Another time she didn't leave her house for more then an hour for almost a year because she had two new puppies that were stressing her out! I could never imagine growing up inher house...seriously!

 

[missypie]

FIL thinks the way to keep his children in communication with one another is to have them invest money together...we were coerced (on threat of disinheritance) into a real estate investment with DH's siblings- our "share" of the debt is as much as our mortage. Inlaws knew I was very much against it, but still coerced DH into it. I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive them...they knew it was causing a huge rift in our marriage and still guilted DH into it. WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE WOULD PLACE FINANCIAL GAIN OVER HARMONY IN A MARRIAGE?

 

[CourtasanSatine]

does my DBF's mother count? He's been living with friends since things have gone from bad to worse at home(long story)

 

[grinningghost]

My MIL drives me the craziest. She is a chronic complainer, yet NEVER does anything to alleviate the causes of her complaints. The woman thrives on chaos and it's mind boggling.

 

[HoneyPooh]

I am the youngest of six children, the next oldest being a sister who is five years older than me. Right now I'm peeved at her. Last Wednesday would have been our parent's anniversary. They are both deceased and we usually visit the cemetary to leave flowers on their graves. My sister recently lost her job and since I am off on Wednesday afternoons we planned to visit the cemetary after I left work and remove the grave blankets from Christmas and clean the dead leaves up etc. She had all the stuff we needed in her truck. She told me what time she could be there and I told her that I would leave work, have lunch (I'm diabetic) and meet her at the cemetary at that time. Well it's a good thing I ate lunch because I sat there for 1 1/2 hours and she never showed up. I finally cleaned the graves off with my hands and went home and when I got there she had left a message that she couldn't make it......even though she knew I wouldn't get the message until AFTER I was going to the cemetary. Why she didn't call me at work before I left to tell me is beyond me. Grrr. She does those types of things all the time so we should be used to it by now, but it still bugs me.

 

[MeanLaureen]

oh boy do I have some nuts in my family tree!!

I have a sister-in-law that will soon be an ex-sil THANK GOODNESS!

She was the biggest neat freak I ever saw. This chick belonged on a Montel Williams show or something. Talk about Obsessive Compulsive!

Anyway - here are a few highlights of a visit to their house:

You couldn't wear shoes in their house - which isn't too abnormal

A newspaper was not allowed to be in the house because the ink might get on something

You had to have your shoes checked before you could get in their car

When you ate at their house, before you were allowed to get up from the table you had to have a dustbuster run over your clothing to make sure you don't drop crumbs.

She cleaned everything, everyday. By everything I mean even the ridge along the top of the door molding.

She wouldn't even lick the envelopes from cards - asked me to do it for her.

She made my brother get up and leave a family lunch to go to the supermarket after they had just travelled 6 hours to get here because we didn't have any iceburg lettuce for her sandwich

My mom came up to help her when she had twins (who am I kidding, my brother did all the work..lol) and while the babies were asleep she was doing a crossword puzzle in a book. When one of the older children wanted to come and help grandma, the sil yelled at them to "get away from that filthy rotten book"

Everything in the nursery had to be "just so". The diapers had to be stacked in three stacks of 8 - if you used one you better replace it with another.

She actually roped off her dining room so noone could walk through there and make footprint indentations on her carpet

geesh, I'm getting a headache thinking about her.

 

[Maleficent13]

When you ate at their house, before you were allowed to get up from the table you had to have a dustbuster run over your clothing to make sure you don't drop crumbs.

 

[OhMari]

My daughter played 4 years of basketball in highschool. My motherand father-in-law never came to any of her games.

She is now a sophmore in college. She just came home for spring break last week and her grandparents called her and they wanted her to go with them to our Highschool girls sectional game. She was really upset cause they never came to any of her games. She told them no.

Well the next night, they stopped and they were with my husbands aunt and uncle and they thought my daughter would change her mind about attending the game.

I was so close to saying, "isn't it strange how people jump on the band wagon when a basketball team is headed to State". Grrr.

 

[Lewski709]

I can see this thread is gonna get long.

Thes best one I think I have is when I invited my MIL and stepFIL over for dinner. She said "the only reason we came was because you had dinner ready."

WOW! I wanted to kick her out right then and tell her not to let the door hit her on the way.

 

[tkyes]

My SIL takes complete advantage of my MIL, and my MIL never puts her foot down.

SIL and husband dropped off the baby at MIL's on Sunday so they could take the other boys to Chuckie Cheese. They were gone from 11 - 3. When they got back to MIL's the boys were hungry because as SIL said "they were too busy playing to feed them". So MIL feeds them, BUT SIL and husband left the kids there to eat while they went out to eat.

As soon as she walks in the door of her mothers house she stops being a parent. It drives me crazy!!!

 

[snoopy]

Too many relatives, too little time.

The latest thing to get on my nerves is slutty SIL showing up at the funeral of a friend in bra top and micro mini. She then proceeded to sob at the casket and needed to "lean" on the wife of the deceased for comfort. She tends to crave attention...........

I better leave it at that.

 

[tkd lisa]

This one is dead now (the SIL, not my MIL), but she gets top billing in my memory for insensitivity.

My MIL was diagnosed with ovarian cancer about 12 years ago. She had radiation treatment (some in-patient, some out-patient) and was continuing to work her full-time job as a nursing supervisor during the treatment (this was right around Christmas time). Her SIL (who had always been a prima dona) came to stay with them for a long weekend during the treatment so she could "help" MIL.

I'm about 6 months pregnant at the time, and MIL has just come home from her radiation treatment, which she had scheduled to take AFTER completing her night shift of work (the SIL was still in bed when I got there, which was about the time MIL made it home). When I got there and this lady got up, I fixed her breakfast (and tried to encourage Mom to eat something before she went to bed).

MIL, her SIL, and I are sitting at the kitchen table, and the SIL in question says several times "Boy would a glass of iced tea taste good." After about the fourth time, MIL says "Would you like me to make you some iced tea?" Her SIL has the nerve to say "oh, would you please?" I jumped up and made the tea and told MIL to go off to bed as I knew she was tired. I just couldn't believe that the SIL would do this! I grabbed my FIL (it was his sister) and told him that if he didn't suggest that his sister go home, then I was going to! She left that afternoon, after many "Are you sure you don't want me to stay and helps".

I can't believe how much this still bugs me, 12 years later! Of course, the fact that my MIL is one of the most special, giving, loving people I know contributes to this feeling!

 

[sandbar]

My father-in-law has lived with us for 2 years, 2 months, 18 days and I'm still not on valium......yet.......

When he raked our leaves last fall, he put them all in a pile in our neighbor's driveway and left them there. Eeek! Our yard looked good though.

Personal hygiene is optional for him. He can make a tube of toothpaste last for a year. If he tries hard enough, he can get 18 months out of it. A 2 minute shower does it for the day. Yup, I time him. The water from the shower hits the wall next to our bedroom every morning at 6:30 a.m. and goes off at 6:32. Of course if he happens to wash his hair (once in a blue moon) he'll shower clear until 6:33 a.m. Thank goodness for scented candles and Glade plug-ins!

He'll stand at the front door with his coat and shoes on while I'm still running around the house with my curlers in. Does he really think I'm going to go out of the house looking like that?

He eats sticky, greasy food with his fingers and doesn't use a napkin! Then he'll go in the living room and use the TV remote, or touch a doorknob, etc....Aaahhh! I have to follow him around the house with those Clorox disposable wipes.

My life is a sitcom.

Calgon, take me away!

 

[Hillbeans]

Lets see...my MIL and FIL ask me about every 2 seconds about having another child. I finally had to ask my husband to talk with them and knock it off because me telling them "at some point" wasn't working. My mom passed away and I had 2 MC's in the fall, so it's not like we didn't try. They just don't get it and they think all of the endless harassing is making me think more about it. I also lost 30 pounds recently and my FIL told me to eat some ice cream because " are you trying to be one of those anorexic's?"

 

[MickeysMommy]

My now ex-MIL used to call up our house and leave messages like this on the machine ...

Hi, Wayne...(silence for like 30 sec) it's Mom... (another LONG pause) just wondering if you were home (again, a LONG silence) guess you're not (did I mention she's quick!)...we were going to come over (SILENCE) ok, well, bye-bye...UGH!

She's a very simple person and my conversations with her (through the whole 8 years I was with my ex) Hi, How was work? And that was it. I don't think I really sat down to have a conversation with the woman...and then when you got her mother with her forget it...simple is as simple does and the apple definitely didn't fall far from the tree on that one