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The lunacy!!!! - UPDATE W/MORE CRAZY!

MikesBride2B Posted:

The lunacy!!!! - UPDATE W/MORE CRAZY!

Haha wow this got long...I'm sure you can all guess who its about. You're all probably sick to death of hearing it but here it goes...

FMIL has really lost it. To start, we are driving out to Ohio for xmas so that she can spend time with FSD. Apparently, that's not enough. FSD's birthday is December 4 (a Friday this year). FMIL decides she wants to fly out here on the 3rd and fly back to Ohio the 5th so she can be here for FSD's bday.

This is a REALLY inconvenient time for us. Thursdays we both work and on Thursday nights I have school so FH has to be home by 5:30 (which is a tight squeeze for us). It is the week before my finals week. My parents are busy Thursday nights as well. There is NOBODY to pick her up from the airport.

ON TOP OF THAT...what is she coming for, anyway?? I get that she wants to be with FSD on her birthday, but she'll be in school all day long!! And then she's leaving the next day!! So she really wants to inconvenience EVERYONE for a couple of hours!!

We tell her we want to discuss it. FH discusses it with her, about how its not really a good time and the logistics aren't great. He ends the conversation with her last night under the impression that there will be more discussions about it.

He gets a call this morning from her, letting him know that SHE JUST BOOKED A TICKET. She decided she was just going to IGNORE everything we said and book a freakin ticket!!!! She goes 'Oh well it gets in to MacArthur and I can get on the train and get to you that way'...this is a woman who can't even handle NY traffic, she's going to navigate a transit system she's never experienced before?? Also, does the train even come near the airport?? Its her passive aggressive ploy to get us to bend over backwards and rearrange our whole lives to pick her up....WELL IT AIN'T HAPPENING, CRAZY!!!! She can take the train and get here when she gets here and if she gets lost OH WELL....she made her bed, SHE CAN LIE IN IT!!

WTH is wrong with the women in FH's family?!?!


UPDATE - FH comes home...and he tells me that not only is she still DEFINITELY coming...but he INFORMS me of her plans for that Friday...she's going to bake FSD a cake! PRAY TELL, WHERE IS SHE GOING TO BAKE THIS CAKE?!?! She's just decided that not only is she going to be staying with us or my parents, but she's going to be using my or my parents kitchen to bake this child a cake!! But not only that, I'm guessing she expects US to get her all the materials she needs!!!

WHO ASSUMES CRAP LIKE THIS?!?!?! My goodness....its just so freakin ridiculous!!!!


UPDATE #2 - FH is on the phone w/her right now confronting her about her heinous behavior. WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED!!!

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE (lol!) - She hung up on him!!!! He was actually standing up for himself but being totally calm and rational about it, talking about how its really a terrible time of the year for us and all this stuff and she goes 'I'M SORRY MY COMING TO VISIT IS SUCH A BURDEN!' and hung up!!!!
Rosalind_75 Posted:

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i dont think there is a train
get ready for more drama!!!!!

can i meet her?
StaceyWill Posted:

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Future Mrs H Posted:

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I can go pick her up and drive her around for hours- and drop her off in the middle of Manhattan.
GiannisWifey Posted:

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what a psycho.....

no matter what you and FH say, she does the opposite, so I don't know why she even asks!!!!!!!!

I guess she can take the Farmingdale train!?!! let her find it on her own, maybe she will get lost.
Future Mrs H Posted:

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I was just looking it up there is a shuttle from the airport to Ronkonama (sp) train station. Maybe with any luck she will get lost!
marinai7 Posted:

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Wow, sorry that you have to deal with this.
Becca2010 Posted:

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WOWOWOWOW!
She's a real whack job! Good freakin' luck! Tell her to bring CASH$$ because she'll probably end up cabbing it everywhere!
grkbarbie Posted:

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what if she just takes a cab?? derrrr

MikesBride2B Posted:

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Posted by grkbarbie

what if she just takes a cab?? derrrr



Because that would make sense, and she can't use that in her passive aggressive schemes
blessed18 Posted:

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she probably wants to play the victim and say that she was stranded at the airport and had no one to pick her up and ended up taking 50 trains to get to her grandbaby.

kris_gets_hitched Posted:

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Ah, the manipulative mother-in-law. I learned from the Queen of this, my grandmother (my dad's mom) and have been using the tactics my mom used all her life.

She wants to train it to your house from the airport? Let her go ahead and figure out how to. Do not offer her a ride. Do not offer her local car service numbers. Let her freeze her @ss off at MacArthur and figure it out on her own. She's a big girl. Plus, while she's frantically trying to do this, you have to spend less time with her...it's bound to take her some time to get her act together and figure it all out.

Then, while she's here, go about your regular schedule. Hey, you told her you guys would be busy. If she complains, remind her sweetly (kill 'em with kindness) about the conversation you had regarding how busy those few days were, and how you've planned vacation time for the Christmas break, which is when you'll be free.

Whatever you do - do not break a sweat in front of her. Keep in mind that your reaction is WHAT SHE WANTS. If you do not react at all, she will not get what she wants.

MikesBride2B Posted:

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Kris I swear we share a mind because this was EXACTLY my plan....and actually, now I think my Mom and I will go out of our way to take her to see my dress...she will haaaaate that since she doesn't give a poop about our wedding...and then when she's completely unenthused I have an excuse to tear into her about her lack of excitement for her only son's wedding.

Its not even like we COULD bend over backwards for her..its just not possible. There's really nobody to pick her up, so she can enjoy the shiiiitty Ronkonkoma train station (which you couldn't PAY me to take a train from) and she can figure out how to maneuver the trains and the people and I will be driving to class, merrily laughing all the way, knowing that even though she's coming and going to make me hate life, she is totally hating life at that very moment.

And blessed, I think you are totally right...its a win/win for her either way. Either her ploy gets us to pick her up or she can go on and on to anyone who will listen about how her son and future daughter in law are so terrible that they left her at the airport to fend for herself when all she wanted to do was see her granddaughter for her birthday...
Clover23 Posted:

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i'll pick her up.....
MikesBride2B Posted:

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Posted by Clover23

i'll pick her up.....



Dooood drop her off in a holding cell for a couple hours....you can just tell her you thought she might want a rest after her day of travel
Im_My_Own_Princess Posted:

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I work right by MacArthur... I could pick her up for you
I promise, I'll get her so lost, drop her off in an area she doesn't know and I'll take her cellphone so she can't call for help...

wow- i sound evil.. lol
JLWSJC Posted:

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Posted by Im_My_Own_Princess

I work right by MacArthur... I could pick her up for you
I promise, I'll get her so lost, drop her off in an area she doesn't know and I'll take her cellphone so she can't call for help...

wow- i sound evil.. lol



DEVIL SIMLEY!?!? How'd you get a devil smiley?
Im_My_Own_Princess Posted:

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Posted by JLWSJC


Posted by Im_My_Own_Princess

I work right by MacArthur... I could pick her up for you
I promise, I'll get her so lost, drop her off in an area she doesn't know and I'll take her cellphone so she can't call for help...

wow- i sound evil.. lol



DEVIL SIMLEY!?!? How'd you get a devil smiley?



google emoticons OR just go to yahoo emoticons (i think they have the best ones)
side click on the picture and highlight the location text, then come on here and click on 'insert image' and paste the location... its rather simple once you figure it out.
netsirk10 Posted:

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she could probably take a quick cab ride to the ronkonkoma train station. i think it is the closest
MikesBride2B Posted:

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Bump for extra crazy goodness!!

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