Holidays & Inlaws: Share your story

Yeah, I don't think anyone has ever complained about the invention of caller ID.

 

As if the diinner out wasn't enough. (see my previous post)

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=134609139&postcount=11

A couple of years later, having decided that going out to dinner was a bad idea, we elected to have Christmas at my (now ex) mother-in-law's house.

Dinner went ok. No blood, no fist fights, just the usual excessive drinking and familial verbal abuse.

It came to be gift giving time and the youngest sister, who was a total biotch, gives her gifts. To her brother, a **** sock. Yup, followed by a remark about it was the only way it would ever get warm. To my ex, a set of false breasts (she was not well endowed), and a remark about finally joining the "big leagues."

My mother in law gave me a sweater, (I don't wear sweaters) and said to me before I opened it, "I know you're going to hate it." I did, it was awful. Fortunately, I knew the shop it had come from and swapped it for a very nice leather jacket, that I still wear now, 20+ years later. (It was a $375+ sweater in 1980 dollars.)

Or the Thanksgiving when my brother in law and nephew got into a fist fight after playing one on one basketball.

Or the time my other brother in law brought a date, and a paper bag, showed us all the bag and said it was for "later with his date."

Sad thing is, 20+ years later, my kids report this same bad behavior still goes on at every family party.