Things you dread about the in-laws visiting

[Steph]

My boyfriend's brother is here now and their father is in a hotel room. K's only been here for 20 minutes but they've already talked about an air pistol they need (?) and they sat to watch "Monster Garage".

K: I've already seen this one. They make a slamboni out of an Impala.

Marketing geniuses at the Discovery channel realized there's an audience for car weirdos making a zamboni out of an Impala.

They'll be going to see an IMAX movie about car racing tomorrow and, if I'm lucky, Tyler's father will sit on the couch at some point and read an entire newspaper article to us.

I know it's not drunken fights but they are endearingly annoying.

What do you dread most about your inlaws visiting?

[LixyChick]

OMG Steph! This touches so close to home!

The biggest dread I have is when the in-laws invite themselves to dinner during the work week......knowing full well I don't get home till after most folks bedtime, let alone a usual dinnertime......and mom-in-law insists on making dinner and bringing it! This might sound like a truly nice gesture....for having invited themselves.....but it's getting to the point of an insult! I've even asked her recently..."Don't you like my cooking"? To which she replied...."Oh, that's not it dear.....I just know you'd have no time to make anything on such short notice"....(It sounds like a skit from "Everybody Loves Raymond").

Well.......duh! It's a week day (they are both retired) and I always work late (and they know that) and yet I find time to make something (however horrible and slapped together she might think it is) every other day that you aren't here!!!!!!!

Man! That felt good to type out loud!!!!!!! LMFAO!

[PantyFanatic]

Originally posted by Steph
My boyfriend's brother is here now and their father is in a hotel room. K's only been here for 20 minutes but they've already talked about an air pistol they need (?) and they sat to watch "Monster Garage".

K: I've already seen this one. They make a slamboni out of an Impala.
Is that the one where they duck tape wist-brooms to the manure spreader shaft and couple it to the 427 transmission with pipe unions? Boy I sure would love to see that one again.:D

(or was that Red Green?:rolleyes: You guys get all the good shows:( )


They sound like a great group to me. I sure would love to meet his family. Tell them to stay an extra week and I’ll be right up.:D

[LixyChick]

OMG PF!!! I had to read what Steph posted to make sense of your post....cause I thought you was a talkin to me!!!!???

LMAO!

*stands on my head and hums the national anthem while picking my nose*

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! That's better!































*to understand that....you'll have had to see another reply I did on the subject of understanding PF speak!*

[Booger]

lol Lixy what is this thing you have with picking your nose and who are you looking for up there

[PantyFanatic]

Originally posted by LixyChick
OMG PF!!! I had to read what Steph posted to make sense of your post....cause I thought you was a talkin to me!!!!???
...
I was chatting with you when I made that post and meant to include her quote. LOL

I'll go back and change it now.;)















PS
I could have just changed it and left you looking silly.:) lol

[Steph]

Yes, it's always Lixy and NEVER PF who looks silly! :)

PF, that show also apparently turned a limo into a fire truck. You'd love it!

[PantyFanatic]

LMAO:D Are you SURE they weren't watching RG?:)

[Steph]

Nope. It was "monster garage". Someone at work got all excited when I griped about the dorky manly stuff they were watching on TV and he was the one who told me about the fire truck/limo.

Red Green wouldn't attempt something like that!

[PantyFanatic]

THE HELL HE WOULDN'T!:D

My leader can do ANYTHING with enough duck tape.;)

[Steph]

Why don't you just move to Canada already? And stop hijacking my inlaws thread! ;)

[LixyChick]

Booger? I was lookin for you hun! Oh shittttttttt! I couldn't resist that!

Ironically Steph.....just after I read about "monster garage" here....it came on TV and I had to watch as they changed a reg. SUV into a wheelchair, all accessible SUV and gave it to an unsuspecting guy confined to a wheelchair but soooooooo into engines he nearly shit his trousers when he saw and experienced what the vehicle could do!

Oops! I now return this hijacked thread back to it's original intention!

Oh....one more thing...........PF? :spin: :multi: nanner, nanner!

OK..I'm done!

[PantyFanatic]

lmao@ Lixy & Steph:D


“You can pick your nose.:cool: You can pick your seat.:eek: But you can’t pick your relatives.”:rolleyes:
(by marriage or otherwise);)

[Steph]

Lixy, I think we're a good pair! :)

So, PF, if a fellow Pixonian can see "Monster Garage" - you can, too!

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/monstergarage/monstergarage.html

"Where ordinary cars become extraordinary"

Here are some episode recaps:

Jesse James attempts to convert a comfortable Chevy Suburban into the Wedding Chapel. Nuptials will be conducted by Jesse himself, a newly ordained minister, in a "suburban" setting complete with a fire breathing pipe organ and automated rice thrower.

The Monster Garage crew turns a 1982 5-speed DeLorean into a hell on earth high speed hovercraft! Forget horsepower -- Manpower is the only thing that will make this vehicle go!

[Steph]

Inlaw update:

Haven't heard from the men today. They stayed at their father's hotel last night and maybe they clued in to the fact that I don't want to see a movie about racing! ("But Steph, it's on a giant screen!" -shaddup)

Another of their brother's called me so I could hear his toddler son talk but the little fellow hung up on me! :)

[LixyChick]

OMGGGGG! And here I am thinking I've never seen that show! I saw the episode where they converted the Suburban to a wedding chapel! I just never really caught that show from the beginning and never knew it's title.....(hubby is always saying to me, as I sit and try and type my thoughts here, "Check this out hun", to which I reply..."uh huh" that's nice sweety"!)...lmao! Shhhhh! Don't tell him I said that!

Oh...and Steph? The little tyke may have needed to make another call.......to Japan or something! Don't toddler's sound like they are speaking a foreign language when they start putting together whole sentences? LMAO! When he finally get's with you on how to use the telephone...ask him this...."Do you remember when YOU were big and I was little and YOU used to walk me to the store"? No...wait....do that in person cause the expression on their little faces is priceless! Their mouth opens and they nod their head as you watch them try and compute this information....and then they go running to "mom" and ask if they were ever big before!!!! It's a hoot! I did it with my nieces and nephews when they were about 3-4 y/o...and each of my sis's smacked me and told me to stop teasing their kids! LMAO!

And PF? You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose...but you can't pick your friend's nose! Unless he is in R.E.M. sleep......but I don't recommend it...hubby hates when I do that!

Um........I did it again, huh?

I'll try and ignore this thread for a bit and let it get back on track! LOL!

[Steph]

ROFL on TWO counts!

When Tyler starts talking about technical stuff I am posting here, too. It happened Friday night!

I will look forward to telling Jordan he used to walk me to the store! Can't wait!!!


Er, anyone else with in-law stories? :)