You can't put that on your deck

FIL is helping us build a new deck on our house. We sent him the plans , to review and also so he could figure out what tools he needed to bring.
Our plans have a hot tub on the top floor of the deck. MIL calls and starts bitching that we can't put a hot tub on the top deck because of the danger to kids. I tell her we don't have kids, so don't worry about it. She then says I don't mean you, I mean my new grandbaby. I proceeded to scream at her and let her know she does dictate my home or life, for the sake of someone elses kid. This woman has went crazy with this baby crap. She is telling ebveryone her life revolves around this baby and has started telling people what they can and can't do, if she thinks it pertains to this kid.
After I screamed at her, my husband started on her.

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Annie, it's aaaaalllll about the kids, don't you know? Sounds like MIL needs some counseling. Unclench, already. LOL

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FIL is helping us build a new deck on our house. We sent him the plans , to review and also so he could figure out what tools he needed to bring.
Our plans have a hot tub on the top floor of the deck. MIL calls and starts bitching that we can't put a hot tub on the top deck because of the danger to kids. I tell her we don't have kids, so don't worry about it. She then says I don't mean you, I mean my new grandbaby. I proceeded to scream at her and let her know she does dictate my home or life, for the sake of someone elses kid. This woman has went crazy with this baby crap. She is telling ebveryone her life revolves around this baby and has started telling people what they can and can't do, if she thinks it pertains to this kid.
After I screamed at her, my husband started on her.

Man that would send me ballistic, too, Annie. Glad you and DH are standing up for yourselves. I made it clear to my relatives and DH's that ours is NOT a brat-friendly home, that we have expensive furniture which could harm a kyd if they fell or something, so you come to see us, you park the brats at home. Jeezus Kee-rist! These people have some kind of goddamned nerve tell you you have to baby-proof a CF home. ANYONE does that to us, they get told to not let the door hit em in the ass on the way out!

"My house is not a playground for brats"

What an annoying MIL. Good for you for not backing down!

Wow annie35, I am new to the board and I can already see your in-law family is as nuts as mine. Maybe more so... This is crazy. I love that your hubby went after her too!

Wow, Annie, your MIL really puts the "fun" into dysfunctional.

Just to piss her off, I'd put up a huge fountain in the likeness of a penis, I'm sure THAT would offend her!

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Just to piss her off, I'd put up a huge fountain in the likeness of a penis, I'm sure THAT would offend her!

That is the BEST idea EVAH.

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I love the penis fountain.
I bought a Buddha statue for the zen garden, which will throw her into a freaking religious seizure. She hates my Buddha collection and tries to cover them up when she is at my house.
This woman has lost her freaking mind, she is a total fruit loop and I think she is going to go mental and run off with the kid. She refers to it as "hers."

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So If I understand you correctly, you have a Niece or Nephew Loaf. And MIL thinks that since said loaf, if not watched 24/7, might drown itself in the hot tub, YOU ought not install one in YOUR home...?

Annie, if you are lucky, your MIL will "punish" you by never bringing the kyd to your house!

Just another chapter in the saga called........Annie35.......

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This woman has lost her freaking mind, she is a total fruit loop and I think she is going to go mental and run off with the kid. She refers to it as "hers."

You didn't at first, but now you've got it, she is out of her freeeeeeeeeeeakin' MIND! Your response to her now is perfect. Keep it up until the old psycho is dead. That's all you can do, while you enjoy the trainwreck along the way.

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I love the penis fountain.
I bought a Buddha statue for the zen garden, which will throw her into a freaking religious seizure. She hates my Buddha collection and tries to cover them up when she is at my house.
This woman has lost her freaking mind, she is a total fruit loop and I think she is going to go mental and run off with the kid. She refers to it as "hers."

She touches your belongings?

Man, Annie, your MIL has some serious, serious issues. Touching your stuff?! Man, you have more patience than I do.If she did it to me she would be totally unwelcome in my home in the future! Then, I would give her a goood hard kick in the ass and have DH throw her out!

I have a Buddha statue in the guest room, and last time after she left, I went in to change the sheets and straighten up. I could not find the statue, she had taken it off of the shelf and put it under the bed. I am sure it did not fall, because the shelf is on the other side of the room.
I also have a picture of the big Buddha, in Hong Kong. I took the picture the last time I was there on business. I framed the picture and it is on the shelf in the entryway. Everytime she is at my house, it gets moved to where you can't see it. She moves it behind another picture.
I have no proof she is doing it, but she is only person who would be that freaked out by Buddha.
She moves stuff in SIL's house. I watched her move SIL's pictures so that the pictures of husband's family were behind pictures of our family.
She also does things that make me wonder if she isn't a bit on the side of having a low IQ. The last time we visited, some of BIL's family was visiting and they speak very little english. When they were leaving, I stood up , shook their hand and told them is was nice to meet them . I said it in Spanish. She told them Feliz Navidad, and smirked. She knows damn well that means Merry Christmas, she was trying to be mean and make them feel bad. She also refers to mexican food as trash. She says things in a back handed way, intending to insult and then acts stupid. She always calls tortillas, that flat bread you mexicans eat. Every person in the united states, knows what a tortilla is. Every time BIL fixes an authentic Mexican meal, she make a big deal about how he better not be feeding her cow tongue or any other poor food us Mexicans eat.
This woman is horrible and it offends my SIL and BIL. The woman is a constant source of amusement for me and my husband. She is so stupid, that you just want to see what she is going to do or say, because she is such a moron.
Her racism is so bad, and I figure both of her kids marrying people of Mexican decent is the universe giving it back to her.
The woman really thinks black people came from monkeys. She also thinks that if you have an excorcism, you will no longer be gay. The woman is very ignorant and not very bright. I stopped getting mad years ago, if I got mad everytime she did something or said something, I would always be mad. I am civil because she is the only mom my husband has and I am the bigger person.

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Ugh. I have horrible in laws also and always had to be the bigger person for the reason you stated in your last sentence -- only parents my husband had, etc. Finally he got fed up with their BS and said if they contacted us again, he was getting a restraining order. Our life has been so much more pleasant since then.

Have you ever read this obituary?

http://www.snopes.com/media/iftrue/obituary.asp

I do sometimes think Mexican food comes from monkeys..............oops, sorry.......I'll go sit in the corner now.

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I do sometimes think Mexican food comes from monkeys..............oops, sorry.......I'll go sit in the corner now.

Eat it's fingers and face off, before it eats yours. He! He!

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nothing wrong with cow tongue.. we eat it regularly here..pressed ox tongue, very nice in a sandwich

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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

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nothing wrong with cow tongue.. we eat it regularly here..pressed ox tongue, very nice in a sandwich

I grew up eating it. On a farm you waste nothing.

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we used to eat pigs brains, trotters (still do), haggis, black puddings.. everything its stuck into our mentality (pretty much up here).

just call it a delicacy..

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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

I'm Russian and I love tongue...

Whoops... well that sounded like bad porn dialogue.

I meant cooked cow tongue, sliced ham thin, in a sandwich.