More fun in the SIL and FIL story.

Yesterday FIL calls my wife. He says that SIL called her mom the day before and told her she did not have any money to pay for her propane bill for this winter. Wanted to know if they would help her out to pay it for the winter. It stressed Mom out a lot and caused her to have a really bad day health wise, and he was worried it was going to cause her to have another mini stroke. He asked my wife to call her sister and tell her to please stop doing such things. If he did it he was probably going to end up ripping her head off. They are not giving her anymore money and every time she brings up such things to Mom it does nothing but negatively impact her health and causes her stress that she should not be dealing with.

So my wife sends SIL a text to ask her to stop doing that. SIL immediately calls my wife and starts yelling at her. I can hear the yelling where I am sitting across the room. My wife is not a confrontational person. So I let this go on for a few mins and my wife is about in tears. So I go grab the phone and get into with my SIL. Stop yelling at my wife. Stop being an idiot to Mom. Stop asking for money when you are running around at Star Wars experiences. She gets all super dramatic "I GUESS I CANNOT EVER TALK TO MY MOTHER AGAIN!?!?!" I just kept redirecting her back to the issue and said stop being an idiot and impacting Moms health. That has to be first priority for all of us. And I reminded her she better be thankful it was me and her sister talking to her at this point. Otherwise she would be dealing with FIL.

So dumb. 45 years old and a 5 year old brain.

One of my daughters came into the room while I was on the phone with her. When we got done my daughter said, "no wonder no one has ever married her"

Very true!

My apologies. You want her dead. Unusual but I believe I understand.
Ya know, propane has more btu capacity per square foot than natural gas? That's good to know.

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I love story time with RFDC.

Your father-in-law sounds awesome.

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I love story time with RFDC.

Your father-in-law sounds awesome.

Yeah, but i like the fired-up Red Foreman v. of RFDC-FIL better.

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I love story time with RFDC.

Your father-in-law sounds awesome.

my baseball card selling brothernlaw not being around any longer has taken away some of the fun

He is something man. I have grown to really appreciate him the last few years. Watching such a tough old school guy become such a tender caregiver to my MIL has been amazing. And definitely impacted my view of marriage and commitment.

For the first 10 years or so of being around him I was convinced he hated my guts. But now I actually look forward to getting to see him. And I know he loves my MIL and I think somewhere in his crazy ole heart he actually likes me now or at least tolerates me lol.

I use a Deere rider for my lakehouse, but I wonder if a zero turn would be easier. I have never used one either, but I end up having back up a lot and that cuts the mower when you back up.

Spending a few days up at the inlaws. Which means my wife gets to sit with mom watching hallmark movies while I get to spend time with Fathernlaw. His mission this trip is to get basement cleaned up so he can have some remodeling done. We spent several hours yesterday on it. And he gives play by play of everything we come across. Lots of “what the fuck is this?” Or when we would come across something from sisternlaw it would be “why in the hell does this fat ass need this shit?” So it takes quite awhile. Hopefully today I can talk him into break to watch Bears game.

you are a good man. I wouldn't go if that was the agenda. No reason your wife can't do the clean up or at least be included with you.

I don't follow the situation as close as others. Maybe you enjoy doing it and he doesn't have other kids/grandkids to help

It is a long story but there is no one else to help them for a variety of reasons.He and I have had issues over the last 20 yrs but we are at a good place now. I love my mothernlaw to death and I would do anything in the world for her. He works extremely hard in taking care of her. She really should be in a nursing home but he would not hear of it. So my wife and I have tried to have at least one of us here every month to 6 weeks to help out and give him some help.

FILs cousin stopped by today to visit them. She is a few yrs younger than he is and her husband died a couple yrs back. We were all sitting around the table eating lunch visiting. She was talking about a mexican guy that moved into her neighborhood. My FIL jumped into the conversation and told her “now I told you about getting that dyke haircut and now you are thinking you are going to get some Mexican action. “. The look on her face was priceless. They had a nice heated discussion about her not wanting any action but especially not any mexican action. This place is always good for some laughs