Meeting The In-laws

[SINNETT]

#891

I hope this gives you all a laugh!!!! /smile.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’smile.gif’ />

For Paul and I the first time I was invited to his parents for Sunday Lunch can NEVER be forgotten. /huh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’huh.gif’ />

Anyway, on the Sunday in question we all met at the local pub (for a little Dutch courage) and Pauls mum and I had a few Diamond Whites – VERY strong cider. /tongue.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’tongue.gif’ />

The beef was great and so was the conversation, no difficult silences or anything, so I was feeling quite relaxed. /ph34r.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’ph34r.gif’ /> /unsure.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’unsure.gif’ /> /ph34r.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’ph34r.gif’ />

Well because she was a little tiddly from the cider Pauls mum had forgotten that she had made cheese sauce for the cauli and thought she had pre-made the custard – believe me jam sponge with cheese sauce will NEVER be a hit. /huh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’huh.gif’ /> Petals

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January 29, 2006 at 5:14 pm

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#22380

THAT HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST THAT I HAVE HEARD
FOR A LONG TIME.

I WONDER IF THE PERSON TAKING THE PHOTOGRAPHS AT YOUR WEDDING
ASKED YOU ALL TO SAY ''CHEEEEESE''

<img src='style_emoticons//wink.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’wink.gif’ />

[Petals]

#22380

THAT HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST THAT I HAVE HEARD
FOR A LONG TIME.

I WONDER IF THE PERSON TAKING THE PHOTOGRAPHS AT YOUR WEDDING
ASKED YOU ALL TO SAY ''CHEEEEESE''

<img src='style_emoticons//wink.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’wink.gif’ />

[Nicki169]

#22381

Caroline,
That was so funny! I can't wait to hear your next story.

[Sandra]

#22382

<img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ /> Cheese, custard, custard, cheese . . . . . hey – I can see the similarity!!

Hope you returned the treat when she visited you!! <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ />

[KK]

#22383

Hi Caroline,
That's hilarious! <img src='style_emoticons//tongue.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’tongue.gif’ /> You were a good sport.
I'm getting ready to fill cupcakes with banana creme pudding I hope I don't use the mashed pototoes instead. <img src='style_emoticons//blink.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’blink.gif’ />
Great story! Can't wait to hear the next one.
<img src='style_emoticons//biggrin.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’biggrin.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//biggrin.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’biggrin.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//biggrin.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’biggrin.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//biggrin.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’biggrin.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//biggrin.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’biggrin.gif’ />

[katita]

#22384

Hi Caroline, I have a similar story, my husbands' mother CANNOT COOK! She wanted to make a cheese cake and didn't have any cream cheese BUT she had CHEDDAR CHEESE so she used that instead!

The aroma from the oven as it baked was a new kind of pollution! My husbands' poor Dad didn't want to hurt her feelings so he actually tried a bite of it….what we do for love, huh!

Needless to say, from that point on BAKERY desserts became the mainstay. <img src='style_emoticons//tongue.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’tongue.gif’ />

Bon appetit <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ />

[Petals]

#22385

ANOTHER GOOD ONE! THESE ARE GREAT!
KEEP THEM COMING AND THANK YOU!!!!!!!

<img src='style_emoticons//biggrin.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’biggrin.gif’ />

[SINNETT]

#22386

As I said I had another tale to tell – so here goes with the first meetng with my future in-laws of my first husband. <img src='style_emoticons//smile.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’smile.gif’ />

This has in part to be blamed on the fashion of the seventies – platform shoes. <img src='style_emoticons//rolleyes.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’rolleyes.gif’ />

His parents lived up in Scotland and it was winter when he took me to meet them for the first time – a four hour journey getting more nervous by the minute. <img src='style_emoticons//sad.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’sad.gif’ />

They must have been nervous too and his mum had decided that the best way to counteract her nervousness was to polish the parquet floor in the hallway to within an inch of it's life!!!! <img src='style_emoticons//ohmy.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’ohmy.gif’ />

So we parked the car, Mum and Dad were in the open front door beckoning us in out of the cold. We hurried to the house, I took one step into the hallway hand outstretched to greet them, and yes, you guessed it went head over heels, landing in a heap on my behind . Me and my platforms parted company instantly!!! <img src='style_emoticons//blink.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’blink.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//wink.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’wink.gif’ />

Not the best of starts I hear you say, but it gets worse. <img src='style_emoticons//rolleyes.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’rolleyes.gif’ />

After dinner (no cheese sauce) we walked up to the local pub for a couple of drinks and began to get aquainted – very pleasant indeed. <img src='style_emoticons//smile.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’smile.gif’ /> On the way back (perhaps because of the previous jolt), the platform fell off my shoe – I hobbled back. <img src='style_emoticons//blink.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’blink.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//ph34r.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’ph34r.gif’ />

By now I was feeling less than impressive so made my excuses and headed to bed. His mum thought she would be kind and had put a hot water bottle in my bed – but had not tightened the stopper sufficiently. I jumped into a very wet bed!!!! <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//tongue.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’tongue.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//ohmy.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’ohmy.gif’ />

The evening ended with a major shuffle of sleeping arrangements and my ex on the couch.

BEAT THAT IF YOU CAN!!!!!!!!!!! <img src='style_emoticons//cool.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’cool.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//tongue.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’tongue.gif’ />

[katita]

#22387

Now that scene belongs in a movie!! LOL
<img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ />

[Elly]

#22388

I have not been on S.P. for sometime and reading all your letters has really made me laugh, but also took me back to when Ian first came to visit my parents.

He had travelled from the South of England to visit me in the North.

Mum who is very house proud and a wonderful cook, had made dinner, and we all sat around the table. Food was served and Ian who is a fast eater was enjoying his Sunday roast, my mother was trying to impress and said to Ian “Slow down eating and masturbate your food” my father and I nearly choked, she ment to say (masticate). <img src='style_emoticons//rolleyes.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’rolleyes.gif’ />

My father took one look at Ian and said don't worry she doesn't know what she has said, it certainly broke the ice though, and something we now don't let her forget!!! <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ />

[VEGAS LADY]

#22389

ELLY……. THE BEST ONE YET…… <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//biggrin.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’biggrin.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//biggrin.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’biggrin.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//biggrin.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’biggrin.gif’ />

Margaret ( all the best northerners get their words mixed up, but we mean well.)

[peanutbutter]

#22390

This is not that funny but I still remember it.

My in-laws lived in Las Vegas at the time and my soon to be husband was taking me to meet his parents we drove I think it was for New Years Eve (we all know how busy it is in Vegas that time of the year)

Anyway — Seemed like a 10 hour drive and I had to pee really bad but we could not stop we were so close to the house, well we finally get there and I just run up to the door say “hello” and say “I really have to use your restroom”. Real nice hu…. so she says “sure go down the hall to the left and the door is closed because the laundry room is attached and making a lot of noise just open the door and go right in”. Soooo I run down the hall open the door and there is my father in-law doing his business….. all I could do was just stare at him I was in shock – He had to yell “get out” for me to move. He later said he was sorry for yelling at me. I could not wait to get home after that I thought he hated me. As it turned out we became very good friends before he died a couple of years later.

Mary

[VEGAS LADY]

#22391

Hi Mary….. <img src='style_emoticons//smile.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’smile.gif’ />

I bet you wished the earth had opened and swallowed you up, I would have done.

What a way to meet your Father-in-Law for the first time….. <img src='style_emoticons//ohmy.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’ohmy.gif’ /> <img src='style_emoticons//ohmy.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’ohmy.gif’ />

Regards…Margaret…… <img src='style_emoticons//laugh.gif’ border=’0′ style=’vertical-align:middle’ alt=’laugh.gif’ />

[katita]

#22392

OH Mary! It okay to laugh about it now but at the time I'm sure it wasn't funny. Glad to know you became friends.

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