Reply to: My MIL thread

[norrahe]

Thankfully my MIL only prefers decent restaurants, my SIL on the other hand is a fussy eater.
This makes life difficult if we go places not to mention her kids which are even worse, because they're in tow we end up going to some pub with a million things on the menu, which means (and I've had the displeasure of working in such an establishment) everything is frozen and from a really crappy supplier.

Mr N and I often make a point of picking somewhere that doesn't allow kids.

As for my own family one of my brothers has delusions as to what is a good restaurant and always insists on picking the wine (he thinks he's an expert just because his shop sells cheap plonk).

[d000hg]

I'm not a big fan of all you can eat buffets myself. I've always thought it's how they use up leftovers at the end of the week.

If it's a buffet restaurant then you at least avoid that particular problem, stuff is eaten quite quickly!

There ARE great AYCE places but they tend to be rather expensive. We went to one in Dubai which included booze...

[Sysman]

I think they're genuinely too simple to comprehend how rich they are. They recently recieved the valuation the council puts on houses for the sake of taxes and were genuinely shocked, saying ´but we´re just simple people that don´t have that kind of money´. I can sympathise because many people who bought or built their homes in the 70s now have considerable wealth tied up in their bricks and mortar and of course the politicoscum want their cut. But the remarks are getting increasingly strange as if they're jealous of something.

Yeah, my parents demonstrated strangely conflicting attitudes as well. It was a bit surreal when you considered that they had "sacrificed so much" (their words) to give us a decent education then when we showed signs of benefiting from it dosh wise they didn't like it one bit.

[doodab]

Do you mean suck up the cryptosporidium?

I'm not a big fan of all you can eat buffets myself. I've always thought it's how they use up leftovers at the end of the week.

[Mich the Tester]

Yeah sometimes it's best to suck it up and go with the flow.

Do you mean suck up the cryptosporidium?

[doodab]

Just go to the crappy restaurant, smile, and pretend to enjoy it.

Yeah sometimes it's best to suck it up and go with the flow.

[Mich the Tester]

Just go to the crappy restaurant, vomit, and pretend to enjoy it.

ftfy

[mudskipper]

Just go to the crappy restaurant, smile, and pretend to enjoy it.

[d000hg]

MIL said to Lady Tester on the phone that in the past she didn't care what sort of restaurant we visited, so why does she want something smarter nowadays, and why is she always wearing smart clothes when she wore old crap in the past? Is it because of that MTT?

I have supposedly 'changed' MIL's daughter from the simple farm girl they (thought they'd) raised into a posh and rather fussy person who's always better dressed than the rest of the family.

Perhaps it's a (misguided?) perception that you, and their daughter, might look down on them?

WDS I think... worried she's become pretentious in a Frasier Krane kind of way?

[Mich the Tester]

If we told my MIL we were going to a better restaurant she wouldnt care. Knowing full well theres not a chance in hell that she'd even consider putting her hand in her pocket to pay for any of it.

In fact, would turn up without any money/means to pay and expect someone to pay for her.

Well, we actually suggested a better restaurant where the prices are about the same as the 'all you can eat' place she'd suggested. Of course, it wasn't 'all you can eat' and Lady Tester's remark that the only way 'all you can eat' places make a profit is by cutting on quality has obviously led to some discussion among the members of her family that see each other every other day.

[psychocandy]

If we told my MIL we were going to a better restaurant she wouldnt care. Knowing full well theres not a chance in hell that she'd even consider putting her hand in her pocket to pay for any of it.

In fact, would turn up without any money/means to pay and expect someone to pay for her.

[MicrosoftBob]

Have we asked the important question, would Mitch ?

[Mich the Tester]

Are they cretins?

No, I don't think they post on CUK.

[vetran]

The old man's dear old mum is an absolute delight. Still works the station toilets at weekends when her knees are up to it. She's starting to lose her marbles though and keeps getting these delusions that she's drinking champagne in California airport lounges and building a buy to let empire.

Subtle

[speling bee]

I think the last, and we certainly don't look down on them. Sister in law seems to be doing her best to persuade us to look down on her though.

Are they cretins?