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Comments (10)This is going to be long, so feel free to pass by, if you don't have the time or patience, or if I've told this tale before. My daughter always wins when her friends compare bad family holidays. Here's what happened in our family several years ago. Back story: one of DH's brothers was out of town. SIL was taking care of his cat for him. He'd told her he DID NOT want her son (his nephew) in his apt. when he wasn't there. SIL, never one to follow the rules took her son (17 years old) with her on one of her trips. Son stole an expensive (?) porn tape from his uncle. Uncle came home, was livid, complained to SIL, she did nothing. In all honesty, BIL is really cheap and he was mostly annoyed about the cost of the missing trash. Oh, and somewhere along the line, SIL had found the porn in her son's room, and destroyed it. Okay, fast forward to Christmas that year (a few months after the above incident). FIL was in the hospital, Mil was pretty bad with Alzheimers. All the rest of the siblings, their spouses/significant others and children were there. We had a lovely dinner, opened gifts. People had sort of dispersed around the house in conversational groups. BIL and his gf and I were in the living room with MIL. All of a sudden the SIL flounces in, and demands: John (not his real name), Did you give Gary (again, name has been changed to protect the guilty) a present? John confirms that no, he didn't give Gary a gift, that since Gary had never paid him back for the porn, he could consider that his gift. We were sitting talking and figured that was the end of it. Well, SIL somehow manaaged to get her brother and son in a huge fight. It was really intense and scary. One of the teen-aged nieces got really worried and called the police. Not one, not 2, not 3, but FOUR police cars pulled onto the property, and ringed their cars around the back yard. Mind you, this isn't a spread out rural area, or even an average suburb. It's and EXTREMELY expensive, exclusive town, that's even been featured in some movies--you'd know the name if I dropped it. Now, inlaws' families have been there since the early 1900's, long before it became the poster town for "Yuppieville". So, we've got two hot-headed, immature guys shouting profanities in the kitchen, on the verge of getting physical, and a bevy of police officers surrounding the house. Eventually, they get the 2 guys out back to talk to them to calm them down. DD was disgusted with the whole thing, and was supposed to meet up with a friend later on anyway. "Go ahead," I told her, "I'd escape if I could, too." (I think, DH had run home to our house to turn on the light display, so I was sort of 'stuck' without wheels). Here's the thing, though, that year, the in-laws had decided to put the tree in front of the front door, so it couldn't be opened (I know--they're idiots, the whole bunch). So DD had no choice but to leave out one of the back doors. Which meant she had to walk right past the charged pow wow taking place in the back yard. So she headed out, the talking stopped, everyone's head turned to look at her. Not knowing what else to do, she called out, "Merry Christmas!" and quickly beat a retreat down the driveway. And on top of everything else, MIL--who was born, raised, married, raised her family--in that house, turned to me, with the confusion of the Alzheimer patient and plaintively asked me, "Would you take me home?" Well, there you have it. Merry Christmas to all, and may you never experience such a holiday yourselves!...See Morehow to rearrange my family room family room
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Comments (7)tv is on the wall in the area where the fan is, the long wall with no window. since you have a dining area in the kitchen I would treat the other area as part of the entry/ sitting area....See Moreelizabethjdunbar
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