Surprise news

[K_W]

Just found out my MIL and SIL are going to join my wife and I for our last weekend of our upcoming 9-10 day vacation in UP Michigan and my MIL will be riding along with us for the 10 hour drive home.

My SIL is a med student, turned raving Lib by academia, but a good kid and we get along well enough unless politics are brought up.

My MIL and I have reasons to despise each other, but we have had a truce and I hope I stays that way. She hasn't been up to my Wife's family's cottage since her and my FIL divorced about 20 years ago.

It's going to be an interesting weekend, especially the part where I figure out how to keep an 18" Tac/HD 870 hidden and then out to the car unnoticed.

 

[lonehoosier]

Good luck.

I use a bag chair bag for those situations

 

[K_W]

Good luck.

I use a bag chair bag for those situations

Good thought, might work.

 

[Shadow]

I would not want to be you , boooooo . Good Luck ,wish you a good vacation

 

[Expat]

Good luck. I try to avoid drama when I can, but you may have to just to tell her/them, you are who you are, get over it and STFU.

 

[Leo]

Picking friends to enjoy is a great thing, relatives, especially inlaws are a whole different story. And they usually seem intent to share their brand of misery into others lives. I hope it is at least peaceful for you.

 

[rkwhyte2]

Good luck. I try to avoid drama when I can, but you may have to just to tell her/them, you are who you are, get over it and STFU.

+1 I couldn't have said it better myself. Be yourself and if they can't/won't accept you as you are then well F'em.

 

[patience0830]

Happy wife, happy life.

In this case, I'm tempted to say, "Different wife, happy life".

A weekend with sour puss MIL and a med student who is sure he's got the world figured out might push me over the edge.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Patience, patience.

 

[patience0830]

Patience, patience.

May have to change my moniker. The older I get, the smaller my tolerance for suffering fools.

 

[rvb]

It's going to be an interesting weekend, especially the part where I figure out how to keep an 18" Tac/HD 870 hidden and then out to the car unnoticed.

hide it? why? your car, your vacation, your guns. don't know how long you've been married, but don't set yourself up for a lifetime of having to pretend to be someone else...

-rvb

 

[Mr. Habib]

hide it? why? your car, your vacation, your guns. don't know how long you've been married, but don't set yourself up for a lifetime of having to pretend to be someone else...
-rvb

^This^ Be yourself. If she has issues with that politely remind her that she is under no obligation to remain in the car with you and that you will gladly pull to the side and let her out.

 

[jgressley2003]

You could just stay home

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

​S,S,S.

 

[HubertGummer]

hide it? why? your car, your vacation, your guns. don't know how long you've been married, but don't set yourself up for a lifetime of having to pretend to be someone else...
-rvb

^This^ Be yourself. If she has issues with that politely remind her that she is under no obligation to remain in the car with you and that you will gladly pull to the side and let her out.

Pffft. Pull to the side....If it were my MIL, I'd tell her to Tuck and Roll.

 

[MrsSilverlight]

​S,S,S.

Agreed.

I know when I had to deal with the in-laws. They don't realize I can multitask.

At least the med student has aspirations, and can be educated about 2A, i.e. you need to bring up some targets. May I also suggest some printouts of your MILs face to shoot? Too obvious? You're right. Make it pixelated!

 

[KittySlayer]

Undocumented Aliens (Illegal Immigrants)

Take you and your wife's passports. Make a surprise side trip to visit Canada. Hopefully SIL and MIL won't have their passports and you can just leave them at the border with your pepper spray, fruit and Cuban cigars and let ICE deal with them for the rest of the trip. Be sure to hide your gun in the stealthy chair bag so Border Patrol doesn't find it.

 

[PGRChaplain]

GodSpeed!

 

[IndyDave1776]

May have to change my moniker. The older I get, the smaller my tolerance for suffering fools.

I am with you. I have crossed that turning point in life where I am much more inclined to make fools suffer than to suffer them.

 

[churchmouse]

May have to change my moniker. The older I get, the smaller my tolerance for suffering fools.

Hard to suffer much of anything these days.......

But I truly loved my MIL. I would spend time with her over my mother any day.