Time for the dreaded annual visit from mil
Mil is here for the next couple of weeks.
As per title. Every year it’s a repeat of bad smells and bad manners. Just wanted to vent and share.
She wears the same socks every single day without washing them. By the end of the stay, I can smell the socks as soon as I get home. She has incontinence but showers maybe once every few days, which means the smell transfers to my sofa and I can smell her when she walks by. I’ve given up asking her to wash her hands more, it just causes a fight and nothing changes. The knock-on effect is she almost always ends up getting sick, and last time she passed it to me. Dreading a repeat.
Table manners (or lack of)
Won’t use a knife , so just pushes food onto her fork with her fingers. Starts eating before anyone else has even sat down. When we’ve mentioned it she doesn’t apologise, just carries on. If she doesn’t hear something she just barks “WHAT?!” across the table.
We have an open plan kitchen/living room and she plants herself in it constantly. Never retreats to her room to give us any breathing space. The sofa has basically become hers.
I honestly think that if her hygiene was better these annoying things would be easier to handle but her being here is an attack on my sense of smell, which is very good (unfortunately)
Counting down the days! I’ve booked myself a short hotel stay and lied that it was for work already.