By PhoenixChick - 08/09/2015 18:54 - United States - Champaign

Today, my mother-in-law got her driver's license, despite being prone to fainting, seizures, and being on so much medication that she sometimes forgets where she is. She now wants to drive us to all our family functions, and my father-in-law won't object because he doesn't want to damage her self-esteem. FML
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Hey, OP here! You know, this might be a comment thread that saves lives. I had already decided to put my foot down on me or my husband ever riding with MIL, but...I hadn't thought about everyone else. And now I have. I do not live with my in-laws, but we live in the same town and I cannot drive at night so it gets awkward to refuse their offers when my husband can't take me somewhere. Funny thing is, there is no legal restrictions on my driving,the DMV keeps insisting I'm fine, but I know that my contacts and retinal disease give me issues with headlights and therefore I shouldn't. I'm fine during the day, but stay off the road at night. I'm careful because my eye disease is from my father, who kept driving at night when he shouldn't. Nearly killed himself in an accident. I know who my MIL's doctor is, and I'm going to call his office. She MUST have lied to the DMV, and I think it'll be easier to talk to her doctor than to the DMV. I just have to brace myself for if she finds out. Thank you all for the help. My in-laws are rather good at manipulation. I've known them for ten years, and they use MIL's medical issues to overrule literally everything. She has serious psych issues, and FIL is very protective of her feelings. To the point of letting her lie to my husband's doctors when he was in the ER because it made MIL "feel useful" to tell the doctor's things about my husband's health. She was making up all kinds of things about my husband's condition when he went in for emergency surgery, and when I corrected her I got yelled at by my father in law for making MIL "feel bad." Nevermind that her lies to the operating surgeon could have gotten my husband seriously hurt or killed. So yeah, this ends now. I'm not going to let her hurt anybody else if I csn help it. Wish me luck, I've got a fight on my hands...

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Just try and make an excuse to drive yourself or to be in a different car, if you can't though, just try and break it to her easy. I would rather hurt her feelings than be in a fatal crash. You're stuck between a rock and a hard place OP. FYL

little_star78 13

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Wizardo 33

"Its gonna be a bumpy ride" - Shrunken Head, Knight Bus

Just try and make an excuse to drive yourself or to be in a different car, if you can't though, just try and break it to her easy. I would rather hurt her feelings than be in a fatal crash. You're stuck between a rock and a hard place OP. FYL

How would that help in any way? Did you even read the FML?

and get hit by her while in the rental car? it's not like they wouldn't be going to the same place

DMA0712 22

How did she get her driver's license in the first place then?

Probably lied outrageously and then somehow fluked it. Or where she is just doesn't give a shit and hands out licenses like they were library cards .

That's what I'm wondering. It's my understanding that if you have documented seizures or start medication for them you have to be seizure free so a certain length of time before you could even drive legally

RedPillSucks 31

I don't think the DMV is rigorous about finding out. unfortunately it's more of a "don't ask, don't tell"

Good luck with that one. Maybe you could wear protective gear in the car? Or, I don't know, walk everywhere? Learn how to fly? Whatever you do, do it fast because it won't be long before she crashes that car.

"Learn how to fly"? Really? So I guess sprouting wings for humans is normal. Or then again, I could probably go "Wingardium Leviosa"ing people to make them levitate.

*her* and what? Cant blame her for lying and (more than likely) getting someone KILLED?!

Learning independence hurts sometimes. Good luck with that!

This sounds like it could be turned into a road etiquette video