Today, my mother-in-law came over for dinner. She decided to salt the food I was preparing without even tasting it first, then complained at dinner that I'd used too much salt. She then lectured me on the proper seasoning of food for the rest of the evening. FML
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Today, I spent all day carefully preparing a wonderful homemade beef and vegetable stew from scratch. Close to dinner time, I tasted it and it was inedibly salty. Confused, my horrifically bratty stepdaughter then laughed and admitted she poured salt in it because it wasn’t what she wanted for dinner. FML
Today, my in-laws invited us over to dinner. I decided to help out in the kitchen and watched in horror as my mother-in-law licked every utensil, sucked her fingers while making the plates and slurped wine straight from the bottle. My husband said I was rude for refusing to eat. FML
Today, at work, a woman came up to the snack bar and ordered a pretzel with no salt. When I served her the food, she angrily complained about it having no salt, followed by her throwing the whole thing in my face. FML
Today, I cooked for the future in-laws and was accused of trying to poison them. Absolutely no one told me, even as they watched me cook shrimp and smoked sausage gumbo, that my mother-in-law is deathly allergic to shellfish and my father-in-law gets severe diarrhoea when he eats pork. FML
Today, I tried to make a grilled cheese sandwich for myself, but as soon as I started, my mom rushed into the kitchen and criticized me for making it "wrong". She then made the sandwich for me. It tasted significantly worse than when I make them. FML
Today, my mother gave me a reprimand for my table manners when I didn't ask for someone to pass the vegetables I could have gotten myself. She then let out a raunchy fart at the table, and had the nerve to yell, "Did you ask to be excused?!" as I vacated the area. FML
Today, my mom tried to ground me. In the apartment that I own. Because I didn't eat enough of the dinner that I'd made. FML
Today, my family went out to dinner at a seafood restaurant. While we were eating our food, my grandma demanded to see the manager, and loudly complained that her fish was "too fishy". FML
Today, I offered to help my mother-in-law boil noodles for some noodle soup. She loudly said, "You know how!?" I'm a chef. FML
Today, my morbidly obese mother gave me an angry lecture at dinner, saying without any trace of irony that my vegetarian diet is "unhealthy and utterly unacceptable". FML
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Top comments
nyancait 18
Just so everybody knows, 'mother in law' is an anagram of 'woman Hitler'. Take from that what you will.
Vanubo 10
You could call that Verbal As-salt
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PiratePete 14
The perfect ruse. Very stealthy.
nyancait 18
Just so everybody knows, 'mother in law' is an anagram of 'woman Hitler'. Take from that what you will.
pooldude 24
God why oh why must all the in laws be such a hard crowd to please! i think it's a universal thing!
TyChief 8
I can't stop laughing. lol
SweetPatchWater 5
Ugh this scenario from op is so familiar and this response is so dead on, that if this where me I would of called her out in front of everyone as soon as she touched my seasoning.
taintedmind 6
You deff go on 9gag!! :D
whitetiger13131 26
Mother in laws... just out to get you :D
miggles 16
you seem... very happy about that..
bombielol 20
agh you shoulda lectured her on how to shut the hell up
kylieh72 25
Yeah the OP needs to stand up for themselves. So do most of the other people that post about their in-laws.
Earl_KarmasBitch 36
Pour salt in her wine and then ask her why the hell she'd be so stupid as to add salt to her wine. When she says she didn't salt the wine, you did, reply that you didn't oversalt the food, she did. Then kill her in front of the rest of her family cause they're probably just as sick of her as you are.
Vanubo 10
You could call that Verbal As-salt
LeFrogDog 27
Ill take that with a grain of salt
communisttaco 16
So many puns...
IGaveRickUp 15
Just smile and stab. :)
chickinblue 12
@39 It's a mother-in-law, I don't think I would call it too insane
91hayek 31
You could have just written the first sentence of the post and that would have been all you needed. FYL OP sometimes you just can't win.
pumboc 23
And the monster-in-law award goes too...
ItsMissLia 19
Sorry OP.. Mother in Laws can be a handful. Maybe talk to your husband about it? She may not listen to you but maybe her own son.. That was a b*tch move on her part & that behavior needs to be corrected
zandalee 20
You need to stand up to her. Trust me. Or she will continue to make your life a living hell.