Mother in law blues

WINE TALK
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Today my wonderful M in Law was at our house when weren’t home (doing some cleaning we pay her to do) and managed to shatter a bottle of red wine in our wine rack in our dining room that has white carpet.

My wife called me at work to break the news. She asked me not to freak out and comforted me by telling me that her mother read on the internet that “white wine is a great product to neutralize the red wine.” When I got home I found a huge red wine stain and two emtpy bottles of Sancerre that she had dumped on the red wine stain in an attempt to clean it up. Happy days.

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Unreal!

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My MIL (RIP) would have just drunk all three bottles…

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Was it the Baker’s Dozen pinot you have as your avatar?

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Lesson number one–never have white carpet–especially in the dining room. My sister once had deep white carpeting on her staircase. The dog chewed up some red crayons and then vomited on the staircase.

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WineAway http://www.wineaway.com/

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Wow, I don’t know what to say. I’m lucky to have a wonderful MIL. You couldn’t make up a story like that. Actually kinda funny…sad, but funny.

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Hardwoods only in my house.

What was the wine she broke?

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Whatever happened to club soda and salt? That sucks, Ron.

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So you lost three bottles. Will you take the value out of her paycheck?

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LOL

Nancy – What’s the female equivalent of these stories?

“You’ll never believe this! My husband used up my best nail polish for some project of his in the garage”?

“He cleaned out my stockings drawer and used them as a makeshift filter for the malfunctioning cooling unit on his wine cave. He said there was nothing you couldn’t fix with some nylons and duct tape”?

“He thought my engagement ring would work to etch his initials in his SQN bottles”?

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Other generic quasi-sexist comments!

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She refused to get paid for the work she did since she felt so bad about the stain and wasting the wine. I found the check my wife left her torn up on the counter. The red wine she broke, ironically, was a cheap bottle of Sagelands Ellipse dessert wine (late harvest cabernet) I bought at Grocery Outlet for $3 a couple of weeks ago on a lark. I actually bought it with her in mind knowing how much she likes dessert wines. It’s amazing how much trouble that little $3 bottle of wine caused. Another reason to hate overripe, sticky cabernet!

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This is brilliant. Mothers in law are very sensitive about upsetting the balance of their kids’ households. We had the gigantic two pack of milk from Costco and my MIL decided to slice the plastic w/ one of my chef’s knives and sliced the plastic bottle open. I was in the shower, came out for breakfast, saw loads of milk in varied containers in the fridge and asked “what’s the deal w/ all the milk”.

Saw my father in law facepalm as my MIL weepily said “excuse me” and scurried off. I still tell her, stay clear of the milk…

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I think it only works when you pour Montrachet on red wine stains. I’ll tell her for you. [wink.gif]

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Actually, I have to figure out how to keep DH from drinking more than the lion’s share of a bottle that I open and want to track on day two. :wink:

Oh, and I had the world’s best MIL and my husband had the world’s second best…nah, it was a tie.

I could say a thing or two about the FIL but it is not nice to dis the departed. [stirthepothal.gif]