Tales of MIL hehehehe

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Ok I've been having a field day with my mother in law today. I've presented her mean side but as I said in a response to my other discussion I often thing that maybe something is not completely OK with her. Sometimes she is more than strange. Back when she was still working she used to have a few houses that she used to clean. She used to go every week to the same people and maybe she felt that those houses were her home as well or something. BEcause she didn't speak english the ladies she worked for always had my phone number in case they needed to leave any special message to her. I calls every once in a while for various reasons but the following one takes the cake :) The woman calls me at 9:30 at night, she is obviously very upset. SHe can hardly put her thoughts in words and what she is telling me makes so little sense that it took me a minute or two to get the idea. But first let me tell you a bit about my mother in law. She is a person that is always re arranging her home. Even now that she is almost 65 years old she changes the way things are in each room at least once or twice a month. She paints and repaints walls because she gets tired of them looking the same very easily. The floor in the kitchen was changed 6 times in the last 10 years. SHe moves the TV and the sofas at least once a week.She gets really tired when things are the same way for a long time - which for her can be from a week to a year. SO I should have understood what the woman was telling me over the phone earlier. You guessed it:) The woman is calling me really upset because she got home after work and her living room had been completely changed. Nothing was where it was when she left for work in the morning LOL The sofas moved to another wall, the TV stand moved to where the sofa's had been, the carpet from the living room was now in the family room...... That woman was in shock and very, very angry. I couldn't blame her LOL WHile I called my mother in law to explain the situation and get her to apologize to the lady and compromise by going the next day to put everything back she's really surprised that there was a compaint. She had - in her opinion - improved the look of the lady's living room. She did what needed to be done, how could she be wrong? That living room didn't look good as it was. It didn't cross her mind that it wasn't her house to start rearranging the furniture, she really thought she was doing well. Now things were worked out, she went the next day to change everything back and stayed working for the lady for a few more years, but the main point is not how funny the situation is but more : Who would do such a thing? I really wonder sometimes.. maybe she does have a problem that is more than just being mean, or at least apart from the fact that she is mean. I know that she is always at the doctors and they never find anything wrong with her, but still... how many conditions are never discovered? OR... maybe she's just what she appears to be : Nuts! :)