Biting a hole in my tongue...

My sister lived a lot of years in England. She came back with a saying that I´ve never heard when I have gone to the US. It says: "Look at the plant!" It seems that it has to do with those times where you wantto say something, but you shouldn´t say anything. So, you just stay quiet, staring silently at the plant. It happend very often with the inlaws. Your hubby will probably tell his mother what you wanted to tell her. But coming from her dear son is diffent than if THAT woman he married said it. You did well, friend. Ata wise witch!

Okay...why would she think they don't breathe? I am confused now....LOL

Mommies can be fun, listening to them talking. Or aunties, and in your case, your MIL. I like to listen up to different takes and versions they have about anything and everything. Amusing and sometimes true too.

Good daughter-in-law

Hey dawn! Good girl! That was a really good idea to just bite your tongue! I hope you didn't have to bite too hard now!lol I know that it must have been really hard for you to not say anything, but in this case you did the right thing! So how did the "other half" respond? Or did he just role his eyes and bite his tongue too?

Haha! I love it! My mother-in-law is exactly the same. She comes out with absolute gems at times (usually gets her words mixed up) but I bl**dy well can't remember them at the moment. So frustrating! My Mum will be over in a few hours so I shall keep an ear out for any of hers. She can be bad...but not as bad as the mother-in-law...naturally lol.

Seriously though Dawn, they don't breathe??? Wow, I've just developed a whole new appreciation for Lugers! Well I've always held them in high esteem for inventing the Lugie and all, but this takes things to a whole new level entirely!

This one gave me a laugh I thought lugers had a hard enough time controlling their sleds, doing this while holding their breath makes it even harder. I'll have to pay more attention. Thanks

Ha ha ha ha ha! Biting a hole in your tongue. Did you require a Doctor? LOL! come to me as I am not a very good doctor! He he he!

(LOL) Sometimes it is best to leave it to the other half of the relationship because it is just too hard not to come out with something too sarcastic and that more than likely would not go down well, but then again...She probably wouldn’t get it! She reminds me of our business partner’s wife I knew years ago, she used to ask the most stupid questions and get quite mad if she didn’t like or understand the answer, the latter was usually the case...

Hehe. It took me a while to learn that lesson myself. Sometimes it's even better for everyone to just ignore the question. I usually have a bunch of smarty pants answers loaded up in my brain for situations such as this. An older family member once asked me why that football player(Ladainian Tomlinson) has a visor in this helmet. I told them that he is a cyborg, biologically engineered to play football. He doesn't see things like us mere mortals. He sees nothing but 1's and 0's. I think that response was the reason I'm no longer invited to Family Reunions. I'm only guilty of being outstandingly witty, and having little disregard for the feelings of those who can't take a joke. There's no reason to not laugh at eh cyborg comment...

At first I was thinking oh dawnald has a piercing in her tongue - hee hee! Did you roll your eyes too? And yay Evan!

oh, it sound like terrible! i can not think that situation happened in my body. i think it is so ache. somebody believe that the more hole, the more beautiful. but as an old saying goes, our body is from our parents. so you'd better not change your body, including any holes.

I'm surprised you didn't turn to your husband and give him that last line... "Honey, don't they get extra points for not breathing?" I would have loved to have seen their reactions -- your husband's and your mother-in-law's -- and heard their responses.

Hhhhmmmmm. I wonder if I could have kept quiet? I think I might have choked trying. Good work Dawn!

That's funny. What did "the other half" say?

let the senior citizens form their own opinion. We are not in the same wavelength as them.

Oh dear, it was really a good move to have learned to shut up and let your hubby make the comment. You would have dug a hole for yourself if you had mistakenly laughed at her that time hehehe.. And indeed complications often do arise from side comments from the daughter-in-law which usually means disrespect in the view of the other siblings of the husband, regardless how small the comment was.

Hi dawnald, Yes I watched some of that and last night I was watching figure skating, but isn't funny when they say things like that? yes better for the other half to answer to that one, lol! Tamara