Biting a hole in my tongue...
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85147)
Shingle Springs, California
February 17, 2010 5:53pm CST
So we're watching the Olympics, luge, and the first luger puts a visor down over his face and gets into position. This isn't just goggles, it pretty much covers the entire face. And my mother-in-law is sitting there watching and says, "they don't breathe?"
I about bit a hole in my tongue.
Sometimes you just have to shut up and let the other half answer the questions... ![](/Content/images/emotes/lol.gif)
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@marguicha (219877)
• Chile
18 Feb 10
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!![](/Content/images/emotes/devil.gif)
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@marguicha (219877)
• Chile
18 Feb 10
She seems a nice mother in law if she cleans your stove. I can understand making a crerry pie out of love. But cleaning a stove? That´s a miracle! So it´s ok for her to say anything she wishes.![](/Content/images/emotes/wink.gif)
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
18 Feb 10
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?![](/Content/images/emotes/rofl.gif)
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@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
18 Feb 10
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.![](/Content/images/emotes/lol.gif)
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@dawnald (85147)
• Shingle Springs, California
19 Feb 10
yes, they are so very much more talented than we had any idea!
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
19 Feb 10
(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...![](/Content/images/emotes/rolleyes.gif)
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@cbjones (1147)
• United States
18 Feb 10
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...![](/Content/images/emotes/rofl.gif)
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@dawnald (85147)
• Shingle Springs, California
19 Feb 10
I may have rolled my eyes a wee, tiny bit.
Yay, Evan, but Johnny was a wee bit undermarked....
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@vinabee (85)
• China
18 Feb 10
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.
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@dawnald (85147)
• Shingle Springs, California
18 Feb 10
I think you may have missed the point of the discussion.
@hofferp (4734)
• United States
26 Feb 10
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.
@dawnald (85147)
• Shingle Springs, California
26 Feb 10
She might have believed it, but he would have been annoyed I think. ![](/Content/images/emotes/angel.gif)
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@cloudwatcher (6861)
• Australia
18 Feb 10
Hhhhmmmmm. I wonder if I could have kept quiet? I think I might have choked trying. Good work Dawn!
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@BarBaraPrz (46490)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
18 Feb 10
That's funny. What did "the other half" say?
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
18 Feb 10
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.
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@dawnald (85147)
• Shingle Springs, California
18 Feb 10
I just have to remember that she's from a small village and she never finished school and laugh all I want at her (only inside my head)....
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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18 Feb 10
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
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