Well, things were going somewhat smoothly for a while there with the in-laws. It had been a solid week since we'd gotten a call about the cops being called on anyone or anything ridiculous like that. Then, as typical, the shit hit the fan.
We got a message from my FIL's girlfriend that someone had turned them in for a zoning violation. That report happened to coincide with the move-out date of my brother-in-law and his family. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who did it. It was either my brother-in-law or someone acting on behalf of him and his crazy wife.
Normally, we just ignore the crazy that happens over there. We let everyone have their petty little fights and we don't say anything. We don't take sides and as long as nobody draws blood or causes a 3rd party agency to come in, we ignore it. Unfortunately, this time fell into the latter category and we had to say something.
Of course, that made us the bad guys. You see, nobody questions my brother-in-law or his wife. They are allowed to dish out silent treatments, scream, say horrible things and generally be a pain without any repercussions. It doesn't matter who they direct their ire at - we all just sort of ignore it, but the person being targeted always feels bad that nobody stands up for them. I've pointed that out, but nobody is interested in taking a stand so we deal with the emotional terrorists one outburst at a time and after 6 years we've gotten pretty good and just writing it off as them being the a-holes they are. So as you can imagine, when my husband and I confronted them to tell them they had crossed the line from things we can ignore to things we cannot tolerate, they were absolutely shocked. Not only were they shocked, my MIL was shocked too. How dare someone try to discipline her baby!
Needless to say, we didn't get anywhere, but it gave us a rather unique chance to see how these people think. They honestly believe they can convince everyone that my FIL's girlfriend is behind everything and made them look like the bad guys. They even suggested that perhaps SHE had called the zoning office to make the report so that everyone would get mad at them.
My MIL's boyfriend had another theory. Perhaps my FIL did it to himself when he evicted my BIL and his family for not paying rent - after all, he drew attention to himself with that one. Um... no... the town doesn't have anything to do with an eviction.
Somehow in all of this, my other brother-in-law's boyfriend tried to lighten the mood by telling a story about how he interviewed someone who couldn't subtract $1.37 from $5. (He manages a Burger King.) My sister-in-law chimed in and said, "OMG! That's so easy, it's $4 and change!!".
*face palm*
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