15+ Women Tell Their Worst Mother-In-Law Stories (Including a Potato Salad Contest)

The world is full of in-law and mother-in-law jokes. Most of them, as we know, don’t make much sense. After all, as much as this is the subject of funny stories, most people get along with their in-laws and mothers-in-law. But the fact is, you can’t help but laugh at some of the cases. Other stories, in turn, can fill us with emotion, showing that fathers-in-law and mother-in-law are sometimes as important as our own parents.

O awesome.club advises you to keep a handkerchief by your side, as the following stories may make you laugh until you cry. We also prepared a bonus in the end: there are women in the world who never lose their cool regardless of the situation. Even in cases involving the police.

I bought a house with my husband and we started to do the works. My mother-in-law was happy, as she apparently loves crafts. I came home from work in the morning and there she was at our house, doing various things. She had already prepared the mortar and wallpaper. And she said: “look, here you can put the washing machine. We can do the baby’s room here,” and so on. I was quite surprised by all this excitement, and not positively. So, I told my husband to politely explain to her that this would be our house and who would decide where each room would be would be us. The next day I came home from work to find my husband upset on the couch. “I took my mother out of the house. I told her to do work on her house, but not to interfere in ours”. My mother-in-law was upset, she said that she would never step foot in our house again, and that we would never visit her again. The next day, she brought us milk from the farm as if nothing had happened. But at least she stopped poking her nose into the works. © a11adinnn / pikabu

At the beginning of my relationship with my husband, he told me that he was allergic to all kinds of local anesthesia and, therefore, had always had his teeth treated without any anesthesia. Out of curiosity, I asked how he found that out. He told me that in his childhood he had a high fever, they called an ambulance and gave him an injection. Soon after, the allergic reaction started (in the form of spasms). I decided to take a look at his old medical records: they gave dipyrone with diphenhydramine, the temperature dropped sharply and, therefore, the spasms occurred. My mother-in-law drew the following conclusion: dipyrone is an analgesic, anesthesia is also an analgesic, and therefore he was allergic to all kinds of analgesics. My husband has spent his entire life getting dental work done without any anesthesia. Now, finally, you won’t be so afraid of going to the dentist anymore. © Yasminurlik / pikabu

“That moment when your mother-in-law doesn’t want to eat what you made, but cooks the same dish you did.”

As with most people, my relationship with my mother-in-law is not the best. That’s because I do everything wrong. But the best was the phrase: “come here and I want to show you how to cut the toilet paper right”. © ARSENIYA2000 / pikabu

My friend recently got married. His mother started to visit him almost every day, saying that she was only going to have tea, but we knew that she wanted to see how her daughter-in-law was taking care of the house. She took the opportunity to make complaints saying things like “you didn’t iron it right” or “why is this messed up?” My friend didn’t want to upset his mother, so he gently hinted that it wasn’t her problem. She pretended she didn’t hear. After a while, he was called to work in another city and he immediately accepted. The couple moved, which was also good for keeping the relationship with the mother-in-law at a distance (at least that’s what my friend thought). After a few weeks in the new house, his mom called via Skype saying, “Turn on all the lights, and get out of the way of the camera; I want to see how you arranged this room”. My friend this time did not want to be delicate and told his mother everything he really thought. They haven’t spoken in a month. © IamLie / pikabu

My friend was home alone with her mother-in-law. The phone rang. The mother-in-law answered. He was her son (my friend’s husband). Then the two had the following dialogue:
— Hi, can you pass it to Julia, please?
“Yes, sure, just a minute.
The mother-in-law walked away a little, then returned to the phone and spoke in a higher voice:
– Hello?
He was confused… obviously he knew it wasn’t Julia. Then he said:
— Sorry, I really wanted to talk to Vitor.
After that, the mother-in-law handed the phone to Julia. © Calico / pikabu

“My mother-in-law was complaining that the sun was hitting her eyes. I closed the blinds, turned my back for just a second, and when I turned around, I saw this.”

We lived with my husband’s parents and his grandfather, a World War II veteran. On one of my weekends, everyone got up early: my husband went to work, and my father-in-law was fixing his car in the garage. I heard my mother-in-law, Nina, shout from the bedroom saying to her father: “When Vânia wakes up, tell her to eat the sausages I left in the fridge. Don’t wake her up, let her sleep some more.” And he replied, “Okay.” Soon after, he knocked on my bedroom door and shouted: “Vânia, wake up. Nina told you to make soup for lunch. The meat is on the porch”. I got up and went to make him some soup. © VL1977 / pikabu

My mother-in-law told her son (my husband) that I didn’t respond to the birthday greetings she sent me on Facebook. She said this apparently very upset and with tears in her eyes, as my husband was very nervous. I immediately opened the messages and showed that I had already replied. When he asked my mother-in-law why she had lied (I was present at the time), the answer was this: “She should have replied in the comments so that everyone could see, otherwise it is almost a lack of respect for me”. I couldn’t stop laughing. © GooGoosha89 / pikabu

“This is what my mother got my wife for her birthday. The evolution of our daughter’s crying”

My mother is a “peculiar” woman. We went away on vacation and my husband asked her to take care of our cat. When we got back, we couldn’t find the cat anywhere, nor the litter box or food bags. But the apartment was full of notes pasted in different places. For example, on the chandelier: “now it is clean and you can see the fur color”; on the curtain: “I weighed him again, you had it wrong” and so on. At first, I freaked out. That was our home! “Where is my cat?” It turns out that due to all the chemicals my mom used to clean the entire house, the animal ended up getting poisoned and she had to take him to the vet. All costs for tests and treatments were not paid as the cat was still in the hospital. We cover all expenses. Also, she moved the cat’s things around, putting them where she thought they should be; so we couldn’t find anything. We spent a few days doing a “scavenger hunt” around the house. © Aliskanow / pikabu

When I met my future husband, he bragged about how well his mother cooked. I found out what his preferences were in the kitchen and began to prepare the dishes he liked best. The favorite was a potato salad. He always said that my salad was much better than his mother’s. One day he told her that and that was it: a cooking competition began. My husband used to have lunch at her house, as it was close to work and she always made the same potato salad using different recipes. One fine day, my mother-in-law emerged victorious. My husband came home and said that mine was very tasty, but that his mother’s was better. I was sad all night. Then I got a call from my husband’s sister saying that their mother had ordered this salad from an expensive restaurant in town. We laugh a lot. Nowadays, we always ask my mother-in-law to “make” this salad for the holidays and New Year. For all relatives. It was a good truce. © xxxxll / pikabu

I left my daughter with my mother-in-law for the weekend. When we came to pick her up, we got a surprise in the form of a rabbit and a huge cage. We couldn’t refuse the animal that was already there, although we already have 2 dogs at home and very little space. And my husband still has allergies. At least our daughter was jumping up and down with happiness. © Sparkle__M0tion / reddit My husband and I have a “wish board” at home where we write down everything we plan to buy. When she comes to visit, my mother-in-law looks at what’s on the board and buys us something from the list. I don’t mind, but she always says, “Oh, I got it before you guys did.” One day I saw a Christmas decoration kit in a store that wasn’t very pretty, but quite expensive. So I put that item on the board. After a while, my mother-in-law arrived with the kit in her hands. She told her that she didn’t like the kit and had only put it on the board to see if she was going to buy it. To this day she is not talking to me. © uglybelladonna / reddit A few years ago, she was making ground beef spaghetti. My husband ate three dishes and told his mother. When we went to visit, she had a pot of spaghetti on the table waiting for us. I couldn’t handle the laughter. My husband, of course, thanked him and said it was very tasty. At this, my mother-in-law said: “The secret is in the sauce. If you want to know what’s so special, just look at the empty bottle in the trash.” We started laughing, not understanding why she thought we were so interested to know. So she took the bag and put it in the garbage can on the street, for the cleaning service to collect. When she came back, she said, “Well, now you’ll never know how to make the best spaghetti ever again!” © B5160 / reddit

In the 90s, almost always when my mother-in-law rode public transport, she had problems with the police. The bus conductor asked for the ticket, but she, then 35, showed a veteran’s registration (in some countries, they don’t need to buy tickets). Unfortunately, no one believed the document was real, perhaps because of her young age. And usually the employees of the transport company called the police. After the police officers checked the documents, they apologized for the inconvenience, and she returned to the bus. In the 1980s, she worked as a doctor in Afghanistan. © Tulala / pikabu

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