The mother of my dearest spouse lived quite far away, so she could rarely come to visit us. Most of the time she took the train, but it was a month ago that she thought it would be a lot faster to get there by plane.
I was going with my wife in July to go to the sea, so we started planning our trip in advance. And just as we were about to buy tickets, my wife’s mother called and said she was going to visit us. Once she warned us in advance that she was going to visit us, but this time she told us two days before her flight. Then I had to go to the airport to pick her up, because the airport was quite far away from our house and moreover for all the time we were married and my mother-in-law was visiting us, she did not even remember the street where we lived. My mother-in-law was afraid that if she ordered a cab and accidentally gave a different address, she would be taken to a completely different place. My wife said I just had to pick up her mother, and no one cared about my opinion.
When I drove with my mother-in-law to our house, we didn’t talk about anything in the car, and it was only when we got into the apartment that my wife asked her why she hadn’t told her mother in advance that she was coming. My mother-in-law said it was some kind of surprise, but it didn’t surprise us very much. I was very upset that our trip would have to be rescheduled.
We also decided to renovate the apartment at the same time, so we somehow managed to put my mother-in-law’s things away and there was even less room. My wife and I had suitcases on the doorstep because we were going on vacation. And then my spouse’s mother said that she would stay with us until the end of the summer, because she has nothing to do at home and wants to take a walk around Moscow.
I did not keep quiet for long and immediately told my mother-in-law that we were going to stay at the seaside in ten days and that we would not tolerate her in our house for long. We had already bought trips and spent quite a lot of money on it. But my wife suddenly told me that we had to give up the vouchers immediately and that we were going to stay in Moscow all summer with my mother. I told my mother-in-law that this year we wanted to take her son to the sea for the first time and he was looking forward to it too, but my mother-in-law didn’t care where we were going. My wife’s mother thought that seeing her was an important event, too. I was very offended that I almost six months saved up for this vacation and in the end the money was thrown away for nothing.
My wife and I had a fight about not being able to go anywhere at all this summer because of her mom. But then I just thought it was all pointless and without further ado I took my mother-in-law back to the train station to send her home. Unexpectedly she told me I had to pay for the ticket myself, and I didn’t mind, because at least that way we had time to go to the sea ourselves. Even though I had spent ten thousand on my mother-in-law, I still didn’t feel sorry for the money, because it had taken much more money for our trips with our family.
