Jeep Drunk vs. Real Life Drama

Ahhhhh, in-laws.  I've no complaint's really.  My mother-in-law is a free spirit, and wonderful to me and the kids.  My grandfather-in-law is sweet, as are all my aunt-in-laws and uncle-in-laws and cousin-in-laws.  I even really like my brother-in-law, and he has had it rough.

Joined the Army at the urging of his then girlfriend.  Who promptly dumped him and admitted to cheating on him the first chance she had to write him a letter in BASIC.  He graduates, deploys to Afghanistan, get's injured, returns home with a gimp foot.  Meets "the most amazing woman EVAH" online.  Marries her last year without telling anyone, and the chaos begins.

Those of you that know me well, know that I have enough going on between my Demon and Angel kids.  I see drama, I turn away.  I don't even want to know!  No, don't tell me the details, please I beg you.  I will worry worry worry about them.

So, sister-in-law is a bit of a nut.  Lots of examples, but the best one (and yes, I tried very hard not to laugh) is that once my BIL was fixing something on the roof and she got angry with him.  So she took the ladder away and made him sit up there for 8 hours.  Nice.  Monitoring phone/email/XBL.  No allowing him to see or talk to family, friends.  I am sure there are others like her out there.  I just have never seen one up close before.

Fast forward through Christmas (he wasn't allowed to attend any family gatherings) and through my husband going to AIT (he wasn't allowed to call him, or come up and visit him even though the town they live in is on the way).  Last Thursday my brave BIL left her.  Packed up his shit and left.  Showed up on my MIL doorstep.  Busted his hump all weekend helping her around the house.  Doing what a son should for his mom. 

So Monday evening after dinner at the MIL's my BIL comes up to our house for some COD4 fun.  Three TV's + Three Xbox's + Skinny Beers + Family = FUN.  We are having a blast, laughing, dying respawning, clutching and there is a damn knock at the door.

I lose the rock paper scissors contest to see who has to get up, I crept down, saw a little bob shaped head....I'm drunk, I think,  "Damn, that looks like Dora the Explorer." and I opened the door.

Saw Soon-To-Be-Ex-Sister-In-Law.......Laughed....Said, "Ummmm, NOPE"....Shut the Door...Deadbolt

I resumed playing and tried to ignore the gasping wails coming from the front lawn.  My husband and BIL exchanged WTF? glances and looked out the window to see her hobbling with sorrow back to her car.  Thankfully my BIL went out there and talked to her some.  He was really embarrassed.  Hell, I was embarrassed for him, but also because Drunk and in the face of Drama, I walked away.  And this might, maybe, yeah...it was a time when I should have maybe not done that.  So maybe I am a terrible person, but I just don't want to get up in the middle of someone's marriage.  Even if it's family, even if it's falling apart, even if I feel bad that she can't get any information or assistance from anyone.  I just don't want it on my shoulders.  They're sunburnt.

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Did you know that the seams on a regular teeshirt will leave gouges in your skin if you are sunburnt badly?  Did you know that when you are severely sunburnt, you can feel the damn UV rays coming through your clothes and "bringing the pain" in a whole new way?  Have you ever heard the skriek of a sunburnt person that accidentally puts their phone up to their shoulder?  It's like the Krill!

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and Dad Spam of course!

Little boy at the nude beach.

A mother and father take their 6-year old son to a nude beach.

As the boy walks along the sand, he notices that many of the women Have boobs bigger than his mother's,

so he goes back to ask her why.

She tells her son, "The bigger they are, the sillier the lady is."

The boy, pleased with the answer, goes to play in the ocean but returns To tell his mother that many of the

men have larger things than his dad does.

She replies, "The bigger they are, the dumber the man is"

Again satisfied with her answer, the boy goes back to the ocean to play. Shortly thereafter, the boy returns and promptly tells his mother ,

"Daddy is talking to the silliest lady on the beach, and the longer he talks, the dumber he gets."