MIL works nights at Walmart. What that means I her world is that she works from 10-6 and sleeps from 6:30-9. During her ridiculous sleeping hours, she unplugs her phones so she can't be disturbed. However, every single freakjn night, without fail, she will call here between 9:30-9:45. Tonight, I had just gotten dd down after an entire day of no naps and a terrible night last night and MIL decides to call. Ives tried to tell her politely and indirectly many times how inconsiderate it is for her to wake us all up because of her work schedule but she just doesn't care.
When she called tonight she asked what we were doing. I told her were in bed because dd had a bad night and day. As per her usual self, she just kept jabbering on abou her internal exam at the OB and how she might have endometriosis. She then starts going on about her furnace being broken in her tiny apartment. Why this ticked me off is because the last 2 winters, before LO, we couldn't afford heating oil and we sat here with one tiny electric heater freezing. We slept win coats and shoes on. She knew hat and didn't care at all. ( dh lost his job and I did a month later and it really killed us).
So I mention for the hundredth time how we went for two winters with no heat, she at least has heat coming from surrounding apartments. Well I course, that justnprovokes her o whine even more.
I kept saying I really needed to get off the phone because my talking was causing the baby to stir and I really needed to sleep. She just wouldn't shut up. So then, about an hour later, she calls back to talk to eh and tell him about her internal exam! Mind you, when she asked where he was earlier and I said he was still at work, her response was ( are you sure he's working?) wtf!
I just don't know what to do about this disruptive and inconsiderate woman. She is the type hat her life runs off of Facebook so I'm hoping she gets the point when she reads that we're unplugging our phone between the hours of 7pm and 9pm because our schedule runs off of LOs and we can't keep letting late night phone calls wake her. She is the most dramatic woman I've ever known so by tomorrow morning, I'll be getting calls asking why I'd be so mean and hearing how she is so "depressed" again. Thanks for reading my vent. I just really had it with her.
Re: Why won't MIL get the point! Vent
I was gonna suggest unplugging or turning off your phones.
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Youre right. It should be that simple, hence why I said about shutting off the phone during certain hours. Letting the phone ring only wakes the baby. I usually have the phone ringers shut off but sometimes I forget to shut of the base ringer. Even then, the machine picks up, which wakes the baby. She will also call repeatedly. House, my fell, his cell, etc over and over until she gets an answer. If we constantly tried to avoid her, our phones would need to be off 24/7. She calls duh over and over while he's at work. It's crazy.
I have a very ill mother and I hate shutting off the phone in case something happens bu MIL can't get the point to stop calling all the time and at those hours.
I did unplug the phone and its still unplugged, I just find it ridiculous to have to shut off communication to the world, dd doctors, etc, because one woman has no brain or consideratio
The other day I unplugged the phone and isn't answer my cell so she drive over and beat on the door, causing the dog to go nuts, until I answered.
Shes just knew of those people that don't care about others, but it better damn well care about her.
This.
She keeps going until she gets a response because she gets what she wants. So You have to seriously ignore her. I mean don't open the door, or close it in her face.
Sometimes the only way to deal with rude people is to meet them on their playing field and be just as stubborn back.
It won't be easy but if she wants to drive to your place, to sit on your porch by herself then that's on her.
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