I am offended.... should I be?

[Imp]

yes I have several 1/2 cartons of nasty eggs in my fridge

Thank them for all the chicken treats.

I think just about everyone has food preferences. If I was at your house an you offered me the bestest green beans in the world, out of your garden. I would politely say "Thank you no".

Imp- Course the imp in me says switch out the eggs with balut. That'd get a reaction.

 

[danielle82]

When people are living with you (or even half living with you and half living with your sister) there are bound to be irritations even between the most mild mannered people. Let them have their store bought eggs and count yourself lucky you are not arguing over bigger things that could damage your relationship! If it does bug you to have store bought eggs in your fridge just send them to your sisters house when they are at her house. Getting grumpy about eggs is like crying over spilled milk hahaha
( a close friend of mine lived with her mom and dad and I watched their relationship suffer immensely, everything from bashing her hubby, to telling her how to raise her kids, to discord over chores to babysitting frustrations, it was on both parts, but the frustrations bewteen them were horrible)

 

[HHandbasket]

Wanna REALLY freak your dad out? Show him a yellow chick & tell him you hatched it out of one of the eggs he left behind at your house.

It's great that you're helping, but I agree that they should either take their eggs with them when they leave or at least not buy new ones every time they come. They're doing it to insult you (in case you hadn't figured that part out yet... you know in your heart there's no need for them to bring a fresh dozen store bought eggs *every* time they come to your house... it's obviously a direct but silent insult to your preference for home-grown eggs). It's gotta bug you that they undermine you that way to your children, too, though thank Goodness your children, as you said, don't really listen to them. That doesn't mean your parents aren't doing it, and you have to ask yourself if this situation is a positive presence in your family dynamic. With direct (not even indirect) insults like that and the undermining of your choices to your offspring, if it were me, I would rethink letting them stay. It's about principles, not eggs.

But I'm kinda a snot that way anyhow, especially when it comes to my family... they'll stab you in the heart and smile in your face while they twist the knife, just like what your folks are doing. I stay away from my family for the most part because I don't think families should treat one another that way. You are respecting your parents' choice to eat crap store-bought eggs, but they're not returning that same respect. You may end up having a difficult relationship with them in the long run, so if you have a good relationship with them now, you should talk to them and explain how you feel and just politely ask them to take their eggs with them when they leave. Or let them know you'll be giving them to a soup kitchen or throwing them out (or hatching them LOL) and that you're not going to feed them to your family and ask them to not be offended by it. Even though they don't think twice about offending you or undermining you to your children, staying open and talking to them about it so that offense doesn't keep self-perpetuating in the family is the best thing, I would think.

 

[Dar]

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Oh HECK.. dont even get me started.... we have their dog ALL THE TIME they cant bring him to my sisters house cause you know dogs carry germs and well you can fill in the rest...

this dog in 100+lbs...

tore a 4" gash in my sectional sofa that is just over a year old

jumps on my bench for my dining room table (my table has the 2 benches and 2 chairs) well he has damaged mt 1 bench beyond repair

chases my cats to no end cause my dad thought it was funny when he was a puppy that he chased the stray cats out of his yard. (we are missing a cat right now cause he chased her upstairs and she jumped out n open 2nd story window)

knocked my plants over and I have given up on all of them

destroyed my blinds cause he looks out the window and bent all the slats on the bottom half

ripped my curtain rod out of my wall because he got my living room drapes wrapped around himself while looking out the window

We wont even get started on why my dad is a PIA... (Think Archie Bunker X10)

 

[Dar]

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you hit the nail on the head and this is the reason why I live over 2 hours away from them

 

[easttxchick]

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Thank them for all the chicken treats.

I think just about everyone has food preferences. If I was at your house an you offered me the bestest green beans in the world, out of your garden. I would politely say "Thank you no".

Imp- Course the imp in me says switch out the eggs with balut. That'd get a reaction.

Funny, but mean(I love it).

I have to admit, I probably would be offended, too.

 

[SarahBeth9394]

I think I'd be more ticked off about the dog destroying your stuff. Put that dog outside. He's too destructive to be inside. As far as the eggs go I'd say you know I've opened my home to you every weekend for almost 6 months. If you don't like my eggs then just don't have eggs when you're here. A simple "no thank you" is just called courtesy. Oh and the Archie Bunker thing.... Again courtesy. You have children to raise and having someone with that rotten of an attitude only teaches them that it is ok to be a jackass. I'd just say "hey dad lighten up on the attitude and remember we expect you to be a good example for the kids". If they have that little respect for you then they don't need to be in your home at all. If he acts that way in his own home that's fine but this is your home with your spouce and your children.

And throw those half cartons out or feed them to the dog.

 

[DuckLady]

I would be more offended at him playing the fart card to get you to do what he wants.

 

[cassie]

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He needs to enroll in Sex Education 101. There are no rooster swimmers in fertile eggs. There was one sperm cell that merged with the female cell to make the zygote which would become an embryo/chick if incubated. The swimmer was long gone by the time the egg was even laid. Give him a microscope and tell him to look for a swimmer. Tell him if he does find one you will take him out to dinner, your treat, any time, any place he likes. Tell him if he can't, he is to take you out.

 

[jen5680]

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