Oh, can I tell you what my MIL did?

[Bernadine]

I'm so embarrassed by/for her, that I don't even want to tell my mom about it.

So, MIL threw a surprise bday party for her h (h's stepfather) on Saturday at h's aunt and uncle's house.  Luckily, my parents left before we started playing volleyball.  We were doing rally scoring- so, each serve results in a point.  Unlike the old scoring system, where you have to serve to get a point.  It's me, h, his aunt and uncle, cousins, and a bunch of the cousins' friends.  Cousins are teenagers.  H and I are on one team, MIL on the other team.

MIL realizes we're using rally scoring and starts complaining- you should have to "earn" your point by serving the ball.  Everyone else is fine with it, but we change to the old scoring system for MIL.  Everyone keeps joking about "earning" points.

H hits the ball to MIL, and she has to turn to hit it back, so her back is towards the net.  H hits it right back to her again- NOT spiking it, just a regular hit, while her back is still turned.

MIL goes OFF- "if you're going to be cocky, then I'm not playing.  I'm leaving.  FUCK YOU ALL."

And stomps off in a rage.  Like, wtf?  It was insane.  Everyone is standing around like, did that just really happen?

[pantsparty]

JFC. I bet she was terrible to play board games with as a kid.

[leeluu]

Woah? Roid rage perhaps?

[W.T.Faulkner]

Your MIL needs to get her life.

[jinkies]

OMG. That sounds... awkward.

Is she normally like that? or is it one of those things where she got caught up in the moment and is probably mortified that she acted that way?

[LeggsBenedict]

omg I used to have a friend just like this. competitive and a sore loser to the EXTREME. she was always throwing shit.

craaaazy.

[oliveyou]

Yikes! We recently were at a party and playing volleyball and the girl who was keeping score didn't understand rally scoring. So we told her about 3 times (nicely) that each serve gets a point. The 4th time she started bitching again and so people were getting really annoyed and kind of yelled at her. She threw down the clipboard and stomped off. lol Who knew volleyball was so intense!

[charley]

Oh yeah, she totally reset the Nintendo

[ProfessorArtNerd]

seriously, what happened next? how awkward!

[Bernadine]

Aug 17, 2015 9:18:42 GMT -5 @booby said:

lol, omg. what happened next? did she leave the party? did she just take breather and then come back like it was no thang?

We all kept playing.  She loaded up all of her food and left.  I still can't get over it.  And she is PISSED at h.  She called BIL to complain to him (BIL had already left the party).  BIL is by far her favorite child out of him and h.  BIL can do no wrong, h can do no right.

[Bernadine]

Aug 17, 2015 9:19:13 GMT -5 jinkies said:

OMG. That sounds... awkward.

Is she normally like that? or is it one of those things where she got caught up in the moment and is probably mortified that she acted that way?

No, I'm sure she's not mortified.  I'm sure she thinks she was justified.

[Bernadine]

Aug 17, 2015 9:29:15 GMT -5 puddleofgrace said:

LMAO!! How drunk was she?

Just a little, I think, lol.

[VeryViolet]

She sounds delightful. I am sure the holidays are a joy.

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[ECB]

She sounds.... mature.

[Deleted]

Sounds like my great grandma who used to cheat at dominoes (playing with kids 10 and under) and curse us out as soon as our parents would leave the room for funsies. I hated that woman.

[lissaholly]

Omg, this I my uncle. I remember me being ten, my sister, 12, with my dad and my uncle all playing euchre. He was my partner and he was throwing some real shade at me for my unrefined skills. "You led with the trump suit Ace?! Why would you do that! Now we will lose this hand! Really?!" Longest card game ever. And the only one.

ETA: I am sorry that this is your MIl:(. It sounds like an unnecessary stressor for family events.

[FastHands]

Aug 17, 2015 9:27:30 GMT -5 charley said:

Oh yeah, she totally reset the Nintendo

LOL!

[shostakovich]

She left the party that she was throwing? AND took her food? Wow.

Also, a competitive friend anecdote from my childhood: My best friend and I were playing Monopoly, and I was about to bankrupt her for landing on my property. Because I've always been a bleeding heard liberal, I offered to work out a deal so we could keep playing. She chose instead to flip the board over and stomp away. And I was spending the night at her house. We are still best friends, and she laughs heartily at herself about this incident now. But we never played Monopoly together after that.

[Bernadine]

Aug 17, 2015 11:11:21 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

Aug 17, 2015 9:40:35 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

We all kept playing.  She loaded up all of her food and left.  I still can't get over it.  And she is PISSED at h.  She called BIL to complain to him (BIL had already left the party).  BIL is by far her favorite child out of him and h.  BIL can do no wrong, h can do no right.

I'm picturing an early 60-something woman wearing khaki shorts and a souvenir tee shirt from a cruise ship, hairline kind of sweaty and sticking to her face, scowling and breathing heavy through her nose as she slams a paper plate atop her bowl of potato salad and stomping off to her Toyota trying rull hard not to make eye contact with anybody.

Lol.  Tell me I'm close!

You're so close. No souvenir tee, and she drives a Kia, lol.

[pantsparty]

I can't get over the, "FUCK YOU ALL." Well, the whole thing, really, but who says that to their family over a volleyball game? Is she one of those people who is always the victim?

[Bernadine]

Aug 17, 2015 11:13:37 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

I can't get over the, "FUCK YOU ALL." Well, the whole thing, really, but who says that to their family over a volleyball game? Is she one of those people who is always the victim?

Not the victim, but she can be very dramatic.  And she says fuck a lot, lol.

I actually like her a lot, but I was realllllly taken aback by this.  I still can't get over it.

[cville]

How awkward for everyone. I'd think it was a random moment of unexpected outburst but for the fact that she then went and called your BIL.

[Bernadine]

Aug 17, 2015 11:21:33 GMT -5 cville said:

How awkward for everyone. I'd think it was a random moment of unexpected outburst but for the fact that she then went and called your BIL.

Yeah, she called him the next day, so she was still pissed.

[cville]

Aug 17, 2015 11:23:45 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

Aug 17, 2015 11:21:33 GMT -5 cville said:

How awkward for everyone. I'd think it was a random moment of unexpected outburst but for the fact that she then went and called your BIL.

Yeah, she called him the next day, so she was still pissed.

Omg. That's awfuln

[Bernadine]

Same aunt in OP just invited us all to an end of summer party next weekend- with swimming, wiffle ball, horseshoes, and VOLLEYBALL. Lol.

[NewOrleans]

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