My MIL is an anti-gun loon and normally I just ignore her antics but she just topped herself and I am trying to gauge exactly how to respond.
This happened last week but I just found out about it yesterday. My wife is 9 months pregnant with our first child and packs a gun. MIL does not. Last week my MIL picked my wife up to take her to lunch. The place they choose was about all parked up.
To make a detailed story shorter, the basic gist was that a guy was blocking traffic waiting for a space to open up. My MIL flipped him off as she maneuvered around him but my wife did not see it. My MIL comes around again and by then the guy has parked and is walking to the restaurant. As she passes by him MIL flips him off again and again wife does not see it.
The guy then makes for MIL’s car, so MIL guns it and drives such that my wife wants to know why the guy was headed to the car and why MIL gunned it. MIL then explains what she did, and even after getting blasted by my wife is proud that she “wasn’t scared” of the guy and why is my wife “scared” of him. When wife pointed out what could have happened, MIL says she just would have run him over. My MIL’s bottom line was she wanted to ruin his day and she is happy to think that she did. Of course for not being “scared” they had to drive somewhere else to eat. Thankfully she was able to drive away and nothing more came of it.
Now normally it really isn’t my problem if MIL’s mouth/finger writes a check her butt can’t cash, but I am wondering that if she will do that with my 9-month pregnant wife in the car, will she do it if she is off with my soon to be born son? I have to wonder what might have gone down if a car had suddenly backed out blocking her escape path.
My wife already yelled at her mom and didn’t get anywhere, what should I do?
This happened last week but I just found out about it yesterday. My wife is 9 months pregnant with our first child and packs a gun. MIL does not. Last week my MIL picked my wife up to take her to lunch. The place they choose was about all parked up.
To make a detailed story shorter, the basic gist was that a guy was blocking traffic waiting for a space to open up. My MIL flipped him off as she maneuvered around him but my wife did not see it. My MIL comes around again and by then the guy has parked and is walking to the restaurant. As she passes by him MIL flips him off again and again wife does not see it.
The guy then makes for MIL’s car, so MIL guns it and drives such that my wife wants to know why the guy was headed to the car and why MIL gunned it. MIL then explains what she did, and even after getting blasted by my wife is proud that she “wasn’t scared” of the guy and why is my wife “scared” of him. When wife pointed out what could have happened, MIL says she just would have run him over. My MIL’s bottom line was she wanted to ruin his day and she is happy to think that she did. Of course for not being “scared” they had to drive somewhere else to eat. Thankfully she was able to drive away and nothing more came of it.
Now normally it really isn’t my problem if MIL’s mouth/finger writes a check her butt can’t cash, but I am wondering that if she will do that with my 9-month pregnant wife in the car, will she do it if she is off with my soon to be born son? I have to wonder what might have gone down if a car had suddenly backed out blocking her escape path.
My wife already yelled at her mom and didn’t get anywhere, what should I do?