Did anyone else notice that the Michelle Bobble family was instructed that the stuffing sans meat was to be: “Stuffing in a casserole with a serving spoon”. This is the only place in the whole e-mail she does not specify a casserole w/a lid, so my question is does Michelle get to use aluminum foil if she wants or was she to arrive with her stuffing sans meat in a casserole sans lid/cover? I think Marn dropped the ball here… too much confusion on what to do or not do. Covered with lid? with foil? uncovered? Poor Michelle had to make up her own mind. Do you think it was a nail biting decision?
If Marney had prepared something similar for another holiday, they “kids” should have gotten together and used the menu and instructions from that and blamed Marney for sending out the wrong holiday card. Christmas at Thanksgiving…lets see her fix that one!
There is no way in hell I’d show up to Marney’s Thanksgiving dinner with anything but EXACTLY what she told me to bring. I know people like this (well, not as bad as Marney, but who IS?) and messing with their precise instructions is NEVER a good idea. This woman terrifies me.
I’d like to know which year she hosted Thanksgiving went so terribly wrong she decided to start giving such insane instructions. Was it the year the Bob Byron family showed up with a slotted spoon instead of a ladle? When the June Davis family brought a casserole dish (non-regulation size) with aluminum foil on the top? Or the year the Amy Misto family brought a store-bought chocolate cake with HAPPY BIRTHDAY on it and a bottle of Two Buck Chuck?
At first I thought “Maybe they are feeding like 30 people, so she’s just trying to make it run like clockwork on the day”, but come on! Unless I knew a majority of people hated something, I would just bring what I was going to bring and leave early to escape her wrath.
I think Marnie is betting they will agree with your first paragraph. And your second paragraph is laugh-out-loud funny (the dog just gave me a funny look)
1. I would like to tell Marney what she can do with her bottle of Clos du Bois
2. If everyone hates turnips, just leave them off the menu
3. I’m glad marriage constitutes adult hood for a woman, that means as long as I’m single I get to slack off & not contribute?
My family brings dishes for get together’s, but it is handled nothing like this. I would have to tell Marney to either “fix everything yourself if you are so dang particular” or to “stuff it, we are staying home this year!”
What I want to know is everything else has to be put in a regulation casserole dish but the Michelle Bobble Family has to bring the Proscuitto Pin Wheels (and God help you if you deviate from the recipe – people have been shot for less!) without a plate (and again, God help you if you show up with one). How are they supposed to carry them? On a giant stick? Or maybe they can stuff it in their pockets, assuming of course, that they have regulation sized pockets.
Everyone knows the Michelle Bobble family should transport the Proscuitto pinwheels in a perfectly formed tinfoil swan! I am sure that would blow all the lids off Marney’s regulation sized casseroles. If I were invited, I would bring the absolute opposite of what she asked for. Then I would poor myself a glass of unapproved Chianti from a basketed bottle and raise a toast to the best hostess ever–Amy Misto!
My husband’s folks are Texas Aggies and every other year we get together for Thanksgiving in College Station, because the A&M – t.u. game usually comes the next day. One year my father-in-law insisted on having Thanksgiving outside at the Olson Field Pavilion next to the RV park. It had to be 10 degrees below freezing with a strong north wind . We kept running our regulation size casserole dishes in and out of the campers where we would try to warm them up again, but it was no use, everything was ice cold. We were so cold we couldn’t feel our eating utensils in our hands. We were all miserable, but at least we didn’t have Marney to contend with!! A Food Nazi like that has got to be a Baylor grad!! And Thanksgiving without the soupy grean bean casserole would make my kids cry!!
Amy Misto sounds like the smartest one in the bunch. I wouldn’t read that crap, either. I also wouldn’t be going to her house for Thanksgiving or any other holiday.
Also…if most people hate turnips why make them????
OMG I am so glad I am an Australian and we do not celebrate thanksgiving here and even if we did it is usually boiling hot at that time of the year so we would be eating cold Seafood most likely. Mind you on our Christmas Day some really cook up a storm even though it is still boiling hot .
I think they were frightened to submit the next years missive – I can imagine Marney carefully writing each letter with subtle differences, so she would know exactly who had sent it in!
- There is nowhere near enough alcohol at this gathering. I want to know why Marney needs to know if the Bob Byron family is bringing chardonnay or beer before the 22nd when Thanksgiving is the 28th. Seriously?
- I can just imagine Marney greeting everyone at the door with a tape measurer (to see if the casserole dishes are “regulation” size) and a scale. “14.9 lbs of mashed potatoes, June? I clearly said 15.”
- Lisa must now contribute at the “adult level”. Is there a “child” level?
- I’m dying to know “how Mike is”. Allergic? Picky? Gassy? So many unanswered questions.
I can tell you about the “adult level” contribution. Our big extended family used to have three-day family reunions. We got a pretty specific list of who was to bring what. Nothing nit-picky like this, “dessert” meant “dessert of your choice”. College students and young 20s weren’t asked to bring anything more than paper goods or a couple of boxes of cold cereal. Once you were older and settled, you got advanced to something like dessert (which could still be store bought cookies), a casserole, vegetable dish or something like that. My guess is Lisa’s never had to bring anything more than a token item now she’s expected to contribute more. And in Lisa’s case, a veggie platter and dip is still easy. I’d buy the big grocery store platter and transfer it to my own dish.
After reading this, I am so relieved I have not had holiday meals with my family for YEARS. Why on earth would anyone want to go to this thing?
What if everyone got together and agreed to secretly switch lists? Let the woman have a nervous breakdown and hopefully not recover before the next big holiday.
I got a freakin stomach ache just reading Marneys requirements..My Mom is like this and
none of us can EVER relax at her house..We are all afraid to make a move..seriously!!! live States away now ..but Marneys letter brought flashbacks of I wish we would have just went out this year..No one can have a good time or relax..it really is sad because Thanksgiving is about making family memories and being thankful not being a Drill Sargeant or the food police..I feel so sorry for Marneys husband and Children..Everyone else gets to go home..If I was her family I would Keep her Drunk on her precious Clos Du bois Chardonnay and avoid her as much as humanly possible..this letter is really funny to imagine but to those of us that have lived it..I am so sorry for your Pain…This year you need to organize a Piss Marney Off Party
And Please invite me!! I will walk through the mud before entering her house..bring her some Boones farm strawberry hill !! And several regulation casserole dishes covered in Tinfoil that I will use to back up every toilet in her House…LOL
Anyone know how to spell passive aggressive biiiioootttccch from hell? Ugh…I’d rather starve than EVER break bread with such an undermining icky person! Please tell me this person has passed on and come back as something nicer like the cockroach I just mashed in my hallway!LOL
I just ran across this and it was strongly reminiscent of a mass email that recently went out for an organizational picnic. It consisted of not less than 7 paragraphs detailing every aspect of the event, from diagonal parking to the exact time that hamburgers would be finished. It was astonishing. I am happy to see that this is a relatively common syndrome.
Oh my, this sounds like my sister’s MIL! I had to send it to her, she’s going to be like been there done that! lol Marney needs to drink an entire bottle of that Chard before everyone gets there..life it too short to be this anal retentive.
Omg funniest thing ever! Marney needy a HAPPY meal…I’m glad I show up to my grandmas house with a pie (store bought) on thanksgiving and everything else is easy:’D
This would be awful if she were serious. But I think it’s meant to be ironic and is full of inside jokes for members of a large family that spend lots of time together.
I’m beginning to think that also- pretty apparent in the letter that this family has been sharing Thanksgiving together for a number of years…if she was really that big of a dictator the list would probably be much shorter
Hysterical, but I feel Marnie’s pain! More than once, someone (Pat) has volunteered to bring the beans to a potluck at work – meaning exactly that, a can of beans. No serving dish, serving spoon or even a canopener!
This reminds me of the time we took a group trip to Disney World and one of the dads made a color coded itinerary so we could squeeze in as much fun as possible. I’m pretty sure we threw ours off the top of splash mountain. Marney and Greg need to get to know each other apparently.
Do you think poor Lisa Byron Chesterfield had to disclose her Thanksgiving adult participation requirements to her spouse before they got married? I think not, because apparently the marriage took place anyway.
I am not sure if it is sleep deprivation due to my teething baby crying all night or what, but I cannot stop laughing at these comments. I too have tears streaming down my face. Soooo funny. Can’t wait to share this site with my friends!
Oh, I know, Tracie. I have tears rolling down my face and I’m snorting and wheezing. These comments are priceless. This goes on my FB next Thanksgiving!
Yeah. See, even though I could SO see one of my sisters writing this letter, this would NEVER GO OVER in my family. Why, You ask? Because with exception of my sweet Mother, EVERYONE ELSE would purposely make something else just to be contrary. Yeesh!
I was just thinking that. I would bring something off the wall to piss her off like 100 spoons with peanut butter on them or a giant non regulation vat of Cocktail sauce
lol AMy…that cracked me up! THis women is my mother-in-law. We aren’t allowed to “scoop from the middle of the bowl”. If she sees us doing it she will immediately come over and say something about it.
You have to make a moat for the mashed potatoes? That is hilarious. Next year take some little boats to place in the moat after you’ve scooped from the sides.
I wonder if there is a proper form to submit if you want to bring something else like cooked carrots or a cake…..is cake allowed or can there only be pie? If I was the one to bring the veggie try I would bring a store bought one in my own container with a bottle of ranch dressing. LOL My family would take it as a joke and most likely not bring anything much less something in a regulation sized dish. Also, if you are getting help making a meal you should be grateful there are people helping period.
You don’t have OCD… You have what most of my clients have, an assumed form of OCD. What you really have is ARD, anal retentive disorder! LOL, & good luck, cause it is a hard habit to break!
Hmmm, ARD must be what my grandma has. Whatever my grandpa does for her (clean the house, wash the dishes, load the laundry, load the dishwasher), she redoes it if it’s not done how she wants it done. My mom calls it OCD, but now I definitely think my grandma’s just very anal about things. :0)
….so do you load the silverware UP or DOWN ?? No kidding, I flip them so they’re all UP (except the sharp knives) so the dirty water will run AWAY from the eating end
I don’t think I’d like Marney, but I think I’d get along with Amy Misto. She can come to my house next Thanksgiving, and she can bring any damn thing she likes.
One of the things that I find most jarring is that the Michelle Bobble family was asked to bring the pie knife, but the Amy Misto family is bringing the pie (no knife needed). This seems to be an unnecessary division of labor. And if the Amy Misto family shows up with a pie knife, would they be asked to leave?
Marney may have learned from experience that Amy uses cheap Dollar Store pie knives, and we just can’t have that, can we? If Amy were to be so defiant as to bring a knife, Marney would hastily convene an emergency family meeting, on the spot, to determine an appropriate punishment.
I think if you want up a “jazzed UP” green vegetable..it would totally rock to mix green beans and asparagus…exactly 2.5 pounds of each, covered in a cheesey sauce (screw you Mike) topped with panco AND almonds…now THAT is jazzy, Marneypants.
Just for an experiment, The Mike Byron Family and the Bob Byron Family should fix and bring the other’s dish (or whatever)…. and see what kind of gasket Marney blows when they arrive.
This letter makes me appreciate my mom…I’m going home and tell her that tonight! Of course, she once served a lemon pie with a used matchstick that ended up in my brothers mouth…
How about no one needs to show up at her house and meet up at someone elses!
That’ll teach her…although she’s probably speaking the truth based on what happened the year before!!!
Funny thing is. I didn’t find the email funny, it sounded like one from my mom. Only difference was that she didn’t bold and underline things all over the place.
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Did anyone else notice that the Michelle Bobble family was instructed that the stuffing sans meat was to be: “Stuffing in a casserole with a serving spoon”. This is the only place in the whole e-mail she does not specify a casserole w/a lid, so my question is does Michelle get to use aluminum foil if she wants or was she to arrive with her stuffing sans meat in a casserole sans lid/cover? I think Marn dropped the ball here… too much confusion on what to do or not do. Covered with lid? with foil? uncovered? Poor Michelle had to make up her own mind. Do you think it was a nail biting decision?
I think Marney should be stuffed in a casserole with a serving spoon….
You’re right! This part is way too unstructured!
Ok, what I don’t get – 15 POUNDS of potatoes and only 2 pies?!?!? Doe everyone fill up on the spuds so they don’t need dessert?
I’D SOONER HAVE DINNER WITH A THOUSAND DRILL SARGEANTS THAN SET FOOT IN THAT WOMAN’S HOUSE!
If Marney had prepared something similar for another holiday, they “kids” should have gotten together and used the menu and instructions from that and blamed Marney for sending out the wrong holiday card. Christmas at Thanksgiving…lets see her fix that one!
Dear Marney,
Please chill the f**k out before someone plants a turd in one of the casseroles and then brings (heaven help us) a SPATULA to serve it to you.
You’re my hero, Marney! I’d marry you if I wasn’t gay. I agree with every instruction, btw.
Dear Marney,
Your turkey or ham better be f*****g amazing!
Sincerly, Your Guests
PS. B****
There is no way in hell I’d show up to Marney’s Thanksgiving dinner with anything but EXACTLY what she told me to bring. I know people like this (well, not as bad as Marney, but who IS?) and messing with their precise instructions is NEVER a good idea. This woman terrifies me.
I’d like to know which year she hosted Thanksgiving went so terribly wrong she decided to start giving such insane instructions. Was it the year the Bob Byron family showed up with a slotted spoon instead of a ladle? When the June Davis family brought a casserole dish (non-regulation size) with aluminum foil on the top? Or the year the Amy Misto family brought a store-bought chocolate cake with HAPPY BIRTHDAY on it and a bottle of Two Buck Chuck?
LMAO.
At first I thought “Maybe they are feeding like 30 people, so she’s just trying to make it run like clockwork on the day”, but come on! Unless I knew a majority of people hated something, I would just bring what I was going to bring and leave early to escape her wrath.
I think Marnie is betting they will agree with your first paragraph. And your second paragraph is laugh-out-loud funny (the dog just gave me a funny look)
Why would anything that is served cold not already be cold when brought to her house? Are you going to heat up the ice cream before you bring it??
Three words: WHAT A FREAK!
What a hoot!!!
I’m betting a “regulation casserole size” is a 9″ x 13″ dish.
1. I would like to tell Marney what she can do with her bottle of Clos du Bois
2. If everyone hates turnips, just leave them off the menu
3. I’m glad marriage constitutes adult hood for a woman, that means as long as I’m single I get to slack off & not contribute?
My family brings dishes for get together’s, but it is handled nothing like this. I would have to tell Marney to either “fix everything yourself if you are so dang particular” or to “stuff it, we are staying home this year!”
Oh, I hope EVERYONE brought the wrong thing!
What an absolute psycho!!
I like Marney – she makes a lot of sense.
Soup spoons and cocktail sauce are soooooo last year.
Got to go now. Sorry.
All my door handles need wiping.
What I want to know is everything else has to be put in a regulation casserole dish but the Michelle Bobble Family has to bring the Proscuitto Pin Wheels (and God help you if you deviate from the recipe – people have been shot for less!) without a plate (and again, God help you if you show up with one). How are they supposed to carry them? On a giant stick? Or maybe they can stuff it in their pockets, assuming of course, that they have regulation sized pockets.
awesome! you have me in tears! i wondered the same thing about those pinwheels. how should they transport them without a plate?!
Good point – its not like there’s a lot of room for creativity in the instructions…
Everyone knows the Michelle Bobble family should transport the Proscuitto pinwheels in a perfectly formed tinfoil swan! I am sure that would blow all the lids off Marney’s regulation sized casseroles. If I were invited, I would bring the absolute opposite of what she asked for. Then I would poor myself a glass of unapproved Chianti from a basketed bottle and raise a toast to the best hostess ever–Amy Misto!
I’d definitely put something on a stick but it wouldn’t be the damn pinwheels.
Someone should just show up with a sack of White Castles and hot chocolate. Poor Marney would probably put her head in oven!
My husband’s folks are Texas Aggies and every other year we get together for Thanksgiving in College Station, because the A&M – t.u. game usually comes the next day. One year my father-in-law insisted on having Thanksgiving outside at the Olson Field Pavilion next to the RV park. It had to be 10 degrees below freezing with a strong north wind . We kept running our regulation size casserole dishes in and out of the campers where we would try to warm them up again, but it was no use, everything was ice cold. We were so cold we couldn’t feel our eating utensils in our hands. We were all miserable, but at least we didn’t have Marney to contend with!! A Food Nazi like that has got to be a Baylor grad!! And Thanksgiving without the soupy grean bean casserole would make my kids cry!!
Make that green bean casserole!
Amy Misto sounds like the smartest one in the bunch. I wouldn’t read that crap, either. I also wouldn’t be going to her house for Thanksgiving or any other holiday.
Also…if most people hate turnips why make them????
because Marnie LIKES turnips
No I’m pretty sure Marney doesn’t like turnips ….. maybe Mike does? You know how he is LOL!
OMG I am so glad I am an Australian and we do not celebrate thanksgiving here and even if we did it is usually boiling hot at that time of the year so we would be eating cold Seafood most likely. Mind you on our Christmas Day some really cook up a storm even though it is still boiling hot .
Surely you don’t put cocktail sauce on that seafood though!
I’m thinking a CASE of wine and a tinfoil hat wouldn’t help me make it through Marney’s Thanksgiving gathering. Bring on the turkey coma and HURRY!
I think they were frightened to submit the next years missive – I can imagine Marney carefully writing each letter with subtle differences, so she would know exactly who had sent it in!
- There is nowhere near enough alcohol at this gathering. I want to know why Marney needs to know if the Bob Byron family is bringing chardonnay or beer before the 22nd when Thanksgiving is the 28th. Seriously?
- I can just imagine Marney greeting everyone at the door with a tape measurer (to see if the casserole dishes are “regulation” size) and a scale. “14.9 lbs of mashed potatoes, June? I clearly said 15.”
- Lisa must now contribute at the “adult level”. Is there a “child” level?
- I’m dying to know “how Mike is”. Allergic? Picky? Gassy? So many unanswered questions.
lol Jessica…funny!
I TRULY hope they all went to Amy’s – ordered pizza and watched movies.. and laughed their collective ass off!
I can tell you about the “adult level” contribution. Our big extended family used to have three-day family reunions. We got a pretty specific list of who was to bring what. Nothing nit-picky like this, “dessert” meant “dessert of your choice”. College students and young 20s weren’t asked to bring anything more than paper goods or a couple of boxes of cold cereal. Once you were older and settled, you got advanced to something like dessert (which could still be store bought cookies), a casserole, vegetable dish or something like that. My guess is Lisa’s never had to bring anything more than a token item now she’s expected to contribute more. And in Lisa’s case, a veggie platter and dip is still easy. I’d buy the big grocery store platter and transfer it to my own dish.
Marney–Get a grip! Take a valium and chillout
I guess Marney probably spent Thanksgiving alone. Amy Misto had thanksgiving at her house instead.
After reading this, I am so relieved I have not had holiday meals with my family for YEARS. Why on earth would anyone want to go to this thing?
What if everyone got together and agreed to secretly switch lists? Let the woman have a nervous breakdown and hopefully not recover before the next big holiday.
Save the DATE!! for a Piss Marney off Party !!!
I got a freakin stomach ache just reading Marneys requirements..My Mom is like this and
none of us can EVER relax at her house..We are all afraid to make a move..seriously!!! live States away now ..but Marneys letter brought flashbacks of I wish we would have just went out this year..No one can have a good time or relax..it really is sad because Thanksgiving is about making family memories and being thankful not being a Drill Sargeant or the food police..I feel so sorry for Marneys husband and Children..Everyone else gets to go home..If I was her family I would Keep her Drunk on her precious Clos Du bois Chardonnay and avoid her as much as humanly possible..this letter is really funny to imagine but to those of us that have lived it..I am so sorry for your Pain…This year you need to organize a Piss Marney Off Party
And Please invite me!! I will walk through the mud before entering her house..bring her some Boones farm strawberry hill !! And several regulation casserole dishes covered in Tinfoil that I will use to back up every toilet in her House…LOL
That’s a very funny plan. I hope you get to do it.
Anyone know how to spell passive aggressive biiiioootttccch from hell? Ugh…I’d rather starve than EVER break bread with such an undermining icky person! Please tell me this person has passed on and come back as something nicer like the cockroach I just mashed in my hallway!LOL
^^^THAT!
Its spelled M-A-R-N-E-Y!!!
I just ran across this and it was strongly reminiscent of a mass email that recently went out for an organizational picnic. It consisted of not less than 7 paragraphs detailing every aspect of the event, from diagonal parking to the exact time that hamburgers would be finished. It was astonishing. I am happy to see that this is a relatively common syndrome.
Oh my, this sounds like my sister’s MIL! I had to send it to her, she’s going to be like been there done that! lol Marney needs to drink an entire bottle of that Chard before everyone gets there..life it too short to be this anal retentive.
Omg funniest thing ever! Marney needy a HAPPY meal…I’m glad I show up to my grandmas house with a pie (store bought) on thanksgiving and everything else is easy:’D
This would be awful if she were serious. But I think it’s meant to be ironic and is full of inside jokes for members of a large family that spend lots of time together.
one would hope
I’m beginning to think that also- pretty apparent in the letter that this family has been sharing Thanksgiving together for a number of years…if she was really that big of a dictator the list would probably be much shorter
Hysterical, but I feel Marnie’s pain! More than once, someone (Pat) has volunteered to bring the beans to a potluck at work – meaning exactly that, a can of beans. No serving dish, serving spoon or even a canopener!
I LOVE Pat
This reminds me of the time we took a group trip to Disney World and one of the dads made a color coded itinerary so we could squeeze in as much fun as possible. I’m pretty sure we threw ours off the top of splash mountain. Marney and Greg need to get to know each other apparently.
Do you think poor Lisa Byron Chesterfield had to disclose her Thanksgiving adult participation requirements to her spouse before they got married? I think not, because apparently the marriage took place anyway.
Hahahahahahahaa!! Best comment, and you’ve had some serious competition here
Perhaps poor Marney is the little girl in the photo with the Mein Kampf book?? Hilarious reading. At least this girl knows what she wants.
That is too funny, Rainey. (Just saw that other photo yesterday.)
Marney,
GET A LIFE, woman!!! If I were in that family, I would wait until the last minute and then call and say we are eating out this yea!
it would’ve been easier just to cook it all yourself
I have tears streaming down my face!! Not from the letter, but from all of your comments – funniest stuff I’ve read in years!!!
My kids keep asking why I’m laughing so hard.
me too!!!
I am not sure if it is sleep deprivation due to my teething baby crying all night or what, but I cannot stop laughing at these comments. I too have tears streaming down my face. Soooo funny. Can’t wait to share this site with my friends!
me too! this is quality reading!
Oh, I know, Tracie. I have tears rolling down my face and I’m snorting and wheezing. These comments are priceless. This goes on my FB next Thanksgiving!
omg – me too!!! I would have sent out an attachment e-mail and told everyone to meet at the ‘Cracker Barrel’ this year -appropriate-
OMG me too! I’ve even peed a little. *snort*
So Marnie’s real name is…Martha? LOL
Yeah. See, even though I could SO see one of my sisters writing this letter, this would NEVER GO OVER in my family. Why, You ask? Because with exception of my sweet Mother, EVERYONE ELSE would purposely make something else just to be contrary. Yeesh!
I was just thinking that. I would bring something off the wall to piss her off like 100 spoons with peanut butter on them or a giant non regulation vat of Cocktail sauce
lol AMy…that cracked me up! THis women is my mother-in-law. We aren’t allowed to “scoop from the middle of the bowl”. If she sees us doing it she will immediately come over and say something about it.
You have to make a moat for the mashed potatoes? That is hilarious. Next year take some little boats to place in the moat after you’ve scooped from the sides.
I wonder if there is a proper form to submit if you want to bring something else like cooked carrots or a cake…..is cake allowed or can there only be pie? If I was the one to bring the veggie try I would bring a store bought one in my own container with a bottle of ranch dressing. LOL My family would take it as a joke and most likely not bring anything much less something in a regulation sized dish. Also, if you are getting help making a meal you should be grateful there are people helping period.
Yes! Passive-Agressive Wendy would badly want to come out to play if she received this letter!
Oh my gosh, this is what I am going to turn into! I already re-load the dishwasher any time someone else doesn’t load it “properly”.
Me too, but only so I can get more stuff in. The way my husband and kids load it, there’s way too much wasted space. OMG, I’m OCD!
No, honey, you are ECOFRIENDLY!
Sadly, I’m the same way. My kids love it because they never have to load the dishwasher, only un-load it.
You don’t have OCD… You have what most of my clients have, an assumed form of OCD. What you really have is ARD, anal retentive disorder! LOL, & good luck, cause it is a hard habit to break!
Hmmm, ARD must be what my grandma has. Whatever my grandpa does for her (clean the house, wash the dishes, load the laundry, load the dishwasher), she redoes it if it’s not done how she wants it done. My mom calls it OCD, but now I definitely think my grandma’s just very anal about things. :0)
Oh wow! I didn’t know there were so many others out there like me! Let’s all start some sort of dishwasher loading support group!
….so do you load the silverware UP or DOWN ?? No kidding, I flip them so they’re all UP (except the sharp knives) so the dirty water will run AWAY from the eating end
I don’t think I’d like Marney, but I think I’d get along with Amy Misto. She can come to my house next Thanksgiving, and she can bring any damn thing she likes.
^^^that!
One of the things that I find most jarring is that the Michelle Bobble family was asked to bring the pie knife, but the Amy Misto family is bringing the pie (no knife needed). This seems to be an unnecessary division of labor. And if the Amy Misto family shows up with a pie knife, would they be asked to leave?
Marney may have learned from experience that Amy uses cheap Dollar Store pie knives, and we just can’t have that, can we? If Amy were to be so defiant as to bring a knife, Marney would hastily convene an emergency family meeting, on the spot, to determine an appropriate punishment.
If I were Amy I would that pie knife in Marney’s neck! Actually she could probably only be killed with a wooden stake to the heart!
Don’t forget the silver bullets!
Notice nothing has “garlic” in the name?
I think she meant there was no need for the knife b.c. no one likes your cooking and therefore the apple won’t be eaten
I think if you want up a “jazzed UP” green vegetable..it would totally rock to mix green beans and asparagus…exactly 2.5 pounds of each, covered in a cheesey sauce (screw you Mike) topped with panco AND almonds…now THAT is jazzy, Marneypants.
Funny
VELVEETA!!!
I just laughed so hard I snorted.
Me too! OMG! Haha
screw u mike lol. Cheese is amazing
Sorry Mike ~ We don’t care if cheese binds you up. Or causes other intestinal woes. What a wuss.
Just for an experiment, The Mike Byron Family and the Bob Byron Family should fix and bring the other’s dish (or whatever)…. and see what kind of gasket Marney blows when they arrive.
OMG!!!!
This makes me REALLY love my sis in law!
Brilliant! Simply brilliant!
This letter makes me appreciate my mom…I’m going home and tell her that tonight! Of course, she once served a lemon pie with a used matchstick that ended up in my brothers mouth…
that’s absolutely brilliant, william! she would freak out!
I love this letter! In fact it got read aloud at my house during the holidays, and I think that it’s going to become a yearly tradition!
How about no one needs to show up at her house and meet up at someone elses!
That’ll teach her…although she’s probably speaking the truth based on what happened the year before!!!
Dear Marney,
Please get a job.
Sincerely,
Anyone who’s ever met you
maybe she should run for president….we certainly need one who can take charge! LOL
A regulation size casserole dish??,,, LOL,,,, wow this lady needs to chill out
My thoughts, too.
Yeah! You know how Mike is, that finicky little…. Somebody get this lady a bottle of clos du bois chardonnay, for crying out loud!
LMAO
thats so funny. hes a picky one!
LMAO…I am in tears
Funny thing is. I didn’t find the email funny, it sounded like one from my mom. Only difference was that she didn’t bold and underline things all over the place.
omg, no! i’ve never gotten something like this from my mom…she’d be afraid i wouldn’t show up and instead cook at home for her grandkids! lol
Wait…are you my sister, Jen? Seriously. I have a sister named Jen. And a Mom who is like this.