Entitled grandparents’ bizarre chaotic behavior leads to multi-generational family drama, gets them banned from future holidays: ‘My mother ends up cleaning after them every couple of hours’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Dec 29, 2024 2:00 PM EST

Grandparents visiting for Christmas should feel like a nostalgic holiday season movie. A visit dedicated to giving gifts and spoiling the grandkids. With Grandpa being Santa-like and hearty and Grandma being kind and pampering with attention. 

This story is the perfect reminder that older doesn't always mean wiser and that sometimes, the stigma about teenagers being bad-mannered, moody, and quirky applies better to those teenagers' kin.

The original poster (OP) of this tale of a Christmas family visit gone off track, shares their frustrations with their grandfather and his wife's inconsiderate behavior during their stay. 

The couple, who normally live on a boat, seem to forget basic guest etiquette when visiting OP's mother's house. Their antics range from leaving dirty dishes scattered like gifts under a Christmas tree to misusing kitchen items for personal grooming.

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    "How do 2 people go through that many dishes in less then a day??"
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  • OP, who really needed a place to vent their annoyance, details the chaos left in the wake of their visit. From neglecting to crate the dog to leaving hair dye stains in the tub, the guests seem oblivious to the extra work they create for their hosts. And got the internet’s full-fledged support along with some hilarious nicknames for the odd couple.

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    My grandfather and his wife make themselves TOO at home whenever they visit.
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    They live on a boat so I get wanting to take advantage of things they can get or do on the boat, like taking baths instead of showers, etc.
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    However whenever they visit my mother's house, they act however they like with no care for any care that they are visitors.
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    Here is a list of things that either me or my mother find very annoying but can't openly complain about with them around:
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    1. They will use a bunch of the dishes around the house and just leave them on the counters, dirty and used. They don't even trying
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    putting their stuff in the sink or the dishwasher. My mother ends up cleaning after them every couple of hours.
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    2. His wife will use a fork to scoop out some honey and then just leave the honey covered fork on the counter.
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    3. My mother specified the importance to lock the dog in the crate when they go on their run before she left for work (I'm a deep sleeper so he can't wake me up to let
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    him outside when he has to go and he will potty in the house). They did not lock him in the crate and when I got up, he had ped on the trash can which I had to clean up.
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    4. Leave half eaten bananas everywhere
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    5. Use so many dishes in one day, like how does 2 people go through that many dishes in less then a day????
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    6. Left a sh ton of yellow dye on the walls of the tub from her hair dye. I mean I made the walls kinda blue from my hair dye but it just looked like eternal the tub. on
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    7. I watched the wife take a bowl (FOR FOOD) spray olive oil (FOR FOOD) in it and some water then put it into her hair. She then came back to the kitchen grabbed
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    the olive oil spray bottle (FOR FOOD) sprayed the oil directly on her hair and walk away leaving a GIANT clump of hair on the handle, which I had to throw away.
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    That's all I can think of right now and they leave tomorrow thankfully. Honestly just wanted
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    somewhere to complain, hopefully people agree with me and my mother annoyance.
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    Next Christmas we will be spending Christmas with a family friend in another city so they can't stay at our home and my mother doesn't have to constantly clean up after them.
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    Bulky Specialist9645 • 6h ago Top 1% Commenter They sound like serious ah les. That's not making yourself at home, that's treating your mother like she's their servant! It would be a cold day I would invite them back.
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    Rxmenqt OP • 6h ago • Maybe? They are nice people, although my grandfathers wife is eccentric and he just does what she does.
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    Bulky Specialist... • 6h ago Seriously, who acts like this when staying at family's house? When you look at the list of all the coappy things they did, they're not nice...
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    feargluten 6h ago • Nice people treat others with kindness, respect and consideration... your g'dad and the olive oil bandit do not embody those sentiments
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    Family's only family if they treat you like family... and that ain't how you treat family
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    Rxmenqt OP • 6h ago • The olive oil bandit comment made me laugh so much. Also your right, once again, most of the issues occur from his wife but he does do nothing to stop her so he is complacent
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    intoxicatedlovee • 6h ago • I'm sorry but why can't you say anything? A polite talk about cleaning up and respecting someone else's house shouldn't be much of an issue, or am I missing something?
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    Rxmenqt OP 6h ago • Idk, my mother doesn't complain to them, and it's her house so I feel like I'd be stepping out of line for complaining to them too.
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    Also she only recently rekindled her relationship with her father so maybe she doesn't want to mess
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    things up? They didn't have much of a relationship before because he didn't make an effort to come to life events until recently
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    wanahlun 3h ago • You're an angel. I would be an angle and have said something.
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