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If respecting a life-threatening allergy means playing TSA at your own front door, so be it. Some people just need a gentle reminder that privacy ends where the peanut butter cup starts to threaten a pulse. Air travelers deal with shoes-off security for less, so let’s not act like inspecting a suitcase for string cheese is a human rights violation.
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"AITA for demanding to go through my BIL and his GF's bags if they are staying with us"
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Strike one: a little experimental home cooking with hidden dairy. Result: one trip to the ER and plenty of apologies. Strike two: a covert milkshake mission, candy-bar wrappers in the trash, and a thoroughly ruined mood, not to mention a massive family blowout. The result: banishment, at least until trust could be rebuilt or dairy was conclusively out of her system.
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Disrespectful houseguests keep smuggling dairy into sister-in-law's allergy-safe home, forcing homeowner to demand TSA-style baggage checks just to stay out of the ER: ‘I don't trust her in our house. will go through her bags when she comes to our place’
There's a very simple agreement when you're invited to stay in someone's home: you play by their rules, whether it's taking your shoes off at the door or pretending to like their collection of porcelain frog figurines. You don't have to agree with the house rules, but you do have to respect them, especially when those boundaries aren't about feng shui or personal preference, but about keeping your host from making a surprise cameo in a medical drama.
Allergy etiquette in someone's home is where safety intersects with trust, and trust sometimes packs a block of brie in its overnight bag. Our delicate hero here isn't picky, isn't fussy, isn't even a lactose-intolerant killjoy. This is full-throttle, EpiPen-on-standby, bring dairy in, and I might take it with me to the afterlife territory.
Now, most in-laws respond to this setup with the appropriate concern. No one wants their visits punctuated by the sweet sound of ambulance sirens. But not everyone can resist the siren song of dairy, especially BIL's girlfriend, whose relationship with milk is apparently more intimate than her relationship with common sense.
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