16.
“Invited the whole gaggle of in-laws to check out the new house we’d spent weeks reflooring, painting, and recarpeting. I made lasagna, salad with homemade dressing, and a fabulous strawberry cake from scratch. My husband’s 21-year-old niece insisted on taking her plate to the den to watch Game of Thrones because she simply had to see it as soon as it was released. Rude, but I got her a tray and set it up, then went to eat with everyone else. When we finished, we all went into the den, and she had dropped a giant glob of lasagna on the floor and apparently stepped in it at some point because it was ground into the brand-new carpet.”
“She’d also dropped salad onto the couch, and it left an oily stain. The worst thing, though, was that instead of telling us, trying to clean it up, or literally anything a normal human would do, she just placed a paper towel over it and left it there without saying a word. Her mom, my sister-in-law, just kind of laughed and joked that now the house had been ‘broken in.’ There have been no family gatherings at our house with the entire group of in-laws since then.”
