artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

My wife had a guy come in on my MIL's recommendation and quote me it was going to cost $10,000 to clean my chimney. I ended up paying someone else $800 and the chimney works fine.
One of the byproducts of my MIL's combination of lack of confidence and lack of intelligence that is she takes anything anyone else tells her or anything she reads as the absolute truth. If she reads a favorable review of a restaurant, she'll tell people the restaurant is good even though she's never eaten there. If someone tells her so-and-so is a good roofer, she'll tell recommend said roofer even though she's never used him, or even met him for that matter.


 

I will personally drive to you and clean your chimney any day of the week for 10,000 dollars. 800 is a bit of a rip off. I clean my own. A sweep and rods prob didnt cost 100 bucks. For 10 grands id clean ur chimney, clean your gutters, wash your dog and fuck your MIL.

Just don't get the last two tasks confused.
Before I changed jobs last year, I would have told you 90 percent of the friction in my marriage was attributable to my MIL and the other 10 percent was attributable to finances. Now 99 percent of it is attributable to my MIL. The latest controversy is about her showing up to our house when no one is home. For whatever reason, she buys paper products for us at the supermarket and drops them off at our house once a week. I told my wife to tell her I don't want her in my house when no one is home. She ignored her. Then I told her myself I don't want her in my house when no one is home. She ignored me. My next move is to ask her for a key to her condo so I can show up and let myself in whenever I want. If that doesn't work, I'm going to start walking around my house with no clothes on, so if she shows up when I am home, she's going to get an eyeful. If that still doesn't work, I'm going to call the cops to report a breaking-and-entering and have her arrested.

Maybe she will match you and disrobe herself.