I'd watch out if I were him...

[Bailey]

Fortunately, that's a dead issue, if you know what I mean. My MIL wouldn't even have known which end of a gun to hold, which alone would have made her dangerous.

I was only kidding, you know the old saw about wives and their MIL's?

[linda22003]

I was only kidding, you know the old saw about wives and their MIL's?

Not sure that I do. In any case, we got along fine at a distance - and a distance is exactly what my husband wanted to keep between him and his parents.

[Elspeth]

When I got my big nasty diamond last year, one cousin said rather stiffly, "Well, I hope it's not a conflict diamond." I smiled sweetly and said, "Ohhhhh, yeah. I fought for this for YEARS." She cracked up.

Nice one!