Halls of the Dark Muse

I know I took some heat in my wishing that my brother-in-law was hear to resolve my computer problems for me on Thanksgiving instead of going to spend time with his family, but whenever they have to spend time with his mother, my sister always comes back with a new story.

This is just to give an example of what his mother is like because this wasn't just a fluke or one time incident, this is how she is all the time.

To try and keep things from getting confusing from this point forth I will refer to my sister's mother-in-law as Jane Doe.

First to set things up, my sister and brother-in-law have very different political views from Jane Doe, though I am not going to get into any specifics about anything because I do not want this blog to turn into people weighing in on their political opinions, it is really irrelevant who believes what, only that they are polar opposites.

Ordinarily this shouldn't be too much an issue, it happens sometimes in families and friends, people have different political beliefs, but Jane Doe whenever she is with her son and daughter-in-law feels the need, to without rhyme or reason, to find a way to bring up some political issue knowing full well it will annoy her son and that it will cause an argument.

Moving on to Thanksgiving, my sister and brother-in-law decided they were going to cook the dinner because they actually wanted edible food, they cannot stand her cooking, and she does weird, and scary things with food and cooking, so they decided while they were there they would just do the cooking, and originally they thought that it would be a small group, just them, Jane Doe, and a few other people. But after they arrived they were informed that there would be like 13 guests.

So my sister and brother-in-law cook this dinner for these 13 people that Jane Doe decided just on a whim to invite to her house for Thanksgiving.

Well to say the least at some point she just out of the blue found the need to, bring up some political issue for little other reason than irritating her son on Thanksgiving, and she did it in front of their other guests so her and her son were mostly going back and forth, and some of the other people there pitched in now and than.

At this point my sister was working on something in the kitchen, and the mother-in-law was not aware that she was there and so didn't know she could hear what was going on, so after the argument runs it course, my brother-in-law walks out of the room, and his mother, behind her son's back turns to her guests whom he and my sister just finished cooking dinner for, and makes a snide, insulting remark about her son, because of his political opinion when she is the one that brought it up.