As soon as we legalized our union, that’s when this story happened.
And the beginning of this story was the wedding, because even then I noticed how angry she was and how weird she was. When my husband and I were very young, we lived in my mother-in-law’s house. As soon as I could cross the threshold of the apartment, she immediately greeted me with her pitiful look, showing me in every possible way how she was sincerely glad that we were finally getting married.
Still, some hidden aggression lurked in her. Every now and then she tried to find my vulnerability in order to covertly hurt me.
Like her nightly dishwashing, which was already clean because I had dishes were already clean. I used to even try to figure out why she was doing it in the middle of the night. But all to no avail.
She’d just give me her usual innocent look and say:
-“It was dirty, so I washed it. And then?
“So it turns out that my clean washed plates are dirty in her eyes? “- I thought, then finally doubted her good intentions toward me.
However, for a long time I still perceived all her weirdness in relation to me, as a kind of motherly advice.
It turned out that my very close friend was my future mother-in-law driver (who actually brought me to her son – my husband), and so to him, through the gossip coming from the staff, came different kinds of dirty stories about me. Allegedly I was a harpy, and my my husband is poor with me.
Yes, my mother-in-law turned out to be a goblin.
Because she was endowed by God with a great “love” of cleanliness, her place was so sterile that one could easily think he was in an operating room. In fact, she constantly forced me to scrub the floors, too. I tried, of course, as hard as I could, but it’s hard to please everybody.
So, when she went away again on business, she told us to keep the whole place sterile. Even the smallest particles she found on the floorboards could easily plunge her into the deepest shock.
What to say about that, God forbid, she saw out of the corner of her eye an unwashed cup or plate – so it can still give her a heart attack. That is why, when she was in sight of me and my husband – we are in every possible and impossible ways to try to keep proper cleanliness.
But all those weeks my mother-in-law spent on a business trip, on the contrary tried to get away from it all and relax. We didn’t start cleaning only on the eve of her return.
And she suspected my husband and I “tricks”, deliberately said the wrong date, then suddenly appear and check on how we actually keep order in her house. So okay, she would come back on her own, but my mother-in-law always tried to take one of her coworkers with her to poke me and show me what an asshole I was.
And so the same driver, whom I told you earlier, somehow found out about her shenanigans and decided to enlighten me in her evil plan. So after scrubbing everything to an unbelievable cleanliness, I had nothing else to do but just wait for the arrival of my mother-in-law. An hour later my expectations were met with success and I heard the distinctive squeak of a key being inserted into the keyhole.
It was my mother-in-law arriving with a procession of her colleagues. It is hard to convey the surprise and embarrassment that my mother-in-law felt at that very moment, for the apartment was shiny as if it were on display. She was standing to the side of her colleagues who were already beginning to whisper behind her of her colleagues. She looked indiscriminately around every corner in a vain attempt to to find some flaw, but to no avail.
And I stood quietly and smiled to myself. Because at last I had, at least a little bit, but I was able to shame her.
