
I´ve been more or less stuck with my 90-year-old mother-in-law over the last year because of covid and don´t know how much longer I can sit opposite her at the dinner table and watch her eat.
She has the appetite of a lion but eats at the pace of a snail so while I have finished and am desperate to leave the table, she´s still noshing away, with one eye on what´s coming next. She loves meat and chicken and chews away at the bones and legs like Henry VIII. This is usually followed by a salad dripping in olive oil that runs down her wrinkled old chin.
I literally shudder at times and am constantly leaving the table under the pretext of fetching salt or clearing dishes away. My wife has noticed this and I suspect knows why and forces me to stay.
Things weren´t so bad when I had a bottle of wine to help me through the meal but I have given up drinking for Lent and water or a fizzy drink doesn´t help at all.
(Can you spot the tactical error he made? – NA)
Nominated by: Mr Polly



