Oh no!!!!!!

Fang_3

It's very simple, leave a trail of beef burgers, hot dogs, biscuits, lard, into the garden. Dig a big hole. Push Fatty Boom Boom One, Fatty Boom Boom Two and Fatty Boom Boom Three into said hole. After they've eaten their way out, they'll not want to come back, and you'll have a handy place to store any spare Transit vans, Caravans and Ferris Wheels you may have lying around.

katieclampet

I would just arrange to meet them at the Trafford centre.

katiex

pukkamum

stripedwellies wrote: »

Apparently so.

sorry cryptic posts not my cup of tea

JodyBPM

Surely all three of them won't be able to fit on one sofa due to size, so as long as you can try to manoeuvre it so the two largest don't sit together, then the combined load would be no more than 48st. That would be the same as 3 men of 16 stone each (large, but not unusual) sitting on a sofa.

I ask you, if you had three strapping 6ft tall, 16 stone men coming round would you make this much fuss?

Your sofas will be fine, I think this is more about your opinion of your in-laws.

stripedwellies

pukkamum wrote: »

sorry cryptic posts not my cup of tea

I'll spell it for you.

Now for the problem.Hardly a huge ( pun intended) problem that warranted consulting a forum over.

DH's family are coming over on sunday [STRIKE]and they are all on the cough cough large side.
And when i say large i mean large.[/STRIKE]
The two sisters are around 25 and 28 stones respectively and his brother is 20 stones.This sentence would have been perfectly adequate to give the idea without the cough cough statement that preceded.

At 9.45 am you posted what appears an obvious solution to your dilemma:

I did suggest to DH that we bring in the old sofas and hide the new ones in the garden, they live down south and they only come up every so often.
He thinks i am joking.

only a short while later to state:

I am def gong to suggest to DH the plywood as unfortunatley the old sofas are being picked up today by the council.

You seem miffed that they hardly bother to see you and your family. I wonder why?

stripedwellies

JodyBPM wrote: »

Your sofas will be fine, I think this is more about your opinion of your in-laws.

Which is so painfully apparent in her written form that I hate to think what she's like around them.

leopard85

Great thread. I can totally understand people being worried about anybody breaking new, expensive possessions which they have saved/worked hard to buy, irrespective of whether the damage is done by excessive weight, clumsiness, drunkenness or whatever. Even if my sofa cost £50,000 and was built like a tank, I would still feel nervous all evening, particularly if that person had broken a sofa in the past. As others have said, you wouldn't let a bad driver drive your new car any more then you would let a toddler drink from your best crystal glasses. This is not about fatty-bashing, its more about care over your possessions.

victoriaplus4

i can fully understand where op is coming from,my step-dad is overweight and i ask him if he minds sitting on a more suitable chair for his weight other than my softer less hardy sofa,he is also very aware he is larger than he or his doc would like him to be but he continues to eat a massive amount of food.

vicki

SugarSpun

leopard85 wrote: »

As others have said, you wouldn't let a bad driver drive your new car any more then you would let a toddler drink from your best crystal glasses. This is not about fatty-bashing, its more about care over your possessions.

I agree. I work hard for my money and buy the best quality I can afford. I don't let my famously clumsy friend drink out of my lovely wine glasses, I wouldn't let my brother drive my car because he has only a hazy notion of how a brake works, and my husband is not allowed within keyboard-destroying distance of my laptop because he has a track record of breaking his own. Why should I allow friends and family to use my possessions when they're risking breaking them? Why should anyone else?

The_Poet

katieclampet wrote: »

I would just arrange to meet them at the Trafford centre.

katiex

:T The perfect solution. Common sense prevails!

But is far too simple an answer for Pukkaum's thread