Anyone want a laugh!!!

samuela66

Because I can now, Initially I was fuming!!!!!!:mad::mad::mad:

Last week we. being me my partner his dad and wife went to see a comedy night thing, his dad sat there with a face like a wet weekend his partner didnt say much, we bought a drink from the bar they refused ( so you can see what a fun night it was)!

Any ways the guy was talking about the days gone by, tin baths and all that malarkey, so we are walking back to the car and me early forties my partner a bit younger, his Dads wife says to me "Do you ever remember sitting in a tin bath in front of the fire", I could've snotted her on the spot, I just retorted a very quick NO how the hell old do you think I am......

I havent heard from her since....... thank god:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You can pick your friends, but hey ho IN Laws......... jeez!!

fluffnutter

You've fallen out with your inlaws because of this? Wow. Sorry to not be more sympathetic but it's hardly insult of the century.

samuela66

fluffnutter wrote: »

You've fallen out with your inlaws because of this? Wow. Sorry to not be more sympathetic but it's hardly insult of the century.

Havent fallen out with her, , not looking for sympathy at all.......... was just joking about the comment, I asked did any one want a laugh at what she said.............. you should not of read my post obviously!

Sambucus_Nigra

I don't get it. Which bit was insulting?

System

I don't see anything wrong. As young kids we used to do that even when we had a proper bathroom.

It was a fun treat.

Darren_G

I'm in my early(ish!) forties and I remember sitting in a tin bath in front of the fire - and the kitchen sink before that!

We had a proper bath in the house, but the tin one held considerably less water and as there was no central heating either, there couldn't have been a better place to have a bath than in front of the (open) fire.

Nicki

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

I don't get it. Which bit was insulting?

the bit which suggested she was about 40 years older than she actually is ?

I'm the same age as the OP, grew up in quite a rural area, certainly wasn't well off as a child, and yet we had running hot water and fully plumbed in bathrooms all my life, and I did not know anyone of my generation who didn't.

I was asked once what my first pocket money in pre-decimal coinage was, and found that to be a bit "ouch" about how old I must look :rotfl:. I was a baby in arms at the time of the switch over. I didn't fall out irreparably with the person who made the comment or take great offence, but I DID tell the anecdote against myself to all and sundry and not in too dissimilar terms to the way OP couched her first post.

OP - I have a vision of your MIL like this, and wanting to bond with you over the experience

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YiXsuyYa4c

fluffnutter

I think some people are just a bit clueless at realising that their childhoods weren't necessarily the same as other people's. My grandma was good at rubbish like this - she used to moan that I did too much washing, and I cut my bread too big for sandwiches, or I shouldn't ride a bike (unladylike).

I doubt she was trying to be offensive, OP. She just didn't make the connection that, if you did have a tin bath, in all likelihood you'd have been about a billion years old. Or at least as old as her

marleyboy

At 42, I still remember bath times in front of the coal fire as well as dreading the idea of using the outside toilet, I guess not everyone in their early forties were fortunate to have an enamel bath, gas central heating and a power shower in their early childhood.

Desperado99

At 38 I remember having a bath in front of the fire....... my mum also used to wash by hand and used a washboard and mangle. Imagine my shock when they had a victorian corner at my daughters school and seeing these items.

A lot of this comes from my mum being a late child, My gran was born in 1906...... and a lot of these things were hand-me-downs. We also had a mincer that would clamp onto the kitchen table and a singer sewing machine (the really old ones that folded back into the table and had a huge pedal at the bottom).

But I don't remember the money changing that was (just) before my time..........

euronorris

Darren_G wrote: »

I'm in my early(ish!) forties and I remember sitting in a tin bath in front of the fire - and the kitchen sink before that!

We had a proper bath in the house, but the tin one held considerably less water and as there was no central heating either, there couldn't have been a better place to have a bath than in front of the (open) fire.

I'm 29 and can remember being bathed in the sink when I was very young. Prob for the same reasons as you (saves on water and heating). I can remember being quite upset when I was told that I was too old/big to have baths in the sink anymore!