Dear Gentle Reader: Sometimes I sit here staring at the computer screen with absolutely nothing on my mind, other times I sit here and type away with gay abandon sharing anything that my little brain can conjure up to entertain, inform and educate you.
After all without you, gentle reader, my blog would just be me sitting and spouting off to my hearts content and filling the internet with unread ravings.
Sometimes I look up from the screen and say to Lena, my sweet, beautiful and super intelligent fiance; "What should I write about?"
Most of the time she rolls her eyes, smiles wryly at me and says "Just do what you feel Honey Bunny"
Yes Gentle Reader. She calls me Honey Bunny.
On this occasion, partly because I had just got off the phone with my saintly, silver haired nearly octogenarian mother, she said write about Mother in Laws.
Being from Britain, one thing I have heard a lot of is Mother in law jokes. Most British male comedians of the 70's could reel off thousands of them in a 3 minute stand up routine. To be fair they could also tell racist, sexist or homophobic jokes as well but my task is to examine the cult of the Mother in Law.
I am a divorced man. I have had a mother in law and guess what....she wasn't as bad as you might think. There was the awkward moment where I accidentally flashed her. The look on her pious face when i revealed that I was an atheist. That was f***ing priceless by the way.
On the whole my mother in law and I got on very well, probably as well as any man who is married to a daughter could. Yes she could occasionally get on my nerves but she meant well.
Lena has, on the other hand, never had a mother in law before. My sweet 80 year old (nearly) mum seems to be giving her the screaming Hebee Jeebees.
She is convinced that my mum, when they meet for the 1st time at Easter, is going to devour her in a single gulp, hair and all.
My future mother in law, Nadezhda, and I have only met once and she has one distinct advantage that means we can never argue. She doesn’t speak English and I don’t speak Russian.
I can hear all the men out there in Blogland wishing that they could be as lucky as me. Sorry boys.
To end and just to prove I'm not as PC as you might think here are a few Mother in Law jokes for you.
#motherinlaw #honeybunny
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