She Screwed Her Dining Room Chairs To The Table After Her Kids Wouldn’t Stop Leaving Them In Places Where She Tripped Over Them
Does one of your family members or roommates do something around the house that you consider a major pet peeve?
One woman is fed up with her family after they keep moving around the dining room furniture to the point where she can’t move around her house properly.
She’s 35 and lives with her two kids, her 13-year-old son, Mike, and her eight-year-old daughter. They live in a long townhome with a narrow floor plan that has a combined living and dining room.
In the townhome, she has a dining room table positioned adjacent to the kitchen doorway. Although the table can technically seat six, she only keeps four seats on the long sides of the table.
“If any chair is moved to the ends [or] head of the table, it either blocks the stairs or the doorway to the kitchen,” she pointed out.
She’s explained this to her kids multiple times, yet her son always moves a chair to the head of the dining room table, making it nearly impossible for her to move around and serve food.
“I can’t get dinner to the table without squishing myself against a wall like a contortionist or waiting for him to get up and move,” she said.
They eat all their meals at this table, so when her son moves the chairs for every meal three times a day, it really gets on her nerves. Then, to make matters worse, her mother started moving the chairs to the head of the table closest to the kitchen anytime she visits, making it even harder for her to move around.
No matter how often she’s asked her son and mom to stop moving the dining room chairs, they don’t listen. Finally, things came to a boiling point when she was sick the other night.
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She caught a virus that her kids had the week before and woke up in the middle of the night with an insanely high fever, desperate for water.
The house was dark as she weakly made her way into the kitchen. Then, she tripped and fell over a dining table chair because, once again, it was in the wrong spot.
“I had enough,” she recalled.
“I got out my screw gun. I screwed the legs of all four chairs to the coordinating legs of the table so they cannot be moved from the long sides of the table. It is now like a fixed fast food table with attached seats.”
Once her son woke up and saw the chairs had been screwed in, he called his grandmother, and they both started whining and complaining.
They want to be able to move the chairs wherever and accused her of being overdramatic because she’s sick.
She is not budging. She doesn’t plan on removing the screws and has hidden the screw gun. She says it’s her house and furniture, so she can do whatever she wants.
Is she being overdramatic?
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