My mother-in-law was a tough cookie, as she tells everyone she wants nothing done for her.
She says she’ll eat anything, despite the fact that she taste tests it before eating. Last week, she complained about how chilly it was in her home office and my husband was bending over backwards to keep her comfortable. On his way to the beach house from work, he stopped by the store and bought a space heater. The space heating system had every comfort and safety feature you could get for a space heater. She used it one night and told him to get it out of her home office. It made too much noise, didn’t heat well enough, plus she thought it was ugly. He took that space heating system back to the store after work and looked for another one. This one had all the safety and comfort features, however it was almost $49 more. He hooked up the space heating system that night, and it had her room boiling hot within fifteen minutes. When all of us got up the next afternoon the space heating system was laying out in the hallway. She told my nice husband that if that is the best they had at that store, she would rather freeze to death. I wanted to tell her she was an ungrateful witch, however my husband grabbed my hand. He packed up the space heating system and took it back to the store. He found an oil-filled space heating system that looked like a seasoned iron radiator. I thought it was ugly, despite the fact that she loved it. My husband set the space heating system in her room and set the temperature control. She slept all night, plus told my husband she liked it but that he didn’t need to buy it.