Times When You Want To Just Vanish

We had invited my MIL's friend with family in the evening for a ceremony (the DIL was pregnant so my MIL being a close friend wanted to do the usal formalities that are done during such occasions). We stayed away from the city hence, I made sure all the required items for the ritual and also necessary items for food were stocked a day prior. A friend of my FIL happened to drop by on the same day with his wife and grand son to our house on the same day in the morning, when they came to know about the evening guests they were polite enough and said they would leave by afternoon.
After lunch when both the elder couples were chitchatting, I went to make preparations for the evening. I arranged the saree, gifts, flowers,fruits sweets etc to be given to the pregnant DIL.Meanwhile the little boy(grandson of the couple) started crying and both of them tried to console him but in vain. My FIL asked what the boy wanted, the GM said it was nothing, but as the boy continued to cry asking for something the GF told it was a box of kaju barfi he saw in the kitchen.
My MIL and me exchanged glances ( a sealed box was for the pregnant girl as it was her favarite dish, my MIL had made it sure that I bought it as I said we stayed away from the city).My MIL was quick enough to catch the situation and said 'Aree beta the box is empty, we had bought it some days back and had not thrown away the box'.I gave a sigh of relief as my MIL had told her friend that she was giving a box of kajubarfi to the pregnant girl. The GM, GF of the boy and my FIL said to me 'Beti just give him the empty box, let him play and be quite'
I was !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Sorry to say OP,your husband sure seems to be putting you in bad light unnecessarily.Can understand how irritating it would be.

 

So finally who got it??

 

Could be an old habit. Some people has the habit to put others down when praising others, and some don't even realize.

So this maybe just a way for him to praise others or make them feel special / important and may not even realize that he's putting u down or making you look like a liar or even think of this as a big deal.

He may think, "I need to show my akka that I am more nicer to her or make her feel special" as it's "My wife only no, she isn't gona feel about all this".

Since you have been dealing with this for long (as you mentioned "before mobile phone age"), have you already found a way to deal with it or has your relatives and friends understood your characters or have you come up with any funny revenge?

 

@ashneys and@SCSusila
Dont ask me what happened later........
When my MIL and I started looking at each other my FIL got up and took the box to pacify the crying boy and said in surprised tone
'Aare there are burfis in it!'
My MIL said' Aare there are burfis in it!
I said 'Aare there are burfis in it!'
The boy said' Aare there are burfis in it!'
All in different tones.
The result was
i) The boy got the sweet box and stopped crying.
ii) FIL couldn't decipher the cold stare he got from my MIL.
iii)The grandparents of the boy thought of us as a pair of mean ladies who were not ready to spare some sweets.
iv) I had to go to the city to buy kaju barfi