Ahead of Family Beach Trip, Mother-In-Law Insists on Entire Separate Airbnb

“Send address 4 my airbbb.”

October 11, 2022

Just two days before the Lee family embarked on their annual beach vacation, Cathy Lee, the formidable matriarch, launched a surprise in the group chat:

“Send address 4 my airbbb.”

After side-texts subsided, it was determined that she mistakenly typed “my” rather than “our”, just as she fervently believed airbnb was pronounced air-baby. She couldn’t possibly expect an entire beach home to herself.

She could.

When questioned, Cathy listed a number of reasons, including privacy, standards of cleanliness, and access to whatever she wanted to watch on tv – just so she wouldn’t be a bother to anyone else. Her pictograph texts were interpreted to mean that she loved her grandkids, but also she didn’t want to catch any weird things, like hand, foot, and mouth disease or hugs, both of which three-year-old Harold had generously shared on last year’s vacation.

She also was so honored that her family would pay for it, as a gift for her long labor in raising and caring for children, and also a detailed account of her actual physical labor during childbirth.

Finally, she reminded everyone that two years ago, she accidentally walked in on Lori’s husband naked and “finally understood why she always seems so disappointed all the time.” This was accompanied by a string of baby carrot emojis and winking faces, which no one cared to interpret.

Despite the tight timeline and even tighter credit card limits, the family managed to secure a VRBO in the same neighborhood. Cathy’s response:

“What is vrbo? I don’t like the name. Plz rebook with airbb.”