A woman had shared her story on Reddit’s r/AITA subreddit. The woman’s nickname is u/itsbettertobelucky, and as she stated, her mother-in-law was snooping in her room, so in order to catch her on the action, she set a trap.
She had stated that her mother-in-law is trying to enter their bedroom, suspicious enough to say that she is so persuasive. “For some weird reason my MIL really wants to go into our bedroom whenever she comes over. On one occasion I followed her as she went upstairs (i was going to get something for my child as the bedrooms are upstairs) and she walked past the bathroom on the main floor and up the stairs behind it. She didn’t hear me and I caught her walking straight into my room and rifling through bills on my dresser.”
Then her MIL had stated that she was looking for a bedroom, as she couldn’t found the others. “She denied snooping (even though I’d just watched her do it) and said she was just going to use our bathroom because she couldn’t find the other ones. She walked right past the one on the main floor and another one in the upstairs hallway to go into our bedroom.”
Then she had explained that she installed doorknobs with locks. “Since that happened, I installed an exterior doorknob that requires a key on our bedroom door and one on the door to our office/spare bedroom.”
As the woman said, her MIL is still forgetting the loaction of their restroom, and still wandering inside to their bedroom. “However, she’s still always “forgetting” where the bathroom is and trying the bedroom and office door. This really ticks me off. My husband says that I just get annoyed at this because everything she does drives me crazy and since we’ve put locks on the rooms we don’t want her in, there isn’t really a problem anymore.”
As on the holidays, they had hosted a dinner for the whole family, she wanted to lock her bedroom, but her husband had stated that they don’t need to, since everyone will be there, and she wouldn’t attempt to enter their room.
So she decided to set a trap. “Well over the holidays we had my in laws over for dinner and before they came I was searching for the bedroom keys. We hadn’t used them in a while since we only lock the doors when MIL comes over. My husband told me we didn’t need to lock the doors since she wouldn’t try to get into the rooms and I insisted that she would because she loves to snoop. We went back and forth and decided to cover the doorknobs in super fine glitter to see if she tried them.”
She had continued as, “I did this once before when husband didn’t believe me about the snooping to prove she’d been in the rooms. Last time she ignored the glitter and we didn’t say anything about it but then my husband couldn’t deny that she’d tried to snoop.”
Then she proceeded with her trap. “So this time I covered the knobs in glitter and for the office went a touch further and rigged a little folder of glitter over the door to the office before the in laws came over. I left it one side unlocked (French doors) and it was set so if you walked in the room you would get covered in glitter.”
Then her husband had warned her mother that she should stay away from their bedroom. “Husband goes out of his way to show his mom the main floor bathroom when they got here and specifically asks his parents and sister not to go upstairs. There’s a baby gate so the kids can’t get upstairs either.”
Then after a little while, the MIL had appeared with her glittery look. “Well guess who had to go to the bathroom and got covered in glitter and had it all over their hands and hair? She completely lost it and started screaming at me so I yelled back and now my husband is saying I went too far and I’m the asshole. MIL also says I’m the asshole but SIL says I didn’t do anything wrong and MIL deserved it for snooping. FIL is Switzerland. Apparently her car is ruined now too because it’s covered in glitter that she cant get cleaned up. So AITA?”
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