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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Delicious-Pea-7594 on 2025-06-19 14:26:35+00:00.
So my MIL has a very cute but very bad dog I’ll call Fred. Fred has never heard the word “no” in his life. Whenever he does something bad, my MIL will just laugh and shrug her shoulders.
When I visited recently Fred did a couple of naughty things and I told him “no” which of course he didn’t understand. After about the third time, my wife angrily pulled me aside and said to stop telling him no, since it is not my dog and MIL is getting upset.
Fast forward to dinner, I’m sitting at the table alone while wife and MIL finish some last minute things. Fred jumps on a chair and knocks over a whole plate of pot roast on the floor and of course I say nothing.
During the clean up my wife asks if I saw Fred at the table. I said, “Yep, I saw everything and you said I can’t tell him ‘no’, soooo…”
My wife bit her tongue so hard.