Oh, my sister is fine. Yeah, my brother-in-law is arrogant and always has been. But, my sister is stubborn on issues where she chooses to be. . .which is probably why I always find it bizarre that she's passive on some issues. If it had really been important (rather than just rude) there would have been a bigger issue made of it. But it was more just snarking about it. But, yeah, he can be extremely arrogant and rude about the oddest things (and I don't delude myself that he wouldn't have done the exact same thing to my father if it had been my Dad in there watching what my brother-in-law would have considered "unimportant."
I remember just after I graduated college and was job hunting I lived with my sister and brother-in-law for a couple of months. I remember sitting down at night watching TV and...well... after an hour or so of CNN I always expected it to.. you know... change to "real" TV. Soon I discovered that, nope. He was going to leave it on CNN all. damn. night. Because that's what he watched.
It was weird because that's just not the way my sister and I were raised. My Dad would never do what my brother-in-law did.
But I don't worry about my sister. Part of it is that she's this person who almost never watches TV (She's always so hyperactive that she never sits still long enough) so he's just the only one who ever controls the TV. Since they've been married close to 20 years now... it's not exactly a new development. Just a thing that annoys my mom and myself to death when we're at their house.
Re: agreeing with fishsanwitt
I remember just after I graduated college and was job hunting I lived with my sister and brother-in-law for a couple of months. I remember sitting down at night watching TV and...well... after an hour or so of CNN I always expected it to.. you know... change to "real" TV. Soon I discovered that, nope. He was going to leave it on CNN all. damn. night. Because that's what he watched.
It was weird because that's just not the way my sister and I were raised. My Dad would never do what my brother-in-law did.
But I don't worry about my sister. Part of it is that she's this person who almost never watches TV (She's always so hyperactive that she never sits still long enough) so he's just the only one who ever controls the TV. Since they've been married close to 20 years now... it's not exactly a new development. Just a thing that annoys my mom and myself to death when we're at their house.