My parents are like this too. I'll be home visiting and my mom and I will run to the grocery store and she'll be like, "wonder if Dad is still watching tv? Let me check!" Then my mom proceeds to open her phone app and just watch my dad just trying to relax on the couch. I keep telling them its weird af but they like it.
My in-laws in downstate Illinois had a random break-in where some naked dude found an unlocked slider door and apparently had himself a nice shower.
That year they bought a whole series of Ring cameras, which were easily visible, but it’s not like they advertised them being there.
That Christmas, my brother-in-law gets a giant bottle of Jack Daniels.
My mother-in-law looks at him as he opens it, and just says, this is so you don’t need to keep sneaking into my kitchen in the middle of the night to steal my whiskey.
My in-laws own a number of acres in southern Illinois bumbletown (O’Fallon). He technically lives at an adjacent house that they built. He’s actually a pretty successful dude.
He has totally turned his life around and now runs triathlons while doing drone photography for the city of St. Louis, but there was a time in his early 30s when we first met that he was getting found passed out in the back forest trying to make his way home.
One of his best quotes when asked by my in-laws the next day about how he felt being found in the forest was, “it feels like charcoal and regret.”
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u/gideon513 May 20 '26
I will never understand people who choose to have WiFi surveillance cameras inside their own homes like this