Mother-in-law’s rude email goes viral

 

   

Mother-in-law's rude email goes viral

An extremely rude email from a mother-in-law to her
stepson's future wife has become a web sensation.…

The acerbic message was sent by Carolyn Bourne, 60,
to bride-to-be Heidi Withers and attacked her for "uncouthness"
and "lack of manners".

Withers, 29, who works as a PA in London, forwarded on the
email to friends and it quickly went viral.

Above: Couple Heidi and Freddie

Son Freddie took Heidi to meet the family at their home
in Dawlish, Devon. The visit, it seems, did not go well.

Bourne branded her "an ideal candidate for the 'Ladette to Lady'

television series" and suggested she, "take some guidance
from experts with utmost haste" if she wanted to be included
in the family.

"There are plenty of finishing schools around," she said.

Bourne's email then goes on to list examples of Wither's
poor etiquette during the visit. "It is high time someone
explained to you about good manners.
Yours are obvious by their absence and I feel sorry for you."

Her faux pas included:
"When you are a guest in another's house, you do not
declare what you will and will not eat - unless you are
positively allergic to something.

"When a guest in another's house, you do not lie in bed
until late morning in households that rise early -
you fall in line with house norms."

"You should never ever insult the family you are
about to join at any time and most definitely not in public.
I gather you passed this off as a joke but the reaction in the
pub was one of shock, not laughter."

"You should have hand-written a card to me.
You have never written to thank me when you have stayed."

"You regularly draw attention to yourself.
Perhaps you should ask yourself why."

Most insultingly of all, Miss Wither's behavior left their pet dog
Bomber "profoundly upset, depressed and anxious".

Mrs. Bourne also slammed the couple's wedding plans:
"No one gets married in a castle unless they own it.
It is brash, celebrity style behaviour."

"I understand your parents are unable to contribute
very much towards the cost of your wedding.

(There is nothing wrong with that except that convention
is such that one might presume they would have saved
over the years for their daughters' marriages.)

If this is the case, it would be most ladylike and gracious
to lower your sights and have a modest wedding as befits
both your incomes."

According to The Daily Mail, Carolyn Bourne is well known
in Dawlish for growing prize-winning flowers and manages
a large plant nursery.

She said it was "unfortunate" that son Freddie,
who runs an online bicycle shop in Putney,
had fallen in love with Miss Withers.

"Freddie being Freddie, I gather it is not easy to reason with him
or yet encourage him to consider how he might be able to help you.
It may just be possible to get through to you though.
I do hope so."

She added: "One could be accused of thinking that Heidi Withers
must be patting herself on the back for having caught
a most eligible young man". "I pity Freddie.'

One thing's for sure:
The wedding should be interesting.

You do not remark that you do not have enough food.

You do not start before everyone else.
You do not take additional helpings without being
invited to by your host."

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