Anyone care to share any unexpected, outrageous,confusing or off the wall experiences with dealings in Hungary?
From miscommunication stories to out right insanity?
We all need to vent at times and why not here where it is a safe place.
One odd experience we had was with my MIL's old next door neighbor.
I mentioned before he was a real country man, smart in his own style and all but a real hard drinking, living red neck from Erd.
We were staying in my MIL home while we fix it up and sold it, this neighbor had lived next to my MIL for well over 30 years.
Too many tales about this man and his family that just didn't mesh with me at all.
They were nice in their own way, helpful neighbors in times of need for my MIL.
We found ourselves, my husband and I still living in the country Erd house over the Christmas holidays one year, took 18 months to sell of the old home.
The couple next door invited us to a family dinner for Xmas.
The women's grown son had run off with another women and left his first wife and child living in the house with her in-laws.
The man of the house was a super heavy drinker, hard stuff or nothing.
We told them before hand that we would only have dinner with them if they didn't make a big deal out of the day, no presents were to be exchanged for any reason.
We would bring whatever they wanted for the dinner but no gifts.
Just not our thing to play give and get.
We all sat down to a nice meal, the music was on the radio and we had some toasts with wine and desert. It was till fairly early in the evening around 6 pm.
When they realized we were serious about not bringing gifts over they out of the blue shut off the radio and the man went into his room and closed the door, just left us sitting at the table like idiots.
The lady cleared off the table and we made our excuses to leave.
Wow, that was odd, from friendly to unwelcome within a short time line.
I never take a holiday invite from anyone any longer unless they are my own personal friends.
If I remember correctly they gave us some small thing, nothing of any value maybe a box of candy, can't even recall the gift.
I suppose it wouldn't of hurt us to bring them something but it just was not our way and we told them before hand, firmly too.
The word uncomfortable comes to mind when I recall that Christmas meal.