My father-in-law is 'helping' me with my Lego set and it's a quiet nightmare.

By @benforsure · Family

He's staying with us for the summer and decided my very expensive, very complex Lego Titanic set is a two-person job. My wife thinks it's sweet bonding; I think I'm going to have a nervous breakdown.

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I've been working on the Lego Titanic for three months. It’s over 9,000 pieces. I have a system. I sort the pieces for each step into little trays. I follow the instructions to the letter. It’s my quiet, focused, end-of-day meditation. My father-in-law retired last year and has a lot of time on his hands. He saw me working on it and said, 'Oh, a puzzle! I love puzzles!' and just sat down. I tried to explain that it's… different. He doesn't get it. He just grabs pieces from random bags and tries to jam them into places they don't go. The other night, I saw him trying to force a dark blue piece into a row of black pieces on the hull. I almost yelled. When I go to bed, I have to pretend I'm done for the night, and then I wait for him to leave the room so I can go back and systematically undo his 'help.' I've found pieces from the funnels mixed in with the lifeboats. He used a piece meant for the grand staircase as 'support' inside the engine room. My wife thinks his enthusiasm is adorable and that I should just let him help. they says 'it's just a toy.' It's a $700 set that I am meticulously building. I don't want to be rude, he's a nice man and he's clearly just trying to connect with me. But every time I hear him say 'let me give you a hand with that,' a part of my soul dies. I’m not sure how much more I can take.

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