I find this believable.
I’ve never seen this but my exs dad refused to replace his oven mitts with holes in it - because “he knew where the holes were and avoided them” lmao
I love my SO’s parents but they are these people, almost certainly because they were at one point barely scraping by, but that hasn’t been the case for like 10+ years. It almost feels like they are doing it out of spite, although I’m not sure who or what they are spiting.