"Daddy, for Christmas ... I just need a set of new tires for my car."
I'm grousing. It's dark outside and I'm sick.
After radio silence since the shrieking, sobbing, lost-in-space phone call, SO spoke to SD-31 who asked for a new set of tires for her car for Christmas. (Western Union) She is back living with BF and still not working but collecting food stamps as 'indigent with 3 minor children.' (SGKids live in our state with their biodads.)
SO is currently calling the biodad of 2 SGKids to see if he has any special needs for the boys. (6 kids under the age of 11 live there.) Typically, SO & I go to Walmart and shop for winter coats/gloves/jeans/shirts/sweatshirts/socks/shoes and a few toys. I'm a better shopper is the only reason that I'm there. SO then wraps everything himself, individually, so that the boys have a pile of presents under the tree. Yes, he b*tches the entire time, but he does it.
When SO told me that SD-31 asked for tires, I suggested that he gift both families who are raising her children with a proportionate amount of the cost of her tires. She does NOT believe in paying child support. When I mentioned that idea, he got really, really quiet.
I'm sick and cranky and irritated that SO does not hold the same sense of outrage that I do. Okay, yes, I know ... SO and his late wife's parenting rubric is why I'm here.
Thankfully SD=31 is living in an adjacent state. The State is watching over the 2 boys and SGD-13 is only spouting gems such as "I think I'll get a nose piercing, it's so much classier than a lip piercing."
OH !! ... And somebody stole my rabbit vibrator. :sick: SD-31 or SGD-13? Who knows. But, besides the gross factor, there is the p*ssed off factor that they went through the bedroom, looked under the bed into the backpack which contains certain items and stole it. Seriously, who does that stuff?
Vent over ...
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Neither of us is rich. He is
Neither of us is rich. He is retired. EDIT for grammar patrol and to fuss that I just got my car out of the shop and they told me that I need new tires. Sigh.
I was surprised that a
I was surprised that a grown-ass woman asked SO, who is on a fixed income, for such a large purchase item.
Now, I have received some big ticket items through the years from my own parents: freezer, etc. Unsolicited, just things that my mother got a wild hair & purchased.
I would give them the money
I would give them the money for a low- to medium-quality set of tires--yes, the money. Go deaf to further entreaties, no matter how urgent-sounding. Let them spend the "tire money" on drugs or food or tires or whatever is the most pressing need of the moment. I'd buy token gifts for the gkids, nothing for the adults, and would hint very broadly that this is the last time you'll be bailing them out, which is what you're doing. It's not unheard of to do that as a gift--in a sense you are buying them peace of mind, which is a very great gift--but Merry f'ing Christmas to all when you have to come to the rescue of some lame-a$$ offspring. Again, make sure they know this is the last time you'll be doing that.
I wouldn't even touch someone else's vibrator unless I were wearing a HAZMAT suit. But the kind of people who would steal a vibrator are the kind of people who can't afford to put tires on their jalopies.
Icing on the cake....
Icing on the cake.... Stealing your toy and you needing tires.
It seems to never end. Blahhh!!
What irony regarding the
What irony regarding the tires. Shoot.
How is Baby Girl?
I would totally mention your
I would totally mention your issue with herpes in front of both people that you think took your rabbit.
WHO is that nasty to take someone else's sex toy!!!???? :jawdrop:
Dang, I did not know WalMart
Dang, I did not know WalMart carried squirrel vibrators, thank you Granny....time to go to Wallyworld.
Indigo, I'm sorry. No one has
Indigo, I'm sorry. No one has any business searching your bedroom let alone taking a personal toy!
How ballsy of SD to ask for tires after putting you and your DH through the stress and worry recently.
I think your idea to split that among the kids she doesn't support is the best scenario.
DEAR ADULT CHILD and loaf
DEAR ADULT CHILD and loaf boyfriend,
Enclosed please find a gift card for pep boys in the amount of $100.00. You can decide if you want to put it towards your tires. I guess you could sell it if you needed to you might get 1/2. We don't do Western Union or money grams from the Walmart. AARP reported sending cash is a no no. GREAT group for Seniors on limited incomes.
Anyway,
Pep boys offers great prices and life time tire rotation and free mounting too.
Merry Christmas---oh one more thing be on the look out for a letter from Social Services they are looking for bf something about his food stamps/ I gave them your address and phone numbers too. They were very nice to me when I told them I knew where to find you both.
Merry Christmas
Dad
PS if you find a personal massager you may want to make an appointment with your clinic
Ha! My dad got me new tires
Ha! My dad got me new tires for Christmas!
I didn't ask though, he offered and I tried to talk him out of it. We're rebuilding our relationship and I don't want him to feel like he needs to buy me-but he did it for my sister too.
as an adult you can actually
:jawdrop: as an adult you can actually ask your parent for new tires for your car as a gift...
dammit why the hell did I just paid for my own, why did I never got this memo? Now I'm angry at myself for being so stupid to actually pay for my own...
I also missed out on the memo stating, you can go through your parents room and take what ever you like... but I know Aergia got that memo... why the hell am I missing out on all these memo's?