SD17 in rare form last night....freakin' brat....
I haven't posted much lately because I have been out of town for work, which tends to reduce my SD17-related problems, since I am not around her. However, I got home last night in time for the SuperBowl, and boy did SD17 put on a show.
First of all, I am not a huge NFL fan, but I do enjoy watching the game with my family. My MIL came over, so it was her, me, DW, and SD17. Normally, I keep to myself, but I had to be around SD because we were all watching the game in the living room. Over the course of the game, SD17 engages in the following negative behaviors:
1. Playing with my MIL's i-Phone all through the first half. (SD17 had her phone taken away by her bio-daddy because of her bad grades). She kept playing music videos on the i-Phone at full volume, which made it difficult to enjoy the game. DW, of course, says nothing.
2. Dancing around the room at random intervals, making a spectacle of herself. DW says nothing.
3. Draping herself all over DW, who was laying on the couch. DW enjoys being the center of attention.
4. Shooting her mouth off about how she knows everything. DW says nothing.
5. Making a number of thinly-veiled jokes about me. DW ignores.
6. Turns the sink on the guest bathroom so that the cat can drink sink-water, even though I have specifically said not to do this, on many occasions, since I am always the one to clean litter out of the sink. DW ignores.
When the game finally ends, I go have a private talk with DW, and advise her that I am well aware that SD17 is acting like this on purpose to try and bother me. DW acts surprised, and then says that I should relax, and that SD17 was "just being a kid."
I call BS on that. SD17 was being an asshole for the specific purpose of bothering me. Unfortunately, it was starting to work. Even more unfortunately, DW keeps her head in the sand most of the time, and refuses to believe it. Ughh.
17 is hardly a kids
17 is hardly a kids anymore......
I wouldn't allow my 9 and 10 yr old stepkids to act that way.
I agree with
I agree with PeanutandSons.
It's your house too and it's definitely not appropriate for her to disrespect you in it.
She sounds like an idiot.
She sounds like an idiot.
Just being a kid? Whatever. Was MIL embarrassed at all by this behavior?
I have found my own son to be 100X more mature than DH's adult children, the youngest of which is 22.
Is it in the water? Recently, when referring to his daughter's poor driving record and habits, DH says, "Ahhhh I remember what it was like to be a kid." Mmmmmhmmmmmm but she is not a kid.
DH does not believe one is an adult until they stop doing this stuff. Okay. Call me confused, but if it is allowed, why would they stop? If he keeps footing bills and calling their car mechanics for them, why would they do it?
(yeah - called for his son who is 4 hours away, nearly 24 years of age and working on a master's degree but cannot be bothered to call the effing number on the back of the AAA DH bought for him...best to just call DH and let him talk to the mechanics. I told DH he should never go back to that same mechanic since he now looks like a crybaby freak...and they most likely want nothing to do with him as a result.)
Way too old to behave like
Way too old to behave like that. Why the hell is she hanging with her parents anyway? BS16 is a good kid and he only hangs with us if we are going to a movie. He doesn't even want to go to dinner with us anymore. Works for me. They are supposed to do this, it is their way of preparing us to go off to college. Sounds like SD17 is really immature to want to hang with you. No friends?
Way to old for that crappy
Way to old for that crappy behavior. SD13 was acting crappy at my sisters Superbowl party and it was getting on my last nerve!!! So I know how you feel. SO does the same thing and totally ignores it or acts like we should all be happy to be in her presence BARF :sick:
There were alot of adults there and plenty of kids, which she was older than them by about 2-3 years. So I can see that she wouldn't want to go hang out and play with them but she was up SO's butt the entire time!! Interrupting his conversations with adults or giving snarky remarks when and adult spoke to her. Oh and my favorite SO and I were sitting on the couch as well as my brother. She tries to squeeze her self in between SO and my brother. SO tells her sorry no room sit somewhere else, so she tries to drag the ottoman from the chair as close to him on the sofa as possible. I was like WTF!!! SO doesn't say anything and I say you can't do that you are blocking people's view. I get the stink eye from both of them LOL So she scoots it back and literally reaches her arm out almost fully extended to rest it on SO's knee. She had to be constantly touching him the entire time!! If I got up from my spot she immediately plopped down in it and then didn't want to move when I got back. SO told her to get up and she said "no fair she got up" so I said MOVE and she does it. I am so glad she goes back to her BM's today }:)
Good one!!!! She does this
Good one!!!! She does this all the time to me and it is aggravating!! I know its a power play. SO and I sit in the same spots in our LR to watch TV its usually just the two of us unless SD is home. She always tries to take my spot its so annoying!! She got up to go to the bathroom and literally ran back to the spot to plop down. I laughed because SO and I were in the kitchen finishing up dinner. She thought he was going back to the LR right away and he stayed in the kitchen to help me. Usually if he is not in her line of vision within 5 seconds she is looking for him. It took her about 10 mins to come in the kitchen because she wouldn't give up her spot. It was so funny!!!
Yeah, SD17 does that too.
Yeah, SD17 does that too. She is very competitive when it comes to her "spot." Barf.