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My family is insufferable
4 days ago
Or at least a chunk of it anyways.
This is obviously another vent journal, so do what you will with it.
A small portion of my family that I deal with on a regular basis isn't bad. My mother and sister being the main two as far as that goes. My stepdad has been a pain in the ass ever since he came into our lives like 10 or whatever years ago now. I mostly tolerate him because he's useful in certain situations. But considering he won't let us bring the dogs to christmas, it's fairly hard for me to tolerate him. Let alone the fact that he's a trumper and a cop. Then there's my brother in how he's pretty much lost his shit recently. Between him getting really political all of a sudden and being in this church/cult that he goes to all the time.
My uncle is the one that has mostly been on my shit list as of late. The real problem with him is that we rent the place we live at from him. So if something needs done with this place, we have to convince him to do it. Which usually ends up being like pulling teeth. The real annoyance is he has a good job and we know he has money to take care of things. He may not technically be rich, but he's at least well off. At least more so compared to most other people out there.
Lately we've had several issues that needed taking care of and because I knew he'd be difficult with me, I had to talk to my mother to talk to him to convince him not to cause problems and to help with it. The mower broke a few weeks back. We've had issues with the drive belt, I'm assuming it slipped off while I was using it, got caught and ripped the back axle off the frame of the mower. Along with who knows what other damage may have happened. So he came over, looked at it and of course decided he was going to find a place to get it fixed. Mind you it's a 13 year old mower and who knows what else needs fixed on it at this point. So, whatever, he found a place, finally decided to break down and let them pick it up for the extra $100. Since we have no way to take it there ourselves. In the meantime, we needed to find someone to mow the lawn. Along with when he was over now all of a sudden he's concerned about fixing the garage door. A good many years ago now the automatic door opener ripped the arm piece off the door and bent it in the process.
I had someone lined up to mow the lawn, my uncle agreed to it and they were to come on monday. I also had someone come over and give us an estimate on the door on friday. It was like 400 to fix it and around 2000 to install a new door. I didn't care either way, since he was the one paying for it. They said, and I agreed with them, the door is too messed up, especially with what it was made out of, to repair it. They could brace it, but its going to need to be replaced in a year or so either way. Well of course he shot that down either way and he's just hell bent on fixing it. Because his brother fixed his. But that looked like a wooden door and the damage wasn't as extreme. After that I was tempted to just rip the door down and act like it feel off on it's own because the guys messed with it when they were here the other day.
Now, fast forward to today. He was supposed to pay the guy for the lawn mowing, because he was coming monday morning. Now all of a sudden it's, "too expensive" and he "doesn't have the money for it". So, while no one is home he decides to have some distant relative come and do it. Well, at this point I'm pissed. Pretty much told my mother I'm not calling the place to pick the mower up to fix it. Because he's screwed me now on these two things. So I'm not calling this place to get and work on the mower, because my luck is I'll get stuck paying for it either way. So he has until this spring to figure it out I guess. Mind you, like I said, he has money. He's just a miser that likes to spend the money how he sees fit. Because he went and threw 8,500 at this people a month ago, like it was nothing, to cut trees down around his other place.
So I'm just pissed at this point. It's why I try to just fix things myself and not involve others, especially him. The annoying bit is I'm back to square one now with all this crap. The mower there's at least time for that. The garage door is still an annoyance. Because if it falls on the car, I'm going to be pissed and he's going to be paying for that either way.
This is obviously another vent journal, so do what you will with it.
A small portion of my family that I deal with on a regular basis isn't bad. My mother and sister being the main two as far as that goes. My stepdad has been a pain in the ass ever since he came into our lives like 10 or whatever years ago now. I mostly tolerate him because he's useful in certain situations. But considering he won't let us bring the dogs to christmas, it's fairly hard for me to tolerate him. Let alone the fact that he's a trumper and a cop. Then there's my brother in how he's pretty much lost his shit recently. Between him getting really political all of a sudden and being in this church/cult that he goes to all the time.
My uncle is the one that has mostly been on my shit list as of late. The real problem with him is that we rent the place we live at from him. So if something needs done with this place, we have to convince him to do it. Which usually ends up being like pulling teeth. The real annoyance is he has a good job and we know he has money to take care of things. He may not technically be rich, but he's at least well off. At least more so compared to most other people out there.
Lately we've had several issues that needed taking care of and because I knew he'd be difficult with me, I had to talk to my mother to talk to him to convince him not to cause problems and to help with it. The mower broke a few weeks back. We've had issues with the drive belt, I'm assuming it slipped off while I was using it, got caught and ripped the back axle off the frame of the mower. Along with who knows what other damage may have happened. So he came over, looked at it and of course decided he was going to find a place to get it fixed. Mind you it's a 13 year old mower and who knows what else needs fixed on it at this point. So, whatever, he found a place, finally decided to break down and let them pick it up for the extra $100. Since we have no way to take it there ourselves. In the meantime, we needed to find someone to mow the lawn. Along with when he was over now all of a sudden he's concerned about fixing the garage door. A good many years ago now the automatic door opener ripped the arm piece off the door and bent it in the process.
I had someone lined up to mow the lawn, my uncle agreed to it and they were to come on monday. I also had someone come over and give us an estimate on the door on friday. It was like 400 to fix it and around 2000 to install a new door. I didn't care either way, since he was the one paying for it. They said, and I agreed with them, the door is too messed up, especially with what it was made out of, to repair it. They could brace it, but its going to need to be replaced in a year or so either way. Well of course he shot that down either way and he's just hell bent on fixing it. Because his brother fixed his. But that looked like a wooden door and the damage wasn't as extreme. After that I was tempted to just rip the door down and act like it feel off on it's own because the guys messed with it when they were here the other day.
Now, fast forward to today. He was supposed to pay the guy for the lawn mowing, because he was coming monday morning. Now all of a sudden it's, "too expensive" and he "doesn't have the money for it". So, while no one is home he decides to have some distant relative come and do it. Well, at this point I'm pissed. Pretty much told my mother I'm not calling the place to pick the mower up to fix it. Because he's screwed me now on these two things. So I'm not calling this place to get and work on the mower, because my luck is I'll get stuck paying for it either way. So he has until this spring to figure it out I guess. Mind you, like I said, he has money. He's just a miser that likes to spend the money how he sees fit. Because he went and threw 8,500 at this people a month ago, like it was nothing, to cut trees down around his other place.
So I'm just pissed at this point. It's why I try to just fix things myself and not involve others, especially him. The annoying bit is I'm back to square one now with all this crap. The mower there's at least time for that. The garage door is still an annoyance. Because if it falls on the car, I'm going to be pissed and he's going to be paying for that either way.
