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Nov. 7th, 2012 03:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
logans_girl2001I've been sitting on some of this for a while and finally decided to write it up.
Several weeks ago my mother told me something that pissed me off. To understand it I have to give some back story.
When our paternal grandfather, PaPa, died in 1986, Granny gave Chuck his pocket watch. The watch was not an antique, just something PaPa carried. Dad was disappointed that Granny didn't give it to him.
One Saturday, Chuck and Karen and Madisson were at Mom's (Chuck's a plumber and sometimes he goes to their house to do some small jobs). Madisson told Mom, with her mother in the room, that Chuck sold PaPa's watch. At a garage sale. For $50. Karen tried to convince Mom that Madisson didn't know what she was talking about, she is seven after all.
Mom was going to let it go but she couldn't and so called Chuck a few days later. At first Chuck denied it but eventually he admitted it. He tried to defend himself by saying, "It was given to me so it was mine to do with as I saw fit". While that's true, it's the fact that he sold PaPa's watch for $50. Especially when he knew that Dad wanted it. I bet Dad would have paid him $50 for it.
Mom also recalled that Chuck hadn't been wearing her father's wedding ring lately.
She eventually got him to admit he sold it at the same garage sale. She led me to believe he sold them both for $50.
When she told Dad he was so disappointed he just got quiet. Then began to quietly cry.
They're trying to get the name of the guy who bought them so they can buy them back. Provided he hasn't sold them I'm afraid he's going to charge them more than he paid.
Every two weeks Vic and I go grocery shopping with the child support money.
Monday at work I checked that card because I still have some food stuffs I need to buy. I figured there was something like $30 left. When I saw that it was all still there, I knew instantly what happened.
I used the wrong card.
So I went to check my checking account and found I was overdrawn because the purchase went through right away.
After work I pulled $100 out of the child support card, and got $40 from Mom, and went to the bank (after taking Vic to dance). They told me that the deposit wouldn't hit until the following morning and there was a pending transaction that would post before that.
I told them that if that happened, because I gave them cash, then I would be closing my account.
I checked yesterday morning. And sure enough, I have another $35 overdraft fee.
Unfortunately since I have direct deposit and get paid Friday, I have to wait until Friday to pull out my money. I think I'll go to Chase this time.
As y'all know yesterday was election day here in the US. I tried to vote early Friday but the line was horribly long, and I was so fucking tired.
So I went last night, and barely waited ten minutes.
I had to get money from Mom because Vic has to go as a superhero to school today. Vic told me that Mom was upset that I was able to vote because I was voting for the wrong person.
I just - What!?
First off, she has no idea who I actually voted for (Obama) because there were four people running for President. All my parents know for sure is who I didn't vote for.
And of course this morning I wake up to discover that Obama won! So who voted for the wrong person? Not me!
So, after my date Saturday, I didn't hear from Mike Sunday. I texted him Monday and he said he had a good time Saturday as well. I wanted to ask when we could go out again but didn't want him to think I was asking him out and that I should pay because I don't subscribe to that and I can't afford it.
So I invited him to dinner here Saturday.
But I haven't heard from him since. Should I text him? Or should I wait until Friday or Saturday morning to see if he's still planning on coming for dinner?
Several weeks ago my mother told me something that pissed me off. To understand it I have to give some back story.
When our paternal grandfather, PaPa, died in 1986, Granny gave Chuck his pocket watch. The watch was not an antique, just something PaPa carried. Dad was disappointed that Granny didn't give it to him.
One Saturday, Chuck and Karen and Madisson were at Mom's (Chuck's a plumber and sometimes he goes to their house to do some small jobs). Madisson told Mom, with her mother in the room, that Chuck sold PaPa's watch. At a garage sale. For $50. Karen tried to convince Mom that Madisson didn't know what she was talking about, she is seven after all.
Mom was going to let it go but she couldn't and so called Chuck a few days later. At first Chuck denied it but eventually he admitted it. He tried to defend himself by saying, "It was given to me so it was mine to do with as I saw fit". While that's true, it's the fact that he sold PaPa's watch for $50. Especially when he knew that Dad wanted it. I bet Dad would have paid him $50 for it.
Mom also recalled that Chuck hadn't been wearing her father's wedding ring lately.
She eventually got him to admit he sold it at the same garage sale. She led me to believe he sold them both for $50.
When she told Dad he was so disappointed he just got quiet. Then began to quietly cry.
They're trying to get the name of the guy who bought them so they can buy them back. Provided he hasn't sold them I'm afraid he's going to charge them more than he paid.
Every two weeks Vic and I go grocery shopping with the child support money.
Monday at work I checked that card because I still have some food stuffs I need to buy. I figured there was something like $30 left. When I saw that it was all still there, I knew instantly what happened.
I used the wrong card.
So I went to check my checking account and found I was overdrawn because the purchase went through right away.
After work I pulled $100 out of the child support card, and got $40 from Mom, and went to the bank (after taking Vic to dance). They told me that the deposit wouldn't hit until the following morning and there was a pending transaction that would post before that.
I told them that if that happened, because I gave them cash, then I would be closing my account.
I checked yesterday morning. And sure enough, I have another $35 overdraft fee.
Unfortunately since I have direct deposit and get paid Friday, I have to wait until Friday to pull out my money. I think I'll go to Chase this time.
As y'all know yesterday was election day here in the US. I tried to vote early Friday but the line was horribly long, and I was so fucking tired.
So I went last night, and barely waited ten minutes.
I had to get money from Mom because Vic has to go as a superhero to school today. Vic told me that Mom was upset that I was able to vote because I was voting for the wrong person.
I just - What!?
First off, she has no idea who I actually voted for (Obama) because there were four people running for President. All my parents know for sure is who I didn't vote for.
And of course this morning I wake up to discover that Obama won! So who voted for the wrong person? Not me!
So, after my date Saturday, I didn't hear from Mike Sunday. I texted him Monday and he said he had a good time Saturday as well. I wanted to ask when we could go out again but didn't want him to think I was asking him out and that I should pay because I don't subscribe to that and I can't afford it.
So I invited him to dinner here Saturday.
But I haven't heard from him since. Should I text him? Or should I wait until Friday or Saturday morning to see if he's still planning on coming for dinner?
