History: My Mum is quite spoiled, she always has to have everything her own way and right NOW without thought for anything anyone else has to do. She's always late, never asks how you are, forgets things you tell her if its not important to her etc etc
Anyway my younger brother lost his phone whilst drunk and I said he could have my old one as I was due an upgrade. This was about 2 weeks ago and we have had decorating, school meetings, had one of the busiest couple of weeks at work and finally today I managed to get to the store and upgrade.
For this whole 2 weeks my Mum has been asking where the phone is and getting quite agitated that I had been at work and not had time to go to the phone shop - you said you were giving him the phone, why haven't you upgraded, when can he have it because "I need to contact him." Basically I wasn't doing this favour quick enough for her liking.
I called Mum today and said the phone is ready, its 2 years old so the screen is just a bit dim because its been wet and its a bit scratched but totally fine and I have been using it fine. She started shouting "Why haven't you put it in rice??? What good is it to him now??? It's no good, forget it!" I put the phone down.
She came over now and I gave it to her and said she was being really unkind about this whole thing as the phone is fine. She told me I wasn't giving it "from the heart." I told her its better than nothing which is what he has now, and that its a shame she made this transaction so awful because I know my brother is really grateful to have a phone no matter what shape its in. It is in no way unusable!
Is she being ridiculous or am I "heartless"?
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Is my mum being ridiculous, or am I an awful person?
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mickeyfartpants · 20/06/2015 17:11
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