I hardly ever speak to my uncle, he is the 'black sheep of the family' basically when he was in his teens he got a drug problem, my nan and grandad have spent thousands of pounds sending him abroad to rehab clinics, he aparently now is off hard drugs and 'just' smokes canabis
this isnt what i am annoyed about just giving the background
when my DS was born nearly 10 months ago i didnt get so much as a phone call or a card, i put this down to him being a bit low on cash maybe, no pressie, not a problem! everytime we went to my nan and grandads we would tell him we were going so he could come and meet my son, he lives a 2 minute walk away and could never be bothered because he is 'watching the football' or something equally as stupid
this even though it hurts is totally expected from him, he used to give us broken promises all the time when we were little and nearly always forgets birthdays
but on friday he had the cheek to ring me up, after not speaking for ages and the first thing that leaves his lips (beofre asking how me or DS are) is he wants a favour! i was completely stunned and agreed to do the favour (was buying him a local paper because he thought his friend would be in it)
we went to my nan and grandads and done the usual phone him up see if he wants to come over whilst we were there and to our suprise he said yes, we had to wait over an hour for him to get there and had to keep DS up in his naptime
he got there, only looked at DS twice, when i told him i hadnt brought the paper with me he was visably peed of at me, he then went on talking and pulled out 3 very new expensive all singing all dancing phones
AIBU to think that if he could have bought these expensive phone he could have at the very least got a cheap 99p card from the card factory (which i know there is one near him)
im not upset because he hasnt bought my DS any gift because we dont expect it, its the thought that counts and he just hasnt thought about him at all
would you be upset by this?
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To be upset with my uncle!
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Mum2OliverJames · 26/10/2008 20:17
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