AIBU to refuse to pay for my SILs rear car seat to be cleaned after I spilled a KFC crushem all over it even though she had expressly said NO FOOD AND DRINK IN HER CAR!
As you can tell this is a reverse AIBU.
On my day off last week I had offered to take DPs niece to a bridesmaid dress fitting ( she stays with us Friday till Monday anyway and is treated like one of ours).
Last minute the night before SIL rings up pleading me to pick her up because she wants to go with her daughter to the fitting. I said fine but she can pay deisel for the hour and a half driving to hers and back out of my way because she will not get a train.
On the way she badgers me to stop at a macdonalds and i say no, thst i dont allow eating and drinking in my car. Aside from its value alone and the fact it is only 2 years old, I am a neat freak and I use it for work and sometimes have important people in my car.
In the end we get there and at the point of paying the deposit on the dress SIL has magically disappeared (oh surprise). I pay it, I don't mind, it's not astronomical.
When we get back to the car we find SIL stuffing her face with KFC and I notice her drink is horizontal and the back of my car is covered in black and cream sludge.
She starts apologising to which I answer " look it's fine, I'll put it into the cleaners and I'll invoice you the cost tommorow".
Well I gave the bill (£60) in a sealed envelope to her dd to give on Monday and mil just rang to say SIL has been getting on at her all week.
I said I would sort it out with SIL tommorow.
Am I really being that unreasonable?
AIBU?
to not pay.
Justme23 · 25/08/2012 14:53
Yanbu - your sil sounds like a complete pain. If I were you I'd do her no favours again. So if she wants to visit, she gets the train, etc. I was going to say could you get an old banger and everytime she visits use that saying you can't trust her in the "grown up car". 
Though I know even bangers are very expensive so it's not a sensible solution.
My dd tipped a sippy cup of milk over our laminate floors a while back while I out. OH wiped it up with a bit of soapy water and thought nothing of it. A week later our house smelt like something had died in it. Took several days till my pregnancy nose found exactly where the smell was worse, then OH remembered the milk incident. It had soaked through the cracks at laminate edges. Took several bleachings before our house smelt ok again. If it were the car I'd definitely get a professional valet now. Bleurgh.
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