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To be utterly, utterly fed up?

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QuestionableMouse · 11/10/2021 15:19

-My mam is still in hospital - she's out of icu and on a normal ward but they're still keeping her in the Covid bit so we can't visit. They said yesterday that she might be able to come home next weekend but I've just found out that she has a collapsed lung and now I'm not sure what's going on. But she's well enough to keep phoning with stuff she wants and it's a 20+ minute drive each way to the hospital and it's down to me to sort it.

-Dad is making my life harder than it needs to be - in the last couple of days he's lost his bank card, managed to lock me out of the Internet banking somehow (and because he can't answer the security questions on the phone, I have no idea what I'm going to do!), has thrown out some very important documents relating to their mortgage and is expecting me to sort it all out by magic. I have until the 31 to figure it out or they're going to lose the house.

-Just found out that for some reason, they haven't been paying council tax so have had a magistrate's court summons that again, I need to do something about. No idea if the council tax people will even speak to me because dad can't hear anything over the phone and has no idea about the bills anyway.

-I had my second Covid jab last Tue and I've been feeling shitty every since. On top of that I seem to have caught the cold that's going around at work so feel extra grim.

-I got my MA thesis back and they've been extremely harsh on it, including several comments that don't make any sense to me. I'm really disappointed with the grade as it's a good 10% lower than anything else I've handed it (my average for the other modules is around 72-73, thesis got a 60%). Emailed my lecturer last week to ask for clarification and I'm still waiting for a response.

I'm honestly genuinely at breaking point. I feel like hiding in bed and never coming back out. I'd just really like one fucking thing to go right for a change.

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Angrynellie · 11/10/2021 23:24

@QuestionableMouse

I don't think so. As far as I know they've only been paying the interest and not the actual mortgage so all of that is now due. No endowment that I know of and dad doesn't think so either.
Oh dear, I’m not too sure what you can do then, besides try to appeal to their better nature? So what was the original plan for repaying it? It’s hard to imagine that a bank / mortgage company would have ever agreed the loan without anything in place to repay it when the term ends.
QuestionableMouse · 12/10/2021 13:34

I've written a basic letter to the mortgage people that I'll post later. I'd do it now but I honestly feel like the walk to the post box might finish me off!

Next job is emailing the council tax people.

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Rae36 · 12/10/2021 18:02

Small steps op. I hope you get a pleasant surprise and find an endowment policy everyone has forgotten about.

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