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To want to call this #%&* and tell him just what i think of him??? (long rant)

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Emprexia · 16/02/2008 21:23

Background... my friend has autism, PDD and a couple of nasty co-morbidities.. is on disability living in housing provided for her by the local council.. she can't work, is in therapy.. its a struggle for her just to function day to day.

Anyway...

She recently befriended her male neighbour and after not seeing him for a few days called the police to come check his house because she could hear his dogs barking.

They found G on his living room carpet in the stages of Kidney failure from a severe MRSA infection... her actions SAVED HIS LIFE... another few hours and he'd literally have died right there.

Over the last six weeks she's been taking care of his house (paying his rent) and his animals (to keep animal services from taking them), cycling the 10 miles to and from hospital to visit him and since he was moved into a rehab facility, taking him food and drinks because he hates the hospital food... and risking her own health because the cold weather makes her very sick.

Everything she's done for him he's been an ungrateful ass over, complained the food isn't cooked to his liking, that she doesn't go over often enough, isn't taking care of his animals properly.. basically just being a d*ck,

Because of her issues her computer is a lifeline and a necessity, its how she makes money to subsidize her living (legally) through writing and artwork.. last week her motherboard fried and she needs 120GBP to replace it.. might as well be a million.

Now.. G is fairly well off and after everything she's done she asked him if he'd loan her the money out of the couple of thousand he's given her to buy his food and his dogs, until she could pay it back next month.. his reply "Its a favour too far"

WTF?!!? She saves his life, runs all over for him despite being ill herself and he can't do this one thing for her?

I've had her on the phone to me in tears most of the afternoon and i'm so angry with this man... i can't believe he's being so damn ungrateful.

I so badly want the phone number for his rehab place to call him and tell him what i think of him and his whiny pathetic selfish excuse for an existence.

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vInTaGeVioLeT · 16/02/2008 21:33

oh dear - your poor friend
i don't think Y A B U to want to call him and give him a piece of your mind . . . .
but ultimately it's not your place to do so

he sounds like a class A tosser

Emprexia · 16/02/2008 21:39

I wouldn't actually do it, i don't know him.. but i want to so badly.. hence the vent on here instead.

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Elasticwoman · 16/02/2008 21:52

Can you lend her the money yourself, K?

I would never never say that to you in RL!

And yes, he is a tosser, taking ingratitude to new heights. She is a saint to continue looking after him.

Emprexia · 16/02/2008 22:00

Elastic Woman, if i had the spare cash to give her, she wouldn't have had to ask G.. it'd have been paypal'd to her within minutes of her telling me she needed it.

I can always spare her some if she can't feed her cats or needs medication.. i just dont have 120 quid to hand.

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Elasticwoman · 16/02/2008 22:13

There must be a charity of some sort she can apply to eg local Disability Information Bureau? Clearly you have a computer K so maybe you could find out for her.

derah · 16/02/2008 22:40

I hope she's going to stop doing all those favours for him. What an ass!!! Leave him to rot on horrible hospital food! But I hope she still looks after the animals cos they didn't do anything .

My goodness some people are so ungrateful! Very on your friend's behalf!

Emprexia · 16/02/2008 23:34

Thats exactly what i suggested to her Derah, she agrees with me.
She won't let his dogs or his house suffer, but the trips and the food are stopping, after 6 weeks of this, its time she took some much needed downtime and got herself back on an even keel again.

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Elasticwoman · 17/02/2008 21:10

It could be that the old curmudgeon wanted to die and is cross about being pulled back from the grave. Not that it's any excuse for his rudeness and meanness.

hecate · 17/02/2008 21:12

What do you mean she won't let his house suffer? Fuck his house.

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