To think she was being a bit ridiculous?

[Diagonalley96]

I have two sisters who both live at home with my parents. Both are in their 20’s and saving up to buy their own homes.
sister 1- low income job, partner lives with her at my mums.
sister 2- secondary school teacher. Partner works/lives away but is off for the next 3 weeks and staying back here with my sister at my mums.

today Sister 2’s partner had a day out planned with his friends. Hasn’t seen them since before Christmas. They planned to meet in the city centre at 12.

We have a family group chat on messenger. Sister messages this at about ten to 9 this morning, panicking as she has locked her partner in the house. She starts asks sister 1 if she or her partner can come home and let him out the house. Sister 1 says she can’t leave work (care home). She says her partner can’t leave work either (supermarket) but that he will be home by 2pm.

it’s worth noting that this was planned as a whole day piss up and that the train to the city centre is very regular and takes 15/20 mins.

Sister 2 then asks my parents to come home but they can’t manage this either (nurse and bus driver). Sister then goes off in a rant, essentially stating that her job is more “important” and that someone else should be making an effort to come home and sort this out.

she then asks me to get a bus (with 2 kids under 2) to my mums workplace and get her key. Then take it back to her partner. I said no as I’m not spending an hour on my day on busses just to avoid her partner being a bit late to a day in the pub. She told me that I was being incredibly selfish.

sister 1 is now not talking to any of us. I feel like she was asking a lot of everyone though. Yes he works away and I imagine this day out meant a lot to him but surely missing a few hours wouldn’t be the end of the world?

Your sister is ridiculous.

this is a safety nightmare though. If this is the style of lock the house uses, there needs to be a large, easy to find key available at all times.

@Diagonalley96 Why didn’t she just get a taxi driver to collect key from her at work - and to post it through the door at home? 🤷‍♀️

Your poor parents 🙈

Think we need a diagram of this impossible to escape house OP

Yanbu, your sister is batshit! She locks him in, but blames everyone else for not putting themselves out to free him.

As a pp said, it's a piss up, not a court appearance

So your sister f*cked up and is now having a tantrum because everyone else won't sort out her mess?!

Your sister needs to have a sanity check and apologise to everyone.

It's not like her BF is catching a flight. He is going to be late to the pub, so hardly a big deal!

And had no free periods? I am all for the importance of teachers, but I would imagine there would be a hell of a lot of people who could have covered to let her nip out for this supposed emergency. Much less for nurses and carers, who clearly couldn't nip out easily. I sure as hell wouldn't expect someone to drag their two kids around on a bus either.

Send her this on the family group chat

If there's no other way to get out of the house isn't that a serious fire hazard?

Sister then goes off in a rant, essentially stating that her job is more “important” and that someone else should be making an effort to come home and sort this out.

Sort out her mistake? Gobsmacking entitlement.

I can’t take the conundrum seriously as I would have climbed out a ground floor window and left it pushed shut for a few hours until teacher sister came home in lunch break to lock up properly or the 2pm returner sorted it.

Sister is an entitled prick.

that’s actually a great idea. I think we were all too scandalised with her antics to think of it 😭

I think it is a fire hazard. The house has no back door and would have had a “normal door” that opens from the inside without needing unlocked when it was built but now it’s a 6 point lock so if it’s locked from the outside, you are stuck in.

If I were him, I’d just climb out of a window and push it closed behind me. And then maybe not go back to the insanity that is your sister.

I wholeheartedly agree!

I'm not defending the sister, just answering a question!

I don’t think anyone would blame him at this point. Can I just say, he was in bed asleep while she caused merry hell and was oblivious to the drama as it unfolded.

I love this 😂

I'm a bit confused. Which sister locked the partner I the house? Why is sister 1 not talking to anyone when it's sister 2s partner who can't get to his piss up?

It just doesn’t have a back door and front door is a 6 point lock. So it’s fine to get out if nobody locks it from the outside but needs a key to be unlocked from either side. He could have used the living room window but would have meant it would have been unlocked all day after that (I don’t see that as a huge deal as neighbour across the road would have been sat in garden all day anyway and would have likely kept an eye on the house til 2 when my BIL got back).

Sorry! Mistyped. Sister 2 has the partner who was in a pickle.

The person who locked him in should organise a quick courier to collect an envelope with the keys and take them round to him. No one has to leave work for this.

We are in Scotland so school is open as normal.

why relevant to know she’s on a low income?

I will take a punt that you usually don’t get on very well with her