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AIBU?

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To dislike my show off niece?

150 replies

complicated · 07/11/2008 13:56

I really dislike my neice. She's 14 and such a show off attention seeker. She drives me mad.

They all came down last night and the idea was that they help me decorate as I've not been feeling up to it at all.

So we go in the bedroom and neice offers to mix paint up and create a unique colour. I said "best not as we won't be able to match it properly later on if we need more paint" so she said "I'll make enough for the full room" so I allowed her to do it.

A while later she comes running downstairs saying she's finished mixing it. So we go up to look and to be fair, it was a really nice colour and I thanked her and we started painting the walls with it.

So whilst up the ladders she started going on about her art class at school, and then about the GCSE she wants to do in art, and then the college course she wants to do it art ... I just nod politely and told her to go for it as she's clearly good at art. So she started rabbiting on about all these supposedly famous painters knowing full well I've never heard of them and so I changed the subject.

She just gets on my nerves. Everytime she speaks she shows off. She's always trying to make people laugh, always butting into conversations, always needs to be centre of attention.

I was supposed to be going to my sister's today and when I phoned this morning she said "DD is off school but it's still ok for you to come" and so I just said "actually, I'm not feeling too well, I'll leave it".

So she said "is that because DD is off school? has she done something to upset you?" and I know I'm probably been a bit mean but she drives me mad. If I did go today the whole day would be about "her".

OP posts:
Lotster · 07/11/2008 17:34

What an iritating young woman!

Your neice on the other hand sounds like a bubbly, confident, slightly cheeky, helpful young girl.

Seriously though, the cheek of her coming over to help you decorate, why isn't she off happy-slapping a pensioner and filming it on her mobile.

Sounds like pure to me...YABUUUUUU!

needmorecoffee · 07/11/2008 17:36

she sounds lovely to be honest. So many teens are sullen and uncommuicative.

wahwah · 07/11/2008 17:42

I want to tell you to grow up, but I wonder what went wrong when you were growing up that makes you unable to tolerate what sounds like a lovely young woman.

brimfull · 07/11/2008 17:51

give the OP a break,the girl is annoying...she may well end up an annoying over bearing adult or she may outgrow it

nothing wrong with finding teenage behaviour annoying

electra · 07/11/2008 18:18

It's far more than that ggirl. I found this pretty disturbing tbh

ALMummy · 07/11/2008 18:26

This poster also contributed to a thread about sharing bathwater with family members by saying that she couldn't bear to put her hand in the bath water that her children were in, she said the thought made her feel "violently sick" . I don't like to make wild trolling accusations but I am wondering .

hazeyjane · 07/11/2008 18:42

complicated you sound a lot less mature than your niece, maybe you should pay her more attention, you might learn something.

Turniphead1 · 07/11/2008 18:48

Niece = lovely
OP = sad jealous individual with clear issues about adequacy and perhaps her education.

How tragic.

Turniphead1 · 07/11/2008 18:48

oh - and I can't spell "neice". hmmmm

BBeingpatient · 07/11/2008 18:48

you sounds REALLY REALLY mean, I wouldnt want to be around you, So what if a fiurteen year old like to be around her mum, you sound jealous of not having your sister to yourself.

You put yourself accross as a real miserable ancient old toad-goat. YABVVVVVU

StayFrosty · 07/11/2008 18:50

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2shoes · 07/11/2008 19:14

teenagers are good fun, I love chating to ds and his mates.

QuintessentialShadow · 07/11/2008 20:07

You are one cynical woman arent you?
You recently left your family in peril in Miami, and now this?
All this cant be for real.

Lazycow · 07/11/2008 20:14

"She didn't say it as a joke, she knew full well who it was and who it definately wasn't, she just said it for attention"

This sentence makes no sense

Of course she knew who it was thus it had to be a joke. If she hadn't known who it was then it wouldn't have been a joke. As to being the centre of attention, isn't that what making a joke is all about for anyone teenager or not.

She (the teenager) sounds lovely to me.

mumeeee · 07/11/2008 20:27

YABU. SHe is a normal 14 year old telling you what she wants to do. It's good that she has an interest and wants to share it with you.

MorningTownRide · 07/11/2008 20:32

At 14 I would have turned up and done a couple of half arsed paint strokes.

I would then have nicked some of your booze and buggered off to find some boys.

Then come back and Exocisted all over your newly painted walls.

"Fug off, I fuggin' 'ate you. You don't understand. Raooooooobleeeeeuuuurrgh"

Plonker · 07/11/2008 20:40

Well Auntie Complicated, i'm glad you're not my sister ...

Poor dn

southeastastra · 07/11/2008 20:41

isn't it just polite to leave a thread alone once the op obviously disappears

MorningTownRide · 07/11/2008 20:42

I can't even spell Exorcist.

It was the fuggin' booze

Trafficcone · 07/11/2008 20:43

You're jealous of your own niece who is only 14???
Hilarious! If I was your sister I'd be wary of sending my Dd to your house...

MorningTownRide · 07/11/2008 20:43

Oh Gawd, did I make another unwritten rule booboo?

Plonker · 07/11/2008 20:44

Hadn't realised she had SEA ...

Quattrocento · 07/11/2008 20:51

she started going on about her art class at school, and then about the GCSE she wants to do in art, and then the college course she wants to do it art ... I just nod politely and told her to go for it as she's clearly good at art. So she started rabbiting on about all these supposedly famous painters knowing full well I've never heard of them and so I changed the subject.

Are you really sure that she does know full well that you have not heard of these painters? Might she not have been busy prattling?

Cloudia · 07/11/2008 20:51

Also, the OP started this thread

here

All these odd/unusual topics since Wednesday!

Cloudia · 07/11/2008 20:51

Also, the OP started this thread

here

All these odd/unusual topics since Wednesday!

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