To think my brother is quite horrible??

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It is his 18th ,when my sister and sil turned 18 we gave them £50.00 each and we obviously said we would give db the same .
We went up to see him today and he was hiding under a duvet on the sofa I gave him his cards and his money and he just waved his hand and said "pass it to Dad I owe it to B(our dsis)" So not only did he not say thankyou for the money ,he borrowed it in advance and pissed it up a wall.

sounds like his manners aren't the best

Thats 18 yr old boys ahem, men for ya

I can imagine my brother do the exact same thing tbh

Sounds a bit like my brother. It is rude, but I probably would have just rolled my eyes at him.

Was he hiding under the duvet because he was embarrassed?

well he is 18!! Up to him how he spends the gift I guess and I agree I would't be best pleased with it but I don't think you can attach conditions to a cash gift.. you either give him it or don't.

I would not have bothered to leave it behind, tbh.

No you are right ,I dont even mind so much he spent it all on drink thats what 1 year olds do. Its just the assumption he was getting it and no thankyou at all .

Thats what 18 year olds do .

wow. that is charming. You would have thought that he would have had the good grace to take it, say thank you very much and then pass it to B later and in private.
Tis rude Imo
YANBU

I would have said oh sorry can only give you a tenner this year.

I would have been cross at lack of gratitude. I do remember spending expected money in advance at that age though.

I don't think he was embarrased he was been miserable ,he moaned that my dc make too much noise and then later on tried to put my dd on the naughty step because she was stamping we dont even use the naughty step ,me thinks he has caught an episode of supernanny .

He obviously had a headache.

What a brat! He's the one that should be on the fecking step.

Guadalupe probably true ,he was moaning over baby annabell crying too .

He is a brat ,my own Mum told me not to give it him cos he is an ungrateful bugger .

He is taking the whole Kevin the teenager thing too far now he does the eye rolling and everything ,he even threw a fit on Halloween 'cos Mum bought my dc some sweets and didn't get him any . his exact words were "she never buys me sweets ".

Ha ha! Bet he doesn't have a girl friend.

LOL, sounds like mine except he is so bad mum's found him a flat nearby.

He's always ringing me and going on and on if I won't lend him money, he's a bloody nuisance.

lol arent brothers delightful..lol

he is a typical lad of his age, I have a 19 year old so I know, he spent all his wages on a 32 inch tv and then said I shouldn't charge him his board for christmas cos it's the holidays. I said I should charge him double cos he will be using more lecy and eating more food

To be fair, my mum still buys me an easter egg One year she forgot and i whinged all day, lol.

He was probably hungover, and i'd be ticked off with baby annabell crying too,

Not cool that he tried to tell off your daughter tho, which is probably the only thing i'd be miffed with.

Oh God, he reminds me of DS at 18.

In fact he reminds m of all DS's friends at 18.

18 year old boys are like that.

They are sooooooooooooo much worse than 18 year old girls.

Thankfully they do eventually grow out of it.

But they take a lot longer than girls.

DS is now a lovely grown man.

Your next words should have been "Listen you ingrate, get your butt out from under that duvet and give us a decent bloody thank you or we're going home with the money".

Pity my mum, I have twin brothers and they were both a pair of shits at 18.

Happily they are (at nearly 29) both fully employed, productive members of society.
They've even toned down the Neo-Nazi tendencies

A lot of 18 year olds are like that.