Twat of the Year award goes to...

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I need a little rant, and I bet I'm not the only one, so I thought I'd just start this thread...

Ds1's very absent parent (lives thousands of miles away and hasn't seen him for 5 years) sent him an email yesterday morning saying "Hi son, send me your mobile number ASAP. I need to speak to you personally. Don't worry, nothing too serious".

And then hasn't got back in touch.

DS1 noticed that 'too', and has been imagining cancer, dead relatives, etc...

I mean, what kind of a self-centred, thoughtless f*#ker sends their child a text like that, and then doesn't bother to follow up?

DS is 18, and has asked me not to get involved, so I won't... But I'm outraged on his behalf.

Bizarre and selfish of him, IMO.

Was he always a drama queen?

It's unfortunate that some people will never be able to be a parent in any sense of the word.

My friend's dd doesn't see much of her dad and he went through a phase of adding her on facebook, then deleting her then adding her again, then deleting her. People are such bastards to think that messing a child around is ever acceptable. It just goes to show how selfish some people are.

Thanks people. I just needed to let off a bit of steam. DS is angry but resigned. He said "He was probably drunk"... He does have an alcohol problem, but when he texted it will have been only about 4-5pm his time, so it doesn't seem especially likely.

Lottie, that's horrible behaviour. Your poor friend's daughter. :(

There should be a law against it, not laws enaling them to do this.

Sorry to hear your DS has to put up with this OP but he has you for support and he knows it. Love the title of the thread, we should actually in December put forward some nominations and vote. I think the results would be of national press interest - names removed of course

Better...I already had that conversation with a friend who recenetly got divorced. She told me that her ex was being a complete cunt but when I told her about the birthday card situation (as discussed on a thread on here) she agreed that exp could definitely be crowned King cunt!

I think I may be a contender for a top spot here....please keep your nominations coming, lol.

And back to the thread, sorry to hear that OP I dread when dd gets older if her dad is going to start pulling stunts like that. I would not put it past him.

Maybe my ex knew there maybe some awards to win, as there are probably three incidences in recent weeks that would give him a good shot at titles under the main header of the title of this thread. To be honest I feel there should be a number of categories for the awards or some people may get missed and not get the attention they so badly crave.
Feeling not alone is more disturbing than it is good though - poor DC

An annual award is a BRILLIANT idea, better! :D

I would have got ds to email back asking for details rather tHan give this twonk his number

or I would be mean and be all 'sorry who is this?'

I didn't hear about it til afterwards, NYM, so got no say in how it was handled not that I would anyway .

Ha! He finally phoned last night to tell DS he's getting married!

And what did your DS say to that.

Well, they were on the phone for an hour and a half; it's the first conversation they've had in about 5 years. I think DS is more forgiving than I am...