my strained relationship with my parents is rather well documented, but i try to keep them in our lives for ds's sake.
my youngest brother is blatently their favourite and they drive him everywhere. he has just come back from 6m on a cruise ship in australia. all i have heard for the last 3m is "DB will be home in ... weeks" "we canyt wait to see DB" "DB brushed his teeth and 7am, then he had a shower and a wee, then went to work..." tis rather wearing. he got back on sunday, flew into heathrow. they drove from shropshire to pick him up. on monday he went back down to london to stay with a friend. came back thursday. today he went to manchester until weds, so they drove him to the train station.
ive told them that he is taking the piss and DB1 and i wouldnt have got away with it, they muttered that they dont see him often so dont want a row. fine, their lives!
we were looking for a wii for our family present this year and found a good deal for me, but i had it delivered to their house, i checked first and they said it was fine, because they would be bringing DB to see ds anyway(not me and dh, just ds)they were supposed to bring it yesterday (theyve had it for 2m) when there was only a smattering of snow and when i rang them to see what time they were coming said they wouldnt because of the weather, but if DB went to manchester today they MIGHT drop it off. I asked them to call first as wew had some stuff planned.
dh and i got up this morning and there was 6" of snow, so we decided to go and get ds a sleigh. we were walking up town when i got a call. "where are you?" no hello, how are you it was my vile stepdad. I said "getting the boy a sleigh, why?" "we are outside your house" I said "Im sorry, i didnt know whether you were coming, we left the house at 8.30, didnt think youd be over til later" he said "when will you be back? db's train is in half an hour" I said "I dont know, could you take it to MIL's (she lives 5 mins from us) and Ill pick it up from there" "fine".
so, i got home and there was a message on the phone, it was MIL, they had obviously walked in just as the answerphone picked up and you could hear my SD saying "Fucking waste of space that girl, she knew we were coming over, im really pissed off" and MIL said, "oh, im just ringing them" he said "fucking useless cow, wasting time"
first, its not my fault they didnt come over yesterday when DB could have seen ds properly, the roads were better and we had no plans. second, its common sense to RING first. third, they didnt make a special journey, id half understand if they did, but they didnt.
but once again it proves what twats they are!
sorry for the essay.