I don't know what the fuck is wrong with my mother, I really don't. She has a habit of making me promises or offers, and then when I remind her of them later she's all "Oh, I never said that!" or "What I meant was..."
Like, a couple years ago, she offered to buy me a cheap car if I found a job in a place where I couldn't get by public transit. A few months later I've got a line on something, and when asked her about it she straight up told me she never made that offer, she would never make that offer, but if I worked the job for a few months, and I liked it and it paid well enough that I could afford the insurance etc., she would give me a couple hundred bucks to help pay for it. Which is fine, that's totally her right, but she offered, of her own free will, completely out of the blue, to buy me a car. I wouldn't mind if she said "On second thought, I can't afford it." Or "I changed my mind." But telling me "I never said that," is just...arrgh!
The most recent thing is that when I was down to visit her in January, she offered to buy plane tickets for my boyfriend and I to visit her sometime this summer, if, and this is a direct quote "His parents will pay for half of his ticket." So, my boyfriend winds up with a full-time summer job at his college, so he say's that even if his parents aren't willing to pay for it, he will. So we pick a week, and my mom is about to put in for time off, and she texts me
Hang on, what? So call her, and she tells me when she said "half" she meant half the total cost, for both mine and boyfriend's ticket.
I...just...arrgh!!! And she needs to put in for time off tomorrow, so we've only got a few hours to figure out if we're going to do this thing.
I think I'm going to have to start recording my conversations with her.
Like, a couple years ago, she offered to buy me a cheap car if I found a job in a place where I couldn't get by public transit. A few months later I've got a line on something, and when asked her about it she straight up told me she never made that offer, she would never make that offer, but if I worked the job for a few months, and I liked it and it paid well enough that I could afford the insurance etc., she would give me a couple hundred bucks to help pay for it. Which is fine, that's totally her right, but she offered, of her own free will, completely out of the blue, to buy me a car. I wouldn't mind if she said "On second thought, I can't afford it." Or "I changed my mind." But telling me "I never said that," is just...arrgh!
The most recent thing is that when I was down to visit her in January, she offered to buy plane tickets for my boyfriend and I to visit her sometime this summer, if, and this is a direct quote "His parents will pay for half of his ticket." So, my boyfriend winds up with a full-time summer job at his college, so he say's that even if his parents aren't willing to pay for it, he will. So we pick a week, and my mom is about to put in for time off, and she texts me
Hey, babe. So if I purchase 2 tickets 4 u <boyfriend> 4 aug 10 will his parents def reimburse me 4 his tckt?
I...just...arrgh!!! And she needs to put in for time off tomorrow, so we've only got a few hours to figure out if we're going to do this thing.
I think I'm going to have to start recording my conversations with her.
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