You did WHAT with my cigars?!

[Hyena Dandy]

Now, I'm a bit of a big spender when I get presents. I usually try to keep my spending low (with various amounts of success) but if I get a cheque for my birthday, it'll probably take about a couple days for it to disappear.

So, when I was given several hundred dollars for my birthday/graduation, I immediately spent them on something lavish. In this case, two boxes of not-cuban cigars. I happened to get them from my cousin, actually, so he cut a bit off the price since I'm family.

http://www.smokingpipes.com/cigars/g...oduct_id=26685

But still, that was about 180 or so I spent on two boxes of cigars.

Why do I smoke cigars? I usually don't. I do collect pipes, and occasionally use them because its actually cheaper than air-freshener in the long run. Cigars, save them for special occasions. And these two boxes of 24 cigars I reckoned would last me quite a while.

Now, one special occasion that happened along was, quite recently, getting chosen to write reviews of TNA shows for WrestlingRandomness.com

So, since there were evidently a lot of applicants, and my review of last Thursday's show was the best, I figured I could treat myself. I go to closet, open my box, and... Empty.

Well, almost empty. A few were left. And they were broken.

I was understandably outraged, and a little confused. I open the next box. Also open, except for a few broken ones. What the hell happened?

Well, I recently found out what the hell happened to my cigars. It turns out my sister and her friends had been using them for marijuana. Now, I know, cigars are bad for you and all, and that's a discussion for another time. But that's stuff I spent almost 200 dollars on. And she and her friends are breaking it open and replacing the insides with marijuana, which is about five dollars.

Now, she can get cigars for maybe 75c at the convenience store down the street, and don't tell me she can't because she's a minor, because that store is run by a family that doesn't give a damn about that.

Goddamnit... What am I supposed to tell my cousin when he asks how they were? "Sorry, my sister's a stupid pothead?"










I hope I didn't put this in the wrong place. Move it if you have to, I just REALLY needed to get this off my chest.

[lupo pazzesco]

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Wow....that's just....

There are no words...

[Nyx]

Seriously, no words either...I suppose it's similar to my brother's idiocy. He took a good deal of my medication, over a long period of time, "just to see what it did" to him. Medicine I may add that at the time I paid roughly 180 - 200 dollars a bottle for (no insurance blows) and actually needed. I hope your dumb sister gets her comeuppance.

[protege]

Ugh. Reminds me of what my brother did years ago. First summer I was working at camp...that idiot decided to have his buddies over. For a session of "model painting" that is. End result, those fools used up all of my expensive supplies--paint, glue, sheet plastic, etc. Not only that, but all of my brushes were ruined as well--the idiots decided not to clean them, tossed them back into their case, and hoped I wouldn't notice. Needless to say, I was furious.

Not only did my brother get his ass kicked, but I made him replace all of that stuff...and *then* some

[gremcint]

just tell her if she doesn't replace them you'll report them stolen and point the police in her direction. That should scare her. Failing that take away her cellphone and don't give it back until she pays for everyone of those cigars.

[Pairou]

just tell her if she doesn't replace them you'll report them stolen and point the police in her direction. That should scare her. Failing that take away her cellphone and don't give it back until she pays for everyone of those cigars.

Seconded. >>

[mikoyan29]

Ugh. Reminds me of what my brother did years ago. First summer I was working at camp...that idiot decided to have his buddies over. For a session of "model painting" that is. End result, those fools used up all of my expensive supplies--paint, glue, sheet plastic, etc. Not only that, but all of my brushes were ruined as well--the idiots decided not to clean them, tossed them back into their case, and hoped I wouldn't notice. Needless to say, I was furious.

Not only did my brother get his ass kicked, but I made him replace all of that stuff...and *then* some

Ouch. Model paint is not cheap.

As for the cigars, get your sister to pay for every one of them....

[bainsidhe]

Just curious, but what do your parents have to say about this? Hmmm. Besides that, how did she even know where they were? If they were in a closet and all.

Oh and I third the motion of making her pay it back. Oh yes.

[Red_Dazes]

just tell her if she doesn't replace them you'll report them stolen and point the police in her direction. That should scare her. Failing that take away her cellphone and don't give it back until she pays for everyone of those cigars.

Thirded? ((is that a word?)) If I broke my bothers $1,000+ computer I'd expect him to expect me to replace it... same as I would expect him to replace anything of mine he broke.

[Hyena Dandy]

Just curious, but what do your parents have to say about this? Hmmm. Besides that, how did she even know where they were? If they were in a closet and all.

Oh and I third the motion of making her pay it back. Oh yes.

They were in a closet, but they were in what is generally assumed to be my closet. I guess she knew I was smoking cigars, and went to get them.

And I'll have to... Er... Fourth? The motion of making her pay back the money. Stealing her cell phone seems to be the logical option, because the people she hangs with would take being arrested to be a good thing, and she doesn't understand the value of money, having never had to watch it.



The rest of the family returns from Maine in a few days. More of this story as it develops.

[Canarr]

Reminds me of a colleague of mine... he damn near broke up with his girlfriend, after she had a group of her friends over while he was out travelling on business.

Apparently, they felt the need to get wasted on whiskey and coke. The problem was, the only whiskey in the house was a bottle of 30 year old Glenfiddich that his uncle had given him for his birthday a few months before... priced at around 230 €
(USD 350 or so at that time). And they drank the entire bottle. With coke.

So, yeah: thumbs up on the "make her pay for it" plan.

[LillFilly]

Oh yes...Make her pay, and pay big time!

[EricKei]

One more vote for making her replace the cigs.

If you need to..*ahem*...light a fire, you can always insinuate that there's no need for the family to find out what she was using them for if she starts making payments before they return, and finish paying soon thereafter.

[Parrothead]

I would tell the cousin that you never got a chance to smoke them, as your pothead sister destroyed them all (in the hearing of your parents and sis, if possible.)

And add me to the "make her pay you back" mob.

[jjllbb]

Holy CRAP. I'm sorry but that's so DUMB. If she knows enough to know about rolling marajuana in cigar wraps she should have enough sense to know to just go buy herself some cheap ones at the closest convenience store!

holy mother. She OWES you. No question. She will pay you every penny. And if she doesn't have a job she damned well get one.