How terrible of a son am I?
Posted by
Mop (aka rburriel)
Dec 2 '23, 19:48
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We went out to dinner tonight to celebrate Dad's 91st birthday. Me, Mom, Dad, my brother, his son.
When we returned to Mom and Dad's house, on the dining room table was a greeting card with my nephew's name on it. My Dad made a big scene of "Oh, who's is this?"
Dad want to make a point that nephew - at nephew's birthday a couple of weeks ago - opened up his birthday card, took out the money, but then left the card behind.
Fine. He's sensitive about cards. I was driving brother and nephew home so as we're going out the door, I made sure to grab the card so that it wouldn't be left behind. On the drive home, nephew opened the card and mentioned "Hey, this is an Easter card."
Upon returning to Mom and Dad's house, Dad wanted to continue his grievance (with me, as brother and nephew are now gone) and became increasingly agitated that nephew would dare to open the card, take the money, and then leave the card.
I pointed out that it was an Easter card. He couldn't have put that much thought into it if he gave nephew an Easter card for his birthday.
So I wanted to be clear, "You're upset that he took the money but left the card." As I repeated this - essentially pointing out the absurdity of it - he just kept getting more and more agitated. I offered to call nephew and tell him off for daring to be so bold, but that only agitated him more (at this point, it's just a sport as calmly stating the facts back to him seemed to only make him angrier). He finally stormed off.
I texted my brother and let him know that Dad is shouting at /me/ because of the card. Brother sends me pictures of the card (clearly an Easter card) with the inside message ("Happy Easter") and follows that up with my nephew's /actual/ birthday card, with the inside message ("Happy Birthday"). Not only had my nephew actually /indeed/ taken his money *AND* the card, he had kept the card!
If I deliver this additional data to Dad (He DID take the card! He even kept the card!), Dad will surely find another reason to get upset. I mean, he's kept nephew's Easter card around for months with the intention of laying a trap for the kid. He can just get upset that the kid never took the Easter card and nephew's ungrateful about that.
But I REALLY want to throw the new information in Dad's face. I won't though.
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