Karma Chameleon!So, I wrote a journal the other day. Click here to refresh your memory. As most of you already know, Stephanie is my Sister. My younger Sister. She's about to turn 22 on March 26th. The same day I turn 29. If you read the journal mentioned above, then you know that she did something to screw me over. Well, now I'm going to tell you what she did so I can tell you how Karma quickly worked against her.In the past three years I have loaned my Sister in excess of $1200. She has never paid it back, but she did help me out when I moved back down by paying for my food, getting me some work clothes and more. So I don't really care about that money. She helped me when I needed it and I did the same for her. No big deal. Well she is in College right now. She gets the extra money left over after she buys her materials, and pays her tuition each month in a check. That money can be used any way she'd like to. She also applied for a loan to help her get expensive items she needed; like a computer. In total she received $5,987 from the school in February. $5,000 of which was from the loan. She had told me back in December that she was going to take part of that loan money and help me get a car. The plan was that I would pay her back with my tax return money. In January and February I dished out over $500 to my Sister on different things. Including her application fee for the apartment we got together that I never got to move into, getting her oil changed, and the rest of that was on random meals/cigs and part was for my share of the deposit on the apartment that I never got to move into. Well in late January she spilled Dr. Pepper on my laptop. The laptop I bought in June 09. The laptop that I only let her use because she needed it for school work. The laptop that I trusted her to be careful with, because she is an adult who should know how to treat expensive items that do not belong to her. So used my baby (Dr. Pepper) to kill my other baby. I wasn't angry, because she said she'd pay to get it fixed but if it couldn't be fixed she'd just replace it. Well...it can't be fixed. The motherboard, processor and memory are all fried. To replace them would be a huge hassle as well as expensive. So I told her. She said "well you better find a way to get it fixed because I'm only giving you $250 for it." When I told her it can't be fixed because she had damaged it too much she got mad. She threw a fit when I told her it'd be cheaper to just replace it with the exact same computer (only now it'll have Windows 7 on it) while it was on sale for $600 instead of the $800 I paid for it originally. She refused. I still don't have a laptop. In about a week she blew through that $5987 and she has nothing to show for it other than a brand new laptop that she bought for herself. She's not worried about replacing mine because she has one she can do her homework on now. So mine is of no use to her and therefore it's not important. She even told me "It's not like you need a laptop. I mean, you're not even in College." Yes, because everyone who owns a computer is in College. Her logic is not like our Earth logic. So I drop it. I don't feel like fighting with her. She blew through that money and then she was hitting me up for money again. Being the person I am, I can't say no to her unless I am absolutely unable to help. She knows this and she uses it to her advantage. I wish I could explain why I still have her in my life, but I really can't. It's just too hard to try to explain. So, on March 8th she goes to Carmax and sells her truck. She gets $4,500 for it. She was going to sell it to some guy for $1800 but I told her to go to Carmax so she'd get more for it. She listened to me and now she has $4,500 in her bank account. Or well less now, but I'll get to that part later. So she comes to me at work Monday and tells me that she sold her truck. She is all excited and tells me that when the check clears on the 12th (that Friday) that she'd use $900 of it to buy our friend's husband's car for me so I can sell it at Carmax then use the profit to get the car I actually want. I tell her she doesn't need to do that, but she insists. So we talk to our friend and we set it up so that Friday evening my Sister will go buy the car while I'm at work and I'll be able to drive it home so that Saturday my Sister could take me to the DMV to get temp tags so we could drive it to Carmax to sell it. Then I'd pay her back and get the car I want. Well Thursday night I'm talking to my Sister on Facebook. She suddenly tells me: I've changed my mind about getting you the car. I need to not be wreckless with this money and I just don't trust that you'll pay me back. I'm absolutely speechless. We have a big fight where I remind her of all the times I've loaned her money only for her not to pay me back. I told her that I never really cared because she helped me in small ways over time so it was no big deal that she never paid me back. She asked me why I would bring it up if it didn't bother me. So I had to explain to her that she just told me she didn't trust me to pay her back money she loaned me, and that it was a slap in the face for her to say that to me given all I've done for her over the years. She cops an attitude with me and then signs offline. A few days pass before I talk to her again. Which is amazing since we literally work in the same building together. I thought for sure we'd run into one another at some point, but we managed not to. So on Sunday she calls me and tells me that Martine's brother is in jail. (Martine is her ex-boyfriend. An illegal immigrant who barely speaks English, but managed to say "abortion" when he found out he'd knocked her up.) So I ask her how that happened because his brother (Ray) is a really good kid. Continued in Comment Two. |
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