Has anything this frustrating ever happen to you?

ihaftapbad · newbie! Joined: Nov 20, 2006 Posts: 8

Howdy

Well.. I guess I have to post more often and all because .. the few members I know have told me to.

Not quite sure what to write about, but I guess I could tell you about the horrible story of what happened to my car.

It started at the end of my vacation in North Carolina with my parents and my brother + his girlfriend. We took my car along with my mothers down to the house because my father's car is brand new and my brother's is.. well an old Cadillac which gets about 18 MPG.

Anyways, my brother and Diane, the woman who controls my brother, went outside about twice during the whole trip and were constantly shutting themselves away from us. (He's 23 - she is my age, 19 btw) Anyway, at every moment my brother had he was irritating me and my parents, so when he asked my mother if he could leave a day early and take the 9 hour drive back to Pennsylvania, they were thrilled.

I see him start loading up my car and I said "Hell no." Every time my brother has borrowed my car.. which I recently received in October. (A 2000 Eclipse) He always returned it with a new mark on it. Last time it was a large scrape along the driver side door which my dad said he would pay for... Well that's nice and all, but that doesn't really solve the problem that my parents who.. bought me the car keep forcing me to let him use it every month or two.

So anyways.. back to the story which is just another chapter in my frustrating life. I tried convincing my brother to take my mother's car (A 2001 BMW.. A chick one) because .... he would have to be more cautious with it, but he was whining because it smelled like old cigarettes.

Eventually, my parents confront me and give me an ultimatum. Either I lend him my car or we don't stop in Charlestown, West Virginia where the legal gambling age for the casinos is 18.

I have always been a gambler and they knew I couldn't not go to it, so I had to forfeit my keys along with my dignity and he left in my car.

Now.. he and Diane left Friday at 4 PM and said they would call when they got to my brother's house. From that, my mother was satisfied until the next morning when she didn't have any voicemail on her phone, nor missed calls from him. So, my father and I had to put up with her needless worrying throughout the morning.

Well... We left around 5:30 AM that day and stayed in Charlestown from 12 PM until 8 PM and then made it back to Allentown (where we live) around 12 AM. My parents noticed that my brother's car was still out front and that mine wasn't back so we drove over to his house and didn't see my car there either. That makes it 32 hours since we saw him or heard from him.

My dad and I both figured that he and Diane went somewhere and would be back later so we left it at that. He doesn't come home or call on Sunday either. My mother tried calling him numerous times, but he ignored her calls.

She worries over small things, but even now I can understand it. Well... Now even I am pissed. It's my car.. I need it.. and I know when I get it back it's going to be damaged... the question is how badly.

And Monday morning arrives. Around 11 AM, one of my brother's employees calls the house and tells my dad that my brother is home. When I heard that, I grabbed his keys and drove his car back to his house (leaving his keys on one of the tires) and drove mine back home with a spare key.

I had noticed when I got into my car that it reeked of my brother's unbathen scent as well as... Diane's.

It also had their suitcases that they hadn't taken out yet. As well as over 20 brochures to a ton of places (Okrakoke and Busch Gardens to name a few) and trash and crumbs crushed into my seat and floor.

I told him on the way down to North Carolina while I was driving that no one eats in my car, but because whenever I have something that is better than his ever since he was a child, he would harm it.

Well.. I had a dentist appointment at 1 PM so I went inside to shower and get ready to go to it and when I go out to drive off, my car is gone and his is blocking the driveway.

I run inside and look for a spare set to his car because... He didn't leave his keys with it and there are none. Luckily my dad was home because he had hired a few guys to do some work on our backyard so he drove me to my brother's house.. with the spare key again and I took my car to the dentist office.

Well.. I get home around 1:30 PM and go up to my parents' room to talk to him and when I cross the upstairs hallway to go back to mine, I see my brother opening up the car door to my car. So.. I run down the steps and outside yelling ".. Lots of curse words" as the neighbor who had just moved in across the street is walking her dog.

He answers me the way he always does when he intends to piss me off. In a calm voice while Diane is watching, he says, "Oh. Hey Jeff."

I almost slammed the door on him at that point I was so angry. He then answers why he was gone so long with, "I thought I was allowed to have your car that long." Which was clearly not true. My parents back me up 100% there.

After I confronted him, he left me my keys, took his out of his pocket and drove off.

That was when I noticed the new damages: a chip over the driver side handle and 3 new scuff marks in different places on the car.

My dad, who, is for some reason, reluctant to confront my brother about things he does.. Not quite sure why, said he would pay to get it cleaned and fixed and that was that.... or so we thought.

This morning, I went outside and noticed there was a huge puddle under the front of my car. I called one of the men who was working in the back of the house over and he discovered that the oil pan under the car had been cracked. He had floored my car also.

At that point, my father finally said that my brother was going to pay, but he had already known my brother wouldn't do it without force, so... he is taking it out of my brother's bonds without his knowledge.

AND THAT is how my past few days has been.

If anyone has read the whole story, feel free to comment.

Kaiser · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:47 am Post subject:

Wow. You received a car from your parents?

Its really your parents' car that your bro is trashing then. Until you paid for the car, pay for insurance and gas then really your parents have to call the shots.

Lots of whining here, move out of the house or something.

Currently I pay $2,800 a year for insurance for my car which I don't even have at my apartment. Its sitting at my parents' home and my bro drives it all the time. Its life, suck it up.

My point is instead of ranting all this time, go out and make some changes happen.
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ihaftapbad · newbie! Joined: Nov 20, 2006 Posts: 8

I figured that was the response I'd get because they bought me the car... But they also bought him a car which he totaled years ago.

Really the gist of the story was the fact that he lives on his own and he stole my car and ruined it so I can't drive for a while. But yea it's complaining.. though more justified than petty complaints.

Xristyan · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:18 am Post subject:

LOL if it was me in that situation i would have straight up nailed my bro... but then again.. im the eldest so i can't really comprehend the mind set of a younger bro... Razz

in any case, how bad of a driver is your brother anyway???
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forgetwillnot · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject:

No car! heheheh

An eclipse woooot!

Im kinda surprised and envious of your lifestyle..

Anyways siblings are kinda a pain, well being like you, the youngest, I KNOW this wasn't the first time that you had to greet your teeth..

Because i gritted my teeth over my elder sister's actions oh so many times..

anyways good for you..

And i know sometimes revenge isn't what we are always asking..
Sometimes compensation and respect is enough Wink

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subbergod · Naginata Ashigaru Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 553

I spent 400 dollars on fireworks. I had to drive 3 hours to the Indian reservation to buy them, since they are illegal in my state.

I live right next to a desert. Right when I got home I fired off some fireworks. Later I heard a funny crackling sound. 5 minutes later there was a fire a quarter mile wide and my clothes were on fire.

I put out the fire on my clothes and called the fire department, and they put out the fire. They took my fireworks and charged me 5000 dollars in restitution. That's my week. The fucking end.
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xenocrisis0153 · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:31 am Post subject:

I think I have you beat...

With bad news comes a little good, but it ends quickly: my grandfather died a month ago but I inherited about $300,000 from him. Unfortunately, since he was the only relative I liked, I'm stuck with a bunch of money-grubbers. I got the most money, even more than my dad and his brother and sister, so naturally they're pissed and only talk to me when they wanna say nasty things to me. They don't help me out as much because "I can afford to pay other people to do my chores now."

So anyway, I took my girlfriend and some friends to a casino to play around with my money a bit. Of course, I paid for everything, but like a fool and his money, I was soon broke. And to make things worse, I kept noticing my best friend and my girlfriend kept "having to go do something" at the same time plenty of times during the night. I couldn't get a hotel room for the night because the place was all booked up... even the suites.

When I was driving home, my car hit a shard of metal on the side of the road and caused my tire to blow out. Luckily it was late at night, so the only thing I hit was a guardrail. My cellphone was dead and my friends had no signal, so I had to walk down the highway to the nearest emergency phone. The only cars that passed me were full of drunken teens who just throw cups and bottles at me and laughed.

I called for a police unit, but they were busy, so the cop car and the tow truck were gonna be a long wait. I was so pissed that I went to slam the phone down on the receiver, but just ended up missing in and slicing my finger open on the edge of the metal box surrounding the phone.

I walked back, bleeding, my feet aching, plus I was tired. I came back and two of my friends were sitting in the car, but my girlfriend and best friend had to "go pee".... together!?!? wtf. I heard a lot of laughing in the woods where they went. I was even more annoyed when my girlfriend came back with her shirt buttons not aligned properly. I woulda punched my friend, but my hand was still bleeding. He told me to just forget it, nothing happened... supposedly.

When I got back to my house, the town's fire department was there... well... at my yard... the house was pretty much a pile of charcoal. I asked my girlfriend if I could stay at her place, but she claimed that her roommate doesn't like it when I sleep over. Fucking hell, wtf?!?!

I told my mom what happened and she let me stay at her place, but when I got there, she said lawyers were calling about the inheritance. Apparently we misread the amount... it's wasn't $800,000... it was just $30,000. Too bad I spent about $50,000 at the casino.

sigh... and least my internet still works

so, do I win for worst day?

P.S... this happened last weekend... I haven't heard from my girlfriend, my friends, or my family since. Mom says I can't stay with her any longer than 3 more days

PPS... j/k ^____^
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subbergod · Naginata Ashigaru Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 553

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Sooooo glad that's not me. I feel a little bit better now.

Now I can sit back and enjoy not being as fucked over as you.
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Xristyan · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:14 am Post subject:

xeno>> wow... harsh... i don't think i can top that one off.. Razz

but in any case...

a little sharing...

last monday...

first day of practicum...

on the way home i filled up on gas and about a block away from my place there was a four way stop...

i was the first to hit that intersection so i stopped and surveyed the area... there was a car to my right which is already slowing down to stop to let me pass... then i saw another car to my left several meters away...

assuming the guy knew what a four way stop was he should have slowed down...

so i started accelerating to cross the intersection...

apparently the guy doesn't know what a four way stop is and didn't even bother slowing down...

result...

a collision...

the dude hit me right at my driver side fender...

my front bumper, and headlights were obliterated...

and i think my front left wheel axle got some damage out of that too...

I'm hoping ICBC pays for the damages on my car... if not that is another thing to be pissed about...
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