'You can walk home': Unemployed aunt strands nephew at work, 7 miles away

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    Sister-in-Law decides to strand my son at work. M A little background: my SIL is 41 years old and a single mom. Due to her poor judgement in her divorce from her husband, she's back to living in our hometown with her
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    parents instead of the state she and her ex-husband were living in when they separated and then divorced. Their parenting relationship is absolutely non-existent, and former BIL struggles to get her to even let him speak to his son on the phone. She is also currently unemployed and refuses to get a job to help her
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    parents out with expenses of having her and her son living with them. FIL is retired, MIL is about to retire so they are on a fixed income. My oldest son (23) is also currently living with in their house (previous living arrangements did not work out, and he didn't want to move back in with my husband and I), but he is employed and pays them their
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    agreed upon rent to cover his living with them. This is a tenuous arrangement at best, as SIL and MIL have a contentious relationship, and my son and SIL do not get along well at all. Now for the story.
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    One evening, my son was at work. He was using MIL's vehicle, as his had broken down on day three of his grandparent's vacation and MIL had given her permission for him to use the car so he could get to and from work without any issues (public transportation in our city, especially if someone is working
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    until the wee hours of the morning), and it was tentatively agreed that my son and SIL would share the vehicle, since SIL hasn't bothered to maintain car insurance or her vehicle registration on her own car, and MIL and FIL were on a two week road trip with their other vehicle. He drove to work as usual, and when he was on
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    his break four hours later, he went to go to the car and get something that he had left in it, only to discover the car was gone. Since he's not allowed to have his phone while he's working, he never received the text that SIL sent him an hour after he'd clocked in, saying that she was going to take the car to "run errands".
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    Once he checked his phone and saw the message, he called SIL and asked her to pick him up at work. SIL told him that she had no intention of picking him up from work, since HE had stranded HER at home with no vehicle, and that he could walk.
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    My son called me immediately after he'd hung up on her in tears. By the time he got out of work, it would be around one in the morning, and he didn't think he could make the walk since his neuropathy had been flaring up and he would have difficulty working once he finished his shift. So I told him I'd be there by
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    the time he got out and related the story to my husband, who was very angry at this stunt (the latest in a long line of them). Once I got my son back home, I saw my SIL sitting on the couch, watching TV and not folding the massive pile of clothes next to her. When she asked me what I was doing there, I very nearly
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    ed her, but chose the less nt path and told her I was bringing my son home from work. Then I asked her if she managed to get all of her errands out of the way. She looked confused for a moment, and then said she hadn't needed to pu vi
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    run errands, she had just wanted to go hang out with her friends for a while. She tried to say that she was only joking about making my son walk 7 miles in the middle of the night with neuropathy pains, but I cut her off and told her that she was a selfish, lazy b h, who had no
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    business "hanging out" with her friends, since she was unemployed by choice and essentially letting her parents support her. All she could do was stare at me with a dumbfounded expression on her face. I'm sad to say that she has not changed one little bit since, according to my MIL. I hope that my
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    MIL sees the light soon and kicks her mooching out the door. EDIT: My SIL took an Uber to my son's workplace to get the car. I was so wrapped up in the story telling that I forgot to include that detail.
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    foxtwin 19 hr. ago The sad thing is nothing will change until the in-laws stop enabling that . Believe me, I know. Dealing with an entitled family member that using my in-laws and they are enabling the bs ↑ 59 ↓ Reply Share
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    The Story Builder 19 hr. ago I can understand why she is divorced. Her behaviour is disgusting on every level. Your self-control is remarkable. 58 Reply Share
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    kristakivisild 6 hr. ago wow, your SIL sounds incredibly entitled and selfish. i hope your MIL sees her true colors soon and kicks her out. what a nightmare to deal with.
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    FinestLace_13 · 5 hr. ago This doesn't make sense. By this logic people should stay in relationships they are unhappy in just so they don't have to live with their parents, and that's ridiculous. 1 Reply Share
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    KonradWayne. 11 hr. ago You ever get cut off by another car while driving and you see their car is dented af, then think "yeah that makes sense"? That's how I feel about finding out this woman got divorced and had to move back in with her parents.

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