Slightly off topic
My wee sister was engaged to a 'lovely' young man who had spent 4 years stealing money from her, drinking it away, smoking heavily in front of her, insisting she had an abortion at one point, swearing at my family every time we saw him, and generally being an obnoxious twat. My family and I in turn spent 4 years pretending to like him for her sake, but also trying to convince her to leave him. However, she'd told us one too many times about how wonderful he was, and obviously couldn't just leave him without losing her dignity (or so she thought).

so she told me (someone who is about as good at discretion as the news of the world) that he had been hitting her. I promptly told dad, who told mum, and she was whisked out of there sharpish by the parents.

The fiance, who was absolutely gutted by her leaving him, and didn't know why she'd gone, spent 6 months working hard at his alcoholism, dropped out of uni, lost his job, caught fire, got beaten up, had a tattoo go septic, generally having a shitty time, and my sister went off and shagged his 'worst enemy', making sure the message got back to the now ex-fiance.

And now it turns out that she just wanted out, so made up the story about him beating her up. WTF? Yes he was a git, but she's ruined his life without any explanation, given my parents and myself so much to worry about, and for what? Why couldn't she just tell him it wasn't working and walk out?!

(oh, and it later turned out that she had the abortion without telling him, and he was very upset about it all)

I'm still not sure which of them had the luckier escape really.
( ascorbate, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:16, 26 replies)

*frowns*
People are rubbish, aren't they?
( Cawl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:17, closed)

^
Congratulations, you've got the first frown of the day from Kaol.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:22, closed)

Not true
My hangover has done that.
( Cawl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:22, closed)

My first frown
was on the way to work when my iPod stopped playing. Then when I reset it, it appeared to have lost all of my tunes.

Fortunately a bit of percussive maintenance (I bashed it on my head until I heard the hard drive working properly again) seems to have resurrected it.

Sorry vitamin c - we've gone way off topic already.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:25, closed)

Damn ipods
In other, post-related news, It's pretty bad how big a lie she came up with, just to save face.
( Cawl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:27, closed)

no problem
whole thing was a bit off topic - my other sis, my brother, our respective partners and myself have been bitching about moronic sister a lot recently, as we all feel she's been a colossal bitch here. but he was a twat. maybe they would have been better off together, you know, not spoiling a pair and all that?
( ascorbate, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:28, closed)

No offence vitamin c
but from your story above they both sound like twats.

I'm somewhat intrigued about the bit where the lad 'caught fire' though.

Care to expound?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:31, closed)

they are
both twats. if she wasn't my sister (and believe me, I've tried to get my parents to say that she isn't) I would not be speaking to her again. I think she has behaved in a disgusting way, and I have lost any shred of respect I might once have had for her.

She's onto the next victim now though, and he seems to be a total wide-boy, so we're all watching to see how that pans out.
( ascorbate, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:33, closed)

*awaits the next
Wide-boy-related part of the story*
( Cawl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:39, closed)

women eh?
the ex of a very good friend of mine put it about that he had hit her. something this guy would never ever do.

fortunately very very few people believed her, but that sort of shit has the potential to go bad.

anyone who cries wolf like this instantly loses all respect if you ask me
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:40, closed)

If they lie about it
Then you should be allowed to hit them.
Just once.
( Cawl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:42, closed)

Some people
are natural born liars. I know someone who is like this, and she seems very normal on the surface but just makes things up.

Never quite this serious, admittedly, but I dare say she'd have the potential should the situation arise.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:43, closed)

Well
as my other sister put it 'but we all want to hit her, most of the time, so really, I'm amazed he's shown restraint and only done it twice!'
( ascorbate, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:45, closed)

There are some people
about whom I always think:

"It's a good fucking slap (s)he's needing".
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:48, closed)

Sounds like nothing
A welding torch, a pair of scissors and half an hour wouldn't cure.
( Cawl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:49, closed)

Kaol
can I tell you where she works then?!
( ascorbate, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:50, closed)

@Kaol
What, no knife?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:50, closed)

I have a sister a bit like this.
She's 38 and still needs us to sort out her problems.
( girlinthehole, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:52, closed)

No knife, this is a serious matter.
Yes, you can tell me where she works.
I'll need £127.50 (excl. vat).
( Cawl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:52, closed)

@BGB
I'll sort her out.

Depending on the nature of her problems...
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:53, closed)

FFS Kaol
You weren't charging VAT yesterday. Business must be doing well.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:53, closed)

It is!
New client, I have to charge VAT.
( Cawl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:54, closed)

I'm a scientist
we don't pay VAT on lab stuff, and she's kind of an experiment that went wrong, so no VAT I'm afraid :-)
( ascorbate, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:56, closed)

@Kaol
If you wish to subcontract some of the work to me, I can do high grade pyrotechnics/low grade explosives* at a good rate.

*it's a grey area...
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:56, closed)

"she's kind of an experiment that went wrong"
Amazing!
*grins*
( Cawl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 9:56, closed)

Bitch
I am unimpressed! I have been physically attacked by an ex and it's not something to bullshit about and I didn't tell relatives because I didn't want them to worry about me. I think some people really can't help themselves and are so selfish they will use any means to get what they want, I'm no saint but there are lines I couldn't bring myself to cross.
Wow that's made me really cross, I'm off to think of fluffeh things for a while.
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 13:43, closed)