ok, now I'm getting pissed...

[cloudy]

Remember the two boys I had basically abandoned with me for a couple of weeks at the end of the summer?

They're back.

No, it wasn't my idea. Hell, let's make Cloudy's New Year's Eve not only boring as all fucking shit, but let's add two kids that aren't hers to the mix...

Little Spidey got these hugely expensive, thousand-piece lego sets for xmas...this one took me the better part of two days to put together:

http://cache.lego.com/images/starwars/products/und425x218prod6211classic.jpg

this one a good 8 hours:

http://cache.lego.com/images/starwars/products/und425x218prod10174lassic.jpg

and then he has several smaller ones.

The problem?

What took me upwards of 3+ days to put together has been torn to pieces, and those pieces scattered all over my living room in a matter of twenty minutes.

I'm looking up white slavery sites as we speak.

 

[rgraham666]

Remember the two boys I had basically abandoned with me for a couple of weeks at the end of the summer?

They're back.

No, it wasn't my idea. Hell, let's make Cloudy's New Year's Eve not only boring as all fucking shit, but let's add two kids that aren't hers to the mix...

Little Spidey got these hugely expensive, thousand-piece lego sets for xmas...this one took me the better part of two days to put together:

http://cache.lego.com/images/starwars/products/und425x218prod6211classic.jpg

this one a good 8 hours:

http://cache.lego.com/images/starwars/products/und425x218prod10174lassic.jpg

and then he has several smaller ones.

The problem?

What took me upwards of 3+ days to put together has been torn to pieces, and those pieces scattered all over my living room in a matter of twenty minutes.

I'm looking up white slavery sites as we speak.

*HUGS* cloudy.

 

[Guest]

I hate those things. We finally stopped buying them.

Two more kids for New Year's? Damn. I'm so sorry. Did you stock up enough food?

We're home, too. After traveling to relatives for Christmas we had no wish to go anywhere tonight. Son has already fallen asleep, daughter is back talking with her friends, so it is just mom and dad hanging out, nibbling at the munchies and checking out what decent movies are NOT on Satellite this evening.

Have a drink with us?

 

[MagicaPractica]

You're just too good a person.

 

[cloudy]

This is going to sound horrible, but I just don't like these kids.

Spidey's pretty careful with his toys, and those things have pretty much stayed together since he got them, with the occasional piece getting knocked off. Within thirty minutes of them being here, they were halfway torn down.

These kids come from a very poor family, don't have a fucking pot to piss in, and don't know how to take care of anything...and there's two of them (poor is one thing...no big deal - trash is another). They tear everything up (yank the sheets off the beds, have toys in pieces, etc.), and literally eat my cupboards bare. On top of that, they get left with me for weeks at a time.

Next time butthead decides it would be "fun" for them to come over, I'm packing a bag, and going to a friend's house. Let him deal with it.

 

[Guest]

Where is butthead?

 

[cloudy]

Where is butthead?

oh, he went to bed, and shut/locked the bedroom door awhile ago. Kids are my responsibility.

 

[rgraham666]

oh, he went to bed, and shut/locked the bedroom door awhile ago. Kids are my responsibility.

What a jerk.

 

[Guest]

oh, he went to bed, and shut/locked the bedroom door awhile ago. Kids are my responsibility.

He locked the door?

You should force it open, send the visiting kids in there on a scavenger hunt.

"OK now, you have to check under the bed, under the pillow, make sure to turn all the lights on and you get extra points for loudness."

 

[cloudy]

You're just too good a person.

Thanks, but at the moment, I could cheerfully take the lot of them (mine included...they're running up and down the hallway now, brandishing lightsabers, and knocking shit off the walls), and drop them off in the middle of nowhere.

What you wanna bet I have them until Tuesday night? The only reason they'll go home that quick is because school starts back on Wednesday. Last time they were here it was for over a week, and I had to track their mother down, and then take them home myself - she certainly won't bother to come get them.

 

[JamesSD]

Little Spidey got these hugely expensive, thousand-piece lego sets for xmas...this one took me the better part of two days to put together:

Ok, call me blissfully ignorant as a non-parent/uncle/etc, but why would you buy a child a LEGO toy that they couldn't put together? I mean, 75% of the fun in LEGOs is the assembly! I totally understand presents that need to be put together once by the parent, but, uh, Legos are a building toy?

 

[cloudy]

Ok, call me blissfully ignorant as a non-parent/uncle/etc, but why would you buy a child a LEGO toy that they couldn't put together? I mean, 75% of the fun in LEGOs is the assembly! I totally understand presents that need to be put together once by the parent, but, uh, Legos are a building toy?

He's six.

He loves Star Wars - it's his current obsession, and according to butthead, what he wants (regardless if it's age-appropriate or not) is what he gets.

We won't go into detail as to what else he got for xmas, but the child is obscenely spoiled by his father.

 

[Guest]

Ok, call me blissfully ignorant as a non-parent/uncle/etc, but why would you buy a child a LEGO toy that they couldn't put together? I mean, 75% of the fun in LEGOs is the assembly! I totally understand presents that need to be put together once by the parent, but, uh, Legos are a building toy?

That's a grey area with Legos, really. The kids really want the vehicles you can make with those huge sets, but they don't really match the age requirements yet.

But even the ones my son can happily put together himself don't stay together. He got a SpongeBob Krusty Krab restaurant set for his birthday - it's in pieces, and he uses them to make other things.

We stopped buying those sorts of sets now and just buy the giant tubs and let him go crazy. Makes me happy.

 

[3113]

I think it's time to put a stop to this. This being you, Cloudy, being used as doormat by Kids and Butthead. Go to locked bedroom and pound. Pound and pound and shout and shout. Ring the phone, play loud music.

Keep it up till he opens the door. Or jimmy open the lock. Or take out the hindges.

Then tell him, "The kids are your responsiblity. If you don't take care of them right now, and keep them quiet, I will call child services and YOU can explain to their mother how they ended in the custody of child services on New Year's Eve."

Do not take this shit. You don't deserve it.

And if that doesn't work, grab the kids, take them aside, and tell THEM that you will be calling up someone to take them home RIGHT NOW if they don't quietly sit and play a board game.

Use that mad of yours, and don't let the kids or Butthead do this to you.

 

[cloudy]

I think it's time to put a stop to this. This being you, Cloudy, being used as doormat by Kids and Butthead. Go to locked bedroom and pound. Pound and pound and shout and shout. Ring the phone, play loud music.

Keep it up till he opens the door. Or jimmy open the lock. Or take out the hindges.

Then tell him, "The kids are your responsiblity. If you don't take care of them right now, and keep them quiet, I will call child services and YOU can explain to their mother how they ended in the custody of child services on New Year's Eve."

Do not take this shit. You don't deserve it.

And if that doesn't work, grab the kids, take them aside, and tell THEM that you will be calling up someone to take them home RIGHT NOW if they don't quietly sit and play a board game.

Use that mad of yours, and don't let the kids or Butthead do this to you.

I just popped the bedroom door open with a credit card - his bedroom's right across the hall from Spidey's, so I think I'll let the kids be as loud as they like right now.

If he wants to bitch, I have car keys....I'll just leave.

 

[Guest]

I think it's time to put a stop to this. This being you, Cloudy, being used as doormat by Kids and Butthead. Go to locked bedroom and pound. Pound and pound and shout and shout. Ring the phone, play loud music.

Keep it up till he opens the door. Or jimmy open the lock. Or take out the hindges.

Then tell him, "The kids are your responsiblity. If you don't take care of them right now, and keep them quiet, I will call child services and YOU can explain to their mother how they ended in the custody of child services on New Year's Eve."

Do not take this shit. You don't deserve it.

And if that doesn't work, grab the kids, take them aside, and tell THEM that you will be calling up someone to take them home RIGHT NOW if they don't quietly sit and play a board game.

Use that mad of yours, and don't let the kids or Butthead do this to you.

Excellent.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I just popped the bedroom door open with a credit card - his bedroom's right across the hall from Spidey's, so I think I'll let the kids be as loud as they like right now.

If he wants to bitch, I have car keys....I'll just leave.

Good for you!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

oh, he went to bed, and shut/locked the bedroom door awhile ago. Kids are my responsibility.

That's what you should have done when these to free loaders showed up...

Shoed them home and locked the door.

 

[SeaCat]

Remember the two boys I had basically abandoned with me for a couple of weeks at the end of the summer?

They're back.

No, it wasn't my idea. Hell, let's make Cloudy's New Year's Eve not only boring as all fucking shit, but let's add two kids that aren't hers to the mix...

Little Spidey got these hugely expensive, thousand-piece lego sets for xmas...this one took me the better part of two days to put together:

http://cache.lego.com/images/starwars/products/und425x218prod6211classic.jpg

this one a good 8 hours:

http://cache.lego.com/images/starwars/products/und425x218prod10174lassic.jpg

and then he has several smaller ones.

The problem?

What took me upwards of 3+ days to put together has been torn to pieces, and those pieces scattered all over my living room in a matter of twenty minutes.

I'm looking up white slavery sites as we speak.

Now Cloudy,

What makes you think anyone would buy. I'm thinking you would have to pay to have some slavers take the kids mother and ButtHead off your hands.

Cat

 

[SlickTony]

Cloudy, who are these people to you, and why do they assume they have the right to saddle you with their kids?

This kind of reminds me of something that happened to me in 1996. My son had these two friends, a brother and sister who lived in the same apartment complex we lived in. They were always going back and forth to each others' apartments, so if he wasn't over there, they were over at our place.

I never did have much use for their mother...a trifling heifer, in my opinion. One of these people whose house is so neat that it looks like the display floor at Haverty's or something. Show me someone like that and I will show you someone whose kids are at my place, tearing things up. The other reason her place was so neat was that it was devoid of reading material. No books, no magazines, nothing. A lot of the time her kids were over at my place because she was entertaining her boyfriend. Must be nice, I thought--when I was single, if I'd sent my kids over to the neighbors so I could entertain my boyfriend in the bedroom, people would have talked scandalous about me.

She had a Toyota Camry which she was very proud of, and took very good care of. One time, she took my son along with her kids to the swimming pool at the other end of the complex. Our apartment complex was really two parts: Eagles Point North (where we lived) and Eagles Point South. Sometimes the pool at Eagles Point North would be closed for one reason or another, and you'd have to go to Eagles Point South.

When she brought the kids back, she brought them back sitting on the hood of her car,, while she trundled through the parking lot at 2 mph, because they were all dripping wet and she didn't want damp spots on her car's precious upholstery. I was so shocked, I didn't know what to say, but I made up my mind that if this ever happened again, I would report her to The Department, which is what CPS gets called in my part of the world. I told my son he was not to go riding with her again.

The last quarter of '96, my husband was between jobs, having quit the job at WTLV that had brought us to Jacksonville in the first place, but he hadn't gotten the job at the construction supply place that he kept until '99, so we were very poor. But I was making pretty decent money at Wachovia, so for Christmas, we got hold of a duck.

On Christmas day, Trifling Heifer wanted to go eat dinner with her boyfriend and his family, but the kids didn't want to go, so she left them at our place, saying she'd be back in a couple of hours. Well, you can guess what happened--a couple of hours came and went, and we had these two extra, ravenous kids to supper, and there's not that much meat on a duck. She didn't come back until 10:00. In the meantime, we'd been wondering if she was going to come back at all. We were just on the verge of trying to get hold of the kids' father when she did come back, with a casual apology, and took them home.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

He's six.

He loves Star Wars - it's his current obsession, and according to butthead, what he wants (regardless if it's age-appropriate or not) is what he gets.

We won't go into detail as to what else he got for xmas, but the child is obscenely spoiled by his father.

I totally feel ya on this one. My SO never thinks our child can have too many toys. We're going through this with the elaborate Hot Wheels racetracks right now. They're taking up my entire living room floor! I'm just thankful that my 15 year old brother delights in putting all this shit together and helping the kidlet figure out how to operate it.

 

[3113]

What makes you think anyone would buy. I'm thinking you would have to pay to have some slavers take the kids mother and ButtHead off your hands.

There's always Ebay. Maybe medical research could use them?

 

[cloudy]

Update:

One has gone home. The other wanted to stay (of course he wanted to stay - more toys than Toys-R-Us and food).

It's 7:45, and yes, Butthead has, once again, gone to bed and locked the door.

I'm giving him time to get good and asleep, and then I'm popping the door open again.

Asshole.

 

[SensualCealy]

Ok, call me blissfully ignorant as a non-parent/uncle/etc, but why would you buy a child a LEGO toy that they couldn't put together? I mean, 75% of the fun in LEGOs is the assembly! I totally understand presents that need to be put together once by the parent, but, uh, Legos are a building toy?

Many parents by these sets to spend time WITH their OWN kids putting them together and having quality, get to know your kid time!

Many parents by these sets because they to love LEGO and would have salivated over gigantic sets like this as kids.

My son is almost 16 and still plays with LEGO, the real problem here is, where TF is these kids parents and Who TF gave them the right to drop them off at Cloudy's door step to have her look after them? If it was 'asshole' why isnt 'asshole' looking after them? BTW is 'asshole' the new one up here or the old one down there?

One suggestion, make a game of cleaning them up, set a timer, who ever brings in the most pieces and makes the biggest 'clean' pile gets a surprise- what ever you see fit, even if its a kick in the butt! lol
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[Guest]

i kinda like it that most of middle childs friends are frightened of me.