Please take tha time to read this: This is how it went. You know those small butane tanks that u use for a heater? The ones that cost about $40 brand new. Well, I was staying over at my cousins house and it was winter. It was pretty cold for me and my kids and my aunt wouldnt let us use an electric heater. About a month or two before my other aunt was living next door. They left a lot of "junk", stuff they didnt want in the garage. So my cuz remembered there was an empty butane tank there i could get filled, and use for a heater. I went to a store and had it filled for about $20(my money). I used it mostly at night for about 3 days. Then outta nowhere my cuz comes and tells me that we gotta move out! So i get all my stuff together, and the tank that i paid to fill, and leave. When we come back my cuz asks where tha tank is. I told him it was in tha trunk of my car. He says "i was gonna use it to make a fish fry". He doesnt ask me to take it out. Continued below....
2007-09-27 17:52:26 · 6 answers · asked by DIVINITY 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
So i get tha rest of my stuff and leave, with tha tank in tha trunk. When we get to a storage, i recieve a call from him(cuz). I was busy and couldnt answer. So i tell my boyfriend to call him back. My cuz tells my boyfriend that it was his tank, that my uncle that was living next door gave it to him, and that he wants it. So i call my uncle up and asks' him if its okay that i had it, i told him i paid to have it filled. He's completely fine with it. Doesnt mention that he gave it to my cuz. So i went ahead and went to my moms 2 hours away. Tha next day i go back for some appointment i had. And i find out that they hate me! And that they been talking a lot of **** about me. My own family. Over a stupid butane tank!!That was in an abandoned area. Dont you think that if he (cuz) really wanted it that it would have been at HIS house?! What do you think about this? It has gotten so bad. I dont have any contact with them at all! Arent they really overdoing it? The whole family is in on it!
2007-09-27 17:59:53 · update #1
Is this really my fault? I think they are acting childish. My aunt, my cuz(19 yrs), and the rest of them...all hate me. Even threatened to call CPS on me! What tha heck is that?!
2007-09-27 18:02:09 · update #2
u should be reimbursed.
2007-09-27 17:59:31 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
call ur aunt and tell her that u spoke to ur uncle and he was ok with u taking it, so u don't und what the big deal is about... then tell her if her son wants the tank that badly then he needs to give u the money for the fuel u put into it. if she or ur cuz gives u any grief about it then i would drive to her house with ur mom (as a witness to the situation) and give them the stupid thing and say "i am the bigger person, even though my uncle said it was ok for me to take it, here it is... now stop slandering me behind my back!!!" the tank is not worth this kind of stress, u obviously have more important things to be stressed over... drop it off and forget it.
what is important is u and ur kids becoming a stable family, get ur self an apartment, get ur self situated and give ur kids the stability they need to feel safe and happy again...
God bless u
2007-09-28 02:20:55 · answer #2 · answered by Ivy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cross them off your Christmas card list.
You're right .... it's not worth arguing over. It never ceases to amaze me how whole families get involved with something that isn't any of their business. This is between you and your cousin. To me that adds up to two.
My advice; take your children, self and boyfriend and get out of Dodge. Another thing is, STOP going over to your cousins house. All that's doing is stiring things up again.
Of course they're going to say nasty things about you. Obviously they have nothing else to do. They have to "bad talk" someone. So it might as well be you.
Why were you staying with them in the first place. Sounds like you're doing a lot of moving around and no place to go. Stop depending on other family members to put you and the children (we'll throw in boyfriend) up for the night and longer. This is the result of asking people if you can "crash" for a night or two or three or four.
It's not only "them." You have contributed to the situation by asking to stay with them. There are always two sides to a story.
It's time to get yourself and children "independent" from the rest of the family so you don't have to "depend" on them for anything. You and your children need a more stable environment. Not all this moving from one relative to another. It soon wares thin.
Sure hope you don't think I'm blaming you for all that's happened. Actually there is no blame. Just saying here, you need to separate yourself and your children from these kinds of people. Relatives or not. They're not a good influence on any one of you. You get caught up in all of this, so you wind up just like them. Don't really think you want that.
Like I said earlier, GET OUT OF DODGE!!
2007-09-28 02:37:35 · answer #3 · answered by Eagles Fly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that it wasn't your tank, and you shouldn't have taken it. I think that it was nice of your relatives to let you stay at their house, and it would have cost you a lot more than $20 to stay someplace else. And I think that this would be a good time for you to start acting mature, and to return their property and apologize, and stop trying to tear the family apart.
2007-09-28 01:32:38 · answer #4 · answered by Diane H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, if someone kicked me out of the house at a moment's notice then accused me of stealing, I'd be more likely to disable the thing, then throw it at them. Use up the gas and then drop it on their curb.
Listen, evaluate your relationship to these twerps... if you come away from every encounter feeling like you've been "had" then you really need to cut off contact with them. They are trash.
2007-09-28 01:53:33 · answer #5 · answered by revsuzanne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your cuz should have taken it if he really wants it. No big deal right. What a family, huh. Just leave them alone now before things get worse.
2007-09-28 01:56:52 · answer #6 · answered by Bee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋