By countrygirl0118 - 17/12/2009 22:30 - United States
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HI AGAIN I'M THE OP! first off the coat is nonrefundable, and I got him it because we do live in a harsh area and he has to walk to work wearing a million sweatshirts at the moment. second, no he doesn't live with his folks, we live together so in a way it would be for me too but i thought the coat had a more pressing need. third, i had discussed with his sister and his brother in-law that no, i was not getting him a PS3 until his birthday because blistering cold takes precedence over playing games. AND i had said if you really want to get him a game that's fine, but he won't be able to use it til February. THEN his mother called me, and told me about them all buying him games. I said to her on the phone, "I've already bought him a nice coat and was waiting til his birthday for the game system." She then said, "Oh, well I knew that, but we knew you'd probably want to get him the system too since we've all bought him games." One game is okay, but everyone buying him a game makes it look ridiculous and then he'll have all these games and not be able to use them for 2 months. ALSO i don't want to fight with his mother. This is the first Christmas I'm spending with them and on top of it his dad has bone marrow cancer and lymphoma and has chosen to stop his chemotherapy treatments, so this may be the last Christmas they all have as a family. So I'm not going to cause a fight. FINALLY, all you who commented calling me spineless, maybe you should learn to reserve comments like that considering that sometimes you cannot fit all of the story into the text space provided. But I guess your bad behavior must be a product of your upbringing. Very poor manners. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
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You totally deserve it for not speaking up. It's his familys own fault for assuming you got him the PS3. You could have very politely told her you didn't get him a PS3 and apologize for the confusion. But you had to pussy out and screw yourself over. Your own fault!
Does he live at home? If so maybe they wanted the PS3 for them selves anyway
return the coat?
Umm...don't buy it. That was wrong of his family to assume you were going to buy him a THREE HUNDRED DOLLAR video game console. You should buy the games. They should buy the console. Give him the coat. Don't apologize. Don't feel bad.
Tell her that when you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME and give him a coat and screw the ps3!
just return the coat....whats the big deal?
**** them. they expect you to buy a $199 game console while they get by with a couple of $60 games? that doesn't make sense to me.
More of 300 bucks, and yeah it doesn't make sense.
If OP indicated she would be buying a PS3, then the family was just following her lead. If she had said nothing about it, then just give BF the coat, and let the passive-aggressive family sort themselves out...
Can't you return the coat?
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dude who does she think she is 'assuming' you got him a ps3. FYL
Seems like the simpler solution would have been to, you know, set her straight on the fact that you hadn't bought him a PS3. Either that, or your boyfriend's mom is scheming you to save them from having to buy the PS3 themselves.