well. before i start this off i will have to give some backstory... MIL totally favors oss. she always has. lurch and kaos both see it (ouch!). even to the exclusion of her own d@mn ONLY son.

for the last 6m, dh has been trying to get oss OFF our car insurance. MIL cries poor, yet wasnt pushing for oss to get. a. job. finally they settle on her mailing me a check monthly for oss' share. to date, this has never happened. for the last several years, if dh needs a favor or has a scheduling conflict and he's called on MIL for help, he gets "weeeeelllll... i dont knowwww.... i'll have to seeeeee....." and he invariably has to make other arrangements (usually w/ g-ma!! dumb@$$' mom!) and come to find out later she took oss to the mall instead.

when oss got his car, she gave 1300.00 towards it. when it came time for lurch, "weeellllll.... all i can give is a few hundred....." come to find out later she'd paid for oss to go to florida instead.

when kaos asks her to pick him up from school so he can spend a few hrs with her, it's "weeeellllll.... i dont have the gas....." come to find out she drove over an hour to take oss to xyzcity.

this is a repeated pattern. over and over and over again she pulls this $#!t.

so, guess what oss gets for Christmas this year? A NEW CAR!!!!!!!

oh i lost it. dh asked for me to sign over the title of the 'old' car. i texted MIL "h3ll no i'm not signing over $#!t." then i proceeded to tell her "you are a shitty excuse of a mother. pathetic."

and D@MN it felt sooooo good!!

why did i lose it? refer back to the previous history. i was so effing angry at her blatant favoritism. i eventually did sign the car over just to be done with them. but i did make a snarky comment to dh last night that "well i the insurance was so much an effing problem before but it's suddenly not now, is it...." oh, and MIL and FIL drove an hour away to this dealership but wont drive 8 miles for kaos.

i'm sure Christmas is going to be fun for lurch and kaos. "yeah, we got two shirts and a pair of pants. but oss gets ::drumroll:: A NEW CAR!"

*sigh*