difficult child still is manipulative and it drives me crazy. Her car won't start again. This happened about a month ago and we paid $200 and the car repair shop couldn't find anything wrong except the floorboard had gotten soaking wet and they think the wiring system was shorting out until it dried out because it suddenly started working again after a few days when it dried out.
difficult child had locked herself out of the car a while back and taken something and tried to force the door open which left a large gap so the door doesn't shut tight which lets water in when it rains. We told her to put a towel or something in the gap to keep water from getting in which of course she didn't do and it rained hard again last night.
Fast forward to this morning. I had called her last night to tell her that I had sent her resume in to a salon and the owner emailed back almost immediately that he had called her number and left a voicemail and that he wanted her to call him back. She, of course, did not answer her phone.
I called her this morning and she answered with saying that she was about to call the salon. She called back and said that she had an interview on Tuesday and that her car won't start again. I told her that she would have to wait until tomorrow for us to deal with this. She asked if I had plans today and I just said that I was going to give up my Saturday to run down there to help her since she didn't listen to us about the car. She came back that she had gotten up early and gotten dressed so she could go job hunting today. I said she had all last week so that was not my concern. It had also come out that she really hadn't gone to the salons yesterday that she said she did (the ones close to her interview),
Well, she called back almost immediately to tell us another salon had called and wants her to come to a group interview on Sunday evening. I found that rather strange and told her so but still said things would have to wait until tomorrow.
A few minutes later, she called to say that the first salon owner had called back and wanted her to come in today for an interview. Yeah, right. At this point I realized that she is getting desperate to have a working car today and she was using the only thing that would get us to consider bringing her husband's truck. So I offered to drive down, pick her up, drive her to the salon, and then drop her off at the halfway house.
She scathingly texted back that it would look ridiculous to have her "mommy" bring her to an interview and she would just tell him that she did not have working transportation and that I had lost her another job.
difficult child may be sober but it hasn't changed her basic personality. She still will do anything to get what she wants and doesn't own up to her problems. It makes me sick.
~Kathy
difficult child had locked herself out of the car a while back and taken something and tried to force the door open which left a large gap so the door doesn't shut tight which lets water in when it rains. We told her to put a towel or something in the gap to keep water from getting in which of course she didn't do and it rained hard again last night.
Fast forward to this morning. I had called her last night to tell her that I had sent her resume in to a salon and the owner emailed back almost immediately that he had called her number and left a voicemail and that he wanted her to call him back. She, of course, did not answer her phone.
I called her this morning and she answered with saying that she was about to call the salon. She called back and said that she had an interview on Tuesday and that her car won't start again. I told her that she would have to wait until tomorrow for us to deal with this. She asked if I had plans today and I just said that I was going to give up my Saturday to run down there to help her since she didn't listen to us about the car. She came back that she had gotten up early and gotten dressed so she could go job hunting today. I said she had all last week so that was not my concern. It had also come out that she really hadn't gone to the salons yesterday that she said she did (the ones close to her interview),
Well, she called back almost immediately to tell us another salon had called and wants her to come to a group interview on Sunday evening. I found that rather strange and told her so but still said things would have to wait until tomorrow.
A few minutes later, she called to say that the first salon owner had called back and wanted her to come in today for an interview. Yeah, right. At this point I realized that she is getting desperate to have a working car today and she was using the only thing that would get us to consider bringing her husband's truck. So I offered to drive down, pick her up, drive her to the salon, and then drop her off at the halfway house.
She scathingly texted back that it would look ridiculous to have her "mommy" bring her to an interview and she would just tell him that she did not have working transportation and that I had lost her another job.
difficult child may be sober but it hasn't changed her basic personality. She still will do anything to get what she wants and doesn't own up to her problems. It makes me sick.
~Kathy
