5-year-old breaks his nanny’s $2000 laptop, parents refuse to pay her for the damages: ‘I feel like this is absolutely not my responsibility.’

They should at least pay for half of it When you’re babysitting or petsitting, you need to be smart about exactly where you put your possessions. Kids and animals are not always the most considerate of the fact that you spend a lot of money on your jewelry, and do not appreciate it if someone …
Seguir leyendo 5-year-old breaks his nanny’s $2000 laptop, parents refuse to pay her for the damages: ‘I feel like this is absolutely not my responsibility.’

Broke older sister pays $43k for her younger sibling’s education, then the entitled youngest mocks her ‘average life’, so she posts the receipts of everything she bankrolled: ‘I paid for your entire degree’

One sibling works 2 jobs for 6 years so the other can get a debt-free education, and this is the ‘thanks’ she gets? Brutal.  After years of working call center and labor jobs, this minimum wage employee was able to scrape together $43,000 so that her little sister could attend college. Focused on covering the …
Seguir leyendo Broke older sister pays $43k for her younger sibling’s education, then the entitled youngest mocks her ‘average life’, so she posts the receipts of everything she bankrolled: ‘I paid for your entire degree’

18-year-old accidentally damages her 17-year-old friend, Mia’s, phone during a scuffle to get hers back after friend takes it to prank message crush, leading to a dispute when friend demands she pay for her to get new phone: ‘I don’t think it’s my fault ‘

Nothing is scarier than two 18-year-old girls in a catfight,  they’re a whole different level of mean and fierce! I don’t know what makes so many 18-year-olds think they’re always in the right, but we’ve all been there… as much as we try to forget it. This trio spent most afternoons at the mall: window …
Seguir leyendo 18-year-old accidentally damages her 17-year-old friend, Mia’s, phone during a scuffle to get hers back after friend takes it to prank message crush, leading to a dispute when friend demands she pay for her to get new phone: ‘I don’t think it’s my fault ‘

Woman demands sister-in-law pay $100 for bracelet repair after claiming her dog broke it: ‘I pulled the dog back right away and told her that for the rest of the week it would be better if she did not try to interact with the dog’

The question of who is to blame for a particular situation is not always an easy one. It’s why we have courts and juries and lawyers. There are so many factors at play for any given incident that it’s not always simple to track them down. This is especially true when there is a family …
Seguir leyendo Woman demands sister-in-law pay $100 for bracelet repair after claiming her dog broke it: ‘I pulled the dog back right away and told her that for the rest of the week it would be better if she did not try to interact with the dog’

Worker leaves his phone on the back of a work truck, blames coworker for driving away and breaking it and wants him to pay half: ‘He left his phone in a stupid place’

It’s always awkward when you break something. Who hasn’t been at a party where a glass was broken? If you haven’t, then you haven’t been to a party. And I’ve been that person who has shattered glass when I certainly did not mean to (who means to?) You do your best to immediately apologize and …
Seguir leyendo Worker leaves his phone on the back of a work truck, blames coworker for driving away and breaking it and wants him to pay half: ‘He left his phone in a stupid place’

‘Oh boy, you should have probably left it’: 8-month pregnant woman is forced to use broken driveway gate that she shares with her in-laws, her father discovers the gate and fixes it to help daughter, her elderly father-in-law claims that it wasn’t broken

Have we perhaps not thought about this as deeply as we should have?  We’ve always known that there must be some sort of unspoken competition between mother-in-laws. Who makes the better chicken soup? Who gives the best grandma cuddles? But we didn’t think about whether this type of rivalry exists between father-in-laws too, until today! …
Seguir leyendo ‘Oh boy, you should have probably left it’: 8-month pregnant woman is forced to use broken driveway gate that she shares with her in-laws, her father discovers the gate and fixes it to help daughter, her elderly father-in-law claims that it wasn’t broken

‘Your lack of finances is not our concern’: Dinner party guest breaks trinket bowl, refuses to replace it when hosts demand $1200 payment

There are few more embarrassing yet common social faux pas than accidentally breaking something that somebody else owns. Even when the event was pretty much unavoidable, it is hard not to feel careless and dumb as you take responsibility for ruining the property of a friend or acquaintance.  What makes this event even more stressful, …
Seguir leyendo ‘Your lack of finances is not our concern’: Dinner party guest breaks trinket bowl, refuses to replace it when hosts demand $1200 payment

Grandpa refuses to let daughter replace the vase her 2-year-old son broke, constantly complains about it for months on end: ‘He had the right to complain that my son had damaged his property’

Mistakes happen, especially when kids are involved. One time, I was over at a neighbor’s house when one of the other neighbor boys broke the 2006 flat-screen TV, and it was a doozy. When I was a kid, I accidentally flooded the house because I left the bathroom before checking if the toilet had flushed …
Seguir leyendo Grandpa refuses to let daughter replace the vase her 2-year-old son broke, constantly complains about it for months on end: ‘He had the right to complain that my son had damaged his property’

Dad causes controversy asking about ‘appropriate punishment’ for 8-year-old who cracked a 75 inch TV screen: ‘Praise him for reducing family screen time’

Becoming a parent opens up a lifetime’s worth of difficult decisions, and when you’re raising your kids a lot of these relate to behavior management. It’s inevitable that children are going to act up at times, or even most of the time. How you respond to that can impact them massively. This is part of …
Seguir leyendo Dad causes controversy asking about ‘appropriate punishment’ for 8-year-old who cracked a 75 inch TV screen: ‘Praise him for reducing family screen time’

23-year-old uncle smashes his brothers phone after her refuses to pay for the TV his 12-year-old son broke: ‘My mom said it was an accident, my dad said I could just replace it myself’

Back in the day, breaking a TV was a huge deal. I will never forget the night all the families on our cul-de-sac went to a party, and my neighbor Nile broke our other neighbor’s giant flat-screen TV. Nile was about eight and broke the TV screen by throwing a toy at it. This was …
Seguir leyendo 23-year-old uncle smashes his brothers phone after her refuses to pay for the TV his 12-year-old son broke: ‘My mom said it was an accident, my dad said I could just replace it myself’