Yeeeeaaaah.... no.

[flyboy_fox]

Wow, my dad's an ass.

So I guess it's well known that my dad is 81 years old, Colombian, penniless and full of crap. He likes to think that he's a big-shot businessman just because he flies first class, met Princess Anne, and has his photo in an issue of Time magazine. He's a middleman who works in deals to do with yachts, satellites and nanotubes. Basically, he married my mum while still legally married to his first wife (she didn't know), has never been around for my family or paid a penny to help us, and has completely backwards thinking where because he's 'the father', he still gets some say in our lives. Oh, and he used to try to drag me to meet rich sons of aristocrats in the hopes that I'd marry them. For serious. Wttttffffff.

Anyway! He's currently living in a council flat in Sutton and he's been calling me almost every night lately. Today's call basically went like this:

Dad: Have you spoken to your mother lately? I'm very worried about her. She's working too hard.
Me: Yeah, she works hard, dad. She has to support her family.
Dad: Yes, but I don't like it. It's making her ill.
Me: I know... she works too hard. But she has to because she's the only one working and making money.
Dad: I don't want to call and bother her but do you call her? She works too hard.
Me: Yeah. She works that hard because YOU never gave her a penny.
Dad: I know. But still, I don't like that.

Bad enough until I called my mum up afterwards and found out that she's JUST given him £500 because he called her and said he was broke. GFGFFGHFFHJGKHGJHFHGFH WHAT THE BLAZES ARGHHHH. How can you call me up and say my mum works too hard when YOU ARE BEGGING MONEY OFF HER ALL THE FREAKING TIME?! Seriously. What the FUCK.

I just... I dunno. Just when I think it might stop, he carries right on, leeching off my mum, my brother and me, pretending he gives a damn, then spending any little cash he gets on expensive wines, cheeses and coffees. FFFFFF.

Jei's getting home soon with vodka, lemonade and pizza (diet? pah, what diet?), so yeah. HAPPY DAYS.

Comments

[shadowdingo.livejournal.com]

...

I have no words.

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

*Hugs*

[shadowdingo.livejournal.com]

*gladly accepts hug*

I know he's your father and all, but, really, people like that annoy me so much.

I suppose it's nice to see your mum's kind enough to do things like that, but if he's just doing this "begging for money thing" and going on about how she works too hard... *facepalm*.

As we would ask in Wales: Ble mae rhesymeg?

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

Where is the logic, indeed? ^^; I will never understand him (or Welsh, but that's where online translators come in VERY handy XD)

[helen-hedgey.livejournal.com]

sorry to hear that honey =(

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

S'okay *hugs*

[violettsukino.livejournal.com]

My apologies if this sounds like something out of line to say about a member of your family, but your father seems to, well...have his head in the clouds, so to speak.

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

That's putting it rather mildly.

[violettsukino.livejournal.com]

I guess he's kinda living on a different planet than most people.^^;;