r/Bestof My Sister is a Nutjob
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Welcome to R slash Best of Redditor updates, where OP Sister is a real piece of work. Our next Reddit post is from R slash Relationships. My mother and father have been married for 39 years. They're amazing and supportive of all their children. I'm the eldest at 35. My brother Ian is 32. My sister Ashley is 29. When I was 19, my grandmother passed away and left her house to my father. Who never planned to return because of past trauma. I was given the house. Legally, it's my house and my name, with the agreement that I continue paying the mortgage and utility on my own. I've since finished paying it off and began remodeling. Around the time I was 24, my brother Ian moved in for a year to be closer to his job.
During this time, he paid rent and bought food and house supplies. It was a great year of bonding for us. He eventually moved out to be with his girlfriend, now wife. So now I'm 35 living in this house alone, and I get home one day to find Ashley unpacking in the extra room saying she's moving in. I got no notice of this. I talked to my parents about this, and they said it's temporary while she's at college. This flustered me because she's always been very anti college. College, and preaches that you don't need a degree to get a job, that it just puts you more in debt, blah blah blah. I tell them that I'm uncomfortable with this, and they just brush it off saying, Ian stayed, it'd be rude not to help your sister.
The difference is that Ian is a sweetheart and Ashley is a Sourpatch. But my parents agree to pay Ashley's rent and assure me it'll only be a year, and I Try to let it go. The issue started literally the next day, because despite my house being closer to her school, it's still too far for her and she doesn't have bus fare. So she demanded I take her to school. After her whining, I gave in and did it, only to find out it's fashion school. My parents gave me the impression that she was doing something to turn her life around and find a career. I have nothing against the fashion industry, but it isn't a stable path for an unemployed, nearly 30-year-old woman. The first month goes by and it's bill time. I lay it out.
I didn't include the remodeling fees because I didn't think it was fair to charge her for it. And she flips out and starts screaming and crying, How dare I ask for money! And then calls. Our parents and throws the phone at me and walks away. My parents explain that they can't afford to pay for both her college and her rent, and that she's my sister and I should let it go.
How does the narrator discover his sister Ashley moving into his house?
Not only is she living in my house, but she's eating my food, she can't buy her own, and wasting my gas for this BS class. Our parents are now giving me 200 bucks a month to cover gas. I know I must come off as a bad person trashing my sister's career path, but I feel like she doesn't have a future in this, and her grades reflect it. She's incredibly negative and rude to anyone who attempts to help her. This includes her former teacher who had her transferred to a different class after an incident that she won't tell me about. She's also incredibly racist and homophobic. There are many black gay men in her school who, in her words, are untalented and only there because they're ethnic and gay.
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