Times are hard!
Money is always a problem, then there's work, house maintenance, etc., etc..
The list is endless.
And then there's the 22 year old step daughter that insists an acting like a petulant 6 year old ALL THE TIME!
You have to wonder where you went wrong ... and if you are the only ones that suffers this way.
It's sad that a divide has opened up between the family generations and it is also so very annoying!
From the small things ... leaving empty milk or margarine cartons in the fridge ... to the bigger things ... staying out for days at a time without telling anyone where she is ... it is causing a massive amount of tension in the family home.
There is no obvious solution when the person you are at odds with just doesn't give a shit!
We just have to say 'hello' to be barked at. Each and every conversation is perceived as a vicious attack on our part ... and the best form of defence in her book is attack! Which she does at the drop off a hat.
If you ask what the problem is, it's us ... always banging on about something or other. But, even in the same house, we never see her to say anything anyway.
She won't get out of bed before 3pm, she bakes and cooks in the middle of the night (sometimes forgetting half way through what's she doing) and cannot do ANYTHING quietly, even when she know we both have to up for work at 6am!
Now, the solution might seem obvious to others, but not to us.
I've tried buying a gun, but they wouldn't let me have one!
And short of burying her head first in a deep hole in the garden, I don't know what else we can try ... Except chucking her out!
OK!
That was a mild mannered rant. Rest assured the real nasty rant isn't far off!
{Thinks: perhaps we could move out while she's at work?}
