Hey fluff, u/whipssolo here. To make matters worse the BODIES were laying jn the road about 30 yards past my truck under sheets between a bus and the forensics van. Even if I could some how move there was absolutely no f'ing way anyone is driving through there.
@@DarkFluff I've held on to that one for almost 5 years as I had a LOT of therapy to go through afterward. By far the worst scene I've ever seen in 15 years on the job.
Story 2: Putting something back on the shelves means that it ain't yours anymore. If you wanted something, and you grab it, don't put it back. Also, there are cameras everywhere, so good luck.
What are the chances she saw the LAST toy on the shelf and decided to walk away without putting it in her cart? That was clearly manipulative bullshit. When OP didn't fall for it Karen ramped up the entitlement.
Either hold it in your hands or put it in your basket/cart, as long as it's on the shelves, there's *NO* "reservation". "I touched it 10 minutes ago, so it's still mine" - Karen logic.
exactly. i never put something down unless I change my mind and dont want it. once you put it down and leave.......its fair game. plus she knew it would be a hard find....most who put it down to do something would hide it. my guess....op got to it first....and she said she put it down
One of my aunts worked at Walmart. Whenever a new game system or hot toy came out, people would to come to the store to buy as much as they can. They would sell them online for a greater price. The store later had one per customer restriction and people would bring kids to the store, each wanting their own. One woman brought a baby in a stroller and she claimed that the baby wanted an Xbox too. Whenever a new hot wheel came out, there were people who would buy all the new models and sell them online. My aunt knew hot wheel collectors wanted the cars in pristine packaging., so she would bend some of the cardboard packing. This way the kids had a chance of buying the new car, because kids didn’t keep them in the packaging.
I worked in a big red box mart and someone had purchased a few popular toys. The employee that sold in the break room mentioned probably just selling them but later that day I saw them in the doctors toys for tots bin and they said a lady dropped them off that morning. So a bit of faith in humanity restored.
@@janel.8921 My mom was in there on a Black Friday and the associates just basically started to pass them off pallets to people passing by my mom was like WTF and just turned and handed it a lady that was looking sadly at the console so she just handed it to her. It apparently made that lady's day.
If it was me as soon as she stepped in front of me and reaches into my cart she'll get away from me real quick after getting busted in the mouth with brass knucks and she'd be layed out unconscious with a shattered jaw
My sister is a first responder. She encounters people like the lady from the last story all the time. Some people just don't understand that roads close sometimes, and that's just how life is! Just because your house is right there, doesn't mean that I can just magically clean up this accident scene for you.
Comic book story reminds me of my mom. We (brothers and I) had several comic books, including some Disney books. My mom decided that since we boys were older and didn’t read them anymore, that they were trash. My oldest brother explained, or tried to, that they were collectables and were/are actually valuable. Mom, of course, didn’t believe that and tossed them out. Fast forward a few months and one of her friends inquired if we still had all those vintage comics as her husband was interested in buying them. My mom asked why her husband would want to buy “worthless comics”. Should have seen her face when her friend explained how much those comics were worth.
As a teenager, I owned the original three-booklet D&D rules. In my late twenties I found them in the back of a cupboard and threw them out. A couple of weeks later, I learned what they were worth as collectables.
Yeah, I bet that the mother probably had the what are they done thought running through her skull, but the problem is with other entitled parents that would be like that, sometimes they think that all Comics no matter how valuable they are, no matter how old they are, they’re all worthless because of the simple fact they don’t like them and that is the Karen mentality when it comes to stuff that kids like is that, Kids like it I don’t like it I need to be rid of it because of reasons I have in my head. I know it really doesn’t make sense but sometimes when it comes to stuff like that when they have a reason to hate some thing that doesn’t fit their criteria, they go hard-core hate on it. I bet that it was a laughable moment also when finding out that Comic Store wore some thing that the mother would probably be on her knees thinking, oh man I made a big mistake.
Story 2: It's good that OP kept that Toy away from Karen because I think that if OP tried to buy it off of Karen she would've either not done it or demand 10 times the price, either way it's better to make sure that this Demon doesn't get what she wants
Also, what the hell is wrong with being a nerd?! It was a nerd who invented the light bulb, the first car, it's nerds who do medical and dental care, and it's nerds who invented the most powerful atomic and nuclear weapons. Knowledge is power, Karen. Something that you lost over comics.
Yeah, I'm turning 60 this year, and when my younger colleagues call me a geek or a nerd, I consider it a high compliment. She used the word like it was a bad thing.
also those comics are more often than not an investment if they are taken care of so shes literally saying" don't do things you enjoy that if you decide you dont want anymore will become increasingly more valuble"
"Nerds" are responsible for every technological advancement humans have ever made. The people _not_ responsible were out in a field somewhere, all dressed similarly, running into each other, and fighting over balls.
Story 4: If there is an accident and a roadblock, there is an accident and a roadblock. Try to get in the way of the people handling the accident and you WILL be charged for interfering with investigation
I will admit, the cops were partially at fault for crazy getting past the block since they didn't account for side roads/hidden driveways when creating it. Creating a second blockage and sending residents towards the one on the main road away from the scene would solve that problem.
@@marjoriejohnston4905 Stupid is determined tho, and no blockade is fool proof. I have no doubt Karen probably did an end run around the cops blockade because her inconvenience was of the utmost importance. Because, Karen. When I'm arranging a roadblock for a street cleanup, I need people actually in the vehicles to keep the idiots out of the danger zone. Like, they see everyone else pulling a u and doubling back, but somehow they think they will get thru and try to dodge around my blockade vehicles. Meanwhile, you can see my big equipment at work, moving downed trees or huge mountains of snow and ice, but still think they're going to zip thru my work zone. Um, no.
As someone who has started their first year of college op is completely in the right. Faith tree r and wife are entitled. Op has $10,000 set for both of his kids and now the daughter is trying to get more because she decides to go to a prestigious school. My mother had a set aside of money for me and my other siblings. I got to into a great engineering college an I know I have a bit of loans I’m gonna end up paying for at the end. Op can do whatever they want with their money.
I paid for all of my college education because my Parents couldn't afford to help me. In my last yr in HS, they were nice enough to forgo 'the house money' which I gave them from my full-time job's paycheck, that way I wouldn't have to work while taking 5 college classes/term. At the end of 10 months, I had not only put away 'the house money', but I also matched it penny for penny, & that was $3000. The rest of my college costs were paid by my personal loans, scholarships, & grants. That was in 1976. If I went to the same out-of-state school today, it would cost $61,050/year. OP's daughter needs to grow up.
@@janel.8921 her bill, not his. she knew there were less expensive options and chose to not take them.a good lesson in learning to not spend someone elses money
Stupid people gonna stupid. And judging by how Karens always double down on their lies and initial assumptions, they must have some kind of mental deficiency that actively prevents them from learning new things. Keep throwing them in prison. It's all that can be done in a civilized society.
@@imofage3947 You are right next to two things I say all of the time: "stupid are people" and the correct term isn't Karen, its "mentally deficient cow".
@@johnrussell5592 I'll give you "mentally deficient", but cow is a bit too gender specific for my liking. There are plenty of male Karens out there. The world seems to be split on what the male form is. I think I've heard "Dick", "Ken", and "Kevin".
As a nerd that grew up in the 80's and early 90's, I'm so glad my mother didn't care about my comic book collecting. She drove me to the comic book store every week on new comic book day for YEARS until I was old enough to drive myself. I can't imagine what would possess anyone to think comics are so terrible. I still read comics now, my kids read comics, it's just stories with pictures ffs.
My nephew started collecting comics since he was a teenager. He is now 43 years old and he still collects them. He also goes to the ComicCons when he can. 😊😊
IKR? As an AFAB 1990-born weeb I am so glad my mom let me have my love of video games, anime and manga. My family was a bunch of non-diagnosed neurodivergent outcasts. Makes me glad we were the resident town "freaks".
First story, if he helped pay off her loans, she'd still owe that money - to him. With her attitude it's unlikely that she would ever pay it back. The fact that she was able to get in to Dartmouth says that he has been supporting her her entire life. The guy mentions that he'd never had a vacation. He's been sacrificing for his kids for at least 22 years, that's plenty. The old man has earned his vacation!
Son worked harder and got in with a scholarship. That's what made HIS educational debt so low. I'd have put that back into the daughter's court. Also how an adult spends their money is not a child's business, unless they're starving and walking around in rags. Which Miss Dartmouth isn't, if Mother Dearest can spend so much on plastic surgery.
The comic story. Man that lady. I would've sat there and taken something of hers saying "I don't want this stupid crap in my place." That or tell her if she pulls anything like that again. Then divorce is coming.
That kid is a gem knows how to keep track of idems of importance remember if you ever think you might have people around you who are toxic Wright down every code on they things you own that are important so if something comes up missing and you happen to find it again you know the codes and can prove it belongs to you
The comic book Karen is so stupid. My mum and I bought my brothers comic books so that they could start to read English and improve their English. We are South African and Afrikaans speaking and Mum believed that reading improves vocabulary. And also my brothers were very lazy to read. I of course first read the comics before I would give it to them.
Karen must be a byproduct of the 80's where anything Sci-fi, superheroes, and/or comics is Nerdy-and to people like her, nerdy still isn't in yet! She needs to join the 2020's!
The comic story is incredible. I love to read -- everything. Since my teens I usually read between 200 and 300 novels each year in every possible genre. My parents encouraged me and my siblings to read whatever we wanted, even buying comic books each shopping trip. They obviously didn't harm my reading abilityor habits. I can't imagine considering them harmful or trash. They are just entertainment and encourage imagination and creativity. The mother in this story may not like them herself, but they're not hurting her. Censoring someone else's choices like that is just pure batsh-- crazy behavior.
I started out in community college. I didnt get loans since I screwed my credit with applying for 10 credit cards the day I turned 18 (nobody said 'dont do this...') , didnt qualify for grants because mom made too much driving buses for the city but not enough to properly pay my tuition. I gave up on school. That daughter could have had a full ride through community college and transfer etc, and definitely will be making enough money in her check to pay off that debt. Plus with the current pandemic crap, student loan debt might just be going away anyway. TAKE THAT VACATION! (and tell daughter to spend her 50 randomly on lottery tickets if she wants that same chance, and then its HER money and she can do whatever she wants with it)
they feel their acrilic nails are a superpower, it would be idly satisfying to have them do that and be able to tear one away from the real nail. thats the worst pain they can feel and it can be called an accident
With the comic story, I think the worst part is that she didn't think comics were harmful, she just thought they were for nerds and didn't want her son to be a nerd
My mother was a paramedic for 10 years and she heard the final story as I was listening to it while doing dishes. I asked her about it and while she personally never really got Karens as bystanders she had a issues with journalists literally telling them to move so they could take better pictures...
The dad gave both kids the same amount of money for college. How the kids use it is up to them. If they can stay within budget, so much the better. If they choose to blow past the budget, the balance is on them. If the son decided to become a doctor, would the parents have to foot the entire bill?
@@TheWeepingDalek, someone has to pay. You pay that with a high tax rate. I was perfectly happy to pay with loans, grants and a small gift from my stepdad. Otherwise, I would be paying for other people, and I just don't have faith in them making choices as good as I did.
@@bcaye i also get paid and a higher wage. Just saying. Less homeless, people aren't relying on food banks. Health care that is free and easily accessible, a prison system that actually works to rehabilitate people into society. Norway. Such a terrible place to live?
@@TheWeepingDalek yea your agrument fails since Norway has a population about 5.5 million people and the USA has a population of 330 million people. Plus, our tax dollars are being misused every year. So no, your agrument about how great Norway is with free education and free healthcare while barely keeping the money you earned and being forced to give the money you earned to the government who owns you. Sorry but no
Daughter is entitled to forfeiting the ten thousand he was offering her... her attitude and nasty vibes breached the normal rules of decency in this situation. I would tell her that since she felt entitled to a say in ANY of my money, she can damn well get along without any of it... and I would probably need it for the divorce anyway...
These Karen stories always make me wonder how horrible it must’ve been when there were no cameras and Karen’s could just get away with this shit left n right
A friend of mine once told me a story about when he was in school. He had a teacher who hated comic books believing them to be a bad thing as it discouraged students from reading "real" books. She knew that my friend spent a lot of time in the library and one day when she was teaching about the various parts of the earth's atmosphere she asked if anyone could name the parts and my friend's hand went up. He then recited the various parts. The teacher then asked him (knowing he spent a lot of time in the library) where he had learned the parts of the atmosphere thinking he was likely to say he saw it in a book in the library. To her shock, he said I saw it in a superman comic book where it showed superman flying through the various parts. I recall seeing at least one superman comic which did that so I never questioned the story. What some people fail to see is that comic books can encourage people to read and that can end up with them actually looking for books on subjects which catch they attention. I know that there have been times when reading a book by one author has made me decide to read others by a different author.
that story with the comic books, as a collector i felt my blood pressure rise when i was reading that, only my parents had more respect for my collection.
You know a great thing to do when you've got a house full of two women giving you the stink eye. A 6 week trip to another country. I mean, the state of education financing in this country is a shame. But this is a once in a lifetime windfall, I can pass no judgement on this man for having a once in a lifetime experience from it.
I think a lot of people are failing to realize if story 1 op would’ve done this then the son would have been pissed cause he played by the rules and then his sister no longer has to
not neccessarily. My brother went to a much cheaper college than I did, and our parents paid for both of our colleges in full. He's never complained that I got more than him and is just grateful to not be in debt, as am I.
@@unclebozo9845 Thats nice, but in this story both kids knew the rules from the start. If she went to community college she would not have a debt either. But she wanted the prestige, and with prestige comes debt.
@@Ormathon The stupid thing is that the main thing that counts on you resume is the university you graduated from. If she went to community college for her general ed and then finished at Dartmouth it would carry the same prestige unless a prospective employer went over her transcripts with a fine tooth comb. Maybe she didn't want to tell her new friends at Dartmouth that she hadn't been there as a fresher or sophomore.
@@Ormathon and lets not forget the son got a scholarship those arent just handed out, meaning he worked hard to get it if the daughter was soooo worried about debt then she could have worked harder to apply for even a partial scholarship
Story 1: Both kids got the same amount and are lucky that they got that, it is not OP's fault that his daughter decided to go to a university that was more expensive, so any debt past the 10k is on her, just like if her brother didn't get the scholarship that he got then any extra debts would be on him. And why didn't the kids get jobs and save money themselves to go to college/university? or wait a few years so they can work, make money, and then be able to go with a lot less debt? Also, I find that people care more when they are the ones on the hook for all that money then the people who get fully funded and will have little to no debt after graduating. Story 2: Good on OP for having Karen charged. Never feel bad for a Karen no matter what as they NEED to learn a hard lesson many times before their 1/2 brain cell can process the possibility that they may have possibly been potentially not right about a detail or two, and then after about 30 times of this they might learn to stop kicking the bear in the balls. Story 3: Good on OP for not selling the comics Story 4,: Karen got off way too easy. Should have had her go to jail Friday mornings and not get let out until early Monday morning.
If she was actually intelligent, she would have started at a cc and transferred. OP should have told her it is an "a~h tax". But she went to Dartmouth!! haha!
2nd story reminds me of the Cabbage Patch doll craze in the 80s, when people had to be put on a waiting list to purchase a doll. People were seriously nuts back then.
On the first story, I paid both my BS and MBA with my Army GI bill. Both of my kids joined the military and both have the GI bill, if they want free college, I suggest to join the military and his daughter will get a good vocational training and the GI Bill which is about $81,000.
Yeah... I do think so, but irl, children are lowkey entitled esp with parents money... Guilty of this part.. 🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️. so, I am split on this... cause, esp. in my country, if your children still needed help, you need to help them.. But more leaning of the part the daughter is entitled yeah, tbh... bad decision making in her part and she has to face the consequences of her decision.. Cause it is not like the father neglected her. She and her brother are given the same amount to pay off student loan, that is enough. like 10,000 dollars is already a good amount of money for helping out...
@@yachishairclips2250 That's really what it comes down to: treating both kids fairly. If anyone wants to argue OP should've spent the money on her, the only remotely fair thing would've been to split it in half and give them each one piece, but note that the daughter never made that argument. In fact she pretty much made the opposite argument, that it's somehow unfair for them both to get the same amount of money. She clearly expected to get it all for herself, her brother be damned.
I did my first two years of college at a community college. You need to select classes that transfer to your second college. It saved me a ton of money.
@@janel.8921 my husband did that too and finished his degree at a state university. I went to a state university all 4 years and for graduate school. My brother went to state university for undergrad but private for law. Ended up with a loan bill 5x that of mine. I’ll be telling my kids unless you get a full ride scholarship or get into Ivy League just stick to state university, within our residing state. Saves A LOT of money. Plus you qualify for more financial aid grants.
Some have considered community colleges lesser institutions of education. I remember a storyline on Roseanne, where Becky is hoping to go a college of the fine arts. It was too expensive for her parents to afford. They suggest (gasp!) a community college. Becky is horrified, so she marries her boyfriend. Jay Leno made cracks on his show once.
First story - daughter is entitled. She chose to go to the expensive school, and that is on her. Father won the money, and I wouldn't blame him for using it all on himself.
Only 30k in debt from a school like that, she must have some scholarships too, I was 36k in debt going to a State University's Satellite Campus some 10 years ago.
even worse she feels like she deserves "the bank of dad scholarship" since her brother got a scholarship so HIS $10k was enough so clearly she deserves the same "scholarship"
@@rankothefiremage I’m thinking that is the brother who broke his back getting scholarships. Maybe entitled daughter should have done the same thing but was probably too lazy. But who knows?
Plus, as Fluff pointed out, a Dartmouth degree is going to give her big opportunities to earn enough money to pay off here student loans and still live well.
@@condorboss3339 If she went there for a real degree. Even prestigious schools have 'easy A' degrees that leave you qualified for teaching the courses you took to get it and nothing else. A lot of kids from my generation were feed "college = high paying job" without the qualifier that you need to get a degree that has market value so they took such worthless diplomas because the classes were easy.
Story 3 broke my heart..... Proud mom of kids who love the "nerd stuff" I don't understand why anyone would be upset if the kid is READING!! Good education starts with reading
Thank God for cameras in stores. Lying women who do such evil, despicable things like lying about assaults deserve prison sentences and scarlet letter of shame. It's disgusting how quickly people believe women's crocodile tears and blatant lies. It's foul
My parents told my sister and I that they would pay 50% of our college costs per year. I got really good scholarships and those scholarships covered about 48% of the costs, so my parents just did the extra 2 and covered 52%, which came out to about 10,000/year. They told my sister they would do the same 10,000/year for her as well. She went to the same college as me, but didn’t get as good of scholarships, and was angry with my parents that they wouldn’t give her more since I didn’t owe anything, but she would have to take out loans. Our mom told her that she could just pay all of it if she didn’t like what was offered, but that giving us the same amount was the only fair option, and that she should apply for other kinds of scholarships if she wanted to reduce her total. My sister came to understand that she was in the wrong, she was just upset at finding out how much she would owe.
Re:story 3, my youngest daughter had a hard time in school due to a traumatic birth and was on an IEP to help her through her classes. At the beginning of 7th grade she was reading at a 4th or 5th grade level but discovered she loved manga. Her literature teacher at the time told her she wasn't allowed to read any of that because they weren't "real books" and hoo boy did I go off! I told him that she was *reading* and even more she was *enjoying it* and what gave him the right to ever discourage a child from reading anything that would get them to actually read. I bought her whatever mangas she wanted (within reason, of course) and by the end of her 7th grade year she was reading at close to her grade level - all because she discovered how much fun reading is. Comics, graphic novels, manga, if a child is reading, LET THEM READ!
How do these morons forget about cameras. I work in law enforcement and going back 30 years when I started in Loss Prevention there were cameras everywhere and now even more. I used to love going to court and shop lifting suspects who plead not guilty would look so shocked when we played the camera footage. Wonderful.
First story. My question is if op is going alone on his vacation or with his wife? Yes it's his money but it sounds like he's going alone. If I were her I'd be more upset my SO is planning a 1.5 month vacation without me in another country than him not paying off his daughters college.
Story 1, NTA. The daughter and wife are super entitled. Op is completely in the right. The daughter is very greedy and the wife is no better. Married or not it's HIS money not theirs, he can use it as he wishes, he was nice to put 10k for both his kids for college. The daughter is just griping over the debt that she could have avoided if she went to community college as her dad said, so it's NOT up to him to pay her debt that's on her. If they don't like that then they are tough out of luck.
once you put something back on the shelf and walk away (regardless of reason)....its fair game. she mightve had to leave store for a moment or use bathroom. then you hide it or something. likely op got to it first and she basically played the "I called dibs" card
My parents stole rare books from me, forced me to sell others, and then got upset some years later when I told them if they didn't repay me for that and the educational grant money they stole, I was walking away. So this added to being treated like crap by my parents and siblings I walked away and have never looked back.
Also my husband had a comic store for almost 30 years and every year on Free Comic Book Day you WOULDNT believe the Karen’s and Karl’s that came out of the woodwork. From them asking for extra books, thinking that EVERYTHING in the store was free to them calling the cops on cosplayers..sheesh
Story 3 reminds me of the time my mom burned my NES and all the games in the back yard. I mean yeah, I brought home a report card that wasn't great because I really didn't care about school, but I always thought burning my stuff was way over the top. That and other events from my parents eventually convinced me to never, *ever* start a family.
For the first story, OP is teaching his daughter to be an adult. Majority of students aren’t even as lucky to have parents help them pay off their student debt, so I would be greatful to at least have that amount of money instead of complaining cause you are minimizing the amount of years left to pay it off.
To be honest it sounds like all of them are horrible at managing money. The only smart thing op did was put some of the money into saving. You can splurge on yourself without being wasteful.
If he gives more money to the daughter, he'll have to give more to his son too, and then the daughter will feel entitled to demand more, and this will snowball out of control. I'm totally with OP here: he gave them the same amount of money, so his "job" is done.
not neccessarily. My brother went to a much cheaper college than I did, and our parents paid for both of our colleges in full. He's never complained that I got more than him and is just grateful to not be in debt, as am I.
@@unclebozo9845, That was you & your brother… This entitled little _____ would take her father’s every last cent and then some. We have no idea if the son is entitled also. If he is he would want the difference in what he didn’t receive. It sounds like a very materialistic family except the Dad (& possibly the son since he did work for a scholarship). She could have tried for scholarships and gone to a community college and transferred so it wouldn’t have cost anywhere near as much but she chose not to. She could have gone to a state college or university but she chose not to. She needs to live with her decisions. She’s known since she was younger that she would receive $10,000 for college like her brother (that’s luckier than most). If she gave her more it would be only fair to give her brother more. If OP hasn’t had a vacation in years & years he’s overdue and doesn’t owe his unappreciative entitled daughter anymore than he originally promised her. She made her bed now she has to lie in it… plus being in a “prestigious” school should give her better chances if she has a reasonable degree with good grades.
you say that like she wanted it for something stupid like a new purse or a expensive car. the kid got into an Ivy League school. that alone is an achievement. if my kid got into Dartmouth. equal opportunity not equal distribution.
In the first story it really depends on if (1) the husband purchased the ticket with communal money and (2) the income from lottery winnings is considered communal property. If the answer to both is no, then it is all his and he can do whatever he wants with it. If the answer to either is yes then 50% of that money is his wife's so not only is the $7k car payment not a gift, but he owes her another $10k. And the wife could give her $10k to the daughter if she wants. In no case is the husband's share of the money (whether that is 50% or 100%) owed to the entitled daughter, though.
wow, your editor is legit the best. I bet you'd be sooooo lost without him. Words can't express how important he is to the channel and community. Thanks Stevo, you are poggers and pogchamp as the kids say
The 6 people in the car were all drunk and under 21, not wearing seat belts (except the drunk driver.) He was charged with 5 counts of 2nd degree murder. -story 4 OP
THE FATHER IS RIGHT TO OFFER THE DAUGHTER THE SAME AMOUNT AS HE GAVE. THE DAUGHTER HAS NO RIGHT TO DEMAND MORE . THE FATHER DESERVES A VACATION AFTER A LOT OF HARD WORK +EFFORT IN MANY WAYS.
i get where the daughter and mom were coming from. but op did offer her help. with the same ammount he gave the son $10,000 which would help a lot. Better to have something then nothing. if OP gave in.....how'd that be fair for son? he could use money for a car....or a down payment on a house.
The daughter is entitled. If it is YOUR student debt, pay it off to the best of your ability and then get help, but don't expect someone to pay off the entire thing for you.
That first story... I absolutely _love_ that the Karen 'race' has security camera systems as their Kryptonite. Very fortunate for the rest of us! It never ceases to amaze how far they'll go to (try to) get their way. Have a felony warrant and insisting the police be called? Yeah. Guess what the tow guy said on that last one is true. Two brain cells competing for third place. Oh, so true... Thanks for the stories. I like this channel best for how you read these and having the best quality text. (Spelling and grammar. Some are pretty rough!) Please keep up the good work! Stu the batty
A degree from Dartmouth and only a $29k in debt? She should have ZERO difficulty paying off that debt and if she’s smart with her money and with the right degree then it won’t take a year.
Story#1: The rest of us peasants, have to pay off our own student debt. She can get off her @$$ and do the same. She chose Dartmouth knowing full well how expensive that school was. And she should have worked on scholarships if she was that dire to get in.
one saying my boss, a dentist told be once when I was working there. it is not where you go but who you are that will help you get a job and establish a good life. if you are an entitled jackass than you will not be successful. as i look today, the only entitled jackasses with no brains or character may be able to take people for a worthless ride are the people in congress. some of them seem like they are and were entitled Karens
More like, I suffered and she should be grateful that she doesn’t have to suffer to the extent that I did, even though she made bad decisions. we all have to deal with the consequences of our actions, good or bad, and it is not the parents job to bail their kid out of a situation that she entered in when she understood all of the consequences and was warned about the cost. She’s an adult. She made her choice. He already helped out to an extent that most people don’t get and yet she wants more? If my dad came into money, even with me currently going to college, I would tell him get out and enjoy himself because he’s worked so hard for me his whole life. Othe fact that she doesn’t feel that way says a lot about her, I think
Student Debt Story: Both Daughter and Wife are being EXTREMELY Entitled. OP has already helped both Son and Daughter with $10,000.00 for their Education AND he made several suggestions for how Daughter can get an Education without saddling herself with a small mountain of Debt. She could easily have done what her Brother did and apply for a Scholarship/Grant to help pay for College as well as go to Community College which would not cost nearly as much as Prestigious Dartmouth College does... SHE chose to go to the more expensive School and she (apparently, it's not mentioned in the story) chose to not apply for Scholarships/Grants that would have helped pay the Tuition Costs therefore, SHE is solely responsible for her Student Debt load once she Graduates. OP will give her that $10K towards paying the Debt off, but the rest is up to her. Now as Darkfluff did mention, a Degree from Dartmouth should help her land a Good or even Great paying Job and that along with some careful Financial Planning/Budgeting on her part should take care of a $29,000.00 Student Debt in 2-3 years while still letting her get a decent car and a modest Rental Unit while saving up for a better car and/or home etc. The fact that Daughter went behind OP's back to the wife and the wife didn't smack her down for it show both are EXTREMELY Entitled and if I were OP, I'd start taking a VERY close look at both my Marriage AND Wife's behaviour/Personality and ask myself: "Do I REALLY want to continue living with 2 women that have this little Respect for me?" The only slight problem OP might run into with how he plans on using the Winnings is he was Married when he won the money, thus it might Legally be Marital Money and Wife could be Legally entitled to half. In which case, OP might not be able to go on quite as long a Vacation as he'd like to, though the money he put into Wife's car would come out of HER half of the Winnings, what's left of her half is then hers to do with as she wants, including, help Daughter pay down her Student Debt, though I can see Son getting Pissed if his Sister gets more money than he does for School...
First story:the father IS thinking about his family. Just because he isn’t thinking about one child more than the other doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about his family
I gotta agree. _Maybe_ a bit "selfish" about it being his money, but he did win it from a birthday gift to himself. I'd guess that _he_ earned that $50 he spent on the lottery tickets, too. _Maybe_ his daughter should consider using that "prestigious Dartmouth degree" to get a job that'll help pay off the $29,000 debt that she incurred by choosing Dartmouth. I have no idea how Dartmouth handles scholarships.
Damn, I am so happy that kid had a very supportive father. Thank God! My mom would do the same to me. She's taken my figures and books and donated them because "those are for boys" she also burned some of my things or threw them away. My dad sometimes supported me, but he most of the time stayed out of it. My mom is very manipulative and good at gaslighting. I ended up moving out, but that was many years later. To have a dad who didn't get easily manipulated or a mom who isn't manipulative enough is very fortunate for that kid. The father even took the child away from her so he was well supported.
In the first story the daughter and the wife are totally out of line. It's his money; he won it, and if we go by the fact that his wife spend her entire $5,000 inheritance on plastic surgery (probably more, very few procedures cost that little these days) renders her unentitled to an opinion. The daughter sounds like a real brat. No parent owes an education to his child. My own parents gave me what they could, but mostly I was responsible for it and paid off the loans myself.
@@IreneZGoodman this totally depends on how THEY deal with any other financial things and/or what the laws are where they live. If the money used to purchase the tickets was his, she's not entitled to the money at all.
@@IreneZGoodman Exactly. If she had won the money would she be disciplined enough to share with the family or would she try to hoard it because it was her ticket? Any windfall in a combined finance situation means it goes in the pot, with some set aside for the winner.
@@IreneZGoodman that actually all depends on their financial plan. He said it’s his money so they most likely have separate finances. Also you don’t share everything just because you’re married. Also he did share it. He had 34,000 remaining and used 7,500 of it to put into his wife’s car and put the rest into a bank account for him to go on vacation. Because he won it as a prize for his birthday.
Yeah, the daughter is just being greedy. Her parents didn't have to pay anything for her college and as OP points out...she's the one who decided to take on $29K in debt. If we're honest, $29K for a Darthmouth degree isn't bad - it's about the cost of a car these days! I might feel differently if dad had won a much bigger prize like $250K.
Story one, OP is making too much sense and it's the daughter and wife in the wrong. He should be more of a hard ass. The third story on the other hand... it was the 90's Fluff!!! Females didn't really enter comic book shops back then, as it was a bigger societal taboo in the early part of the decade. Most women didn't want to be seen as "nerds". The proto-Karen's behavior was more like a stereotypical 80's high school girl, nothing nerdy allowed. The father was more in the right for telling her no. Personally, OP should've told them that if she damages anything that he would call the police. Heck, even her son wanted OP to call the police on her earlier. She literally begged for a strained relationship with her son.
Regarding Comic Book Karen. My family would never ever do anything like that to me. If that were my shop, I would offer an option. Given that it is owner operated, and clearly belongs to someone with a high degree of integrity, if my feet were in those shoes, I would offer to take the collection, draw up a contract, And give that 12 year old child who spent obviously a long time caring for something very important to him, safe space to keep them until he turned 18, at which point, there would be nothing his mother could do. Lock stock and barrel. And of course if he wanted to add to his collection, the inventory sheet that would easily be written up considering he knows everything about his collection, would be fully documented and catalogued.
The first story the dad was fair to both kids and the wife. Putting money aside for a nice vacation is a good thing to do. The daughter went to the college of her own choice she needs to step up and pay the added cost plain and simple.
My dad had more than a million bucks saved, He earned it and I had no right to demand a penny of it. However, when I needed help, he was right there. I earned my associate's degree from community college and paid for it myself. Daddy loved learning new skills, and I was thrilled that we were classmates in 1982 when he decided to take a computer class and we just happened to end up in the same class. He wasn't only my Dad, he was one of my closest most trusted friends. We had some tongues wagging at first, when I'm a 21 year old girl hugging and kissing this 50-something year old classmate. He's my dad! Get your filthy minds out of the gutter! 😂 I didn't want to go to a university for several reasons. I wanted to be a graphic artist, and that didn't require a 4 year degree at my level. In the 80s, it wasn't all computerized yet, so it required a lot more technical skill and a steady hand, and I was already good at it. I made enough to buy a cute little 2 bedroom house for my son and me. When my dad died in 1996, I inherited $300,000. In 2010, I became permanently disabled after a botched brain surgery. My mom and dad both lived through the Depression, and taught me how to budget and live well, cheaply. It's not just that money he left me more than 25 years ago, but the wisdom he taught me about not blowing it that has made it possible for me to own a home even though I can't work and keep that home and still eat.
I can relate to the guy with the comic books. My father did everything to go against every hobby I tried to pickup because it did not meet his standards. His standards was physical sports. Mine was in the area of electronics, didn't matter what type. My father refused to his kids to play video games, so my next best thing was remote control cars. They were more pricy though and also costly to maintain. Eventually my father hated that too and decided to put that in the his black list and forced me to drop that hobby. I still liked gadgets and I was limited because of the amount of money I had and Dad refused me those things. When I entered high school I took a electrical class that later about half term the school decided to get rid of the class, then I went into machinery. That year my Mom decided enough is enough with my father refusing to let any of us do anything we truly wanted finally got a N64 for Christmas. When I first saw the device my siblings and I were so excited to receive it. I looked over at my parents after getting it I saw my father sitting right next to my Mom all furious but said nothing. When I turned 22 I got my first phone and when the bill came in next month my Dad lost it and tried to have me return it when I told him it was too late now. I needed the phone for a job. I even saved up money for my first PC so I can use it for college to try to get my computer science degree, again Dad tried to interfere. Throughout all this time my father has punished me for things that were not needed when i got old enough he tried to use the 'I will kick you out of the house tactic' several times on me to get what he wanted... Until I knew I had enough money to move out and did everything to keep me in the house. Today I still live with my parents and I am 36 now, yes I can move out but I am there to drive him up the wall now for my entertainment. He did all this because he claims that me and my siblings were video game addicts and needed to be kept away from them. Truthfully I'm no video game addict, I just love electronics and try to make them work better. I am now a computer repair tech.
Let's see if I have this right. Story #1 summary: Daughter makes a series of bad financial decisions and expects to be bailed out. Sounds more like a course in Economics 101.
She went to a private collage and is expecting 30k in debt, that's nothing these days for that type of school looking at some projections that 30k would only be 1 year of her education there.
Comic book story: my parents being my dad, stepmom, maternal and paternal grandparents and birth mom (long story/tldr :water and oil when together) ENCOURAGED me to buy comics because it was a way to get me excited about reading at a young age. It was also a healthy and profitable hobby since it kept me out of trouble but also I would mow neighbors lawns and be a kid/teen helper around neighborhood to earn money ontop of my allowance for my bi-weekly trip to the comic shop or flea market. As a teen when needed extra money I would gather some of my less valuable comics and sell them to my favorite shop for spending money. Hell I had a Chris Claremont signed Xmen that I sold when graduated High school to pay for my first semester at local community college!!!!!
Personally I would have shortened the vacation and then spent the money on something I wanted but neglected for a long time(which could be the vacation). The daughter can pound sand - she wanted the prestige she can pay the price for it.
When my sister and I were in our early 20's our parents said they would give us both $12,000 to go towards whatever large expense we wanted. My sister decided to use it for a big fancy wedding and that amount only paid for half of it so she had to figure out how to finance the rest. I decided to buy a house and that same amount was the entirety of my down payment and closing costs. She ended up divorced after a year and had to declare bankruptcy, meanwhile I've had my house for 14 years now and the mortgage is almost paid off. For a long time she HATED any time I said anything about my house. Not my fault she chose the princess wedding instead of something practical.
Neither are children obligated to take care of elderly parents, but what goes around comes around. *Edit:* For those who can't read between the lines; I'm saying that selfishness begets selfishness, and the father might one day regret choosing an extravagant vacation over investing that windfall in something that could pay back in future, be it a kid's education, or retirement funds.
@@kauske I don't see any suggestion the parents are asking the kids to take care of them in this story. The daughter is demanding to benefit from OPs windfall. It would be nice if he gave her additional money for school but there's no obligation.
I find it so incredibly amazing in this day and age that people don't remember that in this day and age that most retail stores and public buildings have cameras EVERYWHERE! And to ask for the cops to be called when you yourself have an outstanding FELONY WARRANT is just plain stupid!
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Hey fluff, u/whipssolo here. To make matters worse the BODIES were laying jn the road about 30 yards past my truck under sheets between a bus and the forensics van. Even if I could some how move there was absolutely no f'ing way anyone is driving through there.
😭😭😭😭 what a crazy story! I was left speechless at how insane that woman was.
Only Karen would have such little intelligence and empathy to do something like that
@@DarkFluff I've held on to that one for almost 5 years as I had a LOT of therapy to go through afterward. By far the worst scene I've ever seen in 15 years on the job.
@@knolsey that chick deserved a backhand for her behavior, sorry you had to go through that horrible experience that she made worse
Wow...
Story 2: Putting something back on the shelves means that it ain't yours anymore. If you wanted something, and you grab it, don't put it back. Also, there are cameras everywhere, so good luck.
What are the chances she saw the LAST toy on the shelf and decided to walk away without putting it in her cart? That was clearly manipulative bullshit. When OP didn't fall for it Karen ramped up the entitlement.
Either hold it in your hands or put it in your basket/cart, as long as it's on the shelves, there's *NO* "reservation".
"I touched it 10 minutes ago, so it's still mine" - Karen logic.
exactly. i never put something down unless I change my mind and dont want it. once you put it down and leave.......its fair game. plus she knew it would be a hard find....most who put it down to do something would hide it. my guess....op got to it first....and she said she put it down
I have serious doubt she'd ever touch it in the first place, to me it was just some kind of crap exuses to try and get it from OP
I hate to imagine how many innocent guys got arrested just on the word of a lying Karen before video cameras were everywhere.
Story 2, at least that special needs child got her highly sought-after toy. Kudos for OP for completing the mission AND putting a Karen in her place.
One of my aunts worked at Walmart. Whenever a new game system or hot toy came out, people would to come to the store to buy as much as they can. They would sell them online for a greater price. The store later had one per customer restriction and people would bring kids to the store, each wanting their own. One woman brought a baby in a stroller and she claimed that the baby wanted an Xbox too.
Whenever a new hot wheel came out, there were people who would buy all the new models and sell them online. My aunt knew hot wheel collectors wanted the cars in pristine packaging., so she would bend some of the cardboard packing. This way the kids had a chance of buying the new car, because kids didn’t keep them in the packaging.
I worked in a big red box mart and someone had purchased a few popular toys. The employee that sold in the break room mentioned probably just selling them but later that day I saw them in the doctors toys for tots bin and they said a lady dropped them off that morning. So a bit of faith in humanity restored.
@@janel.8921 My mom was in there on a Black Friday and the associates just basically started to pass them off pallets to people passing by my mom was like WTF and just turned and handed it a lady that was looking sadly at the console so she just handed it to her. It apparently made that lady's day.
@@kisstune That’s sweet.
If it was me as soon as she stepped in front of me and reaches into my cart she'll get away from me real quick after getting busted in the mouth with brass knucks and she'd be layed out unconscious with a shattered jaw
My sister is a first responder. She encounters people like the lady from the last story all the time. Some people just don't understand that roads close sometimes, and that's just how life is! Just because your house is right there, doesn't mean that I can just magically clean up this accident scene for you.
Comic book story reminds me of my mom. We (brothers and I) had several comic books, including some Disney books. My mom decided that since we boys were older and didn’t read them anymore, that they were trash. My oldest brother explained, or tried to, that they were collectables and were/are actually valuable. Mom, of course, didn’t believe that and tossed them out. Fast forward a few months and one of her friends inquired if we still had all those vintage comics as her husband was interested in buying them. My mom asked why her husband would want to buy “worthless comics”. Should have seen her face when her friend explained how much those comics were worth.
As a teenager, I owned the original three-booklet D&D rules. In my late twenties I found them in the back of a cupboard and threw them out.
A couple of weeks later, I learned what they were worth as collectables.
Thank God my dad saved his old Asterix comics. They're basically heirlooms.
Damn good thing I still have my vintage Yu-Gi-Oh cards from the first packs all mint in plastic cases all 400 of them
I thought the mom was gonna say something about them being satanic or some bs, so when she said "it's for nerds" I lost it laughing
Yeah, I bet that the mother probably had the what are they done thought running through her skull, but the problem is with other entitled parents that would be like that, sometimes they think that all Comics no matter how valuable they are, no matter how old they are, they’re all worthless because of the simple fact they don’t like them and that is the Karen mentality when it comes to stuff that kids like is that, Kids like it I don’t like it I need to be rid of it because of reasons I have in my head. I know it really doesn’t make sense but sometimes when it comes to stuff like that when they have a reason to hate some thing that doesn’t fit their criteria, they go hard-core hate on it. I bet that it was a laughable moment also when finding out that Comic Store wore some thing that the mother would probably be on her knees thinking, oh man I made a big mistake.
Story 2: It's good that OP kept that Toy away from Karen because I think that if OP tried to buy it off of Karen she would've either not done it or demand 10 times the price, either way it's better to make sure that this Demon doesn't get what she wants
Story 2: The worst kind of combination OP had to face. a Karen that's also a scalper
Also, what the hell is wrong with being a nerd?! It was a nerd who invented the light bulb, the first car, it's nerds who do medical and dental care, and it's nerds who invented the most powerful atomic and nuclear weapons. Knowledge is power, Karen. Something that you lost over comics.
That's assuming Karen had any knowledge in the first place
@@kono_ryu I was referring whatever power she had in the relationship, but yeah, she definitely never had knowledge in the first place.
Yeah, I'm turning 60 this year, and when my younger colleagues call me a geek or a nerd, I consider it a high compliment. She used the word like it was a bad thing.
also those comics are more often than not an investment if they are taken care of so shes literally saying" don't do things you enjoy that if you decide you dont want anymore will become increasingly more valuble"
"Nerds" are responsible for every technological advancement humans have ever made. The people _not_ responsible were out in a field somewhere, all dressed similarly, running into each other, and fighting over balls.
Story 4: If there is an accident and a roadblock, there is an accident and a roadblock. Try to get in the way of the people handling the accident and you WILL be charged for interfering with investigation
I will admit, the cops were partially at fault for crazy getting past the block since they didn't account for side roads/hidden driveways when creating it. Creating a second blockage and sending residents towards the one on the main road away from the scene would solve that problem.
@@marjoriejohnston4905 Stupid is determined tho, and no blockade is fool proof. I have no doubt Karen probably did an end run around the cops blockade because her inconvenience was of the utmost importance. Because, Karen.
When I'm arranging a roadblock for a street cleanup, I need people actually in the vehicles to keep the idiots out of the danger zone. Like, they see everyone else pulling a u and doubling back, but somehow they think they will get thru and try to dodge around my blockade vehicles. Meanwhile, you can see my big equipment at work, moving downed trees or huge mountains of snow and ice, but still think they're going to zip thru my work zone. Um, no.
As someone who has started their first year of college op is completely in the right. Faith tree r and wife are entitled. Op has $10,000 set for both of his kids and now the daughter is trying to get more because she decides to go to a prestigious school. My mother had a set aside of money for me and my other siblings. I got to into a great engineering college an I know I have a bit of loans I’m gonna end up paying for at the end. Op can do whatever they want with their money.
I agree.
I paid for all of my college education because my Parents couldn't afford to help me. In my last yr in HS, they were nice enough to forgo 'the house money' which I gave them from my full-time job's paycheck, that way I wouldn't have to work while taking 5 college classes/term. At the end of 10 months, I had not only put away 'the house money', but I also matched it penny for penny, & that was $3000. The rest of my college costs were paid by my personal loans, scholarships, & grants. That was in 1976. If I went to the same out-of-state school today, it would cost $61,050/year. OP's daughter needs to grow up.
$10,000 still takes a chunk out of her bill.
Faith tree r??
@@janel.8921 her bill, not his. she knew there were less expensive options and chose to not take them.a good lesson in learning to not spend someone elses money
2022, and Karens still don't realize cameras are everywhere...
Stupid people gonna stupid. And judging by how Karens always double down on their lies and initial assumptions, they must have some kind of mental deficiency that actively prevents them from learning new things.
Keep throwing them in prison. It's all that can be done in a civilized society.
@@imofage3947 You are right next to two things I say all of the time: "stupid are people" and the correct term isn't Karen, its "mentally deficient cow".
@@johnrussell5592 I'll give you "mentally deficient", but cow is a bit too gender specific for my liking. There are plenty of male Karens out there. The world seems to be split on what the male form is. I think I've heard "Dick", "Ken", and "Kevin".
@@imofage3947 People also use "Chad". For males of the species, I go with "goat", "toad", or "warthog" depending on the resemblance.
As a nerd that grew up in the 80's and early 90's, I'm so glad my mother didn't care about my comic book collecting. She drove me to the comic book store every week on new comic book day for YEARS until I was old enough to drive myself. I can't imagine what would possess anyone to think comics are so terrible. I still read comics now, my kids read comics, it's just stories with pictures ffs.
My nephew started collecting comics since he was a teenager. He is now 43 years old and he still collects them. He also goes to the ComicCons when he can. 😊😊
IKR? As an AFAB 1990-born weeb I am so glad my mom let me have my love of video games, anime and manga. My family was a bunch of non-diagnosed neurodivergent outcasts. Makes me glad we were the resident town "freaks".
First story, if he helped pay off her loans, she'd still owe that money - to him. With her attitude it's unlikely that she would ever pay it back. The fact that she was able to get in to Dartmouth says that he has been supporting her her entire life. The guy mentions that he'd never had a vacation. He's been sacrificing for his kids for at least 22 years, that's plenty. The old man has earned his vacation!
The money is his to whatever he wants with it.
Have the daughter sign a contract agreement with the signatures being notarized that she will owe him money until loan has been paid off
@@ItsMeBarnaby Jesus man what was your major cause it sounds horrendously expensive
Son worked harder and got in with a scholarship. That's what made HIS educational debt so low. I'd have put that back into the daughter's court. Also how an adult spends their money is not a child's business, unless they're starving and walking around in rags. Which Miss Dartmouth isn't, if Mother Dearest can spend so much on plastic surgery.
Isn't Dartmouth an Ivy League school? I can't remember? Nvm just looked it up it is.
The comic story. Man that lady. I would've sat there and taken something of hers saying "I don't want this stupid crap in my place." That or tell her if she pulls anything like that again. Then divorce is coming.
That kid is a gem knows how to keep track of idems of importance remember if you ever think you might have people around you who are toxic Wright down every code on they things you own that are important so if something comes up missing and you happen to find it again you know the codes and can prove it belongs to you
The comic book Karen is so stupid. My mum and I bought my brothers comic books so that they could start to read English and improve their English. We are South African and Afrikaans speaking and Mum believed that reading improves vocabulary. And also my brothers were very lazy to read. I of course first read the comics before I would give it to them.
3rd Story - Karen should be happy that her kid is reading at ALL. How many other kids read voluntarily?
Karen must be a byproduct of the 80's where anything Sci-fi, superheroes, and/or comics is Nerdy-and to people like her, nerdy still isn't in yet! She needs to join the 2020's!
@@nancyomalley6286 yes she sold have traveled 30 years in the future
like you did hear that that story happened in the 90s right?
Hell my folks were glad I was more addicted to comics than drugs
@@nancyomalley6286 Why??? Got a problem with literacy
The comic story is incredible. I love to read -- everything. Since my teens I usually read between 200 and 300 novels each year in every possible genre. My parents encouraged me and my siblings to read whatever we wanted, even buying comic books each shopping trip. They obviously didn't harm my reading abilityor habits. I can't imagine considering them harmful or trash. They are just entertainment and encourage imagination and creativity. The mother in this story may not like them herself, but they're not hurting her. Censoring someone else's choices like that is just pure batsh-- crazy behavior.
Same here. I'm a female and read everything I could get my hands on as a kid. Novels, Batman, Superman, etc. Mama Karen is an idiot!
I hope the dad divorced her-and got *FULL CUSTODY* of the son! What she did to him was emotional abuse!
I'm the same way. I personally prefer mystery novels, but I will read anything pretty much.
Story 2: and here we see why scalpers don't deserve rights.
First story. I see why he is taking a vacation by himself. Should consult a divorce attorney too💁
The wife lost me when op said she spent that much money for plastic surgery
With the way wife and daughter are acting I'd question paternity too. He should get a DNA test just to be sure.
@@camilliabanks5438 solid point!
Just the way that class of people is.
I started out in community college. I didnt get loans since I screwed my credit with applying for 10 credit cards the day I turned 18 (nobody said 'dont do this...') , didnt qualify for grants because mom made too much driving buses for the city but not enough to properly pay my tuition. I gave up on school. That daughter could have had a full ride through community college and transfer etc, and definitely will be making enough money in her check to pay off that debt. Plus with the current pandemic crap, student loan debt might just be going away anyway. TAKE THAT VACATION! (and tell daughter to spend her 50 randomly on lottery tickets if she wants that same chance, and then its HER money and she can do whatever she wants with it)
One can hope about the student loans
That comic story, the Karen was probably a cheerleader type of person who has never been told no.
her "disgust" for nerd has a very high-school cliques vibe...
What is with Karens digging their finger nails into other people's skin?
They're just angry at the world because they have to wipe with those things.
I'm sure you know that is assault, and the OP was right in pressing charges.
they feel their acrilic nails are a superpower, it would be idly satisfying to have them do that and be able to tear one away from the real nail. thats the worst pain they can feel and it can be called an accident
Maybe they took the fingernail dna thing would aid them?
"Talons of a Karen" would be a decent story title
With the comic story, I think the worst part is that she didn't think comics were harmful, she just thought they were for nerds and didn't want her son to be a nerd
What's wrong with nerds?
My mother was a paramedic for 10 years and she heard the final story as I was listening to it while doing dishes.
I asked her about it and while she personally never really got Karens as bystanders she had a issues with journalists literally telling them to move so they could take better pictures...
The dad gave both kids the same amount of money for college. How the kids use it is up to them. If they can stay within budget, so much the better. If they choose to blow past the budget, the balance is on them.
If the son decided to become a doctor, would the parents have to foot the entire bill?
there shouldn't be a bill. god bless norway
@@TheWeepingDalek I agree, but that's a different talk show topic.
@@TheWeepingDalek, someone has to pay. You pay that with a high tax rate. I was perfectly happy to pay with loans, grants and a small gift from my stepdad. Otherwise, I would be paying for other people, and I just don't have faith in them making choices as good as I did.
@@bcaye i also get paid and a higher wage. Just saying. Less homeless, people aren't relying on food banks. Health care that is free and easily accessible, a prison system that actually works to rehabilitate people into society.
Norway. Such a terrible place to live?
@@TheWeepingDalek yea your agrument fails since Norway has a population about 5.5 million people and the USA has a population of 330 million people. Plus, our tax dollars are being misused every year. So no, your agrument about how great Norway is with free education and free healthcare while barely keeping the money you earned and being forced to give the money you earned to the government who owns you. Sorry but no
Daughter is entitled to forfeiting the ten thousand he was offering her... her attitude and nasty vibes breached the normal rules of decency in this situation. I would tell her that since she felt entitled to a say in ANY of my money, she can damn well get along without any of it... and I would probably need it for the divorce anyway...
These Karen stories always make me wonder how horrible it must’ve been when there were no cameras and Karen’s could just get away with this shit left n right
Well, they went to Supreme Court Justice nomination to smear the nominees ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No cameras also mean instant justice could be dispensed to the Karen...
A friend of mine once told me a story about when he was in school. He had a teacher who hated comic books believing them to be a bad thing as it discouraged students from reading "real" books. She knew that my friend spent a lot of time in the library and one day when she was teaching about the various parts of the earth's atmosphere she asked if anyone could name the parts and my friend's hand went up. He then recited the various parts. The teacher then asked him (knowing he spent a lot of time in the library) where he had learned the parts of the atmosphere thinking he was likely to say he saw it in a book in the library. To her shock, he said I saw it in a superman comic book where it showed superman flying through the various parts. I recall seeing at least one superman comic which did that so I never questioned the story. What some people fail to see is that comic books can encourage people to read and that can end up with them actually looking for books on subjects which catch they attention. I know that there have been times when reading a book by one author has made me decide to read others by a different author.
that story with the comic books, as a collector i felt my blood pressure rise when i was reading that, only my parents had more respect for my collection.
You know a great thing to do when you've got a house full of two women giving you the stink eye. A 6 week trip to another country.
I mean, the state of education financing in this country is a shame. But this is a once in a lifetime windfall, I can pass no judgement on this man for having a once in a lifetime experience from it.
I think a lot of people are failing to realize if story 1 op would’ve done this then the son would have been pissed cause he played by the rules and then his sister no longer has to
not neccessarily. My brother went to a much cheaper college than I did, and our parents paid for both of our colleges in full. He's never complained that I got more than him and is just grateful to not be in debt, as am I.
@@unclebozo9845 Thats nice, but in this story both kids knew the rules from the start. If she went to community college she would not have a debt either. But she wanted the prestige, and with prestige comes debt.
@@Ormathon The stupid thing is that the main thing that counts on you resume is the university you graduated from. If she went to community college for her general ed and then finished at Dartmouth it would carry the same prestige unless a prospective employer went over her transcripts with a fine tooth comb. Maybe she didn't want to tell her new friends at Dartmouth that she hadn't been there as a fresher or sophomore.
@@Ormathon and lets not forget the son got a scholarship
those arent just handed out, meaning he worked hard to get it
if the daughter was soooo worried about debt then she could have worked harder to apply for even a partial scholarship
In an equitable world, it wouldn't bother the son at all.
story 3: i love how the karen said "it's for nerds" and then the kid went to the MILITARY, who's the nerd now?
Story 2...you would be shocked how often that happens. Its one reason I refuse to work retail ever again
Story 1: Both kids got the same amount and are lucky that they got that, it is not OP's fault that his daughter decided to go to a university that was more expensive, so any debt past the 10k is on her, just like if her brother didn't get the scholarship that he got then any extra debts would be on him. And why didn't the kids get jobs and save money themselves to go to college/university? or wait a few years so they can work, make money, and then be able to go with a lot less debt? Also, I find that people care more when they are the ones on the hook for all that money then the people who get fully funded and will have little to no debt after graduating.
Story 2: Good on OP for having Karen charged. Never feel bad for a Karen no matter what as they NEED to learn a hard lesson many times before their 1/2 brain cell can process the possibility that they may have possibly been potentially not right about a detail or two, and then after about 30 times of this they might learn to stop kicking the bear in the balls.
Story 3: Good on OP for not selling the comics
Story 4,: Karen got off way too easy. Should have had her go to jail Friday mornings and not get let out until early Monday morning.
She's going to have him arrested for selling comic books? If she's lucky the police won't take her in for a psych exam. LOL!
The daughter is lucky get anything at all. She's only going to "Prestige" to socialize and look wealthy and be entitled. Not for education
If she was actually intelligent, she would have started at a cc and transferred. OP should have told her it is an "a~h tax". But she went to Dartmouth!! haha!
2nd story reminds me of the Cabbage Patch doll craze in the 80s, when people had to be put on a waiting list to purchase a doll. People were seriously nuts back then.
Story 4: Karen; You're in my way, i'm calling the Police
OP: Karen, I am the Police!
OMG ROFLMAO! "Do your two remaining braincells constantly compete for third place?"
I gotta use that one.
On the first story, I paid both my BS and MBA with my Army GI bill. Both of my kids joined the military and both have the GI bill, if they want free college, I suggest to join the military and his daughter will get a good vocational training and the GI Bill which is about $81,000.
"Are your 2 remaining brain cells constantly competing for 3rd place?"
*O O F*
First story: daughter is entitled. She could have gone a cheaper route, community college or state school but she chose private.
Yeah... I do think so, but irl, children are lowkey entitled esp with parents money... Guilty of this part.. 🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️. so, I am split on this... cause, esp. in my country, if your children still needed help, you need to help them.. But more leaning of the part the daughter is entitled
yeah, tbh... bad decision making in her part and she has to face the consequences of her decision.. Cause it is not like the father neglected her. She and her brother are given the same amount to pay off student loan, that is enough. like 10,000 dollars is already a good amount of money for helping out...
@@yachishairclips2250 That's really what it comes down to: treating both kids fairly. If anyone wants to argue OP should've spent the money on her, the only remotely fair thing would've been to split it in half and give them each one piece, but note that the daughter never made that argument. In fact she pretty much made the opposite argument, that it's somehow unfair for them both to get the same amount of money. She clearly expected to get it all for herself, her brother be damned.
I did my first two years of college at a community college. You need to select classes that transfer to your second college. It saved me a ton of money.
@@janel.8921 my husband did that too and finished his degree at a state university. I went to a state university all 4 years and for graduate school.
My brother went to state university for undergrad but private for law. Ended up with a loan bill 5x that of mine.
I’ll be telling my kids unless you get a full ride scholarship or get into Ivy League just stick to state university, within our residing state. Saves A LOT of money. Plus you qualify for more financial aid grants.
Some have considered community colleges lesser institutions of education. I remember a storyline on Roseanne, where Becky is hoping to go a college of the fine arts. It was too expensive for her parents to afford. They suggest (gasp!) a community college. Becky is horrified, so she marries her boyfriend.
Jay Leno made cracks on his show once.
OMG, what's so bad about "nerd stuff" anyway? If that entitled mother saw the stuff I enjoy, she'd flip her lid in rage lol.
First story - daughter is entitled. She chose to go to the expensive school, and that is on her. Father won the money, and I wouldn't blame him for using it all on himself.
Only 30k in debt from a school like that, she must have some scholarships too, I was 36k in debt going to a State University's Satellite Campus some 10 years ago.
even worse she feels like she deserves "the bank of dad scholarship" since her brother got a scholarship so HIS $10k was enough so clearly she deserves the same "scholarship"
@@rankothefiremage I’m thinking that is the brother who broke his back getting scholarships. Maybe entitled daughter should have done the same thing but was probably too lazy. But who knows?
Plus, as Fluff pointed out, a Dartmouth degree is going to give her big opportunities to earn enough money to pay off here student loans and still live well.
@@condorboss3339 If she went there for a real degree. Even prestigious schools have 'easy A' degrees that leave you qualified for teaching the courses you took to get it and nothing else. A lot of kids from my generation were feed "college = high paying job" without the qualifier that you need to get a degree that has market value so they took such worthless diplomas because the classes were easy.
Story 3 broke my heart..... Proud mom of kids who love the "nerd stuff" I don't understand why anyone would be upset if the kid is READING!! Good education starts with reading
Thank God for cameras in stores. Lying women who do such evil, despicable things like lying about assaults deserve prison sentences and scarlet letter of shame. It's disgusting how quickly people believe women's crocodile tears and blatant lies. It's foul
Before cameras a lot of innocent people got shafted.
22:14 - I just want to say, the fact the kid memorized EVERY CODE on 300ish books is amazing in and of itself.
My parents told my sister and I that they would pay 50% of our college costs per year. I got really good scholarships and those scholarships covered about 48% of the costs, so my parents just did the extra 2 and covered 52%, which came out to about 10,000/year. They told my sister they would do the same 10,000/year for her as well. She went to the same college as me, but didn’t get as good of scholarships, and was angry with my parents that they wouldn’t give her more since I didn’t owe anything, but she would have to take out loans. Our mom told her that she could just pay all of it if she didn’t like what was offered, but that giving us the same amount was the only fair option, and that she should apply for other kinds of scholarships if she wanted to reduce her total. My sister came to understand that she was in the wrong, she was just upset at finding out how much she would owe.
Re:story 3, my youngest daughter had a hard time in school due to a traumatic birth and was on an IEP to help her through her classes. At the beginning of 7th grade she was reading at a 4th or 5th grade level but discovered she loved manga. Her literature teacher at the time told her she wasn't allowed to read any of that because they weren't "real books" and hoo boy did I go off! I told him that she was *reading* and even more she was *enjoying it* and what gave him the right to ever discourage a child from reading anything that would get them to actually read. I bought her whatever mangas she wanted (within reason, of course) and by the end of her 7th grade year she was reading at close to her grade level - all because she discovered how much fun reading is.
Comics, graphic novels, manga, if a child is reading, LET THEM READ!
If we're going by the logic with the lady in story 3, my entire room would be obliterated
How do these morons forget about cameras. I work in law enforcement and going back 30 years when I started in Loss Prevention there were cameras everywhere and now even more. I used to love going to court and shop lifting suspects who plead not guilty would look so shocked when we played the camera footage. Wonderful.
First story. My question is if op is going alone on his vacation or with his wife? Yes it's his money but it sounds like he's going alone. If I were her I'd be more upset my SO is planning a 1.5 month vacation without me in another country than him not paying off his daughters college.
Yes, there's a sub-text we're not hearing...
"do your two remaining brain cells constantly compete for third place" *BRUH*
Story 1, NTA. The daughter and wife are super entitled. Op is completely in the right. The daughter is very greedy and the wife is no better. Married or not it's HIS money not theirs, he can use it as he wishes, he was nice to put 10k for both his kids for college. The daughter is just griping over the debt that she could have avoided if she went to community college as her dad said, so it's NOT up to him to pay her debt that's on her. If they don't like that then they are tough out of luck.
YES!! What the perfect way to start spring break!
once you put something back on the shelf and walk away (regardless of reason)....its fair game. she mightve had to leave store for a moment or use bathroom. then you hide it or something. likely op got to it first and she basically played the "I called dibs" card
My parents stole rare books from me, forced me to sell others, and then got upset some years later when I told them if they didn't repay me for that and the educational grant money they stole, I was walking away. So this added to being treated like crap by my parents and siblings I walked away and have never looked back.
The first story, not the a-hole. The daughter is super entitled, and if not stopped now, will be a constant pain for the rest of his life.
If I was OP in the first story, I would say "I ANTA (I am not the asshole)."
Also my husband had a comic store for almost 30 years and every year on Free Comic Book Day you WOULDNT believe the Karen’s and Karl’s that came out of the woodwork. From them asking for extra books, thinking that EVERYTHING in the store was free to them calling the cops on cosplayers..sheesh
First story, dad is in the right. Hope he enjoys a long vacation.
Story 3 reminds me of the time my mom burned my NES and all the games in the back yard. I mean yeah, I brought home a report card that wasn't great because I really didn't care about school, but I always thought burning my stuff was way over the top. That and other events from my parents eventually convinced me to never, *ever* start a family.
For the first story, OP is teaching his daughter to be an adult. Majority of students aren’t even as lucky to have parents help them pay off their student debt, so I would be greatful to at least have that amount of money instead of complaining cause you are minimizing the amount of years left to pay it off.
To be honest it sounds like all of them are horrible at managing money. The only smart thing op did was put some of the money into saving. You can splurge on yourself without being wasteful.
If it wasn't comics, it would have been something else. Entitled knows no bounds.
If he gives more money to the daughter, he'll have to give more to his son too, and then the daughter will feel entitled to demand more, and this will snowball out of control.
I'm totally with OP here: he gave them the same amount of money, so his "job" is done.
not neccessarily. My brother went to a much cheaper college than I did, and our parents paid for both of our colleges in full. He's never complained that I got more than him and is just grateful to not be in debt, as am I.
@@unclebozo9845, That was you & your brother… This entitled little _____ would take her father’s every last cent and then some. We have no idea if the son is entitled also. If he is he would want the difference in what he didn’t receive. It sounds like a very materialistic family except the Dad (& possibly the son since he did work for a scholarship). She could have tried for scholarships and gone to a community college and transferred so it wouldn’t have cost anywhere near as much but she chose not to. She could have gone to a state college or university but she chose not to. She needs to live with her decisions. She’s known since she was younger that she would receive $10,000 for college like her brother (that’s luckier than most). If she gave her more it would be only fair to give her brother more. If OP hasn’t had a vacation in years & years he’s overdue and doesn’t owe his unappreciative entitled daughter anymore than he originally promised her. She made her bed now she has to lie in it… plus being in a “prestigious” school should give her better chances if she has a reasonable degree with good grades.
you say that like she wanted it for something stupid like a new purse or a expensive car. the kid got into an Ivy League school. that alone is an achievement. if my kid got into Dartmouth.
equal opportunity not equal distribution.
That last story boggles my mind and boils my blood simultaneously. How OP didn't hurt that woman is beyond me.
In the first story it really depends on if (1) the husband purchased the ticket with communal money and (2) the income from lottery winnings is considered communal property. If the answer to both is no, then it is all his and he can do whatever he wants with it. If the answer to either is yes then 50% of that money is his wife's so not only is the $7k car payment not a gift, but he owes her another $10k. And the wife could give her $10k to the daughter if she wants. In no case is the husband's share of the money (whether that is 50% or 100%) owed to the entitled daughter, though.
I already start shaking my head before the video starts 😂😂😂
I love comic books. Good way to get kids interested in reading.
wow, your editor is legit the best. I bet you'd be sooooo lost without him. Words can't express how important he is to the channel and community. Thanks Stevo, you are poggers and pogchamp as the kids say
This last story is the reason I only leave my house when absolutely necessary... I'm hiding from STUPID PEOPLE 😨😨😨
The 6 people in the car were all drunk and under 21, not wearing seat belts (except the drunk driver.) He was charged with 5 counts of 2nd degree murder. -story 4 OP
These entitled people stories are keeping my chiropractor in business with all the headshaking I do while listening.
THE FATHER IS RIGHT TO OFFER
THE DAUGHTER THE SAME AMOUNT AS HE GAVE. THE DAUGHTER HAS NO RIGHT TO DEMAND MORE . THE FATHER
DESERVES A VACATION AFTER
A LOT OF HARD WORK +EFFORT
IN MANY WAYS.
"...two brain cells competing for 3rd place." Best. Quote. Ever.
You get taxed on winning the lottery? That's insane. If we win 50k we GET 50k
Story 2: People taking sides without gathering facts first is what made that woman think she could keep getting away with that behavior.
First story those women r plain entitled brats OP should just go on and enjoy his vacation...not paying attention to the noise
i get where the daughter and mom were coming from. but op did offer her help. with the same ammount he gave the son $10,000 which would help a lot. Better to have something then nothing. if OP gave in.....how'd that be fair for son? he could use money for a car....or a down payment on a house.
Karen : I hate nerds
*of course she hate nerds, nerds are full of smart and intelligent people, which would beat Karen in 1 second in a wit contest*
The daughter is entitled. If it is YOUR student debt, pay it off to the best of your ability and then get help, but don't expect someone to pay off the entire thing for you.
Officer: "does your two braincells compete for third place?"
Damn, I'm stealing that
That first story... I absolutely _love_ that the Karen 'race' has security camera systems as their Kryptonite. Very fortunate for the rest of us! It never ceases to amaze how far they'll go to (try to) get their way. Have a felony warrant and insisting the police be called? Yeah. Guess what the tow guy said on that last one is true. Two brain cells competing for third place. Oh, so true...
Thanks for the stories. I like this channel best for how you read these and having the best quality text. (Spelling and grammar. Some are pretty rough!) Please keep up the good work! Stu the batty
Oops! I meant the second story up there! I guess it just blew the first story right out of my head! Thanks as always... Stu
A degree from Dartmouth and only a $29k in debt? She should have ZERO difficulty paying off that debt and if she’s smart with her money and with the right degree then it won’t take a year.
Story#1: The rest of us peasants, have to pay off our own student debt. She can get off her @$$ and do the same. She chose Dartmouth knowing full well how expensive that school was. And she should have worked on scholarships if she was that dire to get in.
one saying my boss, a dentist told be once when I was working there. it is not where you go but who you are that will help you get a job and establish a good life. if you are an entitled jackass than you will not be successful. as i look today, the only entitled jackasses with no brains or character may be able to take people for a worthless ride are the people in congress. some of them seem like they are and were entitled Karens
"Because I suffer everyone else should have to, even if it's extremely within the parents means to help their child!"
More like, I suffered and she should be grateful that she doesn’t have to suffer to the extent that I did, even though she made bad decisions. we all have to deal with the consequences of our actions, good or bad, and it is not the parents job to bail their kid out of a situation that she entered in when she understood all of the consequences and was warned about the cost. She’s an adult. She made her choice. He already helped out to an extent that most people don’t get and yet she wants more? If my dad came into money, even with me currently going to college, I would tell him get out and enjoy himself because he’s worked so hard for me his whole life. Othe fact that she doesn’t feel that way says a lot about her, I think
Student Debt Story: Both Daughter and Wife are being EXTREMELY Entitled. OP has already helped both Son and Daughter with $10,000.00 for their Education AND he made several suggestions for how Daughter can get an Education without saddling herself with a small mountain of Debt. She could easily have done what her Brother did and apply for a Scholarship/Grant to help pay for College as well as go to Community College which would not cost nearly as much as Prestigious Dartmouth College does...
SHE chose to go to the more expensive School and she (apparently, it's not mentioned in the story) chose to not apply for Scholarships/Grants that would have helped pay the Tuition Costs therefore, SHE is solely responsible for her Student Debt load once she Graduates. OP will give her that $10K towards paying the Debt off, but the rest is up to her.
Now as Darkfluff did mention, a Degree from Dartmouth should help her land a Good or even Great paying Job and that along with some careful Financial Planning/Budgeting on her part should take care of a $29,000.00 Student Debt in 2-3 years while still letting her get a decent car and a modest Rental Unit while saving up for a better car and/or home etc.
The fact that Daughter went behind OP's back to the wife and the wife didn't smack her down for it show both are EXTREMELY Entitled and if I were OP, I'd start taking a VERY close look at both my Marriage AND Wife's behaviour/Personality and ask myself: "Do I REALLY want to continue living with 2 women that have this little Respect for me?"
The only slight problem OP might run into with how he plans on using the Winnings is he was Married when he won the money, thus it might Legally be Marital Money and Wife could be Legally entitled to half. In which case, OP might not be able to go on quite as long a Vacation as he'd like to, though the money he put into Wife's car would come out of HER half of the Winnings, what's left of her half is then hers to do with as she wants, including, help Daughter pay down her Student Debt, though I can see Son getting Pissed if his Sister gets more money than he does for School...
First story:the father IS thinking about his family. Just because he isn’t thinking about one child more than the other doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about his family
I gotta agree. _Maybe_ a bit "selfish" about it being his money, but he did win it from a birthday gift to himself. I'd guess that _he_ earned that $50 he spent on the lottery tickets, too. _Maybe_ his daughter should consider using that "prestigious Dartmouth degree" to get a job that'll help pay off the $29,000 debt that she incurred by choosing Dartmouth.
I have no idea how Dartmouth handles scholarships.
Damn, I am so happy that kid had a very supportive father. Thank God! My mom would do the same to me. She's taken my figures and books and donated them because "those are for boys" she also burned some of my things or threw them away. My dad sometimes supported me, but he most of the time stayed out of it. My mom is very manipulative and good at gaslighting. I ended up moving out, but that was many years later.
To have a dad who didn't get easily manipulated or a mom who isn't manipulative enough is very fortunate for that kid. The father even took the child away from her so he was well supported.
In the first story the daughter and the wife are totally out of line. It's his money; he won it, and if we go by the fact that his wife spend her entire $5,000 inheritance on plastic surgery (probably more, very few procedures cost that little these days) renders her unentitled to an opinion. The daughter sounds like a real brat. No parent owes an education to his child. My own parents gave me what they could, but mostly I was responsible for it and paid off the loans myself.
Actually it's not his money. It's their money as he is married. So him and his wife should have discussed what to do with the money.
@@IreneZGoodman this totally depends on how THEY deal with any other financial things and/or what the laws are where they live. If the money used to purchase the tickets was his, she's not entitled to the money at all.
@@IreneZGoodman Exactly. If she had won the money would she be disciplined enough to share with the family or would she try to hoard it because it was her ticket? Any windfall in a combined finance situation means it goes in the pot, with some set aside for the winner.
@@IreneZGoodman that actually all depends on their financial plan. He said it’s his money so they most likely have separate finances. Also you don’t share everything just because you’re married. Also he did share it. He had 34,000 remaining and used 7,500 of it to put into his wife’s car and put the rest into a bank account for him to go on vacation. Because he won it as a prize for his birthday.
Yeah, the daughter is just being greedy. Her parents didn't have to pay anything for her college and as OP points out...she's the one who decided to take on $29K in debt. If we're honest, $29K for a Darthmouth degree isn't bad - it's about the cost of a car these days! I might feel differently if dad had won a much bigger prize like $250K.
"2 brain cells competing for third place". I have to remember that! XD
Story one, OP is making too much sense and it's the daughter and wife in the wrong. He should be more of a hard ass. The third story on the other hand... it was the 90's Fluff!!! Females didn't really enter comic book shops back then, as it was a bigger societal taboo in the early part of the decade. Most women didn't want to be seen as "nerds". The proto-Karen's behavior was more like a stereotypical 80's high school girl, nothing nerdy allowed. The father was more in the right for telling her no. Personally, OP should've told them that if she damages anything that he would call the police. Heck, even her son wanted OP to call the police on her earlier. She literally begged for a strained relationship with her son.
Regarding Comic Book Karen. My family would never ever do anything like that to me. If that were my shop, I would offer an option. Given that it is owner operated, and clearly belongs to someone with a high degree of integrity, if my feet were in those shoes, I would offer to take the collection, draw up a contract, And give that 12 year old child who spent obviously a long time caring for something very important to him, safe space to keep them until he turned 18, at which point, there would be nothing his mother could do. Lock stock and barrel. And of course if he wanted to add to his collection, the inventory sheet that would easily be written up considering he knows everything about his collection, would be fully documented and catalogued.
The first story the dad was fair to both kids and the wife. Putting money aside for a nice vacation is a good thing to do. The daughter went to the college of her own choice she needs to step up and pay the added cost plain and simple.
My dad had more than a million bucks saved, He earned it and I had no right to demand a penny of it. However, when I needed help, he was right there. I earned my associate's degree from community college and paid for it myself. Daddy loved learning new skills, and I was thrilled that we were classmates in 1982 when he decided to take a computer class and we just happened to end up in the same class. He wasn't only my Dad, he was one of my closest most trusted friends. We had some tongues wagging at first, when I'm a 21 year old girl hugging and kissing this 50-something year old classmate. He's my dad! Get your filthy minds out of the gutter! 😂
I didn't want to go to a university for several reasons. I wanted to be a graphic artist, and that didn't require a 4 year degree at my level. In the 80s, it wasn't all computerized yet, so it required a lot more technical skill and a steady hand, and I was already good at it. I made enough to buy a cute little 2 bedroom house for my son and me.
When my dad died in 1996, I inherited $300,000. In 2010, I became permanently disabled after a botched brain surgery. My mom and dad both lived through the Depression, and taught me how to budget and live well, cheaply. It's not just that money he left me more than 25 years ago, but the wisdom he taught me about not blowing it that has made it possible for me to own a home even though I can't work and keep that home and still eat.
I can relate to the guy with the comic books. My father did everything to go against every hobby I tried to pickup because it did not meet his standards. His standards was physical sports. Mine was in the area of electronics, didn't matter what type. My father refused to his kids to play video games, so my next best thing was remote control cars. They were more pricy though and also costly to maintain. Eventually my father hated that too and decided to put that in the his black list and forced me to drop that hobby. I still liked gadgets and I was limited because of the amount of money I had and Dad refused me those things. When I entered high school I took a electrical class that later about half term the school decided to get rid of the class, then I went into machinery. That year my Mom decided enough is enough with my father refusing to let any of us do anything we truly wanted finally got a N64 for Christmas. When I first saw the device my siblings and I were so excited to receive it. I looked over at my parents after getting it I saw my father sitting right next to my Mom all furious but said nothing. When I turned 22 I got my first phone and when the bill came in next month my Dad lost it and tried to have me return it when I told him it was too late now. I needed the phone for a job. I even saved up money for my first PC so I can use it for college to try to get my computer science degree, again Dad tried to interfere. Throughout all this time my father has punished me for things that were not needed when i got old enough he tried to use the 'I will kick you out of the house tactic' several times on me to get what he wanted... Until I knew I had enough money to move out and did everything to keep me in the house. Today I still live with my parents and I am 36 now, yes I can move out but I am there to drive him up the wall now for my entertainment. He did all this because he claims that me and my siblings were video game addicts and needed to be kept away from them. Truthfully I'm no video game addict, I just love electronics and try to make them work better. I am now a computer repair tech.
Let's see if I have this right.
Story #1 summary: Daughter makes a series of bad financial decisions and expects to be bailed out.
Sounds more like a course in Economics 101.
She went to a private collage and is expecting 30k in debt, that's nothing these days for that type of school looking at some projections that 30k would only be 1 year of her education there.
Comic book story: my parents being my dad, stepmom, maternal and paternal grandparents and birth mom (long story/tldr :water and oil when together) ENCOURAGED me to buy comics because it was a way to get me excited about reading at a young age. It was also a healthy and profitable hobby since it kept me out of trouble but also I would mow neighbors lawns and be a kid/teen helper around neighborhood to earn money ontop of my allowance for my bi-weekly trip to the comic shop or flea market. As a teen when needed extra money I would gather some of my less valuable comics and sell them to my favorite shop for spending money. Hell I had a Chris Claremont signed Xmen that I sold when graduated High school to pay for my first semester at local community college!!!!!
It's his money, he gets to choose
Comic book guy is a bloody hero, i'd buy him a beer any day
Personally I would have shortened the vacation and then spent the money on something I wanted but neglected for a long time(which could be the vacation). The daughter can pound sand - she wanted the prestige she can pay the price for it.
It doesn't say that he is going on the vacation alone,does it?
@@sandrajohnson6810 with how the wife is acting he might be.....
When my sister and I were in our early 20's our parents said they would give us both $12,000 to go towards whatever large expense we wanted. My sister decided to use it for a big fancy wedding and that amount only paid for half of it so she had to figure out how to finance the rest. I decided to buy a house and that same amount was the entirety of my down payment and closing costs. She ended up divorced after a year and had to declare bankruptcy, meanwhile I've had my house for 14 years now and the mortgage is almost paid off. For a long time she HATED any time I said anything about my house. Not my fault she chose the princess wedding instead of something practical.
First story: parents are not obligated to pay for a college education.
Neither are children obligated to take care of elderly parents, but what goes around comes around.
*Edit:* For those who can't read between the lines; I'm saying that selfishness begets selfishness, and the father might one day regret choosing an extravagant vacation over investing that windfall in something that could pay back in future, be it a kid's education, or retirement funds.
@@kauske Correct. Children are not obligated to take care of their parents.
@@kauske I don't see any suggestion the parents are asking the kids to take care of them in this story. The daughter is demanding to benefit from OPs windfall. It would be nice if he gave her additional money for school but there's no obligation.
@@kauske LOL!! Entitled brats rarely take care of their elderly parents!!
@@sarahpeterson6497 And parents are not obligated to take care of their ADULT children. So once you hit 18, good luck.
I find it so incredibly amazing in this day and age that people don't remember that in this day and age that most retail stores and public buildings have cameras EVERYWHERE! And to ask for the cops to be called when you yourself have an outstanding FELONY WARRANT is just plain stupid!