Spoiled brat much?

[sincere]

Overheard phone conversation between my mother and my sister--

Sister: You're only buying one of my bras?
Mom: I said you should take $45.
Sister: *annoyed* So, you're buying one of my bras.
Mom: What are you talking about?
Sister: They cost $40 a piece!
Mom: That's ridiculous!
Sister: I wear a huge size! It costs that much when you're a huge size!
Mom: I don't have that kind of money--
Sister: *really annoyed* So you're buying ONE of my bras.
Mom: Okay, okay, take $90. But I'm not buying your skirt.

It's not that you're huge, it's that you shop at Victoria's Secret and nowhere else, you greedy whore.

I can't even fucking imagine the amount of money my mother must've spent on my sister in 18 years, but I know any given year is more than I asked from her in five. I never need new clothes. My sister has spent her entire paychecks buying new clothes -- the day she came home with her first paycheck she also came home with two bags full of clothes -- and now that Mom's yelled at her for it, it's back to making Mom buy things.

If I'd had that argument with my mother, it would've ended with my mother shouting about not taking that tone with her, and I would have $45, and threats that she might not pay for anything at all.

If it had been me, of course, she probably never would've allowed me to take the money in the first place. She begrudges every penny I make her spend.

Comments

[muscatlove.livejournal.com]

My younger sister is actually a huge miser, but she gets half her money by working a lot of hours, and THEN telling my parents "I'm going to the movies. Give me $20." I sit and gawp as I think "..but you make more than I do!" and my mother GIVES her the money.. when we were kids she used to say "I need lunch money!" everyday, so my mother would give her $5.. then she would proceed to BRING A LUNCH to school, save the $5, and then at the end of the year go off and buy a new pair of skis or go on an Outward Bound trip or whatever. -_-;

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

...your sister has Jedi mind tricks. That's the only explanation.