My dad is capable of being the most ... arrogant, willfully ignorant bastard ... ever.
My brother is scamming him again....
My dad will NOT listen to me, no matter what. It's incredible. Who does he listen to, his son who is a (former?) drug addict, and who has been in tons of trouble, repeatedly.... I would've stayed out of it, except they are once again trying to drag me into it while ignoring/overtly denying that is what is happening. You can say whatever you want,
I see what you did there. I see....Now, come to find out, dad has been sending deadbeat brother a few thousand and deadbeat brother is trying to get dad to get me to call said deadbeat brother and "answer a few questions" for him, but "he doesn't want you to represent him or anything...."
.... Yeah, because I've never heard that before, every day of my life... from people trying to get something for nothing out of me....
This has happened before with him and he has yelled and screamed and tried to emotionally abuse the crap out of me for not doing whatever crazy thing he dreams up (no matter how stupid and or illegal) and also paying him for some reason. No. A thousand times no. I try to explain this to dad, who keeps giving me deadbeat's excuses until I finally just snap with a "Not under any circumstances, ever, at all, never." He keeps trying to talk me into it and I just keep repeatedly saying "no no no no no no no no no" as he is talking until he eventually stops talking. If he starts up with deadbeat's excuses again, I just keep repeatedly saying no. This is, sadly, the only thing that will work, short of me calling deadbeat brother and subjecting myself to his abuse, again.
I keep trying to tell my dad he is being scammed, again, for probably the 4th or 5th time (he has thrown money at said brother before to the tune of at least $20,000 that I know about and who knows how much that I don't know about). Dad kinda needs the money for himself to live, but that doesn't stop brother. Brother is trying to use his kids as leverage and emotional blackmail.
I bet you brother is on welfare AND scamming money from dad and possibly working under the table.
"Not scamming...?"
"O really dad? Really? How do you know he's not on welfare when you say he couldn't possibly be living like he does on the $400-$500 a month you're sending him? How do you know that, or that he isn't drinking it away like before? Moreover, I work with low income and welfare populations every damn day (Some of whom are good, then there's Brother...), but don't believe me, believe the person telling you things to keep receiving more and more payments from you.... No ulterior motive on his part [cough] money [cough] he wants to keep getting more and more money from you [cough]."
To review/ TL;DR:* When my deadbeat, scam artist brother speaks, dad listens and sends money, but insists he is not being scammed again.
* When I speak, dad ignores me, does the exact opposite of what I say, brushes me off with what is basically a "he knows better" and then bitches to me when everything predictably and inevitably goes to hell.
Dad will listen to the son demanding money (who is "not scamming" him, again), but will ignore the one who doesn't and insist that one provide services to the son who "isn't scamming." Really? We're going there are we?
[sneezes] O, I'm sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit and it's just all over this.
I do not need this. Why do they keep involving me in this crap?