Jun 11, 2009 21:20
My dad wants to go and visit my brother for Father's Day, and it actually makes me really upset. My brother is an 8 hour round-trip drive away, and he's already visited twice in a month. I can't afford to make that trip because I have my microbiology final and am moving that following week.
Why am I not good enough to spend Father's Day with? Why can't he spend the weekend with the child who's not in jail? My father lives for letters and the occasional phone call from Paul. He can't remember something I told him that very day, but he can remember every single piece of news from my brother and can't wait to recount it to everyone. Yes, Paul is in a terrible situation and the victim of an overzealous prosecutor and an excessive sentence, but really, he put himself in this situation to begin with.
Sometimes I feel like I need to go and get a DUI myself to really get my dad to look up and take notice of me.