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There were lots of ways for me not to have my car left there, but you left it as my only option. We should have been able to resolve that, but you made it pretty clear that you wouldn't entertain any of them, so I figured I didn't need mom's car if I didn't have to go to her house with the kids. It was not what I wanted, but it solved your problem. I'd have been open to other solutions if you had been willing to talk about it... I told mom what we decided, and she didn't like it. But how was I supposed to tell you? You had one solution, and I could take it or leave it.
M:I imagine you'll leave your car here and take hers?
S:Something like that
M:Who is picking her up?
S:The car thing is complicated because I need to bring it to her house to do my brakes
S:I keep forgetting the dogs... is there any way for mom's car to be at mom's house?
M:Nope
M:I have a child to get to school I can't pick her up on a school day..
She's driving to me not to pay for her car
I also don't want her to pay for two weeks of car housing.
S:I don't want to leave my car on your street that long...
M:Mom doesn't mind, I don't mind, but don't then.
S:But also getting June and lily and the kids there won't work in mine
So mom's car needs to be at my house or hers
M:Mine. Im picking her up too.
S:But I can't drive both cars and mine won't fit all that travel in it...
M:Then leave yours or not.
My car has had nothing, moms hasn't. You've stayed. I think cars are fine in one of the nicest neighborhoods..
Moms car can just stay here. She trusts it here.
S:So you're free on the weekend of the 9th to go down and water then, right?
M:Yep
Picking up harper, makes sense.
I see you realizing it’s Sarah’s way or the highway… If your car can stay here, hers sure as fuck can. I have plans all weekend. I agreed to taking you to the airport and picking you up. I don’t even know how’d I’d get home on my fucking birthday, if that’s the plan you’re giving me.
The ting is. I never though for a second she'd help me get my car here. But I'd have driven her back if she had. Mom offered to pay for her Uber if needed, but if wouldn't have been needed.
My way or the highway? Which way is my way?
Leaving moms car there?
Having mom drop her car off here?
Molly picking mom up in Brazoria?
Driving both cars somewhere and taking her back home?
I vetoed one option. But it's the only one she offered, so she says it's my way or the highway. I think she's confused about what that means.
I feel bad for my mom. She thought Molly was offering to help. And thats true. She was. But not if she had to actually be helpful.
And I feel bad for Molly. Its her birthday tomorrow and everyone is mad at her for the nice thing she was trying to do.
But I also feel bad for me. I can see that leaving my car at Molly's is the easiest thing to do to make her nice thing work on her terms. But I don't want to. In two weeks, mom will be back and that car needs to get me to and from work. It's out of place in that neighborhood and that makes it a target. It's reliable, but not infinitely so and I can't afford for anything to happen to it and I wouldn't know if anything had. Two weeks is a long time for it to sit unattended, and it just doesn't sit right with me.
And I should be allowed to say so. But I feel like I'm ruining everything. And it sucks.