My Current Predicament

Dec 01, 2006 05:22

So as all (or most) of you know, I moved to California 2 months ago with Angel. We're currently staying at his dad's house because his dad offered and said "Stay here until u can get off ur feet and find ur own place. Stay here and save up money!" So, we stayed.

Soon after Thanksgiving, Angel's dad moved to Costa Rica (for good) leaving his wife and her 3 daughters (2 of which are from 2 different fathers, not Angel's dad. Just 1 18month that's theirs) here in California so they can sell this house. It's almost as soon as Angel's dad left that his stepmom started acting weird to us. She kept on saying how we're not "involved" in this family and we need to "cooperate" more with the house's rules. Then she wants me to wash the dishes... but not just the dishes when I have dinner at the house... she wanted me to do it all the time! Just me! I mean... I understand that I ought to do it when I have dinner here since she did all the cooking and stuff, but why should I do it when I've been working all day. I'm not her maid and I should not be required to do their mountain high pile of dishes, especially since I work all week long and her DAUGHTER doesn't do crap around the house. Her daughter just eats/drinks/whatever and leaves all the shit around, won't even think twice about washing/cleaning.

Then she wants me to take care of her baby. Now... if you ASK me to watch the baby or something, yea I'll do it. But don't expect me to do it out of the blue cuz i'm sorry but that's not my baby. If you're gonna have a kid... take care of her! It's not like she didn't have to kids prior to this. She KNOWS what its like to raise children. She doesn't work so she does have all the time in the world to take care of her own child. So instead of talking on hte phone allllllll day long to her friends and laugh/make fun of whoever (including me and Angel) she can take care of her own baby. She gives me this excuse "I have to clean the floors because they're always dirty." Ok... how long does it really take to mop/swifer floor? I would think the longest would be maybe 20~30 mins. Her baby watches tv in the morning and she stays there watching the tv, so I think Angel's stepmom get away for 20mins to clean the floor. I'm not a maid. I do it at work cuz I get paid to do it.

It's not like I'm not grateful that Angel's dad let us stay here and all. I've offered to pay them a monthly rent since the day I got here. They refused, "Oh no, you should just save up your money". And apparently they were completely understood when I told them that I'd help out around the house when I can but please don't expect me to do EVERYTHING. They were fine with that, "We understand, everyone will help clean as well". Yet I rarely see anyone raise a finger to do it... except that she cleans the floors every morning (but that's pretty much it). Her daughter doesn't do anything and neither did Angel's dad.

And this brings me my current predicament. Angel's stepmom called her husband (well, according to her, they're not married in the States b/c they got married in DR) and said "oh wendy and angel aren't doing anything around the house and they leave messes everywhere" and blah blah blah. We do not leave messes around the house cuz we're never AT the house! We're working. If some clothes are left unfolded on the bed she calls it a pigsty (yes, she comes in our room and I wouldn't doubt for a second that she looks thru our stuff). So, Angel's dad called Angel and just started cussing at him, telling him what a loser he is. Angel got upset (I would too if my dad talked to me like that) and said "Fine, if this is upseting everyone then we'll just move out." Ok, fine we're gonna move out. Common sense would say that we'd move out AFTER we have found a place to stay. But Angel's stepmom says "I want you out by Dec. 1st". And today is Thursday. We found an apartment but our credits weren't high enough so we couldn't get the place. We found a house renting out a room but we won't be able to move in until the 18th.
Angel asked his stepmom if we could stay until the 18th. I would think any regular response would be "Ok, be out by the 18th". Her response? "Why should I let you stay in this house when you don't do anything to help out?" I had to laugh at that... Help out? She meant be her maid. In fact, before Angel's dad left he had told us we were to start paying her $400 each as rent in December!

She was kind enough to let us stay until monday. My, what a saint!!! I ought to let her know that I know the only reason that she had a baby with her husband (which she claimed to be an accident. She said she took the birth control wrong) is to get a fucking green card. And that her daughter has constantly told me that she can't stand her husband and has wanted to leave him many times. And that the only reason she didn't move back to Costa Rica with her husband was that her daughters can have a better life out here without her husband. There are many more reasons... this woman has turned out to be a lying cunt. She has manipulated her husband and his family to think she's the wonderful/perfect little wifey, when in reality she can't stand his family (believe me, we've had conversations where she told me she couldn't stand them and hate that she has to see them all the time). I know once we leave she'd keep telling the rest of the family how terrible we were. She has made Angel's dad turn on his own son. His dad could careless now if we didn't have a place to live. And I know that she doesn't like me... she could careless about me, and I know the this whole side of Angel's family doesn't like me and wished he wasn't with me. In fact, his stepmom has been trying to get him to break up with me since we got here.

There's so much I'd like to tell her. Let her know that I know her little secrets and plans and how stupid she was to tell them all to ANGEL'S MOM! But of course, I probably won't do it. I'd rather just leave and know that I'll never have to see her again.

I know later on she'll get all this back to her... Karma, ya know. What goes around always comes back around.
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