This woman really dislikes one of her male cousins, who’s 25-years-old. On the surface, he is supposedly good-looking, outgoing, and quite funny. But she’s always found him to be very childish, irresponsible, and downright annoying.
That’s why, after he threw her in the pool one day while she was wearing a new pair of hearing aids, costing her $6,000, she refused to let it go.
For some context, she’s been dealing with hearing issues for years, and she recently got hearing aids that were $6,000. Not long afterward, she also attended her grandmother’s birthday party, which took place at her grandma’s house.
Then, while she was just relaxing on the back porch with her family, her cousin thought it would be hilarious to throw her in the pool and ruin her hair, which she had just gotten done that day, even though she told him not to.
“I repeatedly told him to stop and to put me down in a very serious and not playful at all tone,” she recalled.
Spoiler alert: her cousin didn’t listen, and she got tossed in any way, ruining her expensive hearing aids.
All he had to say afterward was “whoops” and that he had no idea she had new hearing aids.
“And when I told him the cost of them and that he would have to replace them, he freaked out and said no way,” she explained.
Her family even took her cousin’s side and didn’t think it’d be fair for him to pay $6,000 since she earns the most out of anyone in her family. Meanwhile, her cousin was still in college and working a call center job, which barely allowed him to make ends meet.
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Not to mention, her cousin and his girlfriend had a baby together and were living together in a small, one-bedroom apartment.
But honestly, she didn’t care about that, and when her cousin refused to hand over the money for her hearing aids, she actually took him to court.
She wound up winning her case as well, yet her cousin would not make any of the court-ordered payments. Regardless, she didn’t give up and simply brought her cousin back to court!
“And his wages are now being garnished for the maximum amount, which is 20% of his total wages,” she revealed.
“It pushed him over the edge of what he could afford, so he’s had to work extra and drop out of college to be able to pay their rent.”
This left her family absolutely livid with her. She, on the other hand, thinks her cousin got what he deserved. She admitted that if he’d given her a sincere apology, things might have been different.
“Had he given a real apology after the incident and asked if he could wait until he finished school to pay me back, I would’ve been fine with it,” she vented.
“But the entitled little [jerk] is digging his feet in at every move.”
Nonetheless, now that the wage garnishment is impacting her cousin’s girlfriend and child, she can’t help but wonder if she did go too far.
How would you have handled this situation in her shoes?
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