SON OF A *****!!!Follow

So yeah, I always told my parents that if I ever won the lotto I'd set them up real nice, pay off there house > buy them lakefront property depending on how much I won.

They take me to the Casino's up in Indian Country every once in a while and If I ever won a jackpot I was planning on giving them at least a third, because I love my parents and know they spend a hell of a lot on me growing up.

So this past weekend my parents go up to the Casino in Northern Michigan, I ask if I can come along, and they don't let me, I just got a nice job making pretty good money and I had a 3 day weekend. "Nope, we aren't coming back until Tuesday, you need to work that day." So I concede, and I'm not driving myself 4hrs up there just to waste $500.

Now, This morning I'm just about to go to bed when my dad gets up for work... and he shows me a picture... a picture I thought was a joke at first. He thought it was a joke when he first saw my Mom too... She hit the jackpot on Carribean Stud, a 5 card Royal Flush. She won $170,000 before taxes, $120,000 take home.

Guess what I get? Nothing lol. My 2k debt I owe them? "You need to learn responsibility." SON OF A *****.

They are actually going to buy my plane ticket to Arizona($400) now, but still... the only reason I'm still living with them right now is because I give them 1/3-1/2 of my paycheck every week so I can't save my own money to move out, which pisses me off to no end because they've already stated they don't want me to move out(Bro on the other side of the country in Arizona with my new nephew may have something to do with that ><)

The fact is, I love my parents and I'd feel like a bad son if I had won that much money and given them 4 times what I hoped to get from them. That is even $5000 to pay off my debt and help me get out on my own and yet I'd plan on giving them well over $20000 if I had won that much.

Also, Son of a ***** refering to how pissed off I am, I am not a literal Son of a *****, my moms great lol. Still a crappy situation

Edited, Sep 8th 2006 at 12:54am EDT by tommyhaynes

You need to learn responsibility.

The fuck makes you think they should give you any of it, moran?





Edited, Sep 8th 2006 at 1:00am EDT by GitSlayer

You can't save money to move out on your own but you were willing to blow $500 at a casino?

I'm thinking your parents aren't the problem.

Not to distract from the whiney little cUnt of an OP, but I have a similar situation that has had me pissed off for a couple of years now, and I mean really, fUck him.

A buddy and myself took a day-trip to the mining town turned casino row near the town I live in, and being that he was just supplying the smoke for the ride up there, I filled the tank of my '86 Subaru GL and spotted him forty bucks with which to gamble.

So I'm pluggin away, making sure to drink what I gamble, chatting up the meth-addicted cocktail waitress and just generally enjoying myself when the dude hits a five hundred dollar nickel slot jackpot. Well that's great, he treats me to a dollar and ninety-nine cent steak and eggs lunch. Before we leave he hits another thousand dollar pot.

Now here's the beef. The motherfUcker only gives me back the forty bucks. I'm of the opinion that he should have given at least five-hundred, seeing as he never would have even been in Cripple Creek if it weren't for me. He moved to New Orleans and I hope he died in Katrina. What is the common practice when someone fronts you gambling dough and you come up way ahead? What's the accepted reciprocation?

Edited, Sep 8th 2006 at 1:15am EDT by Barkingturtle

Geez. He should have at least filled up the tank.

Your wishful thinking that if someday you were to win the Lotto doesn't translate to actual money, son. On the other hand, your parents who have disposable income have the option to gamble with what cash they have. All of this does not release you from your obligations to pay them back for the two thousand dollars you owe them. If, after you have shown enough work ethic to satisfy their desire to see you grow up and be reponsible with your money, they may forgive what debts you have towards them. But in the meantime, their fortune does not equate to it being your fortune.

That being said, rat poison in their morning orange juice will ensure that they pass on quickly from this mortal plane leaving you with the cash if you think they are frivolously spending your inheritance.

Totem

That's a touchy situation. Personally, if my friend had fronted me the gambling money, I would be inclined to, at the very least, offer him half the money. If he insisted he did not want it, I would still give him some sort of monetary compensation. Then again, some people are just buttfucks and have no courtesy. You should have kicked him out of your car on the way back home and made him use his new found fortune on a cab.

I'd guess it falls between the bare minimum (giving back the $40) and you asking for 33.3% of his winnings (or 50% as some people posit).

A 10% tithe seems appropriate. Which would get you $150 and keep enough in his pocket to feel like he kept his winnings. I'll leave the question of whether or not that $150 should include the initial $40 up to you.

That said, the whole "Hey, you won! Umm.. but you never would have been here if not for me so gimme gimme gimme" bit seems just as tacky as not going beyond the $40 repayment.

I see the art of being gracious and happy for your friend's winning is dead.

You loan $40 to a friend to gamble with, with no other strings attached aside from wanting your $40 back in due time. The friend wins. Now you suddenly demand a portion of his money or else threaten him with a walk home.

Who's being the greedy asshole here?

True, but wouldn't a decent human being at least offer you some money above and beyond what you leant them?

Also forgot to mention.. Upon giving the guy the $40 would be the appropriate time to pre-define payback terms. Such as, here's $40, if you win anything I get half. Sound good?

If he accepts the verbal agreement, then if he does win and chooses not to honour the agreement, he's the schmuck.

Says who?


Personally, if I were BT in that situation, I wouldn't expect a penny more than the $40 I had loaned. If I were BT's friend, I would've given him at least a couple hundred dollars of my winnings.

You'd hope so. But you can't control every social situation, only how you deal with it. If everyone acted as we wanted them to, we'd never have need to be gracious.

The $40 wasn't framed as an investment, it was given to the friend so the friend could have a good time. Then, all of a sudden once the friend wins, the dollar signs go off in your eyes and you start sticking your hand out and expecting (judging from responses) $500 to $750. I don't see that kind of envy and greed as anything other than ugly.