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This is just a little anecdote, it might be funny, sad or whatever - I don't know. Some people may relate to this or hate me for it. It's not that bad I think, but part of me feels like it's a bit reprehensible of me.
My little cousin is 12 - he's the youngest in my family. The kid is extremely spoiled, he gets a lot of "stuff" all year long from his parents for absolutely no reason. His parents are extremely overprotective of him. The result is that he basically has this really annoying narcissistic attitude. It's normal for kids, but this one is much worse.
To put you guys in context, about 3 years ago we had a barbecue at my parent's house and he was "splashing" fully clothed people with water from the pool. This is fine, he's a kid and kids do that. However, my older cousin, about 26 at the time, playfully retaliated, getting a few drops of water on the kid's shirt. Huge mistake: He threw a major, major tantrum for a 9 year old. He basically started throwing punches at my cousin, shouting "I'll kill you, that was my favorite shirt".
Over the last few years, he has been getting better as far as attitude goes, but he's still a spoiled brat - pardon the expression. Anywho, on his last birthday a few months ago, both my aunts had presents for him and my mom didn't. It's because it's not common for aunts and uncles to give presents - I don't get anything nor do my 8 cousins on that side of the family. But he's the youngest, and so there's some kind of unwritten rule that says he should get some material property for his birthday or something. After unwrapping his 2 presents and immediately throwing them aside because it wasn't good enough for him, he walked up to my mom and said "you didn't get me anything?". She apologized to him, his face dropped and he walked away.
A few weeks ago, my uncle calls my mom to talk about Christmas presents. His plan is to 4-way split the price of an iPad ($700 thing, 3G version) with my mom and his two other sisters. He adds (I paraphrase): "maybe you should pay a little bit more since you didn't get him anything for his birthday." Keep in mind, none of my other cousins get anything from anybody besides their own parents. If I come off as jealous, you're getting me wrong... What bothers me is that my uncle basically used guilt to extract $200 out of her pocket and he's much, much richer than her. Now, I don't care at all whether my mom gets me expensive presents or not, but I know for a fact that I never get $200 worth of presents for Christmas (which is perfectly fine - but I think it establishes that there's something weird going on)
This part is really going to sound like first world problems but bear with me. Dec 24th: we generally do the exchange first because they're small $20-25 gifts. My uncle, however, was really anxious to give him the iPad, I suppose, so he took the initiative to do that - the family kinda followed it and unwrapped everything. Expensive presents are unwrapped including 4 iPod docks/players to 4 people who didn't have iPods (we're a brilliant bunch, really). The kid is obviously really happy with his iPad and basically ignores everyone else while he plays with it - unwraps his other presents and couldn't care less. Then comes the exchange: he unwraps 2 books, doesn't say thanks and goes back to his iPad.
Kicker (or whatever): Turns out, the next day he dropped the iPad while walking out of his house, directly on asphalt. The screen broke. When my mom told me about the broken iPad, she almost thought it was funny (although she didn't say that, it looked like it). I certainly do think it's funny. Seeing how this kid tends to cry for no reason, his reaction must have been quite explosive.
And now I find myself with this little ball of satisfaction in my gut and I feel like a psychopath gutting a small animal. I'm awful - but it also feels justified.
 
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LOL if that brat was in my family we would all be cheering when it broke.
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37121 Posts
You're awful? How?
From all your descriptions and details given, that kid is SPOILED and should not be. If he continues to grow this way, he's going to become a major problem. He will probably keep going on disrespecting his elders and peers......
You're not awful, all that you have said within this blog is justified
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why would a 12 year old need an ipad in the first place? Like when i was 12 i got my first wallet for my bday ^O^
definitely spoiled imo
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Granted, we can't take our standards from back in the day and apply it to children nowadays - obviously it's normal to expect something better than the little Samsung flip phone I had when I was... 14?
But it's the level at which he takes things for granted that is a bit upsetting.
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I'd be upset with the parents and worried about him...
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This kid is gonna have a brilliant future when he steps out into society and finds that no-one actually gives a shit about him lol. You're not awful at all for laughing or thinking it was funny. I do feel a bit sad for the kid though...it's not entirely his fault that he turned out that way due to bad parenting.
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From what you say, it sounds like this kid had it coming. There are some things I cannot stand and a narcissistic spoiled brat is definitely one of them. This kid needs to shape up, learn proper manners (thanking people for a gift even if you don't exactly like it), and quit being selfish. I would not feel bad for what you are feeling towards him breaking his iPad. If I was in your shoes, I would feel exactly the same way. This kid needs to grow up and be more mature for his age. 12 is more than old enough to know how to act reasonable within public.
Also your uncle sounds like a jerk.
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Not the kids fault IMO, but still funny.
My step-brother got a Logitech G700 Gaming Mouse, SteelSeries Siberia V2 Headset, 5000kr (~1000$ I think). And before christmas he was bitching that if he didn't get THAT exact piece of gaming gear then he would move to his dad. Now the funny thing is that he got just what I've been using for the last year or so, that I used about a year to save up for myself and he gets it at the blink of an eye at christmas. Pisses me off, and then he logs on to steam and grinds in my face like; I got gaming gear and money worth 6-7000kr, and you just got some books and stuff+500kr.
I was happy for my presents, but when he grinds that shit I get so mad I want to really kick his ass.
Kids like this, piss me off and should get some serious injury so they actually have a reason to cry for once.
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Osaka27179 Posts
Anyone who walks and uses an ipad a the same time deserves to be punched for stupidity.
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On January 01 2012 15:05 Manifesto7 wrote:
Anyone who walks and uses an ipad a the same time deserves to be punched for stupidity.
Anyone who has an ipad in the first place deserved to be punched.
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On January 01 2012 15:09 Fruscainte wrote:Show nested quote +On January 01 2012 15:05 Manifesto7 wrote:
Anyone who walks and uses an ipad a the same time deserves to be punched for stupidity. Anyone who has an ipad in the first place deserved to be punched.
i support both of these statements whole heartedly, awesome ending to a blog
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I think you're fine. I would feel the exact same way and I am sure anyone else in this thread would as well. In fact, you're probably better than me, I would have burst out in laughter without remorse.
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Hehe, I thought this blog was still young!
But yeah I just feel a tiny little bit bad for being happy about a kid's misfortune. Even though he's not the most pleasant person, I think his parents are largely at fault... Obviously it's easier to blame the kid with the "symptoms" than to criticize the source of the problem. Obviously he was raised wrong in many ways.
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Did they purchase the accident protection plan?
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On January 01 2012 15:19 Antisocialmunky wrote:
Did they purchase the accident protection plan?
I don't have specifics, but I highly doubt it. Either way, his father can buy him a mountain of iPads if he wants to, so there's a chance it's already replaced. I'm just speculating though but I wouldn't be surprised.
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Haven't had the displeasure of meeting someone like that yet, would probably punch them in the face if they were older or "accidentally" trip them a few times if they were younger if I did know anyone like that though. Realllly can't stand people like that
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Why on earth do you feel awful or like a psychopath? Little brat got what he deserved quite frankly, I just feel bad for the money that your mum and other relatives put in for the iPad which just went completely down the drain.
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kid is a brat. it pleases me when brats get what they deserve.
this pleases me.
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Tell your mom to talk to her other brother/sisters see how they feel about the whole gift situation, so that they can stop with that. To be completely honest, I think your uncle is trying to force it onto the family to give gifts to his son. My family seems pretty similar to yours, we only get gifts from our parents and our godfather/godmother and they're usually pretty cheap gifts(~$25 budget). Except from parents, but when a big console came out, my parents split it 3-way (I have 2 brothers) and that's about all we got... maybe 1-2 games...
But looking at the past few Christmas, I'm starting to feel like my older brother is becoming like your uncle. My dad isn't a big fan of gifts, normally when he gets a gift, he passes it down to whichever one of us who might make the best use of it, or whoever wants it, etc... But my older brother decided to, this year for example. Buy a new watch for my dad. My dad bought a new watch a couple years ago, so I was hesitant about it and considering just buying him a nice bottle of scotch (we had a $75 budget for each of us, because I'm a student and my younger brother is 16 and gets a neat allowance from my dad) because my dad loves scotch.
For whole month, my brother kept pushing me and my younger brother to buy a watch for my dad, so we're like "well, if you can find a $225 or under watch, I guess we can...". So of course, he has to shop for it, so he brings me to the mall one day "Okay, I want a second opinion on the watch, so lets go shop together" and I figured whatever... If I don't go he'll bother me for like 3 hours before leaving me alone so I figured it would take the same amount of time. We go to these jewelry store, I point him to the big stores, like Sears and The Bay, but it's too "cheap" for him, so we go to the "better" places, where we have all these nice watches. He finds the omega section, which has sponsored the Olympics apparently, so we know they're good watches. Then he found it... The watch that James Bond apparently wore in the newest movie!!! He asks me what I think about it, I just nod because I know it's out of our budget, then he complains about how I don't appreciate stuff. He asks to see it, I say "look at the price tag before you get all excited" so he gets all excited and because I don't appreciate stuff, he doesn't let me check the price tag and asks to buy it. It's $4100.
So now, he's all bummed out, so the next day I decide to just shop real fast to look at watches. The Bay had a 25% off sale on watches, which up'd our budget to like $280, there's a watch at $300, that's like SUPER HIGH TECH and its clean. Show a picture to my brother, he's like "OMG its so nice", I found it in a random jewelry store, where it was $350, he tried to convince me to up my budget to buy it at $350, I facepalmed and brought him to The Bay and we bought it there. After taxes, we all 3 had to pay $90 instead of $75, so our budget wasn't busted by too much.
To close this up, I'd like to say that my family has always been wealthy, but now my dad is trying to let us fly on our own. However, my brother is still trying to live as if he was a kid. He's trying to buy stuff just to show that he's got money, since he works full time. He tries to act as if he knows everything about everything, for example, he bought a $100 2m(6') HDMI Monster cable for his PS3, because it has 240Hz. (What the Hz are for, he doesn't know, but it's 240Hz so it's a lot) I wish he would grow up and realize that he doesn't know everything about everything and try to listen to people that know what they're talking about...
+ Show Spoiler +Wow, I ranted quite a lot about my brother... I feel your pain OP btw, be happy you don't have to live with him though
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