This is my post for #freewriters 261 prompt discuss this more hosted by @mariannewest
I owned a 150 year old bedroom set, an armoire, a dresser, and a bed.
Years ago my sister moved in with her boyfriend and needed a bed for her grandkids when they stayed with her. I let her use the four poster bed that went to the old bedroom set. This was when we had no one at home but us so I was not using it. I kept wanting to ask her for it because I could use it now that my daughter is home, she is sleeping on an air mattress.
My sister moved out of the boyfriend's house a few years ago, but they are still friends so I said nothing about the bed but have now been thinking about asking her if I could get it for my daughter, but I kept forgetting to ask about it.
Yesterday on our long drive, she told me her ex-boyfriend's daughter had moved in with him. This made me remember to ask about the bed. I said, "I would like to get my bed back. Remember I told you I was letting you use it, not giving it to you?"
She sheepishly said "It got ruined", I said how did it get ruined? She said she put it on the porch and after she moved out, someone moved it where the rain could get to it. I was upset because she could have told me to get it when she was no longer using it. She knew I was pissed and kept apologizing to the point where I told her I did not want to discuss this more, for her to drop it. I had to tell her this a few times. I am not sure why but her repeating how sorry she is, was making me get madder at her and I did not want to be that mad so not talking about it would be better. I know she feels bad and she should. Yes, I am still upset.
But how can I stay that upset? Today once again, she drove me to the jail so I could get my son's bike and backpack. At the jail I was told they do not hold their possessions there, the police in the city where he was arrested had them. They only hold the clothes they were wearing.
I was more than upset, I was mad. They said nothing about them not being there when I was there yesterday or when I had called and spoke with them multiple times.
On the way home we stopped at McDonald's for lunch. If I had the money for this car, I would not be eating there.
Then we had to make a U-turn because we passed a yard sale, we found it odd that on a Wednesday they were having a sale. My sister's granddaughter was not feeling well and she let her stay home from school, so she went with us.
At the yard sale, she wanted a bottle of perfume it was in a box marked 10 cents to a dollar and the lady said it was 25 cents and the cake spatula I bought was 25 cents, I told her I would pay with mine. Another woman said no that perfume is a dollar. I was planning on giving her a dollar instead of fifty cents, but when they jacked the price up to a little girl, it pissed me off. I told her I was going to give her extra for it but since she felt she had to charge more to a little girl, I would no longer be giving her extra money. BTW they own a huge house on the river with what looked like 3 acres of land. She did not need the extra 75 cents.
We made it back in time for my sister's other granddaughter to get off the bus.
