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“Against my better judgment (and the advice of my own mother), I let my sister, her husband, and her young son stay with us when they lost their apartment. They had lost multiple apartments because they would stay without paying rent until the landlord figured out a way to kick them out. But she was family, and I couldn’t turn her away. While there, they would hide their own food in their room but eat all our food. At the time, we were installing wood flooring in the living room, so the rule was that there would be no eating or drinking in the living room. I would get up in the morning (because I had to go to work early, so they were still up when I went to bed), and there would be the wrappers from icy pops in the living room, so obviously, that rule was ignored.”
“I confronted my sister about it, and she said her husband thought that our rules were too strict! Also, our bathroom sink wasn’t operational, so my brother-in-law helped himself to one of my Tupperware dishes. He filled it with water from the tub and set it in the sink to use for shaving because he couldn’t manage to shave without a mirror.
We had about enough of it after about a month, and I told my husband he could kick them out (he had wanted to for a while but acquiesced to my wishes because they were family). They must’ve sensed that something was happening because they hid in their room with the lights off to avoid speaking to us. Finally, one day, I took our kids and left to take them to a park, knowing they would come out of their room after they thought we were all gone. My husband said that we had barely gotten out of the driveway when they emerged from their room, and he told him that we needed them to leave. My brother-in-law accused him of putting his son on the streets, and my husband said, ‘Your son can stay, but you and your wife have to leave.’
He watched as they moved their stuff out because we didn’t trust them at all, but our brother-in-law had his own idea of revenge. After they were gone, my husband discovered that my BIL had gone into the bathroom just before they left for the final time and urinated all over the whole bathroom: the sink, the tub, the walls, the floor, the ceiling. It was everywhere. That’s what you get for being a good person.”
—Anonymous
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