| My sister...
could alienate God, and frequently comes close.
We worked at the same restaurant one time, and I had to convince people that I was not like her.
She says hateful, mean things, and will hold a grudge forever against anyone who has anything to say that differs from her point of view. When she had her son, she "dropped and ran" back to work. My poor nephew had to put up with 3 babysitters per day, until I got off my second job to relieve the thrid sitter. As soon as I got financially stable, I gave up the second job, and cut out one of the sitters.
He is now 15, and only now is she starting to see how much quality time I have had with him, and how much she missed out on. I put up with things, like on her days off, she wouldn't wash the dishes at her house. She waited for me to come over (because I babysat at her house, believing that children should go to sleep in their own beds) to wash her dishes. I freaked.
She was asecretary at the only elementary school in town. She was calllign parents and telling them that their children's shorts were too short. Imagine the parents she alienated then. That was not part of her job description.
They transferred her to the "little school) (k-3) and she did something over there too. What, I am not sure of, but enough that the school system transferred her whole department to the Board of Education building across from one of the schools.
Now she is the secretary to the child study team. Imagine those poor parents who have enough to cope with, having special education children with some real handicaps, and they have to put up with her.
There is nothing anyone can really do now, because she was tenured last fall.
I had car trouble a couple of Christmas's ago, and I had to have my cousin bring me to his Mother's house for dinner, etc. Later, my sister shows up, and tore into me so badly, it was pathetic. My cousin's wife asked me what did I do to her. My cousin told her that my sister is always like that. His wife said that she had never heard like that with me. He told her that is because I leave when I know she is coming.
I am the older sister and always tried to look out for her. But now that we are adults, there is no covering up for her behavior.
You have to jsut love her because she is your sister, forgive whatever you can, and give the rest of the hurt to God. God will take the pain away, and give you strength to continue to deal with the madness.
Take care all!! Norma
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