I know this shouldn't give me rage, but it does.

[EmilieMadison]

(Background: I live in a 4 unit building all with separate entrances- my grandparents have the unit above me, another couple lives in the unit next to me, and an elderly couple live below me. The lower unit has a secure exterior entrance and a separate interior unit door.)

My downstairs neighbors winter in Las Vegas and left last week. They lent the car they left here to their grandson. They just called my mom (they are friends with my parents) in a panic because the grandson has locked the car key in the car while out shopping. My mom just called me. And asked ME to go upstairs to my grandparent's unit and get the house key to the neighbor's unit (my grandparents have a spare key I guess), go down there, find the 2nd set of car keys, and then give it to the son and grandson when they get here. WTF. For some reason they dont have a key to the apartment themselves. 

And of course, my mom wouldn't ask my grandparents to do this ::)I said "Can't I just give them the key and THEY can go find the car key?" My mom said "I guess that would work. Oh, but you'll also have to unlock the exterior because they dont have a key for that either. Just go out and lock it again when they leave. And make sure they give the house key back, too." 


I dont mind helping people out, but OMG! My mom volunteers me A LOT to help without asking me if I can/will and it's always a million times more complicated than it has to be or should be.  

[EmilieMadison]

Dec 15, 2013 18:45:54 GMT -5 mofongo said:

This definitely shouldn't elicit rage, but if your mom already annoys you I can see how you could feel aggravated.

This is not the first favor my mom has volunteered me for in the last week alone. It's that she never even asks me, and it often has a much simpler solution that might not involve me at all. But yeah, this definitely falls into a "look at that bitch eating crackers" sort of thing for me lol!

sent from: I'm on my phone, don't expect much.

[snickers]

This wouldn't really bother me, but I wouldn't like people volunteering me all the time.

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My mom volunteers me for stuff constantly. And sometimes it's for legal advice. Which really. I shouldn't be giving anyone but my clients. It annoys me. Not rage, but annoyance.

[EmilieMadison]

Dec 15, 2013 19:12:11 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

I'd feel weird about going into a neighbor's apartment on the advisement of someone other than that tenant or the landlord. Does your family own the property? If that's the case than I guess it's less weird.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear: It was the owner of the downstairs unit who asked for someone to get the key to her son. 

[EmilieMadison]

FTR, I did it and no one died in the process

[papie]

I get the rage because my mom is the same way and at some point I'd like to decide by myself to help people without mom volunteering me.