Payback is a bitch and so are you

Dec 22, 2016 10:03 AM

imbettingimnot

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May be, it was just my thinking.

A little back story: My dad remarried when I was about eight years old, to a psychotic woman, and out of that, my brother and I ended up with four almost equally psychotic step-siblings.
I've realized now that it was mainly just my step-mom's doing. She was a pretty bad alcoholic for a time, was horribly jealous of my dad spending any time with me (I was 7), refused to include mainly me in any family activities/trips/pictures, had my little brother and I sleeping in a bunk bed, in a laundry room with no cooling whatsoever during the weeks that we'd spend at their house during the summer. I live in Tucson, AZ. Coupled with the dryer running most of the time, it was horrible.
Anywho, one of my step-sisters got into being a huge meth addict around the age of 14. She was the worst.
Ridiculed my brother and I, sexually abused us on more than one occasion, constantly made fun of pretty much everything about me...

One day, I got sick of her shit and called her a bitch. Apparently, it was bad timing.
I had no idea that she was tweaked out of her mind when I said it.
She launched herself with meth-like reflexes across the living room at me, arms outstretched, and her hands clamped tight around my throat. Next thing I know, my step brother had thrown himself into her and it surprised her enough to release her tweaker superhero strength from my esophagus.

She's since cleaned up but she's still a crazed nut job who does anything she can to play the victim in any given situation and bullies people until they give her what she wants. Three kids have made her only slightly less selfish.
Anyway, tonight she posted on Facebook that some dude gave her a hard time about not being able to put store credit on a gift card, and after her final "no", he jumped over her register and grabbed her by the throat.
I know she's slightly better than she used to be and she was just doing her job. No one deserves to feel unsafe at work... But after everything, I felt a weird sense of satisfaction that she was getting to understand the terrified, helpless feeling that I'd felt.

Tl;dr: Stepsister was a crazed meth head, OP got sick of her shit when she was little, called her a bitch and stepsister choked her. Tonight, sister was working, angry customer tried to strangle her and OP was oddly okay with it.

And that kids is how I Meth your mother . . .

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is exactly why I need my children to love my SO as much as I do. I left my ex because my oldest said he was constantly mean to my kids

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Also, how are relations with your stepbrother? Has to be somewhat decent if he intervened to save your life.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

not really payback, more like schadenfruede

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"meth-like reflexes"

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

"meth like reflexes"

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I live in tucson, it is always hot as shit. And this town is in one of the worst addiction epidemics I have seen.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Tucson eh? Nice to see a Tusken Raider on here. Hope you're aight.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fellow Tuscan checking in, gotta love that AZ meth

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I feel bad, but I chuckled when I read meth-like reflexes.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

@repoststatistics

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Alcoholic stepmom? Check. Meth? Check. Tucson? Check. Yup, story checks out.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

All it needs is a little heroin thrown in somewhere and no one would ever need a better example of this city.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Imgur fucked me up... Untill the end i expected a giant crustacean or a trebuchet :( I hope your pain will ease with time OP

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The word karma is seriously misunderstood in the west to mean result. It actually means cause

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"And with with meth-like reflexes, she hurled her self across the room!" Sounds like a comic book line.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Tucsonan here, this sounds pretty mild for our local crank crowd. Glad you came out okay.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

+1 for meth-like reflexes lol

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

+1 for the phrase Meth like reflexes

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Wanna bet she never thought it was anything similar than what she did to you?

9 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 0

I'd be surprised if she even remembers doing it.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

This, people repress these things

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Should have commented "Oh I totally know the feeling" heh

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This is the best

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No need to feel any guilt, it was just karma fam.

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

Holy shit the past for images have been people talking about how their family is a bunch of doughnuts.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*douchebags

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think I prefer "doughnuts" as an insult. It doesn't make any sense, but I love it.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It was a glorious typo. I'm going to start using it.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dude, fucking brutal, fuck them, go you

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A "Hey, now you know how it feels to be strangled by a lunatic" Facebook post is pretty much obligatory now.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My big sister tried to strangle me one day when we were younger too. I handled it the mature way and put Nair in her shampoo.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Who uses a dryer in Arizona in the summer?

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 2

Well if you leave your shirt on a car for too long it will literally melt if it's polyester, plus a lot of us have no clothes lines in mesa.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mostly from the fact that the second half of summer there's a chance a haboob with take your 20$ jeans away

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What's a "haboob"

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A giant wall of dust and wind followed by rain, usually knocks out power and causes car crashes

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Interesting. Thanks. Can't say I didn't expect something derogatory though.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Right? Just put the clothes on and go outside. Or clothes line if you have one.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Clothes get crispy when drying outside. But I'd dry them outside if it wasn't against my hoa (we have a view fence)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've always just used the dryer. I have no clothes line so I'd have to throw it over the wood fence and then it gets splintery. HOA's suck

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Do you want scorpions in your shirt? Because that's how you get scorpions in your shirt?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Eh. Just shake it out before bringing it in. I've yet to encounter scorpions in my house/outside in the 26 years I've been in Tucson.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I only saw them when I was little and it seemed like it was at least one a day. The last one I saw was probably when I was about 10 y/o.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've seen tons in Phoenix. Almost stepped on a few.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In nearby Atlanta my sister in law uses dryer for EVERY load of washing. Local regulations forbid washing lines. They use SO much energy.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

What in the world.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Blaming step mom when your dad allowed it to happen. Sounds like your dad was shitty too.

9 years ago | Likes 492 Dislikes 15

sounds like they all suck

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I was just saying that. I'm glad someone else pointed that out as well.

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

I mean, I was in a very similar position to the OP and absolutely my dad was a shitty parent, but by that time her kids were already fucked.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Was in a similiar situation as OP, dad was a great person and had a spine until it came to step mom, fucking bitch.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So, as far as my dad goes: he wasn't necessarily shitty. I've had a conversation with him about any/all events that transpired with her 1/?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

and in that conversation, I remembered that he wasn't around for a lot of it. Did he know our sleeping arrangements and choose to ignore 2/?

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

How dismissive she was of me when he was around? Yes. My dad wasn't going to win any farther of the year awards by any means and there's 3/?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Maybe a chance he's even feigning ignorance. He also recognized that he should have done more to protect us and he's the only one to 4/?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Have apologized. He's made a pretty massive effort to try to make up for some of that, recently. I agree that he was partially to blame, 5/?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I think abused women who let their kids be abused, are also shitty parents.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I agree! This is where people really need to examine their idea of blame. Shitty and at fault are sometimes different things, male or female

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So....her name is Karma?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 18

9 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 5

Why ?

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Dont believe any confession bear story

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 8

I don't believe you could think that

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Jokes on you. I don't think

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Mine was true.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Strangled = dead, choked = lived. so which is it? She dead or alive.

9 years ago | Likes 269 Dislikes 32

Based off of reading the story, I think it's pretty obvious that OP meant 'choked'.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

"No no no, choking is what you do when you eat too fast. I am SSSSSTRANGLING..." - Handsome Jack, Borderlands 2

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Did you not fuckin read

9 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 27

I don't know why you got downvoted bc you're right, she clearly lived

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

You must be great at parties.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

In all honesty, I was just trying to avoid being too redundant. I didn't realize that they meant completely different things.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wasn't trying to be an Imgur nazi, I was just confused. I hope you get past the past and move on positively.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Technically it just means choking someone with the intent to cause death. Death doesn't have to follow, even though it usually does.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Schroedinger's stepsister.

9 years ago | Likes 170 Dislikes 3

My thought as I posted the question.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Choked = inside the throat, strangled = outside the throat. Handsome Jack taught me.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Neither are necessarily fatal - I think it's that choking is restriction of the airways and strangling is restriction of blood vessels

9 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

That's how I've heard it explained before.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Choking is food, strangling is when people do it

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Same with electrocute vs shock that one always bugs me

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm with you on that.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"tonight she posted on Facebook..."

9 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 2

Zombie!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1