Just got the Good Night call, or what I thought would be the good night call. Turns out, W just got to her mom's house because she had to work late, and S has been asleep since 9.
If anyone had bothered to tell me, I could have taken him to the park, maybe gotten some dinner. You know, made sure he felt like he actually had at least 1 parent that gives a damn. But, no.
W claims that she asked MIL to call me so I could tell him good night, but that he fell asleep before MIL was expecting him to. Utter crap, that.
So, yeah: I'm madder than that town in Norway. However, I really played it cool on the phone with W. Aksed if she had seen the big crash during today's section of the race, told her how sorry I was that she had to work late, kept it real light and friendly. She sounded like hammered excrement, so I decided to go in for the kill. Told her that the IRS had sent us some threatening letters today (we owe about $3300 that we don't have, only about $600 is my problem if she really wants a D), and just as quickly told her that the pictures from a race she had "run" recently came in. Kind of a good news/bad news thing.
The IRS thing, by the way, came up during our Sunday meeting over coffee a few weeks back. I had already informed her that I had legal grounds to only pay my share, but I offered her a clean $1000.00 to help, even though it was more than I technically owed. By now you should know that I'm pretty sneaky, and these last few months have really helped me develop my "hard edge". Offering her the money at the stage that I did conveyed a lot of information: For one, that I can be nice and try to help even though she knows she deserves no kindness from me, for another, that I am trying to keep my eye on all the balls we are currently juggling, and lastly that I have taken this situation very seriously and arranged my own financial house exclusive of any of the accounts that she has access to (we have always shared all the money/access, which makes me feel all the more foolish now that I have found out what she has been doing with it).
48 hours, I know, but she is really starting to push it.
