Bullshit and more Bullshit

I wake up this morning to a phone call from Chrysler Financial services... They want me to immediatly make a payment on my PT cruiser before they are forced to repo it.. WHAT?!?! I said, are you sure you have the right person? Yes, we are. You are formerly known as "Name Given", correct? NO, Not correct, that is my Father's ex-wife's name. Oh, are you sure your Not Mrs..... Yes, I'm sure, why would I lie? How do you have a 24 year old confused with a 40 something year old?! I requested that they please remove my information from thier system. Gave them my SS# and then they realized, they made a mistake. Thier not sure how that information came to be, but I better check it out.

So, I go on the net and get a credit report from a few places and sure enough, there is my step-mother's information with MY information. *sigh* I call them up and request that they please fix it. Thier in the process of investigations now. Its going to be about 30 days and I'll hear from them. If they have any further questions, they'll be in touch with me... Ya, great. SO, bills that are claimed to be mine in my credit report AREN'T mine! *grrrr* that pisses me off. My step-mother says "I'm filing bankruptcy anyways so, you do what you need to do". Great.

I contact Hephaestus's mom today, she had called Hephaestus a few days ago needing a statement from me regarding our car. My precious 2003 Elantra. It seems that my Father-In-Law is trying to have either A- it taken away from us, B- H’sMom pay for it, or C- We take over payments. Oh, thats going to be real easy with someone else's debt in my credit report!

So, I've been sitting here writing out this letter. I don't know if I'm allowed to share it with you all, but here it is, in all its brutal truth and glory.

To whom it may concern:

RE: 2003 Hyundai Elantra

In June of 2003 H’sStepDad, my Father-in-law, called me and my husband, his son Hephaestus requesting that we come by for dinner and that he had a proposition for us. Upon arriving at the residence, he ushered us into the den and said, "If you had a brand new car, would you take care of it? Would you keep it clean? How would you treat that vehicle?" I stated "You both know me, I can’t stand dirtiness, it would be very well taken care of." He then told me to open the door to the garage and stated "Here is your chance to prove it."

Sitting in the garage was a 2003 Champagne Colored Hyundai Elantra. He stated "This is your car, but there is one stipulation, you must keep the insurance, maintenance, taxes and tags current on it." He then went on to say that it was solely his idea (H’sMom interrupted with, "Wasn’t mine, didn’t want to do it") and that he always does for one child as he does for another and since he had bought Mars and MarsWife (Hephaestus’s Brother and his Wife) a car he decided to do the same for us. H’sMom stated repeatedly that she was hesitant about the situation and what kind of financial bind it would be putting us into. She said she wasn’t sure we could afford making a higher insurance payment along with maintenance and paying taxes on a new car on top of us already taking care of the boys. (We were struggling as it was) We thanked her for her concern, assured her it should be ok and that we would be fine as long as we didn’t have to make the actual bank note itself. I then asked H’sStepDad what other strings was attached to us taking the car and he said "None. Just make the insurance payments."

In the past two (2) years of us having possession of the vehicle, H’sStepDad has seen fit to hold it over our heads that he bought us that car. He always takes an opportunity to guilt trip us. While Hephaestus was working on the road, H’sStepDad would call him and state that he needed to mow H’sStepDad’s yard and other outside maintenance around their house. Hephaestus would inform him that he was out of state working and couldn’t do it. H’sStepDad would then threaten to take the car from us (which would leave us in a more financial bind because we wouldn’t have a way for me to get back and forth to work) because Hephaestus couldn’t help out around their property or in some cases work on H’sStepDad’s computer.

H’sMom would attempt to step in and tell H’sStepDad he couldn’t do that to us. We were keeping up with our part of the agreement and he wasn’t by threatening to take it away.

Hephaestus and I are not the only injured parties in this mess when it comes to H’sStepDad’s threatening. He threatened all of us on many different occasions that he could and would take the vehicles away from H’sMom, Mars and MarsWife, and myself and Hephaestus for any reason that he wanted to and there wasn’t anything that we could do about it. If we missed a phone call or couldn’t stop by because we were busy for any reason at all, he would get upset, throw the car in our faces and threaten to take it if we didn’t jump to his every word. He has even threatened me with taking the 2003 Elantra from us because wouldn’t sell our 1985 Delta to Hephaestus’s brother.

H’sStepDad is in violation of our agreements. His proposal: He pays the payments while we maintain insurance, registration and pay the taxes. "No Strings Attached" Hephaestus and I have kept our part of the agreement by doing all of the above. We offered after H’sMom lost her job in 2004 to attempt to make some of the payments to them. H’sStepDad refused and told us it was a gift and he wouldn’t have it.

H’sStepDad has helped in violating the agreement by adding new clauses as he saw fit whenever he wanted, by harassing us by threatening to take it away for reasons not in the original (and only) agreement made in June of 2003.

In conclusion, Hephaestus and I have never asked for any vehicle from H’sStepDad OR H’sMom. Especially a brand new one that needed payments by us or someone else. H’sMom bought us a 1985 Delta 88 in February of 2003 to help us get on our feet after we moved back to Arkansas from Virginia. In 2000 she bought a 1993 Lumina Sedan on our behalf after my car broke down and was not usable anymore. We paid her back the money she spent for the Lumina.

Sincerely,

Aphrodite on behalf
of herself and her husband Hephaestus, who is out of town working at this time.

So, that has been my HELL today. I wish I could talk with Guy. He makes me laugh and would be awesome to help me out right now just to be a friend. My girl Hal tried to help me out a little today, but she's got a hell of a life herself.

Tomorrow is our PNO (Pagan Night Out) Can't wait to get out and chill with some friends and have a decent night for once and not a bad day.

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Feeling: Determined


Listening to: something on the History channel