Spite
Today (Wednesday) was my day to have dinner with my mom, which I do every week. As most of you already know, my mom is the most important person to me and so it makes sense that we share a lot. One of our conversations tonight was about my step-dad’s ex-wife’s ongoing struggle to purposely piss off her ex-husband and, by extension, my mother. This time in the form of child support, a horribly flawed system but I’ll cover that another day. We’re talking about spite today.
This woman, we’ll call her Kodi Slutmeyer, lives in a million dollar home (which means a lot in Tennessee), her husband is a pilot whose income is in the 80k range. She purposely holds a low-paying, part-time job so my parents child support is ridiculously high. Eight hundred dollars a month high… for one 15 year old boy. So my mom and step-dad are working their asses off to pay this pampered, spiteful superbitch. And she does all this, why? Because she’s jealous and vengeful.
I don’t understand how someone can have the capacity to want to actively ruin someones life. I know revenge feels good but I only use it when it’s all in good fun; no one actually gets hurt. What do you do when someone is purposely attempting to destabilize you? Do you fight back even if the law is against you? Do you sit back and wait for karma to kick in?
I’m a huge proponent of the karmic, biding of time approach. You take what they dish out with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. That in and of itself will piss them off but then karma kicks in. Bites them in the ass, threefold. It’s fun to imagine (a meteor falls from the sky, as if sent by God, crushing the house and young Kodi. Shame), which makes the waiting slightly easier. That’s not to say I wouldn’t mind giving Mrs. Slutmeyer a proper bat-beating but only if karma put the bludgeon in my hand…
What would you do? What can you do if the (utterly useless) law is against you? Right now all we can do is wait. But I can say this; my dreams tonight will most likely involve a double-decker chocolate moonpie, frozen yogurt, and a karmically charged blunt object.
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Since I know WAY too much about this system, unless there’s some loop-hole I’m unaware of, TN child support is based soley on the paying parents income. They take 20% of that, no matter the income of the parent recieving it.
That being said, TN’s child support system is wretched. They forced us to spend about 8 hours total in the courthouse waiting to get child support when neither of us wanted to go that route. AND THEN they’re perpetualy late with the money. I feel so bad for realy struggling single moms that depend upon such an unrealiable system.
They used to be paying only 130 a week and Mrs. Slutmeyer had it raised to 165 somehow, but she wanted it retro’d and so now they magically owe back support tacking another 35 dollars a week. What’s ridiculous is they don’t take her rich ass husband into account nor how many bills my parents have to pay.
Also, my father is late on his support by like three months and if the system actually payed attention to this he would be in jail. My mother, being the kind soul she is, hasn’t said anything though so they probably wont notice for half a year…