Re: Got company. $100 missing. Here\'s what I\'ve done.
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Just let it slide, the kid will deny it, there is no way to actually prove it, it is just going to create awful tension around the holidays. Just keep the money hidden when he is around.
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This is what I'm doing.
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normally I'd buy him something but I won't this time and I'm not going to let my mother spend the amount she usually would on him. Also, his d-day is Friday. I was going to put $100 in the card but now he's getting a fiver.
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WTF? How is any of this even close to 'letting it slide'?
Letting it slide means letting it slide.
If you want to give him some cold-shoulder type treatment and think that's best (which I think is a bad way to go but whatever) then go ahead and do that. But you aren't even coming close to the 'letting it slide' suggestion that you somehow think you are actually agreeing with.
Also - there still seems to be the very real possibility that you were shorted at the cage or had mis-counted how much you had won or something like that.
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You're right and as I've mentioned above I'm going to totally let it slide.
Re the necessity of telling my brother even at this time: He's on the patio eating a salad, my sister is sunning herself at the pool and mom is looking forward to going to the mall. Thanksgiving dinner is at 3:00 tomorrow. I can't bring myself to mess this up.
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