Ex-husbands

I just have to say something about my coworker's ex-husband. The guy is a complete jerk. And that's being nice. He will go out of his way to upset and inconveinence his ex-wife. Today, he was supposed to pick up his kids for the weekend. His own son headed out of the house because he didn't want to go with him. His daughter, though, won't stand up to him. She had told her mom that her dad should drop her off at our work so that my coworker could have her car for her ride home tonight. Well dad, being the asshole he is, made his daughter drive her mom's car up and drop it off at our work, and she had to rollerblade home. He would not come here to drop off the car. Instead, there aren't any sidewalks on the busy 3 mile trek rollerblading home. If she were to get hit by a car, he would blame his ex-wife. The guy is a jerk. At her age, I had already told my father enough was enough and I wanted nothing to do with him. Someday, I hope she learns that. Here her mother is buying a used car for both kids to use, and it's going to be a disaster. Her ex will now say her kids can drive to see him and that they had better because he no longer needs to come and pick them up. It's over an hour to his house.

From the things that myself and the other member of our department have been told, I cannot believe him. Granted, she isn't the person I would want to live with either, but as a single mom, I think she's doing ok. Watching every penny, making sure her kids have stuff. And her ex just retired from a $300K a year job, and barely pays child support for thier son under 18. As soon the daughter turned 18 he went to court to stop child support on her. She's still in college, but I guess Michigan doesn't abide by that. He calls himself a good dad, but I think he's dilussional. If she could just afford an attorney to represent her and take him to the bank. I also hope her kids also realize and one day will get tired of his shit. I know I couldn't possibly put up with hearing my dad call my mom nasty names and think he's always in the right and she's not, and what a joke. I gave her some tax advice because he claims them on his taxes and does not provide 50% of the support for them. I will have to bring in my book on Monday. He constantly puts his kids in the middle. He even wanted his son to come live with him after he bought his farm and his son said no way because all I am to him is cheap labor. That's all he wants me for. Nice, huh?

He even called his son just to tell him he thought he was worthless and never going to amount to anything, and he was such a loser. And the son had the speakerphone on because the cordless was dead and all his son's friends heard exactly what dad had to say. What a jerk.

I hope she's able to take him to the bank for all the crap he has put her and her kids through. Enough is enough.