Oh My Gawd!

Ok I know I haven’t been around to update my blog but first off I really need to vent.

A while ago I found out that my dads girlfriend worked up a phone bill of roughly £600, he didn’t seem bothered about it because he was convinced she’d end up paying – and she never. Now he’s left it be and the bill has reached £700 with additional charges. On the same day I find out about the increase of this bill I find out that he, himself, worked up a bill of over £800 with a catalogue company and to make things worse – he used my name!! So that’s about £1500 that needs to be paid and now I’m not in full time work how the HECK am I to pay it? Let him pay? Sure, I would – except he gets very little income and the money I recieve goes into the house.

When I cut down hours I was really hoping I’d be able to fall back on his account, and maybe we’d get through until I found another job but there’s no chance of that now. Any money he gets will be going towards these damn debts. Why the hell didn’t he tell me before it got to this stage?? Did he think it would just go away?? He used to ignore phonecalls, I stupidly didn’t think much of it – thought it was hoax callers or silent calls or whatever but now I know why. We’re now getting these phone calls where they hangup before you answer and I checked the number online, and it’s the debt collection service for the company he’s in debt with. Apparently they “harrass” clients who owe money until they pay up – how true that is I don’t know, just found it on the Internet but it would make sense.

Everytime I mention the money he gets into a rage and tells me to stop going on about it. I have the right to be angry. I have the right to be concerned. I have the right to talk and try and settle this because he doesn’t seem to be doing a damn thing about it! It’s my name that’s going to get the stinking red mark next to it if it’s not paid up. It’s going to fall on my head and if they’re not paid the bills will get higher.

I’ve got him now to call the catalogue company tomorrow to try and sort something out. Anything. Just get things going and communicate and come to some sort of arrangement. I can’t believe he would be so daft as to let these two debts slip – what was he thinking?? He knew I was going to cut down hours in work, he’s known for a long time. If I didn’t open that letter one day by mistake I wouldn’t know to this day! Yes, I’m angry. Sorry, needed to vent and tried to contain my language while I was at it.

I’ll update with what’s been going on lately tomorrow. Explain why I’ve cut my hours down and my new start in college.