My birth mother isn’t a great person. Just gonna put that out there. For my birthday one year (I think maybe my 14th birthday?) She was mean about everything for no reason. She said things like, “don’t eat too much cake, you don’t want the extra pounds.” “That’s all you have planned? Because you don’t have many friends?” I planned to see a movie, have ice cream and go to the bowling alley afterwards. Apparently she had already seen the movie because she told me all about the movie I was about to see. Later that night she was at the bowling alley. She got very loud and drunk. She talked very explicitly and got up to leave with two men. As she was leaving she said, “My daughter is OP, don’t tell her I’m leaving with these guys!” So everyone made fun of me for having a sexually promiscuous birth mother.
The day after my birthday I went to her house to confront of her about ruining my birthday. She said more hurtful things. So fine. I gathered up maybe about 15 or so crickets and let them loose in her bedroom. The first night I could hear the crickets but she did nothing. Second night, same thing. The next day I caught her looking at her bedroom windows and asked her what she was doing. She said nothing and told me to go away. Next night she was angry and said I needed to go outside and stop the crickets from chirping. I wasn’t quite sure how to do that so I grabbed a drink, a snack and a book. I spent awhile outside reading and snacking, came back inside and told my birth mom I squished every cricket I could find. She said good. That morning I woke up to her sleeping on the couch. She was on the phone with one of her friends later telling her friend how horrible it was to get no sleep because all she could hear were crickets all night long. She caught me smiling and she accused me of doing something. I said “I’m not sure what you mean. But if I did do something it would be well deserved and then some for ruining my birthday and having school peers bully me because my mom left the bowling alley with two guys.” She got very angry and kicked me out. I went to go and live with my grandmother again where I told her what happened. She told me that was a bad thing to do and then she cheered pop cans with me and smiled.
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Good grandma!
Expected her to freak out the first night, but you heard nothing but crickets. Classic!
“That’ll do pig, that’ll do”. Look up the movie “Babe”. This is not a derogatory statement, but high praise indeed!!!!
As someone who had a bearded dragon growing up, I understand just how awful crickets in your room can be. He wouldn’t eat them all so I would end up getting up in the middle of the night to squish them with his poop scooper because they drove me and my sister crazy!!!! Absolutely brilliant revenge but I’m sorry you had to go through that. Hope you’ve had a lot of good birthdays since!
Creative, quirky revenge. I don’t know how you managed it, I can never find the rare cricket I come across, let alone catch that many of them!
Anyhoo, aren’t cricket noises popular white noise for sleeping?
I’m sorry your birthday was ruined, you handled it very maturely I think. Your mum sounds like she has Peter Pan syndrome – she never grew up and is jealous when the attention isn’t all on her. The good news is you’re nearly 18 so you’re not obligated to tolerate this bull crap for much longer.
I’m glad you seem to have a good relationship with your grandmother, maybe keep staying with her if you can?
Good luck OP, you’ll have special birthdays in the future that she won’t be able to spoil
Edit: just realised you said you think it was your 14th birthday, so not sure how long ago this was/how old you are now! Sorry for mis reading, I hope your birthdays since then have improved OP!
Are you adopted? That’s how I understand the term “birth mother” is used.
Crickets for the win 🦗
Well done you OP. Credit to gran taking you in. I bet gran is laughing aloud inside and behind closed doors about your cricket revenge move
OP sounds like my mom. My grandmother was a horrible person who severely neglected and abused my mom. My mom’s stepdad had a huge house with about an acre of land with fruit trees. The peach tree only ever produced one large perfect peach every year and, of course, my grandmother got it. One year my mom climbed up the tree and took a bite out of the back of the peach but left it on the tree. When they went to pick it for her mother it still looked fine but was rotten. My mom said she made herself scarce until her mother calmed down.
Its awful to have parents like that, but its also great to have someone else have your back like your grandma did. Your mother definitely deserved that.
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Umm any chance your mom was/is a narcissist? One thing a lot do, is they can’t let others share the spotlight so holidays and birthdays are Horrible with them.
She deserved crickets and more! What a nasty human. I’m sorry you had to deal with someone like that, especially since this was a parent.
On a totally unrelated note, pet shops sell crickets of every size. You know, just in case there’s ever someone who deserves crickets at a time of year when they’re impossible to find in the wild.
Damn, that’s so messed up. My mom stopped buying me presents when I was like 9 or 10??? My birthday is 3 weeks after Xmas so her “out” was that she didn’t have any money. But my older sister got parties and gifts every year?!?! Plus she paid for her senior homecoming and prom stuff. Head to toe! Had to get a job just to have lunch money and pay for all my school and work stuff. Move out ay 19 never looked back.
Fakiest fake story of all the fake stories.
Genius move. Love it.
Thay sucks. I also did not have a good relationship with my mom. Never had the balls to do that.
Your grandmothers good humor must have skipped a generation 😈
This is my favorite one so far. What a brilliant idea.
Go grandma