My family messed with my chickens!!

[pkforever]

Thank you, you guys are awesome!!!! I wish he would hurry up and grow up. He's 26! Last year for my birthday he thought it would be funny to wrap my present in duct tape and but frozen shaving cream in it so that when I cut it open it exploded directly into my face. It HURT. Badly. In front of tons of people. and all they did was laugh. Shaving cream full force in my eyes is not funny. The only person to help was my boyfriend. I never got an apology from my brother. I feel like he has no respect for me. I've even talked to him about it before. He just doesn't get it. I don't want to get revenge. I just want him to respect me and if I was to get back at him I feel he would just get right back at me and it would never fix anything.

 

[The Tinman]

Maybe you need to strike back. He knows you are an easy mark and will not retaliate. It is kind of like how a bully picks on the nerdy kid.(I`m not saying you are the nerdy kid)
You need to buy habanaro peppers and rub some on his tooth brush. (make sure to have gloves on). He will respect you then.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Wash his underwear in with fiberglass curtains!

That happened to me as a kid.

Do they even make fiberglass curtains anymore?

 

[nobody calls me chicken]

Edited to remove crude content

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

 

[redhen]

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Thats what i would do...

 

[Show Me Chick]

I so want to see a picture of your chicken's dyed hair.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Okay, where do your parents fit into this? What is their take on the way he treats you? Are you an adult living at home or a kid? Were you planning on exhibiting any of your birds?

In some families there is a LOT of teasing, and it is intended to be good natued fun. But sometimes a family member doen't fit in with the teasing being fun. That was me. It can be hurtful, even when that is not the intent. If that is the case, talk to your mom or dad, whoever you can more easily talk with, and ask for their help. Not just advice for how you can deal with it, but for them to intervene with your brother and put an end to it (they should have done that YEARS ago). Make sure he knows that you are angry with his immature behavior, and you will not tolerate it; if he wishes to be any part of your life, he must treat you respectfully.

If you made the cupcakes for your boyfriend, then your brother owes you the cost for their replacement, and that includes the time it took you to make them--charge at least minimum wage for that (there's at least $10), so that the impact is more felt. If they were something that your mother or you made for the family, and since you had them, you planned to give some to your boyfriend, that is another matter, and your brother had as much right to them as other family members.

If you were planning on exhibiting your birds, their clipped wings will now cause them to be disqualified. Find out if there were an premiums at the shows you planned to exhibit at, and insist that whoever clipped the wings pay that premium to you as you might have won it, but now cannot. You could also ask for them to purchase a new bird or birds so that you CAN show, and make them get top of the line for your preferred breeds.

 

[kla37]

Your brother sounds like my soon to be ex-husband.

 

[Cetawin]

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Oh yeah don't you know it! He would suffer if it were my birds! I would also be having a few choice words with my parents about it...and a local police officer. He does not live there and vandalized personal property. Go after his butt if nothing else but to get your point across.