"Mother" of this and every other century

[Sheldonrs]

Since this story is from another dept. (wish granting) I'll post it here.

A child wished to go to Disney World with his family. Usually not a problem. It's one of our more popular requests. We always send the family with the child as well.
It seems having a seriously ill child has no effect on his mother, however.
From DEMANDING things such as a stretch limo to and from the airport and use of a rental car while there to choosing only off park restaurants for her and the family to eat.

But the one that put her over the top into "Wish it was you instead of your son" territory:

The child took a turn for the worse and the trip needs to be postponed, hopefully he will be able to get better so he can go.
However, the "MOTHER" is now demanding we send HER and the other family members on the trip WITHOUT THE CHILD!!!
She's OK with leaving her possibly soon to be dead son behind so SHE can take a trip.

It ain't gonna happen but if the child DOES get better and the trip goes on, I sure hope she gets thrown from the Dumbo ride!

[eltf177]

However, the "MOTHER" is now demanding we send HER and the other family members on the trip WITHOUT THE CHILD!!!

Just when you think humanity can't possibly sink any lower...

As much as I'd hate to disappoint the child I think dropping the banhammer on this MOTY candiate is in order...

[i4wolves]

That is horrible. The trip is for her child, not for her. It is bad enough that the child is very very sick and now the mother wants to go on the trip without the child.

Some people need to be beaten upside the head repeatably. What is this mother thinking?

[Sheldonrs]

Just when you think humanity can't possibly sink any lower...

As much as I'd hate to disappoint the child I think dropping the banhammer on this MOTY candiate is in order...

What I'd like to see is for the child to be put in a foster home and then send him and the FOSTER family on the trip.

[Midorikawa]

Some people need to be beaten upside the head repeatably. What is this mother thinking?

Not only beaten, but sterilized so she can't pollute the gene pool further, or worse, trade her kids for a pack of cigarettes. Ugh. That just pisses me off. :-(

[Aut]

And she calls herself a mother? I wonder if she ever gets the term 'son' and 'mealticket' confused.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

OMG . . . that's horrible to even imagine a parent being so selfish and shallow.

I hope, however, that the child does get better enough to be able to go and enjoy his trip.

The mother, OTOH, I'll go to Fratching and rant about her all night long . . .

[Victoria J]

I have always been somewhat torn about the wish-granting charities. The 2 following personal stories explain why.

I used to do some volunteer work trying to get help for families with sick children (and other issues as well - all these families were receiving help from social services which normally means something on top of ill health). Easiest application I ever made was to a make a wish charity who were willing to take one of these families to the top toy shop for a shopping trip. This family were refugees, he had special needs because of an illness that was inevitably going to kill him, so not any toys would do, this family didn't have any toys. The charity did kindly agree that they could also look at a toy or two for the brother who did not have health problems.

Getting the special shoes for a child who needed them to walk (with another refugee family with no real income, and the mother having paid over their cash for a month for shoes she was wrongly advised would do) took 3 applications. It seems harder to get money for needs.

These days I work giving advice including debt advice. One of the biggest debts I have seen (though it wasn't my case) was a family with almost no income and £50'000 plus in credit cards etc.

They'd discovered that their son was terminally ill. They'd taken out every loan and card they could get and they spent it all on his last few months, while one of them left their job and the other cut down their hours. I believe that did include a trip to Disney Land (or World).

It wasn't sensible, because when we saw them they had a dead child and were trying to cope with this overwhelming debt. But I think everyone who dealt with them sympathised. I wish they had been put in contact with a wish granting charity, as well as some other help and support.

I so much prefer those parents, with their hearts in their right place, to the ones in your story. Poor child, shame you can't wish him a decent parent.

(Though I guess it is possible that she doesn't want to disappoint her other children ? I think it is very very hard for the siblings of seriously ill, never mind dying, children. Loss, stress, being overlooked because of the attention the ill child needs. The unreasonable demands suggest this isn't the case, but I think I'll try to hand onto my belief in humanity. Such as it is).

Victoria J

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[Cazzi]

I'm lost for words! I would say what a cow, but that's unfair to cows... they're useful creatures!

[Red_Dazes]

I'm lost for words! I would say what a cow, but that's unfair to cows... they're useful creatures!

I was gonna say something... but that sums it up better than I could have.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I'm lost for words! I would say what a cow, but that's unfair to cows... they're useful creatures!

I was going to say human garbage, but garbage was useful at one time.

[Chromatix]

Tell that to the pile of junk mail I need to sift through for my letters. I really should put a sign up.

[fireheart]

What a mother censored: piece of

There. That sums my feelings up. How low is that?

[Zoom]

I sure hope she gets thrown from the Dumbo ride!

She is a Dumbo ride.

[lobo94]

What a mother censored: piece of

There. That sums my feelings up. How low is that?

Low. Though the really messed up thing-when you think you've seen just how low people can go...a lot of times, they end up standing on someone else's roof.