Mom blames me while Golden Child sleeps in....
I'm in my early thirties. My mom owns the house and the one vehicle (mine died, and I have not been able to save money for a new one because money is tight). My brother 21M has no job.
She's been sick this week, so my brother's been dropping me off and picking me up at work, so they have the car for emergencies. Today, I was running a few minutes late, and she was asleep, having coughed most of the night. My brother, instead of being already outside, was in bed, dead to the world, so I grabbed the keys and left.
My family knows they can text me, and they have my work extension, but I didn't hear a peep from anyone. Instead, I came home, and Mom said that she was THINKING about going to go to the doctor today, given how rough last night had been, but she "didn't have the car." I apologized, and asked why no one had tried to contact me. She gave back a sarcastic apology, saying she didn't think about it.
Meanwhile, my brother was in a chair, playing on his phone for the entire conversation.
Here's the thing: I can't read minds, and I didn't want to wake her up this morning. Also, I'm pretty sure one of them got up to use the bathroom while I was getting ready, but no one communicated anything with me.
Furthermore, my brother's old enough to set an alarm, and he knows how to use a phone. It makes zero sense that I'm the one in trouble here, when all I was trying to do was go to work on time. My paycheck literally feeds us.
I'm sorry she's sick, but I'm not going to internalize her words just because her son won't take any responsibility.