Mom Disowned Me, Stole My College Fund From Grandma For My Older Brother Claiming I Am Failure

[@TraceyBoyland]

WHY WOULD THE GRANDPARENTS GIVE THEM THE MONEY. THEY KNEW THE PARENTS HATED HIM

[@andreavanhoof6047]

The parents are complete jerks for how they treated Sam!

[@tonynelligan1930]

because the old are too dumb to live.

[@anonmouse15]

Dementia.

[@maryh-w8647]

OLD AND STUPID. Still trying to give people the benefit of the doubt. But in the end they did provide him housing

[@robingibson6561]

​@@anonmouse15no, stupidity...

[@LordGertz]

OP only sped up the fall of the restaurant. He did not cause it he merely exposed it, a public service. And remember those "parents" emotionally & financially abused him for years, then stole from him and slander him, along with conning & slandering the grandparents, whose funeral they did not even attend. All three of these evil people deserve all the negative consequences of their actions. OP is NTA.

[@annkupke4263]

Exactly. They stole the funds then slandered the grandparents by stating they did not pay for will. No the parents took the money that was for the youngest. Then when the rightful son got a scholarship it worked out. So when youngest was successful they came crying and begging for a handout. Nope. Then to find dirt is horrible, but karma came a calling. Don't look for dirt or point fingers cause finger point back and boy did they find dirt. Dirt snd dirty handling of entitled brother that they favored.

[@perfectlyimperfect9129]

I 💯 %% belive that Karma and God are always watching ! I agree they are terrible people and deserve everything they get !! What you put out into the world comes back to you it's their own fault. How could you ever be cruel to a child, Ill never understand.Makes me angry and sick that op.was treated this way by his own parents and brother !

[@jeannettecampbell8862]

True. And where were all these concerned relatives and friends while OP was being abused? That’s what I thought. No where to be found.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

To OP : Give your _"parents"_ No Contacts!Treatment, Restraining Order, and Theft Lawsuit

[@nikkid7838]

As my dad would always say “Don’t start what you can’t finish” OP finished what his brother started!

[@bethanntay]

I'm sorry, after hearing this whole story, anyone supporting the parents is insane.

[@Manmen594]

I agree

[@ericoxner8333]

To parents like this.I would tell them.When you both leave this world.I will not even show up for my their funeral!!!They treated like dog food!!!

[@Sevness]

The only reason anyone is supporting the Parents and the OP's brother... is because they spun lies and half-truths to make them out to be the victim, so I can't even blame them. Even now listening to Reddit Stories I have seen how someone spinning the story the right way, can look to be the victim even while being the villain of the story. Imagine how the parents or brother could spin the story to make OP look bad, like they are the villain.

[@locusxe1411]

⁠@@SevnessI can blame them. It’s one thing to spin the story but once you find out the actual truth abs still side with them then that’s a problem

[@Sevness]

@@locusxe1411 You are assuming they were told, it seems OP literally did not try to correct anything with those people, did not do anything to defend themselves to the people surrounding their parents, because they really just decided to cut contact, and let people think what they want. Even after all the things that happened, OP didn't say they contacted anyone to clear things up. Just kept living their life, and while I am sure that they would clear it up with anyone that asked, people like OP's parents are careful to curate their story to be the victim.

[@melaniecurtin6402]

No, OP did NOT ruin his brother’s restaurant. He had a moral obligation to let the public/ dept of health know about the unhygienic state of the kitchen!

[@tuzzday]

His brother AND parents deserved everything. The parents stole his college fund so yes they deserved to have those loans and if they default on them -- so be it!

[@MarkLeel]

This is how golden children end up. They always end up being pointless people.

[@Snipergoat1]

Yes in these fictional stories this is true. Real life rarely has fairy tale endings though.

[@sheliawaymon9023]

No don't help them you aren't the a-hole. You saved a lot of people from getting sick. You did nothing wrong. And any way your parents stole your college money.

[@scotthultin7769]

Opie didn't go far enough He should have sued his parents for that money sooner And put them out onto the street but that's going to happen all on its own now

[@Kelsey1442]

He did the right thing. People could have gotten sick. Besides the parents stole his college fund and kicked him out.

[@BonBon-fn9dh]

OP is not responsible for family stupidity. If you can’t take it don’t dish it out, no pun intended 😂😂😂😂

[@eldeano9964]

These creative writing stories are amusing

[@LoisThiessen]

The parents brought all this on themselves by spoiling the older brother, and ignoring the younger. They also misused the college fund meant for the younger son. I'm certain they were aware of the older son's disinterest in college. So they squandered the grandparents' savings and denied the younger son the fund intended for him. I see nothing positive in the parents, and they got what they deserved!

[@BralinciaMeadows-yz5gs]

I agree his parents are evil for doing that

[@SH-qs7ee]

Frankly they deserved to eat the food from the brothers restaurant after being shown how it was being handled.

[@samantharoggelin1467]

This is why I will NEVER EVER treat my one of my kids with favoritism. They will always end up failures and expect everything to be handed to them.

[@indianheadjerry2622]

“they will end up failures” Well it’s a good thing you believe in them! Bwahahahaha

[@robertx8020]

@@indianheadjerry2622 lol

[@kemmererkid]

as a child who is very aware of Bad parents i think O.P handled the situation very well. He gave as good as he got. when the brother showed up at his work place trying to cause problems for O.P all bets were off. The mother getting upset with her own parents about setting up a college fund for the older brother were wrong. Do they really think the grandparents didnt see what was happening to O.P I think the grandparents should have filed a complaint when the college fund was given to the brother instead of O.P. I believe that would be grand theft since they were very aware of what the money was for.

[@jaguar.dragon]

Unless there was paperwork clearly stipulating the $ was ONLY to be used to fund OP going to college, there would've been ways to wiggle out of the suit.

[@elsaramos2375]

OP dont feel conflicted. Your parents have shown lots of favoritism towards your brother to the point where they stole your college fund. Now you are very successful and they want your money. Go no contact with your family and dont give them a cent.

[@millerlucerojames]

... enable a gold child and they're the ones who are useless as well as the parents ... also I hope grandma find out what mom did .. cause their is gonna be hell to pay

[@wenhall6258]

They got what all Deserved For way they treated op . Mom and dad where bad parents too.

[@andreavanhoof6047]

Amen! Karma was paying back Will and the useless parents for how they treated Sam!

[@patpaiz5693]

NO OP. Don't do it. They don't care about you they only care about their golden child. Walk away. Run Away. Do not help, do not take their call, Do not care.

[@rossconnelly6660]

OP ,should've taken them to court and taken them for everything even if it was just from the college fund and kicked them out on the street.

[@ces385]

Love when the animation shows people angry walking. Smile every time.

[@randallcosta74]

Having worked in kitchens for a good deal of my working career, the brother did the right thing. Mishandling food is always the wrong thing to do. Getting food poisoning is miserable. You can and many ppl do end up in the hospital for treatment. I would do the same thing. Getting a bad restaurant kitchen shut down is the right thing to. Brother had no choice but to go after the restaurant. His brother was trying to take him down and ruin his professional career. Turnabout is fair play! He did the right thing.

[@neil999ish]

People have died from food poisoning, not just have ended up in hospital! In my my country we had a smallgoods company that used contaminated meat and ending up poisoning people. I think about 3 people (including children) died from it.(I know it wasn't a restuarant, but just using it as an example of sloppy hygine and inspection and what it can lead to.)

[@randallcosta74]

@@neil999ish Yes, it can be deadly.

[@user-tl9zn3gh4b]

Damm as a ex Cook in Germany wie have to du a helf and food savety in Hygiene IT takse a bout 4 h with Test and ITS from the Gouvernement

[@Carolina0108]

IMO, OP done right. Restaurant didn't get shut down for no reason. No contact with all of them. Best revenge is living your best life.

[@nimisilverbird1239]

Nta. Laugh hysterically each and every time they call. Just start laughing and nothing else. They stole your whole life. They can rot

[@k7eric]

Lost me the second he said the grandparents released the money to his parents and not directly to him (who is an adult now). The whole point of the story was the grandparents doing this because of the parents...exactly zero chance they would just "give" the money to those same parents. Ruined the whole thing.

[@chriscarr7397]

OP didn't go too far!! His brother, Will, got everything he had coming to him. He deserved to have his restaurant shutdown. I don't feel a bit sorry for Will. As far as the parents go, screw them!! And good for OP for standing up for himself.

[@karimygirl5826]

Mr. Reddito, he was already not paying his parents back, they were never going to see that money again. Shouldn't have heaped all their love in the loser.

[@-randychasechase2660]

They stole his education from him. Those people dont deserve consideration at all

[@blackcatsassin1220]

I worked in the service industry. What OP did was absolutely right! Those people who said OP went too far should go eat in that restaurant. They must like overpriced food thats prepared unhygienic and getting yelled at by OP‘s brother.

[@TraceyBoyland]

He failed junior year. Stanford would accept him??

[@steve9833]

Unless he had family who went to the Ivy League school and could get in through legacy connections, there is no way he would be accepted. This part made me question the realness of this story.

[@kevintull3302]

Didn't he failed it because he was out of school for 3 months because of an illness? Maybe he could document it.

[@todd5687]

doctors note 👍🏻 school can't blame people for a illness

[@femboy__bunny]

Because he was sick for 3 months with something that made him bedridden.

[@brimstonefondue]

just so you know....Joan is not Joanne. Two different names.

[@randomrayquaza2044]

oh hes dragging both his brother AND his parents throught the mud?....good they deserve it their favoritism went so hard as to spendd their academically better son's colledge funds on their other son who didnt even make it past the first year and then decided it was a good idea to start a restaurant with an unfinished colledge edgucation OP didnt go to far he simply ballenced the scales and delivered the much needed Karma for both the brother and the parents

[@bethanntay]

Drag the parents down The comments supporting them would probably do the same thing to their own child.

[@BooshMasterOriginal]

I’m glad OP didn’t do what I would’ve done after hearing that his parents stole the money that was meant for him and kicked him out. Double homicide.

[@janmarie3976]

I think you did the right thing just because they're family doesn't mean they're good for you

[@DameNickum]

Parents sudden change of tune asking to help with the college fund for OP is so sketch! How could they forget that the parents barely considered OP a living person, let alone a bright child who should go to college. OP is NTA

[@elsaramos2375]

OP you did the right thing. Go no contact with your parents and brother. Defininately not the AH.

[@tracygardner6318]

The grandparents never should’ve given the money to the parents. They should’ve put in a trust till he was 18 years old for him to handle

[@SH-qs7ee]

I've been in the food service industry for over 20 years, and yeah, even if OP and his brother were on the best of terms, if the brother's restaurant was a hazard to its customers, then it was the right thing closing it down. Frankly, the brother messed up. I'm guessing he saw himself living the lifestyle of a celebrity chef, living it up with the rich and powerful. He should have started at a more modest beginning and worked his way up; there are a lot more working and middle class people than there are rich people, and they have to eat as well.

[@briananderson8733]

They are not family. They denied you when they stole your college fund for your brother. Brother has ZERO right to revenge.

[@bencordery5623]

The parents deserved what happened to them, they stole money from OP's grandparents that was ment for OP's college tuition and then threw him out when they were confronted about it.

[@antoinettebates244]

NTA..The parents still deserve serious KARMA!!

[@waynec38]

Agreed,I do not see how they could perceive OP AS THE A-HOLE,when both the parents and the son harmed OP..PERSONALLY, THEY GOT OFF EASY, comparatively-speaking..I bet the a-holes on Reddit loved seeing OP get hurt!!!

[@jaguar.dragon]

I was surprised when the parents claimed disappointment in op for ruining restaurant. I expected op to respond that with 3 points: 1) he just sped up the inevitable, maybe even preventing a law suit 2) he was defending himself from from brother trying to destroy him 3) brothers fighting doesn't come close to his parents enacting the level of treachery they did when they intentionally STOLE his academic future from him. Had it been me, I would've taken the chance to get it ALL out, just in case they decided to "forgive & forget" if they got $. He only set fire to the bridge. Better to nuke it cuz no bridge can be built in a nuclear radiation zone.

[@annkupke4263]

Exactly. In a way that is how my stepmother did. She went and favored 1 child over all. She helped her out and her kids. She would bash and complain my older brother not coming and visiting her. Well he worked she lived the next town over snd no busses went to her town. She never gave him rides nor came into his town to visit him. I think maybe 2 times and it was begrudgingly. Now he has a car.I was going through financial issues she did not help me out. Well my older sister had a fallen out with stepmother so stepmother is not talking to any. I want to say thank you for being that way cause it made me see her for how she truly is. I love my now ex mother in law. She would pick up me and her son take us anywhere we needed to go, plus treat us to lunch free.she invited my brother and picked him up she lived several cities over.

[@rongarrett1366]

Like OP said, he only did to his brother what his brother had tried to do to him.

[@daviddudley1655]

Karma got OP's parents and they deserved it

[@katrinamoriarty]

Ohhhhh plzzzz. OP did not go too far. His brother was putting people's life in danger and his parents!!! Don't get me started on them. Horrible people getting what they deserved.

[@katherinkeegan8601]

Grandparents should have a an understanding in place that they would have OP live with them upon graduation or when he turned 18 whichever came first. They should have kept the funds for college in a trust to only be used for OP, entrusted to a lawyer. Such actions would have kept this story from happening.

[@-randychasechase2660]

Hope you went directly to the grand parents and they can sue them or force them to pay your loans

[@loganphillips2166]

In the face of that much audacity you would hear my laughter three states over.

[@savannahhague4989]

OP isn’t wrong making sure a dangerous restaurant is no longer in business. If his brother made sure food is done well and hygienically, then there wouldn’t have been a risk to begin with. My boyfriend worked as a chef so he knew the ins and outs of how a kitchen should run.

[@lawv804]

OP didn't go too far. Will and the parents deserved to go down. Alot of karma to be paid back.

[@susierosenquist3920]

Nope, Nopedy, Nope, Nope, Nope ~~ I would have blocked them from calling too

[@melaniecurtin6402]

After the conversation with the parents, I would have blocked everyone’s number!

[@gregd9853]

I'd say the OP not only helped the public, he inadvertently helped his family. If they weren't shut down, they probably would've been sued; and they certainly can't afford that on top of everything else. Also, they deserved every bit of what OP dished out; and he only did it after they, and their precious son, attacked him first.

[@metalmouth0413]

Oh well...OPs Parents stole his college money and did things towards him to which almost thwarted his Academic Career. To add further insult, OPs mother didn't attend her parents funerals.

[@Impiousmember]

Op didnt go to far at all in exposing his brothers restaurant. There are standards that have to be kept especially if you're running a high quality/high end restaurant. Not to mention there are health code standards that HAVE to be kept. Op exposing the practices at the restaurant did that community a service in itself by it getting shut down.

[@janacraggs5856]

Was I imagining things or did Mr Reddito just say "...the city of South Carolina?"😂😂😂

[@rubintartt7723]

My pastor told me a long time ago in order to move forward in life you have to cut negative people out of your life even if that person is family.

[@sheerbear97]

As someone who works in the food industry he did the right thing. A restaurant has a responsibility to its customers. It needs to meet a certain standard and if it doesn't it needs to be shut down. It doesn't matter his relationship to his family. The public has a right to know if a restaurant is putting them in danger. U can literally die from food being prepared wrong!

[@tracyflynn3665]

Op your grandparents are awesome

[@rmhartman]

If they actually set up a fund in his name, the parents may have had access, but only through fraud.

[@lonnieblakley8025]

I would say he did the parents a favor because that restaurant seemed doomed to failure. His brother would have sucked his parents dry trying to keep it afloat and it it was time they cut their losses.

[@Letha-AnnCooper]

Excellent OP!!! Brother & Parents deserve exactly what they got. The parents tried to destroy OP’s future by cheating him out of his education to ensure his brother’s success. The parents are huge AHs for creating this mess

[@tracygardner6318]

The parents deserved what they got, and so did OP brother, the restaurant was not doing good getting people sick harming people in the parents not have to take loans out to help their failure of a golden child. They’re the ones who are the disappointment.

[@AlyssMadigan]

No one should feel bad for OP's parents after they literally lied and stole thousands of dollars from their own parents to pay for the kid to drop out of college in the first year. OP is not the bad guy from making it public how poorly the restaurant is being run because it's essentially just a scam of a business and was already failing and probably costing more money to keep open in the first place. The staff probably should've been informed that the brothers weren't on good terms because what else did they expect when family shows up but to be nice so the boss man doesn't get mad? Feels like it's on Will and no one else. Parents seriously seriously need help to see the error in their ways. They're going to be on their death beds either absolutely firm in their wrong doings or realizing entirely too late that they mistreated someone who probably could've really loved them and taken care of them if they just loved and respected him at all. Parents who have favorite "golden" children really need to get help because it's absolutely toxic behavior and they need to not have more than one kid if they're going to do this shit.

[@kevingoodhope7768]

I find this funny. It reminds me of my childhood. Kudos to buddy

[@pamclince8205]

What is WRONG WITH YOU? Do not give them a penny.🤬

[@kawaiisenshi2401]

Living well was the best revenge

[@newlyogbirdman]

You forgot about the part where they stole his collage money for his brother they picked their side long before that and continued to do so after the fact they got everything the wanted with their big ball of failing joy 😊

[@TheMercian13]

I think I’d be behind bars at the point the parents spent the money on his brother.

[@hugoumero9723]

well they will ended up get a lot hell to pay for been every people problem

[@lisagoodrow1482]

All 3 deserve each other and all the bad karma they get! Eff them

[@jerric1228]

Anybody could have been the one to make those recordings and post them, maybe someone who was treated badly or got sick and wanted to expose them, not to mention it was failing anyway just very slowly. All OP did was expose what was already happening, he didn’t make up anything or lie, he showed what was happening and the inevitable came to fruition just a little bit faster. He did nothing wrong, they shouldn’t have been trying to ruin his life after failing to ruin it when he was a kid.

[@Danarchy3]

18:04 no, they are not! Family sticks together. Billy seems more family than your parents

[@supremeturtle1186]

Those comments are crazy cuz why tf should he care what happens to his brother and parents? Theyve been terrible his entire life

[@tracyrieonhall7434]

The grandparents should've set up an account for each child not given it to the parents. Also no need to feel conflicted OP your parents freely gave your college fund to your brother and said that you'd never amount to nothing so since they did that then you shouldn't have any reason to help them let alone care about how they survived because they didn't care about you period and only treated you like a slave but it is what it is. You do what you feel but if this was me I'd keep living my life and never look back plus I would sleep well at night because they deserve everything that happens to them since your brother is their golden child then let him save them but don't give them any of your time or your money

[@gregmiller4387]

Story 1 - NTA the parents abandoned OP they tossed Op out so they could rob him, they deserve nothing from OP except contempt.

[@tammycopas7690]

Definitely not the A hole. You need to stay as far away from them as you can!! Don’t let them manipulate you.

[@TheresaHinz-hb5sb]

The brother who reported everything was not doing so to help people, he was satisfying his own need for revenge.

[@jasondyrkacz8270]

You can do both of those things.

[@MelaninCosplay]

What would you have done Theresa?

[@habituallearner7680]

The horrible parents and their nasty spoiled Golden child man-baby deserved every bit of that. I applaud OP. Thank goodness he *did* have true, loving parents: his grandma and grandpa.

[@shirleymachado6614]

I agree with OP. His family deserved to lose everything.

[@JenaMontgomery-lc6pe]

Absolutely! Telling them Hell No, I'm not helping you was the right thing to do! No one should play favorites with their children! That is the most hateful thing for parents to do! They withheld love from you as a child, now you are repaying for their treatment

[@josephhurst4902]

I cant say in the end that O.P. went to far in the end... Because after all, Will tried to steal everything from him and Ended up being the one with Nothing.

[@DCD762]

Honestly I don't understand the term " they are still family " If they treat you well, yes they are family But if all they give you is pain and sorrow they are not family Who cares if the parents suffer from it? They stole his college fund, they treated OP as nothing all his life, never cared about him. Let them reap what they sow

[@maryh-w8647]

They (the parents) can use the money they stole from op’s college fund. Plus the restaurant was shot to hell way before op posted the information about it

[@ericsanders9847]

The brother and parents have gotten what they deserve and with all honesty I think they should deserve more punishment like little white jacket for each of them

[@tedphillips2501]

Sometimes we have to find the courage to abandon people to their chosen fate.

[@deannahobson671]

When did they EVER treat YOU as FAMILY

[@tracygardner6318]

If you’re going to have favorites, don’t show it as much as his parents did, they never should’ve been parents. If that’s the case they made their bed they treated Opie like crap and now they have to deal with the consequences.

[@ReyRLopez]

It is true that the parents are on the hook for the loans, but they did not worry about using his college fund to buy his brother a seat at an Ivy League college. Which he wasted no time in flunking out. You can't appreciate what comes easy. As such, I do not feel OP has any obligation to his parents, who stole his college fund. And as for causing his brother's restaurant to fail, all he did was hasten what had to happen anyway. Sooner or later they would have been rude to any customers, and when people get bad food, badly prepared, at exorbitant prices, they don't come back.

[@perjus]

Yet another "you reap what you sow" kind of story.

[@stephanieguthrie1624]

Those are not family. Those are relatives. Being related does not make family. Love and loyalty makes you family. They had none for Op therefore they are not family.

[@paulwilliams5208]

OP saved his brother & the public - public no longer have a bad restaurant & less health risk brother, not longer getting further into debts (*apart not paying existing)

[@blueknight10]

Op did nothing wrong. The restaurant was going to fail regardless whether he agree or not it was already on his way out which is why they contacted him in the first place. All he really did was just speed the process up. Also I'd like to point out that is brother went around to his job trying to get him fired because he wouldn't help him (because why would he?)

[@rmhartman]

It is always worth pursuing lawsuits when people do this to you.

[@scarletspie]

Dragging parents down? Seriously? No good ole mom and dad made their choices. And ol brother bear did also. Don't dish it if you can't take it 💯

[@zeevanatashazazhinne3136]

Didn't anyone notice that the older brother was born FIVE YEARS BEFORE OP?

[@tomstephens9284]

His parents STOLE from him. They wanted his help? Where were they when HE needed help? "Oh, let's kick him out after trying to destroy his dreams!"

[@kimberlibeam2905]

The parents set their fate when they literally stoled op's college fund.they were up to their ears from the beginning . They got what they deserve. It was only a amount of time before that restaurant was shut down or someone got sick 🤢 and sued them all.

[@gregoryk.9815]

If a college fund is in a person's name even if the parents get ahold of it they still have to give it to the person whose name it was in That's the law

[@stevebanner5609]

He could have sued them but op stated he didn’t want the drama. He only retaliated when his brother went after his career…