Another Rant

I’m going to have another rant about The Ex.  Now, we have been getting along OK recently.  It’s been a while since he last went a bit nuts on me, and I’ve been almost comfortable referring to him as a friend.  Now, to be honest this isn’t really a huge big deal or anything.  I’m just sick of him lying to me.  And now he’s trying to get The Child to lie to me.  Fortunately she’s a bit too young still to do this on behalf of other people.  Now she’ll deny knowledge of things she’s done herself, or blame it on her toy penguins, but she won’t lie to me about what The Ex gives her for tea when he has her on Thursdays.  Now, she has this thing for egg and pasta at the moment.  To be honest, I don’t like egg, so we don’t have that at home.  It means she’s unlikely to stop eating it too.  And yes, it does sound like a very boring, uninspiring meal.  She loves it though, and it is only once a week.  It’s also very easy to cook, and cheap.  I don’t see the problem really.  So anyway, according to The Ex, they had egg and pasta for tea yesterday.  Fine.  No problem.  On the way to school this morning, The Child informs me that they actually went to McDonalds for tea.

Now, before anyone thinks I’m about to start laying into McDonalds, I’m not.  It’s fine as the occasional treat.  In fact, I’d only asked that The Ex not take her there for a while because I know he’s taken her there a lot recently.  So, I guess he lied because he thought I’d be cross?  I’d have been annoyed yes, but probably not cross.  I am cross he lied to me about it though.  But to give me credit I didn’t fire off an angry text or anything.  I sent a polite request for him to just be honest in future.  Perfectly reasonable I think.  And I know The Child wasn’t just saying things, because she said the same thing she said after telling me what she was getting me for Christmas, and for Mother’s Day.  She asked me not to tell The Ex that she had told me.  At least she’s still honest to me about things like this.  I’m just worried he’s going to turn her into a compulsive liar like the rest of The Family are.  I’m sure he won’t, given that I have a fair amount of influence, but it’s still a major concern of mine.  Oh well.

At least it was only a McDonalds though.  Could have been a lot worse.