Buckle up, folks!

This story is about how family ties can get tangled in a web of unpaid debts and theme park dreams.

Our protagonist is fed up with being a human ATM for her cousin’s family vacations.

Will she give in this time, or will she finally put her foot down?

Let’s find out!

AITA for refusing to “loan” my cousin $150 to take her kids to 6-Flags theme park?

In the past, my cousin has repeatedly borrowed money and never paid it back. Time goes on and because she has 4 kids (16, 15, 10 and 3), I write it off.

Well, her daughter, the 15 year old, called me and went on a rant about how her dad initially said he would pay for them (the kids) to go to a theme park this weekend but later bailed out because he wanted to use the extra money for something else.

That’s just wrong.

In the past when she’s borrowed money it’s been for things like, the light bill, cell phone, or an extracurricular school activity for the kids.

This time taking them to a theme park, as an end of summer “vacation” in my opinion, was not a justifiable reason to borrow money from me that I know I won’t get back.

Besides that, I haven’t even taken a vacation this summer at all myself.

So, as much as I didn’t want to tell her no, I feel like if you don’t have the money to pay for a “vacation” yourself, then you shouldn’t go OR save up your own money to go.

Absolutely.

After the daughter called me, I called her mom and she immediately said, “I didn’t tell her to call you but the kids really want to go and I’ll pay you back next week.”

When I add up all the money she hasn’t paid back, it’s around $1,500 in the last 2 years. And even though I wanted, in some ways, to give the kids the money, I did not.

Yes, she’s married. Yes she has a job. And yes the husband works as well.

AITA?

Yikes! That’s a roller coaster of family drama!

You can bet Redditors had a lot to say about that one.

This person says if they don’t have the money, that’s too dang bad.

This person says the teen is old enough to know why she can’t lend her the money.

And this person says they definitely should be promising their kids diddly squat.

When the family ATM stops dispensing cash, it’s time to hit the brakes on theme park thrills.

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