The battery in my car died the other day, which isn’t a huge deal – they only last a few years, after all – but it was a reminder that this thing is gonna totally break on me eventually.

Really not looking forward to that as buying and selling cars, well, it’s a huge headache.

AITA for not selling my cousin a car?

I, 35f lost my dad out of the blue.

It was a complete shock.

He had a vehicle he loved, and my mom decided it was to go to me.

And in the midst of that grief came, as they so often do, some logistical hurdles.

However, I had an old vehicle with 300k miles but otherwise in good condition that I needed to sell before I could take his.

My mom agreed to hang on to it for 2 months so I could try to sell my car.

I listed it for sale and was contacted by my cousins adult kid who needed a car.

I offered them a discount since they were family, but they said they didn’t have the money right then and asked if I could give at least a week for them to get the money together.

I said okay no problem.

So far so good.

But the money wasn’t coming.

Over a week comes and goes.

They contact me again saying that they had no way of getting the money by the time I needed to sell it and to go ahead and relist it and if I sold it great, but in the meantime they would try to come up with the money and let me know.

I ended up selling the car.

Seems very reasonable and responsible of the kid.

But the parents don’t seem to agree.

So my cousin messaged me after and asked why I sold it when I promised it to their kid.

I responded that I never promised anything, only that I would sell it to them but that I couldn’t wait indefinitely because I needed it gone.

I told them about the message saying to go ahead and sell it if I needed to, but again they responded it was really crappy of me to do that knowing their kid needed a car and I would have gotten the money eventually.

My mom really needed to get the vehicle off her insurance quickly and i was running out of time. AITA?

Let’s see what the comments say:

This point was reiterated…a lot.

Like, over and over and over.

Though in this case, the parents seem to be the issue.

Seems like you steered clear of a problem.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check this one out about a man who created a points system for his inheritance, and a family friend ends up getting almost all of it.