50% of your personality is genetic . . . i'm adopted

I'm officially selfish. It's 3am. The phone rings downstairs. My parents aren't party people so no one could have possibly drunk dialed the number. It was my little brother, Blake.

Blake, my 20 year old brother, is in the army. He's currently stationed in Germany. While I find that the army is an excellent career starter (if you aren't the college type), Blake picked the ONE job that won't help a bit in getting him a career after the army. Blake is an infantry man. This means he didnt specialize in anything and he pretty much won't get a job (minus being a cop . . . scratch that, I think you need an associates to be a cop) without a college degree. Way to go dipshit.

Blake has never been the school type. He pretty much got through middle school by my parents calling the teachers and he finished out with a GED. His high maintenance girlfriend is trying to push Blake towards law school. The next decade of his life should be rather interesting.

Oh, I forgot to mention, hes proposing to his gf sometime soon and they only started dating since he's been in the army. He's maybe been home for 5 weeks since June. I highly doubt she realizes they are going to be poor for the next DECADE.

Anyways, back to the story. Blake decided to come home for the weekend, FROM GERMANY. (If he proposing to his girlfriend, I'm going to barf.) He was taking a train and a flight I believe. Fell asleep after travelling all night, missed his flight, and now he's trying to figure out how to get home . . . for maybe a day of being here.

It sounds like my parents are going to give him the £762 to get home. If you didnt know, British pounds are even stronger than the euro so this equtes to $1,157.89. I'm pissed.

Blake is going to Afghanistan in May or June so I can understand wanting to come home but he gets a 2 week leave in less than a month!! Furthermore, its not like he'll even spend more than 30 minutes with my parents. He'll go straight to his girlfriend and blow us off all weekend.

I recognize I'm a selfish jerk. I should be worried that my only brother is going to war in less than two months, but for some odd reason, that doesnt matter at this point. I am too consumed with finding it highly douchey of him to wake my 60 year old parents up at 3am when they have to work all day and then try to spend over a thousand bucks of my parents money to come home to see his girlfriend.

UPDATE: Blake's girlfriend is picking him up at the airport and taking him straight to college station with her. He may be back on Sunday to say hi before his flight leaves. You can imagine how mad I am.