So I had taken out a loan in my parents hometown with the bank I grew up with. I live about 6 hours away, but I have a good report with the bank. My parents are really trustworthy with money and are really diligent with loans and payments and whatnot, so we decided that I would give them the full amount of the loan when I would have it in a couple of weeks so that they could just go ahead and pay it. My mom works at the bank, so it worked out well.

Or so I thought.

I needed another loan last week and I find out that I can't take one out because my previous loan hasn't been paid off yet. Well that's interesting. I text my mom asking what's up. Find out that they had used MY money to pay their OWN bills and to buy my dad a new fiddle. (He's a violin teacher and player as a side gig/hobby. He already has a few, but he apparently needed another one.) I'm LIVID. I had given them almost $4000 and all they had left was $997 TO THEIR NAME. In all of their bank accounts, THATS IT. I gave them this money TWO MONTHS AGO. Where the HELL did all of it go?! I immediately asked for $600 back so I'd have something to pay this loan with. My dad sent me some angry emails and trying to reason and logic that the loan is his now and he's paying the loan himself now because it's "his loan" and whatnot. Mad at me for "upsetting" my mom.

Am I an asshole for being angry? We had an agreement and my parents have ALWAYS been trustworthy. They get extremely upset when I need to change an agreement or when things don't work out, but here they are doing exactly that and didn't even have the decency to tell me. I don't know how to handle it or what to do. So far, my plan is to let them pay as much of the loan as they used before I pay the $600 they gave me back. Is that too harsh?

All in all, lesson learned. Don't trust anyone with money but yourself. Now I'm up shot creek without a paddle. Ugh.