OK since I got lots of e-mails from you guys asking me what is going on I'm going to try to explain without being too long winded because frankly I'm just tired.
My family is waiting for my grandmother to be called to move into the elderly (senior housing). She's still currently living in the enormous house she's been in for the past 50 something years. Once she moves, it will be cleaned up a bit and put on the market. Fine. She's happy with the idea, everyone is happy with the idea it's great. Great for her because she'll be safer and great for all of us because we won't have to deal with the household issues anymore because frankly the house is far too large and too grand for one person, even for two.
There is this guy. This super scummy asshole of a guy who we had our first run in with more than a decade ago. It was back then that my grandmother's club was hosting a yard sale to raise money and they did it at her house. There was all sorts of stuff for sale and some of it was good stuff - almost antique worthy or at the very least held family memories. When we figured that out my brother and I each took a box so it wouldn't be sold to some yard sale urchin. Well this guy was there around the same time - told my grandmother he'd give her a pittance for a boatload of stuff and left smiling. I knew then he was up to no good.
Then, she calls him out of the blue a couple of months ago when the decision's been made that she'll move (and I'm telling you - it could be a year before that happens). Keep in mind, to protect her my dad told her not to tell anyone she was moving. Well she calls this scumbag (I know there are harsher words for him, but I digress) and he's there with a friend of his. He wants the house (for a walk I'm sure) and his friend is giving her prices on the furniture).It was insane. I talked to her about it and tried to explain this type of person isn't out there to help her, they are out to make money. Nothing. Fine. So I get his name and number, dad calls him and tells him to back off, he says he will that he doesn't want to get involved. Great.
Fast forward to last week. He's there. I see him there when I stop by to check out what needed to be shoveled after it snowed. And he has the balls to inform me he checks on her multiple times a week because she's all alone and no one is ever there. I'm there every day and there are others that come by multiple times a week as well. And sure enough, my grandmother tells someone the next day he wants the house. The guy is an ass.
When I was first living there he used to come by occasionally and even ask if she was still alive. I gave him a piece of my mind one late night when he rang the doorbell and told him to never darken our doorway again and that the house was off limits to him. He disappeared for a number of years and now he's back.
Now it's not just me being paranoid or stereotyping this asshole. I've talked to a couple other people in the area, both have had several run-ins with this individual and they t0o think he is a scary, no-good, up to something piece of shit.
And that folks is most of what that rant was about. There's more, but I think that should be enough to answer some questions for now.
Thanks for caring and thanks for letting me vent.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
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