Parents getting old

[wease]

My dad is overseas - about 3 weeks ago I got a notice that his bank account was overdrawn.

I texted him “call me asap”

He just called yesterday to find out what the urgent issue is

Is he still abroad?

[E.H. Ruddock]

My dad is overseas - about 3 weeks ago I got a notice that his bank account was overdrawn.

I texted him “call me asap”

He just called yesterday to find out what the urgent issue is

What happened?? Can he get back?

[Bammer]

He’s en route home from Africa now. Scheduled back Friday.

The point of the post is that he saw an uegent message 3 weeks late because he doesn’t know how to text.

[wease]

He’s en route home from Africa now. Scheduled back Friday.

The point of the post is that he saw an uegent message 3 weeks late because he doesn’t know how to text.

We realized that. We were just making sure he’s ok.

[Monkey_Driven]

My dad is on a golf trip with his oldest brother. The brother is 78 and this is his big grand farewell to the game as his health has declined too much. It's bittersweet, they played together for decades.

[E.H. Ruddock]

As my parents are getting older, they are unloading stuff on me and my brothers, family heirlooms, etc. My brothers don’t want them so they just bring them to my house whenever they visit. Some stuff i don’t mind, like old china that has been in the family for 5 generations. But my mom is giving me old newspaper clippings, report cards, letters from church, etc. When i tell her I’m digitizing them so i can throw stuff away she gets mad. Do you all keep stuff like this? I’ve just started telling her i keep it all in storage even though I’m throwing away after scanning

[BurtReynolds]

just keep it, ruddo.

[wease]

As my parents are getting older, they are unloading stuff on me and my brothers, family heirlooms, etc. My brothers don’t want them so they just bring them to my house whenever they visit. Some stuff i don’t mind, like old china that has been in the family for 5 generations. But my mom is giving me old newspaper clippings, report cards, letters from church, etc. When i tell her I’m digitizing them so i can throw stuff away she gets mad. Do you all keep stuff like this? I’ve just started telling her i keep it all in storage even though I’m throwing away after scanning

That’s what I would do.

[E.H. Ruddock]

just keep it, ruddo.

I despise having shit i don’t use.

[spike]

just keep it, ruddo.

I despise having shit i don’t use.

please don’t chop off your penis

[BurtReynolds]

Grandmother is on her deathbed. I worry about my little brother. They are close and she's always been around and I don't know if he'll fully understand that she isn't coming back. He hates seeing her in bed like that.

[BurtReynolds]

Didn't make it home in time to see her one last time, and I'm crushed by that, but at least she didn't suffer or linger around for weeks. She was the ideal grandma.

[Jorge]

Sorry Burt. RIP

[96583UP]

Condolences Burt

[wease]

Sorry, Burt.

[Peeps]

condolences burt

[Peeps]

a friends father passed away a few years ago. her mom is just the most lovely of people. the mom ended up selling the house that all four kids were raised in for a ranch style house. the kids want to put some video cameras up in the new place just to keep an eye on mom but she wont have it. the mom also has driven past their old house and has commented that she doesnt like what the new owners did with it. the 4 kids are at an impasse with their mom over these things. they tell her it is none of her business what the new owners do with the house and that the cameras are for her safety but their mom is having none of it.

the cameras i think are a good idea. she is 83 or 85 and it is smart to want to keep an eye on her without being too intrusive. as far as the house im sort of on the moms side and their side. yes it shouldnt concern her what the new owners did but that was a house that she and her husband raised their kids in and lived in for 50 some years. it is hard to just let go of something like that (least to me) and that is one of the reasons after my stepfather passed that i moved out. i didnt want to see someone else move in there.

[Bammer]

So my dad calls me yesterday as he is about to head to the bank and withdraw all but $100 to leave in his checking account so he can deposit it into a different account under the direction of a scammer from “the department of revenue.”

Only at that point, after giving said scammer his SSN and last 4 digits of his account numbers, did he realize something was “fishy” and called me for advice. This all started with some kind of alert that popped up on his laptop and he called the number on the screen.

So now he is closing his accounts for real, transferring his $ into a brand new account. May even have to do a credit freeze and set up fraud alerts.

I don’t even know what to say. We have warned him about this stuff. How naive can you be. Seriously. OMG.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Sorry dude. My MiL is constantly telling us she has to Order new debit cards because someone “stole” her info but we’re sure it’s her giving out to phishing scams

[wease]

Mrs Wease has a patient whose girlfriend is Laney Wilson and even this she’s a big country star, she still needs him to send her thousands of dollars. It seems her managers and record company and everything controls her money and needs money to live on. Before this, he had given tens of thousands of dollars to another scam. How he didn’t learn the first time is beyond me. Just a lonely old man, I guess.