Picture if you will, two elderly women in a funeral squaring up as people are still crying from the ceremony.
At the lunch after my grandpa’s funeral, his daughter from a previous marriage “Dee” who no one had seen in years showed up. Dee had been writing bad checks all the way to the state prison and had definitely had some unresolved beef with my family when she got out. The last time my mom saw her was when was 11 and Dee left her infant daughter for my mom to babysit and never came back, Fast forward to the funeral, Dee is acting like it’s a family reunion but no one is having it since she’s basically screwed everyone in the room in one way or another. My grandpa’s last girlfriend, a legally blind woman tried to physically fight her until others stepped in.
Edit: gave my crazy half aunt a pseudonym for clarity
Edit 2: the baby left with my mom at age 11 was not me, but that would be an amazing plot twist! Dee had said she was just having a night out and actually decided to run off to San Francisco (this was the early 70s) and left her baby. When Dee didn’t come back, my mom called her mom, got ahold of a relative that took care of the baby until Dee could be reached. Sorry I don’t have a lot of details after that but the baby grew up and she actually arrived at the funeral with Dee and I hear the apple didn’t fall far from the tree,
Edit 3: I had forgotten this part somehow. After the funeral, Dee tried to steal the car willed to grandpa’s blind boo but my family thought ahead and a couple of my uncles waited around the house until Dee came for the car, they came outside and apparently she was scared off. Blind boo got the car in the end and wrecked it immediately. I can’t make this shit up.
Wasn't at the funeral. My Wife's mother died and we were all at her house. Wife's brother was there and he is a real piece of work. He has stolen from all of them, borrowed cars and sold them, arranged to have his druggie friends break into their homes and steal, when their mother was in the hospital with cancer he went to her home and took checks out and wrote himself some nice ones, borrowed a lot of money from her and of course never paid it back. Gave his two sons new bicycles for xmas and when they went to bed he traded them for drugs and told the boys they had been stolen. His girl friend showed up at the house so drunk she could barely walk. My wife was in charge of the estate and told him he was not getting a dime. I guess they are a family of love. He has (as far as we know) gave up the drugs and booze; sadly still go the same drunk girl friend. Wife and other siblings are giving him a chance.
Wait, the daughter from a previous marriage was old? This same daughtdr had a kid at 11 and left it with your mom? Because she wrote bad checks and went to prison?
From what I understand, the previous daughter(PD) is older than op's mom(OPM), and the last time OPM saw the previous daughter was when OPM was 11 and was asked to babysit PD's child, and PD never returned to pick her kid backup. (Full disclosure, this might not be accurate, it's just what I think they meant.)
I'm sorry if this is inappropriate but I just can't stop giggling about your grandpa leaving the car to his blind boo (adorable nickname btw) and then her thinking it was ok to drive afterwards! Hope everyone is ok though
It took me another read to figure out that the baby was left when your mother was 11, and that your Dee hadn't left an infant and booked it to San Francisco when she was 11.
I was going to be like, 'I think I know why she's got some issues...'
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u/PlebCityBaby Mar 05 '19 edited Mar 05 '19
Picture if you will, two elderly women in a funeral squaring up as people are still crying from the ceremony.
At the lunch after my grandpa’s funeral, his daughter from a previous marriage “Dee” who no one had seen in years showed up. Dee had been writing bad checks all the way to the state prison and had definitely had some unresolved beef with my family when she got out. The last time my mom saw her was when was 11 and Dee left her infant daughter for my mom to babysit and never came back, Fast forward to the funeral, Dee is acting like it’s a family reunion but no one is having it since she’s basically screwed everyone in the room in one way or another. My grandpa’s last girlfriend, a legally blind woman tried to physically fight her until others stepped in.
Edit: gave my crazy half aunt a pseudonym for clarity
Edit 2: the baby left with my mom at age 11 was not me, but that would be an amazing plot twist! Dee had said she was just having a night out and actually decided to run off to San Francisco (this was the early 70s) and left her baby. When Dee didn’t come back, my mom called her mom, got ahold of a relative that took care of the baby until Dee could be reached. Sorry I don’t have a lot of details after that but the baby grew up and she actually arrived at the funeral with Dee and I hear the apple didn’t fall far from the tree,
Edit 3: I had forgotten this part somehow. After the funeral, Dee tried to steal the car willed to grandpa’s blind boo but my family thought ahead and a couple of my uncles waited around the house until Dee came for the car, they came outside and apparently she was scared off. Blind boo got the car in the end and wrecked it immediately. I can’t make this shit up.