spoken for

Without getting into great detail, I’m going to try and offer some background on this post, however, if you are really interested in the background, please read my previous posts: September 15, 2005 & December 2, 2005.

My grandfather’s wife died quite undexpectedly in September of last year. She had two daughters from previous relationships. N was about a year older then me in school and V is somewhere around Steve’s age, maybe a few years older. Both at the time were married each with a little girl. However, when my step-grandma died, many things came to light such as N’s running around on her husband while he was in the hospital dying of leukemia. Both the girls were drama queens at the funeral (see the Sept post above) and even before their mom died, they were asking my grandpa for things. Now, my grandpa is pretty well off - he can have whatever he wants - he’s worked hard in his life to be where he is. Well, we’ve all come to the conclusion that his wife was giving those girls more money than he ever knew. The way they’re acting now about all of this - she must have been supporting most of their livelyhoods.

Well, here’s the more recent drama with this bunch…

You might remember how N had taken my grandpa’s credit card and charged herself all sorts of things, namely big bucks in cigarettes and gas. Well, apparantly, she also copied the number and here recently my grandpa got his bill to see several hundred dollars in charges he never authorized. She’s been making purchases with the number alone. So, of course, he stopped that.

Then when she was in the area of my grandpa’s second house? She would stop at the gas station and charge to his account. Once she not only filled up her tank but a friend’s! And you all know what gas prices are like these days. So, of course, grandpa stopped that, too.

She’s still not given back the earrings, the earrings that cost somewhere in the range of $2,000.

While she was still living with my grandpa, he let her have her mom’s cell phone on the agreement that she’d pay $10 a month for it. You know, it’s not that grandpa can’t afford to pay it for her, it’s that she - as you can see - needs to learn some responsibility. Well, you can guess it, she not only never paid on it but she racked up several hundred dollars in bills the first month. So my grandpa took back the phone. He gave it to my aunt because she needed a phone and that phoneline was still under contract. Unlike N, my aunt pays for it. However, before long, V called the number and then called my grandpa furious, “what is D doing with N’s phone?” She’d already had this conversation with my aunt, of course, “what are you doing with N’s phone?” Ummm… “dad gave it to me.” Duh. So V was all furious and demanding that my grandpa give N back the phone. Like that’s going to happen.

And, of course, V’s still bitching about the college funds or something. She and N claim that my step-grandma said she was going to pay for college for her two granddaughters and they expect my grandpa to still do this! This is in at least ten years for one, fourteen for the other. These are not his blood grandchildren and they are of step-daughters who have only acted like Cinderella’s evil step-sisters, do YOU think he owes them anything? Heck, it’s not like he has ever even paid for any of his real grandchildren or even his own children to go to college. But, because of his wife, he did pay for N and V to go to college! Not to mention get new cars, computers, etc. But do you think they’re grateful for all of that when us real grandkids are grateful for the $25 we get each Christmas? No, they’re not.

So about a month ago, N’s husband died. We’d last been told that the leukemia was in remission, but then the next thing you know, he died. N went in to see my grandpa at his company and asked to borrow $100 for her to get a new dress for her daughter for the funeral. He gave in, knowing she’d never repay him. He talked to her aunt a few weeks later and asked what the girl’s dress looked like. The aunt was all, “dress? What dress?” and acted as if the kid wasn’t even wearing a dress. He said that he’d given N $100 for a dress for the kid and suddenly the aunt starts covering for her, “oooooh it must have been the pink one!”

N and V complained to their many aunts that my grandpa was “being mean” to them. So their aunts hold a “family meeting” to discuss this and then call my grandpa and confront him. Of course, this royally pisses him off. What business is it of N and V’s aunts how my grandpa treats them? Not that he’s even “being mean” - they’re trying to take advantage of him at every turn. So because my grandpa is upset about this, V flip-flops and calls her aunts “bitches” trying to get in good with my grandpa.

The aunts also say that my step-grandma had their mother’s wedding ring and they want it. My grandpa, not one to lie about something like this, says that he doesn’t think she had it. But he’ll look for it, and if he finds it, he says it goes to V, as my step-grandma’s oldest daughter. Makes sense.

He’s about had it and, really, the rest of us don’t understand why he’s put up with this crap for so long already. I am so angry, especially with N, that I feel like tracking her down and giving her a piece of my mind. Of course, we all know that’s not really in my character. I’m more guerrilla warfare then direct combat. I just wish they’d move on with their lives, stop begging for hand-outs and learn to stand on their own feet. They should be grateful for the things he’s given them over the years already, not asking for more… let alone demanding things.

Well, there’s the “update” for you. I wonder what crap they’re going to pull next…

Sheesh.