Posted on 12/26/2004 10:39:24 AM PST by EggsAckley
Hope you all had better luck on Christmas Day.
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I've got a know-it-all brother also. He has an MBA and worked on Wall St. I never finished college.
Naturally, I don't know crap and am reminded of that constantly (well, not anymore, we don't speak)
Good luck.
Poor you! From a literary point of view, it sounds almost Victorian: a drunken, improvident heir ruining dinner because he is angered at being prevented from trying to run the estate into the ground, and then leaving in a snit, having destroyed everybody else's Christmas. However, the literary aspect isn't very comforting when you're stuck in the middle of it.
Good luck! I hope today was better...
Thanks. Ironically, I'm the one with the Master's Degree, he's the one with no education. Heheheh.
BTW--I unloaded a lot of stresses many years ago by not inviting them to come anymore...
Thanks. Today is shaping up to be fine. They WERE supposed to stay three nights, but "thank God and Greyhound" they're gone!
Now, if the weather would improve a little...........
(((((Eggsie))))))
I'm sorry you had to go through that.
My Christmas was ruined by an insolent, 27-year-old, pathetically spoiled nephew whose mother (my sister) allows to live at home rent free so he can spend his meager earnings on his car, booze and pot.
Chalk it up to a full moon.
I think you and I will be more wise at the next family gathering.
LOL! The consolation with having people get into a snit and leave is that then they're gone and you can forget about them. Of course, they're stupid and self-centered enough to believe that everybody else is sitting there in stunned silence, lamenting their departure....HA! Fat chance!
ANd I was feeling sorry for myself....being snowed in and alone.....Your "story" reminded me of CHristmas Past.....WHen I was married to the "ol drunk".....Have truly had a blessed, peaceful Christmas.....Wishing you the same in the future.
Yeah, it's over for me. When Mom was alive she put up with it, complaining yes, but still did it year after year. Now that she's gone he's turned ME into his target. But I'm not Mom. Unlike Mom, *I* can just kiss him off.
Yeesh. Sounds similar.
Once you draw out on the principal the interest off it drops dramtically. and then they can't figure out why there's no money. But of course they think there is money because after all there was money in there a few years ago!
And of course they want to use it for other than its intended purposes and threaten legal action to break up the trust so they can have their cake and eat it too...all the time not realizing the only reason a trust has lasted this long is because our ancestors were wiser about fincances in their day than we are now....
ARRGGHHHHH.
Siblings were meant to be fed to lions, not enjoyed!
Thanks, mamma. I have no regrets. HE'S the one who made a complete ass of himself, and I get to call the shots from now on...forever. He's soooooo non-existent now.
I am sure there is deep meaning in there somewhere but I could never unearth it.
Being named trustee does not make me happy. But if HE had been trustee, we'd all be totally broke right now. I guess my folks were right in thinking I was the one for the job.
Good for you. Hang tough.
I'm still derbating on how to handle the situation with my nephew. I don't want to alienate my sister but I refuse to kowtow to disrepectful behavior from her son.
derbating = debating
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