So during a surprise visit from the boy for lunch on Friday, he talked about people and his problems. Apparently, the twit’s nephew called her a couple of days or so ago without informing her husband, the boy. The nephew wanted to use an empty room upstairs to store their junk! The boy kept emphasizing how the parents of the newlywed are wealthy and how backyards of both parents are big enough to store their junk. For whatever reason, I’m suspecting that both sets of parents don’t want their junk.
Now, the problem is the twit’s side. Their tradition is to look out for each other and save their money by getting a “free ride” whenever possible. Troubling others is one way to get what they want. For the boy, he was distraught over the fact that he was barely scraping enough to pay his mortgage and then he has to get an earful from people who have more than enough means to do their own things without “dumping their problems” on older people, like him and the twit.
I told the boy several times (by mouthing the F-word) that they are NOT related and that they might need access to their junk at inconvenient times and without his permission but via the twit. So I could foresee any liability arising from such arrangements, even if payment in cash is accepted to house their junk. Where do these people come off doing things like that to others? Don’t they think that it’s embarrassing to use other people in the last minute?
But in hindsight, if the newlywed has nowhere to go, no parents to rely on and are dirt poor, then by all means the twosome should help out, for a fee of course). Because in this day in age, nothing is for free. Everything is getting expensive. For example, Maw and Paw helped two couples stand on their feet. One couple was my late Uncle Florene and his wife Hely and four teenagers; the other was Edith and OG and two toddlers. Both sets have stayed in our home while they saved their money to start their own lives.
Empty rooms are mean for people, not for junk. In America, there are storage units for this “rich” couple to pay every month, if they want. But because they are so cheap, they are not worth helping. Perhaps, if only the boy and his twit would make at least one child after being married since December 2008, then there would be no empty room for junk of theirs or other people on their property. Right now, the empty room is cool and quiet and only a space which should have been filled with the laughter of children playing.
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