Weird rules that don’t exist
My grandparents have been unhappy in the facility they moved to. They chose the cheapest place available (note: they have always been thrifty and thus now have lots of money leftover), and they’re in a 1-bedroom, so one of them sleeps in the living room. I’m not totally sure what all their complaints are, really; I found it horribly depressing when I visited, but at that point they were still happy there. They’re debating between two places, and I assume they’re just waiting for a 2-bedroom to show up in one of them.
My aunt, however, doesn’t want them to move. (Why? Possibility 1: one of the two choices is next door to where she lives. Possibility 2: she’ll inherit less if they do.) So she informed them that she looked it up, and the post office won’t deliver to their new address if they move again, they’d need to pick up their mail every day. Apparently, after you’re 80, you can only do one change of address, then no more. My father gently suggested that perhaps this was a load of bunk, but no, they insisted, my aunt looked it up, it’s true.
July 24th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Hey, if they believed that one … tell them after their next birthday they’re required by law to hand over all their money to their third-oldest grandchild (or whatever your birth order is). :>
I’ll think of something for that aunt of yours, too, but it’ll take a little thought….
July 24th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Oldest grandchild. And I wish.
That’s my crazy aunt. Remember the mattress story, or the alarm clock story?
July 25th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
It turns out that your aunt has to go soak her head. I looked it up.