On 1/26/2015 8:38 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> Becca wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>>> My mother's house is from the late 60s and I noticed last
>>> time I was there that there are no electrical outlets in
>>> the bathroom. Should be interesting come time to sell, we'll
>>> be fixing that, for sure.
>>
>> This house is about 75 years old, and there was only one electrical
>> outlet in the hall bathroom, we hired an electrician to change that.
>
> Why would a hall bathroom need more than one outlet... it's rare for
> any residential bathrooms to have more than one outlet.
>
>> As far as scams, one of our 88 yr old customers was taken for one, last
>> year. She got an email saying that her niece was traveling in Europe and
>> she needed money ASAP, so they took her for a few thousand dollars. Law
>> enforcement takes reports, so they know who gets taken in by scams, and
>> unfortunately, it is the elderly. Sheldon, you are not there, yet, you
>> are still a young whippersnapper.
>
> Even at 88 if she's capable of orchestrating world travel, jet
> setting, going on cruises and such then no way do I believe that fairy
> tale. Unless they are suffering dementia older folks don't easily get
> taken, it happens but extremely rare... and this 88 year old is hep
> enough to be on line doing email etc., nope, not believeable...
> someone fed you a fairy tale. At 88 she lived during the Great
> Depression, those folks know how to squeeze a penny till it bleeds.
> Niece, someone sent an email about the neice, the niece didn't send
> the email herself... and they do have telephones in Europe, and even
> with no money the neice would have phoned collect... Becca, there is
> NO niece. Sounds to me that you're already there... better have
> someone handle your affairs.

Sheldon, I will okay this with her, first, but I can give you her name,
phone number and address and you can discuss it with her. I am not a
liar, have you ever known me to lie? Really!

You can get angry that senior citizens fall for these scams, but
unfortunately, they do. We will just have to disagree on this one.

Becca