On 7/23/2017 11:40 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-07-23 11:14 AM, Gary wrote:
>> Janet wrote:
>
>>> As you'd know, if you'd gone home to care for your old parents.
>>
>> The offer to care for my Mom is on the table now and available if
>> she chooses that. Your rant about raising kids tells me that you
>> never had any...

It wasn't a rant, Gary. You have kids, they're your responsibility.

> or at least you never had any to raise by
>> yourself. You obviously have no clue as to what it's like. Do you
>> even ever cook food? I don't remember any of that either.
>>
> Parents tend to end up in the care of the one decent enough to do the
> right thing. My neighbour ended up caring for her mother when her 13
> brothers and sisters wanted to stick her in a home. She got no help
> from any of them. Even the relatives who used to spend every weekend
> sitting around her pool,eating her food and drinking her booze suddenly
> had no time to come by to visit... and maybe watch granny while she went
> for groceries.
>
When our father died and I called my middle brother about the funeral he
said, "You'll have to reschedule, I have meetings that day." Excuse me?!
Sorry it's not convenient.

I should have told him to kiss my ass. Unfortunately, our mother wanted
him to be there. So we rescheduled his funeral.

Jill