Moi-Well, not really, but it never has been. Thanks for asking.
He's always had severe problems. Saturday, I get a call from him at 10 am saying he found some money and he'd like me to hang onto it for him. I told him that sounded sketchy and that I'd call him back. Meanwhile, my other line was blowing up. It was his...I'll use the term friend loosely, saying that my son had stolen money from him. So that's where the found money came from. :/ The guy said he'd have my son's legs broke if he didn't return the money. I tried to get a hold of my son but I couldn't. I didn't take it too seriously though. That might sound horrible but the guy is old and I figured he was just angry. People get angry at my son all the time.
Anyway, so then Sunday evening we get a call from my son saying that he'd been kidnapped and was being held in a car and that if we didn't give the guys $250 they'd kill him. Again, I smelled something fishy. He didn't seem scared enough for someone that was being kidnapped. I told him we didn't have the money, which we didn't at that moment, and that I was going to call the cops and tell them that the guy from the day before had him kidnapped. My son begged me not to call the cops but I did. Long story short, my son is fine and was found hanging out at the kidnapping mastermind's house.
My son told the cops that I made the whole thing up. O.O So, either my son was trying to scam his own family out of $250 or since the kidnappers couldn't get any money out of us they thought they might as well all become the best of friends.
I'm just done. I've been done but this was the last straw. I finally got my parents to quit answering his phone calls. I don't have any problem not answering them. My mom, the big softie, isn't happy about it but I've got her cooperating for now. Sorry for the wall of text. I bet you're sorry you asked. XD
Oh and yesterday I found out I was exposed to Covid at church on Sunday. :/
(Back to original conversation.) That's good. I do in ways but not in others. XD I believe there's a lot of truth to that.
XD They get wound up sometimes.
Awww. That's lovely. I wish I did but I've never felt a connection to elderly people. I'm not sure why. I'm not a baby person either. I think I just love animals. XD I don't either. I just lost my last grandma in February.
XD If their parents were listening (I'm not even sure they were there.) they didn't confront me. Maybe they knew I wasn't going to budge on my position. Awww. Poor thing. I hope she doesn't grow up with no self-esteem too. That's the pits. I've always had trouble with that.
XD I like that name.
That's horrible. What's she going to do when the cats decide to gang up on her?
At least you know they care and that hopefully, they'd have done something if you had told them. My parents are too wimpy.
That's true. I usually only worried about it at the bar though. I probably should have worried all the time. XD
Tam-Awww. I still love you, Tam.
No offense was meant. Besides, you probably love pixel animals more than I do. XD
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Plus, I've been treated really rotten by a lot of people and I think it's a defense mechanism I've developed. I'm working on it. 
Probably, but then I'd have to deal with the neighbor. XD He's a sixty? year-old guy who already flirts with me and I'm not interested in the slightest. LOL 
