My mom is pushing 83 and at the point ya' can't tell her ANYTHING! She know's it all and all I ever hear is, "I've lived almost 83 years without (insert anything you want here) and I don't need it now!" She still drives ... to the corner grocery store every couple weeks and to the hair dresser every Tuesday. I bought her a cell phone a couple years ago but she refuses to even keep it charged. I told her not to leave the house without it, but it was like talking to a brick wall. Every time I'm there, I plug it into the charger as every time I get there, it's unplugged and dead. Doesn't matter anyway, if she leaves the house, the phone stays on the kitchen counter ... DEAD!
She lives by herself, that's the way she wants it and NOBODY is going to change that. One evening I called to check on her and got no answer. I called every half hour or so until about 10:00 that night. Home phone and cell phone .... nothing. Had she "fallen and can't get up"? Had she had a stroke or heart attack? Was there a home invasion and she's tied up ... or worse? No neighbors to call as they're worthless and I don't even know their names ... wouldn't matter if I did, I wouldn't call if I could. I'd call the Sheriff first.
I got up, got dressed and drove the half hour over there and got there about 11:00 PM (she was in bed) just to find she'd forgotten to hang up the home phone. The cell phone? Dead as a door-nail ... of course! Well, today is her "hair dresser" day. Some dude called me a while ago and said my mom was stuck on the side of the road with car trouble. He put her on the line and of course she was upset. I told her to stay with the car and I'd call the Cadillac dealer and have them send a tow truck. She said the gentleman who stopped had already called one for her (a local tow company who also has a repair garage). Ok, I told her to have it towed to the Caddie dealer. I called my buddy at the dealership and told him she'd be coming in "on the hook" and to please arrange a ride home for her.
Time goes by and I hear nothing. The Caddie dealer hasn't seen or heard from her. CRAP!! She has no cell phone ... no way to even know where she is. I decide to call the house and she answers the phone. Turns out the "nice" gentleman who was driving the tow truck said he could take it to their shop and fix it much cheaper than the dealer, so he dropped her off at her house and left with her car. I asked what she told them to do and she said she told them to do whatever needs to be done! DAMMIT!!! The last time she did that they were about to pull the transmission and engine to fix a tiny frigging oil leak that the car has had since it was new (it's a '98). The estimate was over $6000 F'ING $$$$!!! Luckily I caught them before they'd started and told them to just fix the f'ing broken belt which was why it was towed in.
Ok, today I find out who picked up her car and they're some of the biggest crooks in town! Again, she'd told them to "do whatever it needs!!!!" I just got off the phone with them and told them not to touch the f'ing car until I get there tomorrow. I also called the Caddie dealer and told them to go on home and not to bother waiting for her (they had the driver waiting to take her home). I'm so frigging pissed right now I can't see straight. The last time I tried to convince her she's incompetent, it caused a war and she didn't speak to me for a month. I really don't need this stress but I'm to the point I just want to ring her neck. (there's MUCH more, this is just the tip of the iceberg)
I've just finished pulling out what little hair I had left.