The Fat Lady Has Sung

Well, it's final. She asked me if I was such a thick-headed person to not know she wanted nothing to do with me or my family. I said I guess I was because all I wanted was to get past all the ugliness and try to have some kind of relationship. That's when she made an ugly face and said it would never happen. She didn't even let me finish my sentence.

I saw her at the TradeFest today. She brushed past me (not seeing me) and when she turned to say "excuse me", she saw who I was and just about choked on her words. I said "Well, Hi!" and she murmured something and kept going. Later, I stopped by her table and asked how she was doing. She said she was doing fine. I asked if we couldn't sit down together and talk. That's when she started telling me how she had to pay for Mom's funeral all by herself with her own money. I was floored! Then she got up and said "Let's go outside and settle this."

O-o-o-h, I'm shakin' in my boots!

We left the building and walked to the end of the parking lot. She said, smugly, "I don't want anyone to overhear us". I said, "Fine." She then resumed her story of how she had to pay for Mom's funeral all by herself and how she received NO MONEY WHATSOEVER FROM MOM'S ESTATE. (She said it in capitals.) I reminded her that she and Reggie were coming out of the bank when Nancy, Brenda and I were going in. When we signed for the money, her check was still there because all of us had to sign before any money was disbursed. Brenda took her check and mailed it to her, return receipt requested and she had to sign for it at the post office. She said she never received it. I said she needed to investigate that a little further.

(Sept. 18 - I stand corrected. The bank sent her check to her. Brenda sent a check for $260 for the flowers.)

I can't believe that after nine years, she hasn't complained to someone, somewhere as to where her inheritance went!

After about a fifteen minute "talk", she let me know in no uncertain terms that she wanted nothing to do with any of us and that she decided a long time ago to rid herself of any negativity and that meant us. She said her family was Reggie and Jenni. And what did I think I was doing when I mailed Jenni a package of photos of people Jenni didn't know? I asked when did I do that? She said "Oh, you know!" Well, I don't know. It apparently upset Jenni very much. I asked how Jenni was doing. She loudly told me that Jenni was ADHD and would always be ADHD. She also said that I had told her years ago that Jenni wasn't ADHD and that the school tried to tell me that Justin was ADHD also. What!?! I laughed and said no one ever told me Justin was ADHD! She said "You don't remember much, do you?"

She also brought up the fact that I once said that she was lying when she said she had taken Psych 101 at Roller's Business college. I agreed that I had said that because I know that Roller's didn't have Psych 101. She said it was Psych 1 that she took and she had the certificate to prove it but that she didn't have to prove a damned thing to me. I said OK. (That means that I don't have to show anyone the certificate I have that says I have an advanced degree in neurosurgery! You can't prove that I don't have one, and I don't have to show the certificate to anyone. So there! Nah, nah, nah!)

I asked if we couldn't just leave all the bad stuff behind and go forward. She repeated that she didn't want anything to do with any of us. Then she started bringing up stuff from years ago (such as the Psych 101 junk). I said "Stop bringing up stuff from long ago, you've got to let it go. How are you going to be able to move on?" She repeated that she was rid of all negativity and she didn't want to ever see my face again in her life. I asked how was that getting rid of negativity? That's negative!

That's when she turned and walked off.