Here you go, Mems

This past Spring BP’s 85 year old Uncle Allen who lives in California announced to his four adult daughters that he wanted to move because, while he has a great pension and is richer than God, his “monthly output was more than his income.” They finally agreed than he could move “somewhere where he has relatives.” Goody. That left either Detroit Michigan where BP’s brother lives, or Indiana where Allen’s sister (BP’s mother) and we live.
A few weeks ago he called BP and asked if we had a car he could borrow (because he’s too cheap to rent one) during his stay while he’s looking for a house to buy, and if he could stay a few days at our house. I don’t mind an overnight guest and told BP this. But we do not have an extra guest bedroom. We have a small house--but a day or two would be fine.
BP picked him up at the airport on September 12, and when they got home and we were talking in the living room, BP offhandedly mentions that Uncle Allen will be here in Indiana a month. I turn slowly in BP’s direction, eyes bugged, (Uncle Al was sitting on the couch where he couldn’t see my face) and mouthed “A MONTH???!!!!!”
Well it turns out that he “only” stayed with us FIVE nights instead of one and he’s staying with his sister most of the rest of the time.
BUT he has allergies which meant our cat had to practically live on the backporch for the entire time, which LP decried as “unfair.”
When we went out to eat, did Uncle Allen take out his wallet and pay even once? Just once??? No, he did not. Did I have to fix his meals? I did for the first two days, then in a phone conversation I told BP “I’m not feeding that old man anymore—either you can fix his meals or he can fend for himself.” Am I a bitch? Hell ,yes I am.
When he took out the Honda, it was “It needs gasoline.”
When we went grocery shopping at Meijer’s he put “a few things” in the cart. We paid, of course. We went by the bottled water aisle and he said, “That’s the biggest con on mankind.” I thought of Verbie!
I thought of Tree too when, after he went out walking around the area one afternoon, he commented, “There are too many churches around here.” He’s an atheist and I told him that if he wants to move to Indiana he’d better get used to it.
Anyway, fish and guests stink after three days. I’m pissed at his daughters too. All four of them are wealthy and have fabulous jobs and ONE of them could have accompanied him here to see that he’s set up and has everything he needs.
To top it off, when he left for my mother-in-law’s he never said “Thank You” “Kiss My ass” or anything.
It rolled off of BP’s back “He’s old,” “He comes from the cheapskate part of the family.” Etc. BP said that I got “Good wifely points.” BFD