[RKDinOKC]

Not married and smart enough to know that response could have all kinds of negative outcome.

Unless you are like the old couple my parent knew. They were always making wise cracks to and about each other. They liked it.

One time I was in the back isle of a gas station convenience store getting soda pop when they came in to pay for their gas. They came in with their usual banter, calling each other names, etc., paid for their gas and left. The other's in the store just stood there with their mouths agape watching them get in their car and drive off. All the time continuing their banter. The only other person that wasn't effected was the store owner/clerk. Seeing how shocked his customers were he made the comment that they are always like that.

I would have said hi to them but it would have broken their cadence. When talking with other people they are as nice as can be.

My parents told me they were divorced and remarried several times, but never actually apart more than a week.

Neither one worked and they collected antiques. Almost like hoarders but things were kept nice and were actually valuable. Instead of stacking things they bought up houses that were close by and filled them. There were always paths to get to everything. After he died she started collecting dust collector stuff. Then all the storage places started filling up like on those hoarder shows, but no trash. All filled with boxes and boxes of nice unbroken items. dolls, clocks, curios, pottery, etc. She commented one time that she put her money in this stuff instead of the bank because the increased value was better than interest. Looked a couple of things she had on the internet and they were fairy valuable.

She was complaining about getting her car fixed once. I offered to take it and get it fixed for her and she point blank told me she thought I would try to rip her off. When she was talking about trying sell some of her stuff so she could buy some property out of town to have some horses, etc. I offered to help her put them on ebay. Again she accused me of trying to rip her off. She told my Mom that when I was around it reminded her that kids were all "explitives" because none of them helped take care of her like I did Mom.

For thanksgiving and Christmas we always got a turkey and a ham from where I work. I cooked up Big Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner with all the fixins. It was WAY more than Mom and I could eat so made several single servings that would be easy to heat and we took them to her.

I don't know what happened to all her stuff. One of her daughters got legal custody of her, moved her to California, and didn't let her call and talk to Mom. She had 5 houses that I know of.