[RKDinOKC]

Welp, brother Bob was invited for Thanksgiving dinner.

Telling everyone he has the gas to get here but wouldn't have any to drive home on and would take $40 that he doesn't have. He lives in Tulsa, about 120 miles away. At $1.67 at gallon for regular that's 24 gallons or only 5 mpg! Thought a 05 Honda Odyssey was supposed to get 25mpg or more on the highway?

That's one of the reasons nobody in the family wants to help him. We all know he only gets about $1300 SS but he isn't truthful about what for when he asks for money. I am sure if he came up with budget listing what is coming in and what he needs to spend money on my brother and I would help he get to a place where we wouldn't need to help him any more.

For example he has been complaining the he can't get ANY sort of job because he has trouble hearing. When he was staying here with his heart surgery I went and got him a cheap combination bluetooth phone earpiece and hearing aide that I tried and worked pretty good. Said it worked great, then wouldn't use it?

And when Mom passed he inherited quite a bit of money. Both my older brother and older sister gave part of their inheritance to him because they didn't need the money. He spent it on taking a trip to 2 UFO conventions instead of getting proper hearing aides.

When my Mom had her cancer surgery my older brother didn't want my brother with MS living here for her to worry about. He forced my brother to move out. He did offer to buy a house and make it handicap accessible for him and his girlfriend to move into though. My brother's then girlfriend was afraid that when my brother passed my older brother would kick her out in the street so they refused. Instead my older brother remodeled the grilfriends trailer house to make it accessible.

My older brother tried several times to provide them a house to move into and she would have nothing to do with it. Finally, even though it was after my brother passed, my older brother found the house across the street from her sister was for sale. He bought it and fixed it up and is renting it to her for next to nothing in gratitude for helping to take care of my brother.

So, I am sure my brother would help his older brother, but he wants to help him get out of his situation instead of just keep throwing money at him and he never improves his condition.