[RKDinOKC]

Just did what my Dad told me, when he told me, and even how he told me. No matter what I thought. Made my life much easier and found actually gave me all kinds of freedom. Never got in trouble for how late I stayed out as long as I did what, when, and how without any excuses next day.

After we moved here one of my Mom's friend's daughter brought over 20 pots with tomatoes or bell peppers for us to raise for her. She never asked us, she just showed up one day with the pots all planted and put them in our back yard. Neither of us wanted to mess with them. told her, and the chick left them anyway. Somehow they all died. We felt she was being very presumptuous so neither Mom or myself bothered to water them. Mom even made the comment that if she wanted to mess with a vegetable garden she would have had me make her one, after all still have a roto-tiller and lots of gardening experience.

This same chick decided Mom needed a new couch. There wasn't anything wrong with our old one. She had some friends of hers drop it here. We first put it in the garage, then outside because it smelled so badly of cat pee. The Good Will, the Disabled Veterans, and the Salvation Army all three turned their nose up at it, pun intended. Left it out on our curb for 4 weeks before big trash day hauled it of. It looked nice, but it smelled so badly of cat pee nobody even stole it. And there are people that go thru the neighborhood looking for things right before big trash day.

This chick is huge! She weighs at least 400 lbs. In HS and College she worked as a life guard at a local pool. I imagine if someone is drowning she just jumps in off that tower thing and splashes all the water out of the pool to save them. She graduated college with a phys ed degree. I don't even know how that happens. Couldn't get a job so ended up working as a carney traveling with a fair. Think she could have easily been the bearded fat lady.

When her Mom passed she moved in and carney people come stay at her house like a hotel I guess. She breeds siamese cats. Think there must be about 30 that just run around her house and she has a mother-in-law room next to the garage that is full of cat litter boxes. Doesn't seem to stop them from spraying, peeing, and pooping on the furniture and in other parts of the house. When she came by the house one time I walked by her car. There was a pot pipe in the ash tray and the back seat and passenger seat was full up to the windows with food wrappers.

Mom knew her mom from the small town they both lived in. Her husband was the president of a local college and she was a kindergarten teacher. Her husband left her and the two adopted kids for a young girl when the adopted kids were still in grade school. She had a nervous breakdown and never really recovered. She talked to and treated everyone like they were in kindergarten with that sing songy talking to young kids voice. She didn't talk or act like that before the breakdown. She had no control over the kids at all, they walked all over her and were very disrespectful. At one point when the son started college he was paying the electric bill and would turn off the A/C any time he wasn't there no matter how hot it was. Mom felt sorry for them and tried to help when she could. She even tried to help the daughter after the Mom died. The husband changed from being and educator to a realator and wouldn't have anything to do with the ex OR the adopted kids after he left her.

My parents sure ended up friends with and helping some really weird people. I have got some stories. Kind of interesting to me I didn't know back then what to call it, but most of the weirdos became hoarders. And most of those they met thru my Dad doing electrical work on their homes or businesses in his spare time.