Grandpa Killjoy
“One of my grandfathers: only called me with super-negative information – such as: Let me know on my 21st birthday that I was an old maid…When my parent’s house was broken into…he told no one to tell me or my mom. We only found out when we arrived home to see yellow police tape outside…When my father died, he decided my mom and I didn’t need any sympathy calls/cards/etc….Called me after my father died to let me know that my father never loved me…
When I would not use my professional degree to assist him in what would be fraud, he told me I went to the wrong school. He died in the hospital last year…and one of my other relatives that lives near me needed an extra hand due to illness – so I missed the funeral. I couldn’t have shed a tear anyway.”