Been a bit disturbed..
By vanny
@vandana7 (98827)
India
August 12, 2018 12:22pm CST
This maid...or househelp as you all call, dropped by...
She has only one son. The couple brought him up with loads of love and care. I have never seen anybody dote so much on her son.
The boy too had a lot of regard for his parents. The husband suffered paralytic attack a few years ago, so they chose to relocate.
Their son is now earning much better. He is married. The maid had borrowed heavily to build a room for him, and get him married. She repaid all that loan.
Now, the boy got her to affix her thumb impression on some papers (gift deed ..she did not know it was that), and took over her properties. Thereafter, he started ridiculing her, hurting her.
She took the matter to panchayat, which is local justice dispensing authority. They had him return the property. Even so, she is not keeping her papers with her. They are lodged with somebody else.
I think the whole thing stinks. Why are kids becoming like that? This is so unexpected.
Her tears made me feel so sad...that is the reason I have not been around today. I apologize.
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10 responses
@vandana7 (98827)
• India
13 Aug 18
@LadyDuck I used to give idlis a type of breakfast. I give four normally to every househelp. This dame used to skip her breakfast, to give to her son because she was not having grinder to make them. I used to then add two more for her. She and her husband ate one and the boy got to eat four. I keep thinking that and tears well up in my eyes, because so much love..........and then such treatment.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
1 Oct 18
Very recently, our cooperative bought an adjacent lot to able to comply with the City Engineer's parking requirement for the hotel we're constructing. The owner is a widow and because she's still alive, under our laws, she is supposed to receive half of the proceeds plus a share of the other half divided equally among her and her 5 children. Sadly though, she instructed our accountant to divide the procees of the sale equally among her 5 children and nothing for herself so that there would be no quarrel. Two of her children who live and work abroad purposely came home and stayed in a hotel just to collect their share. The 3 others here , I was told, have always been asking financial help from their widowed mother from her pension. What a shame on these siblings!
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
1 Oct 18
@sunrisefan I know because I love cakes, and dad has always taken from his plate and put on my plate, even when I grew beyond 18. Those are hard to forget moments. That kind of love nobody will give. It needs to be cherished.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
1 Oct 18
@vandana7 It's indeed ironic when children don't take care of their parents who toiled for them and spent sleepless nights when they were ill when they were still little. Some would say that parents would rather chose to have an empty stomach rather than see their children go hungry.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
1 Oct 18
@MALUSE Some people like to reach their goals at the end of the month. Not that the money makes any difference. But they are programmed like that. When they come and respond, and I fail to reply back in time, they must feel cheated in some way. That is why the apology.
@vandana7 (98827)
• India
12 Aug 18
Jo Ann...I cried ... I can't seem to get her face out of my mind. This was so unexpected. My present househelp has a drunkard son. He yells at her every now and then. But it is kind of she knows the score. In this case, parents must be quite shocked. The father wanted a job. His left arm and leg are not functional, what job can I suggest..I just didn't know what to say.
@vandana7 (98827)
• India
13 Aug 18
@akalinus Dad told her, my siblings brought me to road, I had nothing when I retired, my daughter struggled to give me what I have today. So don't trust anybody. I was shamelessly crying even before that...you know Jo Ann, I have been ridiculed for not having kids, as if I were a barren woman, and more so after menopause when it is like free for all to try their luck like vultures to inherit from me. I longed for a child and honestly envied DE. But when I see folks like this, I feel blessed. She is so honest! How could god do this to her? Especially now that she is old, and her husband is paralyzed. Sorry...will catch up later.
@YrNemo (20261)
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13 Aug 18
I heard of similar cases, in which the young people convinced their elders successfully to part with their properties to these young relatives. The intention was, the properties should remain in the elders' hand until after their passing away from this earth. The next thing these seniors know after signing the deeds away, they were demanded a rent by these young people. Reason: "the house is now mine with paperwork to prove. If you want to stay, you have to pay a rent."
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@arunima25 (85314)
• Bangalore, India
13 Aug 18
That is a sad situation. But it is so common and we hear so much of them around us.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
13 Aug 18
It is one thing to watch in movie, or know that happening to strangers. It feels exaggeration in some cases. But somebody you know at close quarters, for fairly long time, and see them doing that. What an idjit for a boy! Now this lady has handed over papers to third party, trusting them. What is the guarantee that the person who is holding those papers will not ask for monies to part with those papers? If the papers had remained with the parents, eventually it would go to him, right? Some people are stupid as well as heart less.
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@arunima25 (85314)
• Bangalore, India
13 Aug 18
@vandana7 People have vultures in them waiting to pounce over an innocent, ignorant and vulnerable ones. Sad it was her own child who kicked her trust and poor thing fell a prey for the third party to escape from her own blood. It is a shame and quite disturbing.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
13 Aug 18
@arunima25 Imagine, I was teaching him how to earn online. He was such a good boy back then.
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@Freelanzer (10745)
• Canada
12 Aug 18
That is so sad. Perhaps he was too pampered as a child. After all she did go into debt to build him a room. Some kids just feel entitled and they need to be taught early not to expect too much.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
1 Oct 18
I believe his wife did pressurize him. But the boy himself has resorted to such things, right? Mother worked, wife did not. He has seen the hardships of his parents, and the comfort level his wife enjoys. It is such a shame when children forget their parents.
