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[Andy B]

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Mind you the day started with Mum locking herself out of the house...

It could be worse .... Yesterday, MY Mum handed her's & my Dad's bank card complete with PINs over at the door to scammers because she thought she'd spent the previous hour on the phone to her bank! It was my Dad (that ironically has been recently diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's that smelt a rat & phoned my brother who stopped the cards & informed the police. We told her, as had the police, to keep doors locked ... we called down & walked straight in!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another problem for everyone else.

[Doctor Gollum]

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Mind you the day started with Mum locking herself out of the house...

It could be worse .... Yesterday, MY Mum handed her's & my Dad's bank card complete with PINs over at the door to scammers because she thought she'd spent the previous hour on the phone to her bank! It was my Dad (that ironically has been recently diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's that smelt a rat & phoned my brother who stopped the cards & informed the police. We told her, as had the police, to keep doors locked ... we called down & walked straight in!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another problem for everyone else.

I do worry. Fortunately the neighbours are spot on.

Power of attorney is quite a responsibility, but there comes a point...

Obviously notwithstanding the emotional rollercoaster that goes with such a conversation.

Glad you managed to get onto it swiftly, but it doesn't bear thinking about.

[Andy B]

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Mind you the day started with Mum locking herself out of the house...

It could be worse .... Yesterday, MY Mum handed her's & my Dad's bank card complete with PINs over at the door to scammers because she thought she'd spent the previous hour on the phone to her bank! It was my Dad (that ironically has been recently diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's that smelt a rat & phoned my brother who stopped the cards & informed the police. We told her, as had the police, to keep doors locked ... we called down & walked straight in!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another problem for everyone else.

I do worry. Fortunately the neighbours are spot on.

Power of attorney is quite a responsibility, but there comes a point...

Obviously notwithstanding the emotional rollercoaster that goes with such a conversation.

Glad you managed to get onto it swiftly, but it doesn't bear thinking about.

I do fear that they'll be back when they think the new cards have arrived. They'd tried to use the card this morning on an Uber app ....

We both do have power of attorney ... both health & wealth ... but she's always right even when you're trying to explain the potential severity of what she did.

[YZ250]

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I do fear that they'll be back when they think the new cards have arrived. They'd tried to use the card this morning on an Uber app ....
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There are some evil bastards out there. Preying on the elderly is the lowest of the low. 
I had to fit a key safe at my parents, so that those that should be able to get in, could get in, and those that shouldn’t couldn’t. My Mum was bed bound for the final five’ish years of her life after suffering a stroke, and my Dad was bed bound for around the final year of his life after suffering a fall. It’s not nice being old. 

On a side note, if they have broadband, you could install a Ring/An Other doorbell camera and one of your family be the account holder. You’d get the notifications then so you’d know who was at their door. 

[Andy B]

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I do fear that they'll be back when they think the new cards have arrived. They'd tried to use the card this morning on an Uber app ....
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There are some evil bastards out there. Preying on the elderly is the lowest of the low. 
I had to fit a key safe at my parents, so that those that should be able to get in, could get in, and those that shouldn’t couldn’t. My Mum was bed bound for the final five’ish years of her life after suffering a stroke, and my Dad was bed bound for around the final year of his life after suffering a fall. It’s not nice being old. 

On a side note, if they have broadband, you could install a Ring/An Other doorbell camera and one of your family be the account holder. You’d get the notifications then so you’d know who was at their door. 

neither are actually bed bound both have mobility problems though.

The Ring door bell/camera is something in hand .... No1 daughter & s-i-l are ordering something! 

You don't think that you're going to have to look after your parents like this. 

[YZ250]

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You don't think that you're going to have to look after your parents like this. 

When I was a toddler my parents wiped my backside, but I never in my wildest dreams imagined that I’d have to do the same for them sixty years later.     I had to wash and change them after they’d had an accident, something a son shouldn’t be doing, but it had to be done if it happened between the carers visits. Life was shit (literally) and after a while it nearly broke me.    My sister bailed on me at every incident/accident, saying she didn’t know how I managed to do it. I did it because I loved them, and it wasn’t their fault, they didn’t want to be like that. My mum was on ‘End of Life’ palliative care and not expected to live out the year. She lived over five years after that. 
I was once told, if you do what you can for them while your parents are alive, then you’ve got nothing to be ashamed of when they pass, and that’s what I did. 

[Andy B]

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You don't think that you're going to have to look after your parents like this. 

When I was a toddler my parents wiped my backside, but I never in my wildest dreams imagined that I’d have to do the same for them sixty years later.     I had to wash and change them after they’d had an accident, something a son shouldn’t be doing, but it had to be done if it happened between the carers visits. Life was shit (literally) and after a while it nearly broke me.    My sister bailed on me at every incident/accident, saying she didn’t know how I managed to do it. I did it because I loved them, and it wasn’t their fault, they didn’t want to be like that. My mum was on ‘End of Life’ palliative care and not expected to live out the year. She lived over five years after that. 
I was once told, if you do what you can for them while your parents are alive, then you’ve got nothing to be ashamed of when they pass, and that’s what I did. 

Well done Allan  I admire you! 

[Varche]

Two winters ago, rodents got into our hose reel and chewed up the pipe. I could not find a single how to video on the net only plenty of warnings not to attempt diy- presumably a very strong spring inside…..

It is a fancy auto return ,long device from a famous German company. Contacted their Spanish HQ and they said use the agent in Granada. Went there last summer ( for that was when we discovered it was useless) and they advised “ too busy” come back later. Which we did. The repair took months. Since then it has sat indoors well away from any rodents. Installed it today ready to do jet washing and……..it leaks. Presumably from the fancy central universal coupling.

Fortunately I have miles of other cheap hosepipe - not a single cm of which has ever been gnawed.

So tomorrow it is off to see the repair agent again.  What is that I hear you say - good luck?

[TheBoy]

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 You know the type of person, they wait in the queue for the gate, then look for their phone, then spend ages trying to find the app, then it won't scan....     ....just opps off out of my way!
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That's the same type of person that it seems as a complete surprise that the traffic lights have turned green in front of them ..... then they have to look at where 1st gear is & then take the hand brake off .... 

And now we have to have traffic lights at every single t junction, and on what few roundabouts remain, it takes 15 minutes to get out of even a small town like Brackley...

[TheBoy]

When I was a toddler my parents wiped my backside, but I never in my wildest dreams imagined that I’d have to do the same for them sixty years later.

I suspect "accidents" will come to us all at some point.  I've always been proud of the fact that I have avoided "accidents"* since growing out of nappies**, which most definitely isn't a family trait, given my bros have never been able to judge a fart .

But that stuff they make you drink for 18hrs before an anal probing, jesus, that made it a close run thing last month


*I don't count the seepage in Egypt after having some Nile water in my mouth.  The valve was fully closed, but the brown water still found a way out 

**Not that I used to wear them.  As a small toddler, we lived right on a beach in a hot country.  According to mum, I'd run out the door onto the beach and remove everything I was wearing, and expose myself to the girls.  Back then, apparently, I was just being cute.  When I try it now, people scream, and the Police want to see what their nice bracelets look like on me

[Sir Tigger KC]

When I was a toddler my parents wiped my backside, but I never in my wildest dreams imagined that I’d have to do the same for them sixty years later.

I suspect "accidents" will come to us all at some point.  I've always been proud of the fact that I have avoided "accidents"* since growing out of nappies**, which most definitely isn't a family trait, given my bros have never been able to judge a fart .

But that stuff they make you drink for 18hrs before an anal probing, jesus, that made it a close run thing last month


*I don't count the seepage in Egypt after having some Nile water in my mouth.  The valve was fully closed, but the brown water still found a way out 

**Not that I used to wear them.  As a small toddler, we lived right on a beach in a hot country.  According to mum, I'd run out the door onto the beach and remove everything I was wearing, and expose myself to the girls.  Back then, apparently, I was just being cute.  When I try it now, people scream, and the Police want to see what their nice bracelets look like on me

You really wonder where it's all coming from and when the flow will stop.        

[TheBoy]

When I was a toddler my parents wiped my backside, but I never in my wildest dreams imagined that I’d have to do the same for them sixty years later.

I suspect "accidents" will come to us all at some point.  I've always been proud of the fact that I have avoided "accidents"* since growing out of nappies**, which most definitely isn't a family trait, given my bros have never been able to judge a fart .

But that stuff they make you drink for 18hrs before an anal probing, jesus, that made it a close run thing last month


*I don't count the seepage in Egypt after having some Nile water in my mouth.  The valve was fully closed, but the brown water still found a way out 

**Not that I used to wear them.  As a small toddler, we lived right on a beach in a hot country.  According to mum, I'd run out the door onto the beach and remove everything I was wearing, and expose myself to the girls.  Back then, apparently, I was just being cute.  When I try it now, people scream, and the Police want to see what their nice bracelets look like on me

You really wonder where it's all coming from and when the flow will stop.        

Its clever stuff, as about 90mins before I was violated rectally, the flow just stopped by itself.

[Doctor Gollum]

Ran out of Naga juice more likely 

[ronnyd]

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HAND BRAKE?  Most of the buggers around here just sit there with their foot on the pedal, blinding the poor sods behind them with their brake lights.

I hear this from various places. If I sit at the lights in my ML using HOLD, my foot is no where near the foot brake, but the brake lights are on. If sitting with brake lights on was such a heinous crime, then the likes of Merc wouldn't wire their cars as they do. (it used to do the same when MB used SBC - fly by wire brakes)
It never bothers me whether I'm high up in the ML or almost sat on the ground in the Smart Roadster .... maybe it's an aging eyes problem 

[STEMO]

When I was a toddler my parents wiped my backside, but I never in my wildest dreams imagined that I’d have to do the same for them sixty years later.

I suspect "accidents" will come to us all at some point.  I've always been proud of the fact that I have avoided "accidents"* since growing out of nappies**, which most definitely isn't a family trait, given my bros have never been able to judge a fart .

But that stuff they make you drink for 18hrs before an anal probing, jesus, that made it a close run thing last month


*I don't count the seepage in Egypt after having some Nile water in my mouth.  The valve was fully closed, but the brown water still found a way out 

**Not that I used to wear them.  As a small toddler, we lived right on a beach in a hot country.  According to mum, I'd run out the door onto the beach and remove everything I was wearing, and expose myself to the girls.  Back then, apparently, I was just being cute.  When I try it now, people scream, and the Police want to see what their nice bracelets look like on me

You really wonder where it's all coming from and when the flow will stop.        

Its clever stuff, as about 90mins before I was violated rectally, the flow just stopped by itself.

Imagine going to medical school for five years, then spending your entire career shoving stuff up people's arseholes.