The lady you shouldn't be like
Note: The following is a work of fiction. Any similarities to names, places or events is coincidential
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Back in my father's hometown, there was this lady who married a very successful businessman. This lady came from a wealthy family, the youngest of 4 sisters, so she did not have to work a single day in her life eversince she was born. Even though she married into this businessman's family, she still didn't work (or even bother to). Other than making babies, she was a useless wife. She never cleaned, cooked, or do laundry in their household. There were always servants who did that for the family. Even when their maid left them, she still refused to cook, clean for the family, lest even do the simplest of chores. In short, she was a spoiled senorita. All she did was get the hard-earned money her husband would give her and spend it lavishly buying appliances. She was living a good life. If this lifestyle was not loatheful, her attitude was even worse. Eversince she was a maiden, she was fond of telling tall tales aboutthings and people just for sake of telling stories. It was even known eventually when the people she was talking about talked to each other,that they were just being rumored due to the false stories that this lady had been telling their neighbors. She found it amusing, while others were greatly angered by this habit of hers. Even when they migrated to the US, this lady, in her old age was living with one of her children's families. This proved to be a great plight for her hosts. Her real colors showed and the children were enduring her attitude of capriciousness and lavish living. Almost naturally, she was trying to make the husbands and wives of her children quarrel amongst each other. At first it was hard to believe, but eventually, it was apparent that the same story of her attitude was common to all the children's families that she spent time with. No one wanted to take care of her anymore. Not even her grandchildren were close to her. This is because she never had the heart to take care of any of her grandchildren.
Whenever she feels like it, she calls to the stranger walking at the sidewalk in front of her house. She would offer them food (that her husband would worked so hard to feed the family) - anything just to chat. It seems that this has been the only thing she has been good at - telling stories. At this day and age, this is quite dangerous since inviting a complete stranger into your house opens up a lot of possibilities for being burglared, etc.
So in their ripe old age, when it finally came to a point that the family of the husband could not take it anymore, the husband divorced this lady in her old age. At first, the children of the businessman were against this decision, but in time, they saw with their own eyes these longsince traits that this lady had. It became a lesson for their whole family. In their whole clan, there had been no one as useless as this person. When she was sent back to the Philippines, not even her other sisters would want to take care of her. There are 7 of her sons and daughters in the US with her but none of them could bear with her attitude either. The last of her sisters who did try to take her in ended up hating her even more because of her inconsiderate nature. Now, no one of their family in the US would ever talk to her, she was sent here by all of them because no one wanted her anymore. She would just be left here to die in her old age as a useless old lady. To this day, she still reeks of laziness and continues this philosophy in the remainder of her days.
By the way, this old lady is my father's mother.
posted by Urban Warrior @ 8:33 AM
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