Have you noticed how lacking in common courtesy people are
when they have to stand in line? If someone in a grocery
line just has a few objects and if my cart is full, I let
them go ahead but very few people do this. It only adds
two minutes to your grocery store experience. Drivers have
road rage, (including my own husband) and are very impolite.
They act like taking an extra minute is going to kill them.
Telephone etiquette is simply non existant.

The greed of politicians is legendary. They make all kinds
of deals with each other and with lobbys that furnish
perks. They travel at our expense. I have noticed that
children now expect to start at the level their parents
attained after a life time of work.

I have an old bookcase...probably l50 years old in mahogany.
It was agreed amoung my children that my daughter is to get
it. My daughter in law said, "Linda will never come and
get that bookcase and I will because I have a place for it"
I was apalled. Everytime I make a purchase, she always tells me how expensive it is. I am not very saving but why
should I be? I am going to wring every drop of enjoyment
out of the years that I have left. I have an old secretary
that is very fragile, much too fragile for a child and she
has asked for thatNOW. Sheesh! Once she was grateful for
every thing that came her way but she became americanized
very quickly. You can probably guess that I am offended
by this. I am going to make arrangements to get the bookcase to Linda very soon.

June has given in to her children and is stuck in a pokey
little house in a town that she detests. She keeps saying
how unhappy she is. Her daughter insisted that she move
there and buy that awful house. Her daughter was motivated
by greed. She also pushed a used car off on her that had
belonged to her dead father-in-law. Avis is about to be
stuck in Bethesda with her daughter. This daughter has
an apartment in the basement and is one of the rudest people
I have ever known and I have known her since she was a baby.
It will end in tears. Who would ever be happy in a basement
apartment? Only honeymoon couples I'll bet. Needless to
say, Avis and Lisa will not get along five minutes.

This is a rant but I remember what a good mother both Avis
and June have been. I bought long term care insurance for
myself and Ted so we won't have to be at the mercy of my
children. So has my sister. It is the in laws that we
are insuring against.