I'm glad my vehicle's batteries can easily be changed.
Ended up being a lazy day & didn't go to the bank on Monday, which was fortuitous because Tuesday was the day they were drilling out the safety deposit boxes (bank branch is closing). They were supposed to call us so we could come get our stuff but never did. We just happened to go in right when they were clearing them. So they pulled ours for us & we emptied it. Had more stuff than we'd thought. I had to buy a plastic bin for it all. Some of my dad's medals, his old passport, family wills, baby shoes, old medical records, and a special edition Border Patrol gun (in a fancy wooden box). I commented that I was going to refrain from opening the box with the gun inside the bank & the employees thanked me. They said they had found weird stuff in some of the boxes before, but didn't go into detail.
Mom is trying to transition over to have the money that gets automatically deposited put into the other bank across the street as well as set up the bills that get paid by her checking account at the closing bank to come from the other bank. But our electric company told her she had to come to their office in Deridder (a few hour drive) in person to change over where the $ is being paid from. I intend to call them to see if they will allow the transition over the phone given there's still a pandemic (and it's a waste of gas to go all the way there). She still needs to get her military ID renewed at Ft Polk as well.
My brother started his practicum for a certification in teaching EFL. The lady he is shadowing is 75yrs old & he said she's very nice. He's going to watch how she does her teaching for 20 hours and then she will let him do some teaching for however many hours are required. He enjoyed his first day. There was a woman from a country that got hit with an earthquake so she was asked questions about whether or not she remembered it. Teacher was unaware that it was a traumatic event. The lady said her house was undamaged, however, she'd been at her friend's house when it happened & the wall collapsed and killed her friend right in front of her. She got choked up about it. On the funnier side, there was a Vietnamese woman who kept saying "eat the cat" instead of "feed the cat".
My friend's mom was apparently trying to screw him out of ownership of the house & had gone to ask about getting the deed & was told the city still has it and is claiming ownership despite them telling my friend he co-owns it bc he's been paying the taxes. The city has no claim to it bc the taxes were paid, but they are holding on to the deed. I had my friend record the conversation on his phone, I was there as a witness, & he took a photo of the receipt (as well as kept the receipt & kept it in a special folder) to prove he paid the taxes & that he was no co-owner. City is trying some underhanded bs. My friend said if either his mom or the city try to kick him out, he's taking everything we put into it: metal roof, carpet, vinyl plank flooring, cabinets, tub/shower, lights, & even the kitchen sink. None of that was there before he moved in & started fixing it up. A lot of the stuff was put in after he paid the taxes & should have been granted ownership. But, the upside is, it means his mom can no longer threaten to kick him out. She was trying to pull her BS with him today (wanting a lift). She's got an extremely jealous boyfriend who gets mad if she gets dropped off by anyone other than my friend, his fiance, or me. So she gets picked up or walks to a place to get picked up by men she cheats on her boyfriend with & then wants my friend to give her a lift back. A mutual friend said she needs to either stop screwing around or she needs to let her other men drop her off & deal with the repercussions. In the past 20 years, my friend's mother has spent only 4 hours with him (not involving car rides or when she was sleeping at his house). She comes over, drops off her dogs to be watched, and leaves to go do drugs, drink, & mess around. Then she wants him to give her lifts or let him borrow his car (which is now broken down after she last used it) at his expense. She constantly used the house as leverage (saying she owned it and could kick him out). Anyway, Thursday we are going to City Hall to sort out ownership. Hopefully we won't need to get a lawyer involved. I'm hoping he can own it outright since she hadn't paid any taxes in years despite having collected rent & having essentially stolen the $600 he gave her to pay the taxes. Which he then had to come up with another $600 to pay them. At least he now gets homestead exemption from the Parish, but city still overcharges & refuses to send out notice when taxes are due or how much they are.
Another meanwhile, he left his phone at home while he went to work & when he got back he had a bunch of messages about his grandfather having locked himself in a hotel room, they couldn't get the door open, and the grandfather was covered in his own excrement. He needs to go back to a care facility, but we suspect he's playing it up to try to guilt my friend into letting him come back-- it's not going to work. His fiance got rejected for a job while pending trial for the now misdemeanor "simple battery" & he is going to have to start working fulltime. The fiance is desperately trying to find some other job far away so she can avoid taking care of her own baby. If she could find herself a sugar daddy, we're certain she would run off & leave my friend & the baby.
She had wanted a baby so badly that she was screwing around with other guys to try to get pregnant. We're not sure this kid is even his. We think she fudged the timeline on when he was conceived bc the baby was much more developed than one that was 10 days early. But, that is something that may have to be dealt with further down the line if a paternity test is ever done.
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