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Third Florida trip report (long, of course!)
x-no-archive:yes WaIIy wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 06:04:18 GMT, "Skip Gundlach" u wrote: :{)) We'll do that, despite that her kid(s? at least one, but he - the 21 year old college senior - claims it's all 4 of them) seems to have a bug up his rear about our doing this which has resulted, this weekend, in an ad hominem attack on me and my sanity and a threat, as well, should I continue in this course, along with an accusation that I'm stealing his mother's fortune (I'm buying the boat) - and, not incidentally, his mother :{)) L8R Skip and Lydia, As The Stomach Turns... It doesn't even have to be a step parent. One of my daughter's friends told me that my daughter told her - my parents have bought this boat and they are going to go out and hit a rock and sink and drown. (She never said anything to me BTW.) My grandfather remarried after my grandmother died to a lady who while she was 20 years younger was in her mid 50s and he was her third or fourth husband. She had way more money than my grandfather, so they signed a pre-nup. All her money would go to her kids and not to my grandfather, although she had a life tenancy (if she wanted it) to live in his house. So maybe that would be one way to remove that concern. Aren't relatives great? My friends husband died and the kids were highly ****ed off because she "inherited" the money and they didn't get any. They were married 32 years. I'm sure we all have a few greedy relative stories, try not to let it get to you. Good luck and Merry Christmas. grandma Rosalie |
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Third Florida trip report (long, of course!)
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:33:57 GMT, Rosalie B.
wrote: My grandfather remarried after my grandmother died to a lady who while she was 20 years younger was in her mid 50s and he was her third or fourth husband. She had way more money than my grandfather, so they signed a pre-nup. All her money would go to her kids and not to my grandfather, although she had a life tenancy (if she wanted it) to live in his house. So maybe that would be one way to remove that concern. Here's an irony: my middle-class father, ex-British Merchant Marine, is pushing 80 and was ten years older than my mother whom we lost last year to cancer. Typically, (he's a child of Depression and WWII Blitz in England) , he scrounged and saved and they didn't take the trips and activities they could well afford, because he thought he'd die first and leave her somehow destitute. Now, his pensions and savings and habitual economies mean that he will leave half-a-million each to me and my sister, because he didn't spend a cent when he could have and probably should have. So the likelihood is strong that the reason I myself will get something like Skip's ideal Morgan 46 (or some other similar Brewer or Wallstrom design, which I greatly favour for offshore cruising) is because he didn't spend money on my mother when she was alive and wanting nothing more than to travel to distant shores. I already have a decent Great Lakes cruiser. She could easily do the ICW to the Caribbean. I could refinance a decent ocean cruiser out of a nearly-paid-off house. So in sum, I wish they'd blown their savings on a well-earned good time and not left us an essentially redundant packet o' cash which will pay for frills like radar and nice things like college educations for their grandkids....essentially, any inheritance will bypass my generation to make life a little nicer for the kids he doesn't notice because he's in mourning for his dead wife. The lesson? Carpe ****ing diem, my friends, because it doesn't come around again. If you want it, go for it, and let no one bar your dream. To hell with waiting for 65...I'd rather be a poor cruiser in a decent boat while I can still haul a halyard. Good on you, Skip and Linda: fair winds and steady seas. Your story has been most instructive. R. |
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Third Florida trip report (long, of course!)
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:33:57 GMT, Rosalie B.
wrote: My grandfather remarried after my grandmother died to a lady who while she was 20 years younger was in her mid 50s and he was her third or fourth husband. She had way more money than my grandfather, so they signed a pre-nup. All her money would go to her kids and not to my grandfather, although she had a life tenancy (if she wanted it) to live in his house. So maybe that would be one way to remove that concern. Here's an irony: my middle-class father, ex-British Merchant Marine, is pushing 80 and was ten years older than my mother whom we lost last year to cancer. Typically, (he's a child of Depression and WWII Blitz in England) , he scrounged and saved and they didn't take the trips and activities they could well afford, because he thought he'd die first and leave her somehow destitute. Now, his pensions and savings and habitual economies mean that he will leave half-a-million each to me and my sister, because he didn't spend a cent when he could have and probably should have. So the likelihood is strong that the reason I myself will get something like Skip's ideal Morgan 46 (or some other similar Brewer or Wallstrom design, which I greatly favour for offshore cruising) is because he didn't spend money on my mother when she was alive and wanting nothing more than to travel to distant shores. I already have a decent Great Lakes cruiser. She could easily do the ICW to the Caribbean. I could refinance a decent ocean cruiser out of a nearly-paid-off house. So in sum, I wish they'd blown their savings on a well-earned good time and not left us an essentially redundant packet o' cash which will pay for frills like radar and nice things like college educations for their grandkids....essentially, any inheritance will bypass my generation to make life a little nicer for the kids he doesn't notice because he's in mourning for his dead wife. The lesson? Carpe ****ing diem, my friends, because it doesn't come around again. If you want it, go for it, and let no one bar your dream. To hell with waiting for 65...I'd rather be a poor cruiser in a decent boat while I can still haul a halyard. Good on you, Skip and Linda: fair winds and steady seas. Your story has been most instructive. R. |
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