Sistah Pat

Woke up to a phone call from oldest DS at 6:30 a.m.  He used DH’s car to go to work and the tire came off while he was driving down the expressway.  All the lug nuts have been loosened.  Thank God he wasn’t hurt.

I just talked to him on the phone.  He took pictures with the camera on the phone and AAA is just getting there to tow the car.  This really sucks.  Too much of a coincidence to be ignored but probably totally unrelated to DIL.  I mean, I can’t believe she’d be behind anything like this.  Her boyfriend?  I don’t know.  I feel like an idiot thinking about making a police report but I know we have to.  Even if she isn’t involved, we have to make a report but I’ll have to give them her name when they ask if I know anyone who would do this.  Crap!  I really hate this.  The problem is that DH had a flat on the tire that came off just a couple of weeks ago and it’s possible that the lug nuts weren’t tightened correctly.  DH is not an amateur when it comes to cars but he’s walking around saying, “It’s possible that the lug nuts weren’t tightened correctly.  I can’t believe it but it’s possible.”  I guess we’ll check all the other lug nuts when the car gets here.  If others are loose, there’s no doubt that it was deliberate.

Sistah Pam took me out yesterday.  She drove over the river to Indiana and we visited Huber’s Winery and Orchard.  Had a wonderful lunch and I bought a half bushel of tomatoes and a basket of overripe peaches for a song.  We were planning on going to The Concrete Lady to look for some yard art for Pam but headed out at 4:00 and then noticed on the brochure that The Concrete Lady closes at 4:00 so that outing will have to wait for another day.  While we were driving home, my cell phone rang and it was DIL.  Pam’s entire purpose was to get all this drama off my mind and I could feel the anger and anxiety returning the minute I saw who was calling.  I didn’t answer.  Figured I’d wait until I got home and put the recorder on the phone before I called her back but we worked on the damn thing for a couple of hours and couldn’t figure out how to get the phone recorder to work with my Blackberry.  I guess I’m going to have to call her back this morning but I don’t know what to do about recording the conversation.  We went up and bought an attachment that should have worked and it does…on every phone except my blackberry.

DH is highly perturbed.  Just came in and said AAA wouldn’t tow the car because he wasn’t driving it when it happened.  Also said ALL the lug nuts are loose on the entire car.  He’s getting the car dolly and going back to pick up the car.  The fender is all torn up and he is not a happy man.  Guess we’re going to have to make a police report.  DH is saying, “Why would she do this to my car?  Why not DS’s?  It doesn’t make sense.”  I don’t know.  Too obvious?  Her boyfriend who doesn’t know who’s car is whose?  This is not pretty.  I’m just happy no one was hurt.  DS said the tire came off and went rolling across the expressway and some guy had to slam on his brakes to keep from hitting it. 

This is getting so nasty.  DS has been staying here since last Wednesday.  He feels like a prisoner.  Like he has to have a witness and alibi for every minute since she made the police report that her mother’s car was damaged last week.  He went to Walmart last night and took DGS with him because he’s afraid of being accused of something else.  Paranoid?  I don’t know.  Are we all paranoid?  I don’t even want to call her on the phone without having a witness or being able to record the conversation.  It was agreed that she and I would communicate through my cell phone because, if she calls the home phone, DS could pick up.  The damn phone recorder works fine on the land line.  It just won’t work on my cell.

We’ve decided that we have no choice but to wire this place like a fortress.  We’re getting a surveillance system today to mount in front of the house and inside the house.  We’re taking pictures.  We’re recording everything.  We’re going to have to figure out how to record calls on my Blackberry.  I don’t know why but this makes me feel trashy.  I don’t think I should have to do these kinds of things.  I’m a nervous wreck about still not returning her call from yesterday afternoon.  As if I’ll get in trouble for not jumping when she says “Jump”.  I’m wondering if the recorder will pick it up if I just hold it close when I call and turn the volume all the way up on my phone.

10:30 - Returned DIL’s phone call.  She said she got a call Friday evening and she has to do mandatory overtime on Monday.  Needs to drop the kids off at 6:30 a.m. but it would make it easier on her and them if she could drop them off around 7:00 this evening.  Sweet as can be.  Says she doesn’t know if she’ll have to do overtime all week or not but she’ll let me know.  Told her that would be fine.  Don’t want to be accused of being “inflexible” or “non-accommodating”.  At least we’ll have the kids tomorrow so they can meet with the GAL.