Sistah Pat

What the Hell is going on with DIL?  Okay…she’s unstable, she’s vindictive, she’s delusional and she’s totally self-absorbed and she’s driving DS crazy.

She called him yesterday and left a message that her(his?) car was acting up and she was afraid she’d get stranded on the expressway with the kids.  She really knows how to play her cards.  She knows if she indicates that there’s a problem that affects the kids that DS will jump right on it.  He called her back yesterday afternoon and she said the car seemed to be fine.  Said it ran great yesterday.

So…DS is catering the school’s Senior Awards Banquet on Thursday and I’m off work today.  He’s working like a dog to prepare dinner for 350 and we’d planned on getting a lot of running around taken care of today.  Then, at 10:00, just when we’re ready to head out shopping, DIL calls and says her car won’t start and she needs a jump.  DS tells her can’t and she says that he’ll have to pick up the kids from daycare then because she doesn’t have any way to get them.  Damn it!  He decides it’s quicker and easier to just drive over and jump the battery than to drive 25 minutes to pick up the kids and then keep them all day until she can pick them up when he’s got tons of stuff to do to get ready for the banquet.

Okay… so where does she want him to come to jump the battery?  Down at the courthouse.  WTF?  The courts are closed today.  School is out.  It’s election day.  The only reason she’d be down at the courthouse would be to file or respond to some kind of emergency situation.  That’s the only thing that’s open down there today.  Is she filing another Emergency Protective Order against some poor fool or is she responding to some kind of charges? 

I don’t like this at all.