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marmoet · 21/07/2024 07:28

My very elderly parents have recently gone into a nursing home after both having stints in hospital. Prior to that they were very dodgily living at home alone but stubborn and happy .
As my sister and I are both POA and do not get on this has caused a lot of friction but I thought we were sorted.
They have been in the nursing home for about a month ( after 2 months in hospital) and today I went by their house to check the place as it is empty and their car was gone.
I rang my sister worried it was stolen and she said that mum and dad had "lent" it to her partner. He has driven it interstate ( Australia , so hundrends of kms). WHen I spoke to my parents they thought he was "borrowing it to go to somewhere for work ( a completely different city), and basically had no idea . They are very old. My sister has a car and her partner has a car, both expensive ones btw.
I got cranky and pointed out that they have a grandson who has no car , then they started crying and then I felt bad , as I behaved badly but I'm fecked either way.
They are saying things like we always had dogs ( when I was never allowed one). They are denying the fact that we spent our life tip-toeing around my sister "be quiet , she's asleep, come and help with the grdening". It's like my life didn't exist as there is nobody left to verify it.
Sorry for such a pathetic unloading.
If the car had been at my sisters I would seriously gone over and driven it here, but he has taken it interstate and I don't know the plate number. Neither do my parents. My sister gets all of their mail delivered to her.

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craigth162 · 21/07/2024 07:36

marmoet · 21/07/2024 07:33

OK. So if a partner of one of your siblings convinced your elderly mum and dad that they "needed" a car when they had their own and you never saw it again that would be fine with you. I guess we are all different but I don't believe you.

Better than it sitting in driveway not being used presumably.

marmoet · 21/07/2024 07:35

MissingKitty · 21/07/2024 07:32

I don’t understand why you have your parents a hard time, they lent it to someone - so what, it’s theirs! And it’s frustrating that they remember your childhood differently but they are very old and frail and have just been through a hard change, it’s probably just not the time to be throwing stones around. Sounds like it’s been a stressful time for you and for them.

Ye s it has. Having someone who will not sit in the same room as me take my parents car , it's basically theft, there is a reason they are in a nursing home, they have no idea what is going on, has not made it better.

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MissingKitty · 21/07/2024 07:34

marmoet · 21/07/2024 07:33

OK. So if a partner of one of your siblings convinced your elderly mum and dad that they "needed" a car when they had their own and you never saw it again that would be fine with you. I guess we are all different but I don't believe you.

They can’t use the car anyway can they?

marmoet · 21/07/2024 07:33

craigth162 · 21/07/2024 07:31

Why does it matter to you where car is? Its theirs to do with as they please

OK. So if a partner of one of your siblings convinced your elderly mum and dad that they "needed" a car when they had their own and you never saw it again that would be fine with you. I guess we are all different but I don't believe you.

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MissingKitty · 21/07/2024 07:32

I don’t understand why you have your parents a hard time, they lent it to someone - so what, it’s theirs! And it’s frustrating that they remember your childhood differently but they are very old and frail and have just been through a hard change, it’s probably just not the time to be throwing stones around. Sounds like it’s been a stressful time for you and for them.

craigth162 · 21/07/2024 07:31

Why does it matter to you where car is? Its theirs to do with as they please

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