Mum is 79, she's been on her own since Dad died. Firstly it's important to say she's fit, well and has no problems with dementia etc.
Mum has a small dog who requires regular grooming (she makes appointments every five weeks), the cost of this is £25. I used to take her to these appointments but one day she announced she'd arranged with the owner to collect him. The owners assistant passes the end of the street in the morning apparently.
I thought no more of this until yesterday when DD came back from her Nans concerned because she's discovered she is giving the groomer £40 a time!
Over the last few months she's decided to throw money at everything. She's been massively ripped off by an electrician to the tune of £300 for work she didn't need but went ahead and had done anyway without telling me, she's paid the man across the road £20 to put £10 credit on her mobile phone and she was about to pay some other man down the road £400 for a garage door she doesn't need. None of this is mentioned to me, she just does it and mentions it after the fact.
DH and I sat her down yesterday and explained that she couldn't keep doing this, that people were going to take advantage. She huffed and puffed a bit and finally agreed to pay this groomer £30 and to not get any work done without asking us to help first (DH is in the building trade and I could have put credit on her phone!).
Well, she's called me this morning, VERY arsey indeed. It's HER dog and she'll pay what she wants. I told her I understood that but could she not see that £40 for a £25 groom was madness and that most honest folk would say 'I'm sorry I can't take that much from you'. I told her she needed to stop. She said she wouldn't. In the end I said 'Look, I'm going to have a word with the owner'. She told me to 'Do what I want!' so I called the owner....
Owner it seems gets her assistant to collect the dog and knew NOTHING of this £40 a time. She thinks Mum pays the assistant £30 so as I suspected it's all very dishonest. Owner has agreed that no more than £30 will now be taken from Mum.
I've tried to call Mum back to tell her but she's now playing petulant child and has taken the phone off the hook (not unusual behaviour for her, her sulks are legendary).
On the one hand I think I should have let her get on with it but on the other I'm annoyed that a near 80 year old woman is being taken advantage of.
So WIBU to call the groomer??
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FelicitySmoak · 07/04/2015 11:45
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