get a call from a friend who is 70. (who btw I’m not close friends with me, we talk on phone every few months or meet up for coffee a few times a year, she’s more my mums friend) asking if she can borrow a few thousand for her “good” friends?
says they are in a very bad financial situation and she really wants to help them? She gave them her money but just needs a few more thousand.
kind of shocked, i tell her I can’t. I mean…I don’t know these people?
she goes well I do! They are my GOOD FRIENDS, They are such nice people you have to help them!!! You trust me don’t you?
she then says you still have that inheritance don’t you?? Your sister in law said you haven’t spent it yet.
I reply…yes but thats locked away in high interest savings accounts for years…( shocked she knows about inheritance)!
she does like a sad face then says oh right I forgot! My Lithuanian pension is supposed to be coming in a few weeks, I’ll use that! Phew. Problem solved!!! Ok never mind.
but after she hasn’t talked to me in a while.
am I right to find this very all very bizarre?
- this friend brags how great her pension is, how well off she is, how she financially supports all her family, her grand sons ex/baby mama, paying for her beauty treatments, days out and holidays and grandkids and that she has 30k in savings from house sale
- We are not close friends
- she brags that she has soooo many friends and how popular she is. She has friends much closer than me. She has relatives. Why not ask them??
- I don’t even know these people
she knew about the inheritance, (got 25k)
because my sister blabbed to her I got inheritance years ago. She also recently asked “so has she spent all of it”? To which she replied no