He would start cooking stuff on the stove (1-2 pots) and then literally leave the kitchen to return to his den to watch FOX News. Burners still on.
He wouldn't walk his dog. Had a neighbor do it. The dog then shit all over my late mother's $40,000 Persian rugs (rendering them worthless). And he'd yell at me (!) when I bent over to pick up the dried shit on the carpet of his den.
The house fell to wrack and ruin, including prominent leaks in the roof.
He put a window air conditioner in an adjoining room to cool off, but not in the window in his den where he stayed most of the day. (Nothing wrong with the two windows in the den)
On summer days when the temperature was over 90 degrees, he purposely left his dog in his locked car, where the temperature was over 120 degrees.
He got into dozens of fender-benders but kept his license because he paid off the damages in cash in return for not calling the police.
He had trees cut down on our property that were over 100 years old, just because.
During SuperStorm Sandy, he intended to get a generator. Nothing wrong with that except he thought he could pick up the phone during this crisis and get one delivered within hours -- and he intended to install it in the garage underneath the house (where you should never install it.)
SS Sandy Part II: Even though we still had propane gas for the stove, Dad refused to eat breakfast that I prepared. He insisted on driving about 10 miles away to dine at a nearby regional hospital where visitors were served. This is significant because: 1) Having no electricity, the garage door couldn't be engaged. Dad pushed it opened, and it was a heavy door; 2) Heavy tree branches and downed electrical wires covered the streets. That didn't stop Dad. 3) The region was in crisis with no electricity, no heat, no gas. And Dad essentially took a joy ride to a hospital where one would guess that only people in crisis would go to. 4) Gas stations were closed, making gas limited. Everyone was saving their fuel -- except Dad.
There's more, but you get the gist.
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