Ongoing sister problem, just had the cops here.

[DFW]

16. I have a good friend in Dallas who has been bled dry by an addict daughter.

He used to be worth half a million dollars at age 50. Then his daughter got addicted to painkillers, and due to his paying for a dozen rehabs which she always skips out on, at age 83, he has to keep working, and will die in debt. Having blown what meager cash he was able to spare for her, she dumped her own daughter on him five years ago, and recently moved in, herself. At age 50+, she still calls him at the office between five and ten times a day, telling him what she “needs.” I told him that what she needs is a big kick in the ass out into the street. How DARE she bleed an 83 year old father to the point where he will never have the means to really ever have any fun again in life, and all due to her slavery to her addiction? He HATES to talk about this, and only tells me as a decades-long friend.

I recently sent him a check for no reason, but with the explicit instructions to spend it on himself, and not his daughter. I’m sure he tried to, and failed. I told no one but my wife and my top superior, who ordered me to let him pay me back for half of it. He likes my friend as much as I do, and had no idea how badly off he was. I said no, but he insisted. There is a reason I have been working for this outfit for 48 years uninterrupted. I’ve never the misfortune to go through this, but people close to me have, and I like it plenty those high up that can help less-well-off team members in trouble not only offer to do so, but insist on it.