I was talking to another manager who had a few days off this week here in the office. She's salt-of-the-Earth and wonderful. She was telling me about the funeral so had last weekend.

The man who died is a neighbor of hers for 20 years or so. My friend had been helping take care of him and his wife (She's early signs of dementia at 80 and he was 85.) They would go and visit them each night and make sure they had groceries or see if they needed anything.

The man was a decorated war veteran and celebrated former police chief of a small town close to us. The funeral was huge and the man had planned his details very carefully for exactly how he wanted it.

Insert the kids who show up in town for the funeral. They see that their father and their step mom have been taken care of my by my friend. They had known each other for years but they sit down and talk to her for a bit and let my friend know they were simply 'waiting for step mom to die' because now that he wasn't around to cook dinner for her as her mind goes, she certainly wouldn't live long enough to get back all they were going to contest from their father's will. Yes. They are contesting the will, of course, because and I quote 'She was an evil step mother who never cared about anyone but herself.'

She was married to this man since she was 23 years old and he was 28. OVER 50 years!

They literally said 'She won't remember to eat herself so she'll die soon and we'll get the tons of money that will be waiting on us.' Practically laughing about it. My friend was so upset.

So she promised the kids, 'I am going to have my husband (He's retired) take your SM breakfast every day. And go down to see her at lunch, every single day. And we'll take our dinner down each night and eat with her. We will see that her bills get paid and that she'll go to each and every Doctors appointment. We took care of your Dad and we are certainly going to take care of her the same.' That really shut them up.

So what did they do before leaving town? They went on a shopping spree with credit cards and spent a lot of money. Called all the banks to see who, if anyone, would let them take money out with a POA which I don't believe any of them did, my friend said. My friend didn't know about the financials but she said skids bragged to her husband that they'd spent 2500 in 3 days on a credit card. Step Mom is too sad and a little far gone to do anything at this point.

Even after 50 freaking years... they just can't wait for her to die already!

I called my husband right away to make sure I'm the beneficiary on all his policies and retirement and he assured me I was and that he'd never even had any one else on there.