LOL. Imagine how it must feel growing up in such a family. One grifter or another showing up to dazzle your grandparents with razzle dazzle smooth talk and you're the asshole who has to dump cold water in their face to cool them off. It never works and you always end up being hated. Then when the grifters have made off with the cash over your heated objections they look at you with the stink eye and how dare you say, "I told you so.". My own meth addicted sister was another grifter, but what really annoyed me was that she was clumsy at it, used the same tricks over and over and STILL got over on them. It was baffling and aggravating. Infuriating. She'd abandon a husband, end up homeless, be taken in and provided a car and soon have a boyfriend or husband and it would all fall apart in a year or so. The car would be wrecked or "stolen" but she wouldn't have insurance or the car would turn out to have been given to a boyfriend who was also usually on drugs as well. This cycle would repeat every few years. So, back in 2005 she tried to get my 97 year old grandmother to drive down from Yuba city area to Lancaster Ca to pick up her. WTF? First off, she had a rental home in San Bernardino paid for by the government. She was on aid so what was she doing out there in the desert? And where was her small van? Oh, she had abandoned her rental and taken her four kids on a road trip to visit grandma. Ok, but where's the van. Turns out she had left it on the side of the freeway. Why? It had run out of gas. She admitted she had $200.00 on her but forgot to get fuel. WTF? So, I located a gas station near her and had her go over there. One of the attendants took her out to the vehicle location and turns out the van had vanished. Police didn't have it and highway patrol had not seen it or had it towed. Under questioning she admitted she had left it unlocked with keys in the ignition. Huge sigh. Why? Why? Why? So I contacted her inlaws in Corona Ca. and had them drive out to pick her and the kids up and return them to the rental property with no vehicle as obviously the van had been stolen. She never reported the theft to the police. Oh, and why had she ended up in Lancaster? Oh, she was lost and didn't know how to read a map. "You know I don't read maps" was her excuse. Me: "Really, then don't go on long trips!". She stayed put for another year or so and then in 2006 Grandpa died. She didn't attend the funeral. 2007 I am visiting Grandma at their country home near Yuba City and walking up the long drive way to the hilltop where Grandparents had their home comes my sister. Dirty, unkempt, wearing really nasty clothes, with hair matted and filthy. I told my Grandmother to order her off the property. A meth addict is just too dangerous to have around. Grandma said, "If I don't help her she'll die". Me: "Then let her DIE!". Grandma ordered me to leave so I went home to my place, called my aunt up and told her what was going on. They spent $30,000.00 on attorney to help my sister regain custody of her children, doctor visits and get her a new car. My aunt took my sister up to Oregon to her home with her four children. Ungrateful and resentful children who were upset at once more being uprooted from the place they had been living. My sister waited until the support checks came for the children then cashed in all the checks, left with the children, dumped them back off at the home where they had been living and traded the car for meth. In 30 days she completely undid all the help she had been given. Grandma died a few weeks later of heart failure. So yes, the scamming and gullibility continued right up to the time of death. Last I heard of my sister she was convicted of assaulting some random kid because the kid insulted her.