House was paid off as far as we knew. Bob left them with good money. Enough to last a little while but then they spent all of it and then some in the attorney for Snyder incident.
I'd wager from Barb's point of view, it wasn't pointless. Her husband and bread-winner (Bob) was gone and left her with an autistic e-celeb. Maybe she figured early on Chris didn't have the capacity to care for her when she really got up in years to take care of her (home care or assisted living) just figured she'd just make financial decisions that benefited her in last few years.
The mace case was handled by a public defender, so it only cost them about $500 from the court fine.
Guess who got Chris to follow them on Twitter bitchezzzzz
While it's horrible to say, if I was Barb and the last three decades of my life centered around caring for a manchild like Chris who is extremely difficult to control, acts like a 5 year old, rarely bathes, got kicked out of 2 different schools, refuses to work, regularly gets banned from stores, spends all his money on children's toys, accidentally burnt the house down out of his carelessness, keeps getting arrested which results in court dates and fines/lawyer fees, is the target of internet trolls which manifests in as random people stalking us and calling the house just to scream at me at 3 AM, has had naked pictures of himself tricked out of him and leaked online multiple times, is dressing like and demanding everyone refer to him as a woman, and refusing to even attempt to improve himself, I'd probably resent him too and take out massive loans so I can live the last few years of my life the way I want, even if it fucks him over with massive debt he has no way of paying off after.
Either way, while the house fire is major, the other things are still more than enough to drive someone like Barb to resent her son.
Barb is a pretty big hoarder herself so she's partially responsible for the fact that the house was a giant fire hazard. You also seem to be under the impression that Barb is some helpless victim here instead some crazy old bat. This is someone who didn't cook for years because Bob and Chris didn't eat her spaghetti one night. Didn't Chris say she threatened to kill him once as well? And hasn't she threatened suicide to get Chris to listen to her before? I'm sure when Chris bought her that $400 necklace she wasn't thinking of their financial well-being either because if it's going into her pockets I doubt she cares much. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if she manipulates him into buying things for her.
Chris probably has more reason to resent Barb than she does to resent him. Cole wants nothing to do with Barb. And IIRC neither does the rest of the family. They have to have some reason for that.
Like 50% of that Barb was indirectly responsible for. The other 50% she was directly responsible for, or even directly engaged in herself (hitting snyder and driving off, or burning down 14BC).
Not really.
Haha yeah, Barb goaded Chris into going back into the game place to begin with. She pointed out the "under new management" sign.
Good point. Is it possible she's deluded herself into thinking it's Chris's fault the same way she thinks Cole just went crazy one day for no reason?
To be fair, he hit his head on the bus. That kind of trauma is known to cause people to hate their mother over keeping the identity of their real father secret. Cranial latent Bastard syndrome is the medical term.
The unironic best thing for Chris right now would be for him to live in a group home for people with autism. Somewhere trained to deal with people as messed up as him that won't just kick him out. Somewhere that will force him to take responsibility for his life and his actions.
