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- May 8, 2015
One of my friends who works for the local ambulance became good friends with one of her co-workers. The focus of this is his uncle, who is known as sort of a "frequent flyer" by the ambulance squad. In case you don't know, "frequent flyers" are basically people who get ambulance rides to the hospital when it's not warranted, faking or exaggerating symptoms. His usual complaint is chest pains and after they did every test imaginable on him, they couldn't find anything that would explain them. This last time, they finally threatened to put him in a nursing home and he's since ceased the calls. This guy is in his mid to late 50's, but looks a little older and frail. He utilizes a walker to get around, but we found out he's doing that for sympathy points and attention because he slipped up a few times and we caught him walking normal with no assistance from it. I kind of wish things ended there, but they don't.
A few months ago, his nephew made the huge mistake of bringing him over to my friends' house to visit. They're a married couple with 3 kids, so even though their house is decent sized, there isn't enough room for an extra head unless the basement was utilized as living quarters. I'll get to why I'm explaining this in a bit.
Things went well the first month and a half or so. He'd come over to my friends' house with his nephew, the co-worker, once in awhile to visit. Then it started escalating and he was coming over with him all the time and eventually, on his own. Now it's gotten to the point where he's over every day, usually after 2 P.M. because he doesn't wake up until around that time. He'd lived with the nephew and his grandmother, despite having a house of his own, but was kicked out when one of the aunts stepped in and intervened. Apparently, all he did was lay on the couch all day and ruled over the television with an iron fist and the grandmother got sick of it. His eviction is mostly why the visiting habits changed. He was expressing his desire to move in with my friends, despite the short time they've known him and he didn't see anything strange about this. They declined, telling him they hardly know him and they don't have room anyway. He's claimed things around the house as "his"; "his" chair he usually sits on at the kitchen table, "his" dog which belongs to the kids, etc. He bathes once a month, if that, and up until about a week ago, he had been wearing the same clothes for that long. He's malodorous and if he has to let out a fart, he doesn't give a shit about the circumstances, he'll let it rip without shame. And he never has anything of value to talk about--95% of the time, all he does is talk shit about his nephew when he's not around. He seems to get real jealous if he comes over and finds the nephew visiting before he gets there.
Whew! I didn't really want to make this TL; DR and I apologize for that, but I figured this asshole deserved to be put in this thread and this is my first time making a post like this about someone, trying to describe things without going into excessive detail. My friends put up with this on a daily basis, and we're all kind of wondering how to deal with the situation. We all live in a small town where everyone basically knows one another and if he were told to fuck off or something, we kind of fear he'd go around town and drag their name through the mud in retaliation. We don't know who/if he even talks to anyone around here, but it's just kind of a weird situation that doesn't really seem to have a right answer at the moment. Anyone have any advice on how to deal with this? We kind of came to the conclusion that calling the cops won't accomplish anything--all they'll do is give advice we already know on how to get rid of him and it seems like overkill to involve the cops anyway. He's not really harmful or harassing, just a weird, stinky dumbass who's worn out his welcome.
A few months ago, his nephew made the huge mistake of bringing him over to my friends' house to visit. They're a married couple with 3 kids, so even though their house is decent sized, there isn't enough room for an extra head unless the basement was utilized as living quarters. I'll get to why I'm explaining this in a bit.
Things went well the first month and a half or so. He'd come over to my friends' house with his nephew, the co-worker, once in awhile to visit. Then it started escalating and he was coming over with him all the time and eventually, on his own. Now it's gotten to the point where he's over every day, usually after 2 P.M. because he doesn't wake up until around that time. He'd lived with the nephew and his grandmother, despite having a house of his own, but was kicked out when one of the aunts stepped in and intervened. Apparently, all he did was lay on the couch all day and ruled over the television with an iron fist and the grandmother got sick of it. His eviction is mostly why the visiting habits changed. He was expressing his desire to move in with my friends, despite the short time they've known him and he didn't see anything strange about this. They declined, telling him they hardly know him and they don't have room anyway. He's claimed things around the house as "his"; "his" chair he usually sits on at the kitchen table, "his" dog which belongs to the kids, etc. He bathes once a month, if that, and up until about a week ago, he had been wearing the same clothes for that long. He's malodorous and if he has to let out a fart, he doesn't give a shit about the circumstances, he'll let it rip without shame. And he never has anything of value to talk about--95% of the time, all he does is talk shit about his nephew when he's not around. He seems to get real jealous if he comes over and finds the nephew visiting before he gets there.
Whew! I didn't really want to make this TL; DR and I apologize for that, but I figured this asshole deserved to be put in this thread and this is my first time making a post like this about someone, trying to describe things without going into excessive detail. My friends put up with this on a daily basis, and we're all kind of wondering how to deal with the situation. We all live in a small town where everyone basically knows one another and if he were told to fuck off or something, we kind of fear he'd go around town and drag their name through the mud in retaliation. We don't know who/if he even talks to anyone around here, but it's just kind of a weird situation that doesn't really seem to have a right answer at the moment. Anyone have any advice on how to deal with this? We kind of came to the conclusion that calling the cops won't accomplish anything--all they'll do is give advice we already know on how to get rid of him and it seems like overkill to involve the cops anyway. He's not really harmful or harassing, just a weird, stinky dumbass who's worn out his welcome.