The biggest reason I fought her over this is that she really does not have any money to spare, after the past three months of minor and major disasters. She's driving herself mad worrying about how to make ends meet with nothing left from what was once a tidy retirement nest egg but her base Social Security income. A substantial portion of those expenses constitute my electric and phone usage, plus food. (Although she'd buy and waste just as much food with or without me; she's a compulsive food-hoarder.) Also, she's loaned me the money for certain parts vital to the Exploder's future operation; I feel obligated to find -some- way to ease her burden.
There's also the fact that I have to live with the consequences of her decisions; if we'd gone with the gas, I would have heard her complaints about the expense and trouble over, over, over and over again.
(Incidentally, the money may end up back in my pocket; she's offered to cancel out up to that $250 from whatever I end up owing her buying car parts. I bought it not knowing or expecting her to do that, though- and I would have missed the money, but not really regretted spending it.)
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Date: 2005-08-02 07:49 pm (UTC)There's also the fact that I have to live with the consequences of her decisions; if we'd gone with the gas, I would have heard her complaints about the expense and trouble over, over, over and over again.
(Incidentally, the money may end up back in my pocket; she's offered to cancel out up to that $250 from whatever I end up owing her buying car parts. I bought it not knowing or expecting her to do that, though- and I would have missed the money, but not really regretted spending it.)