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EM feels cheated out of her inheritance

Little backstory... I came from a highly dysfunctional family and tried to spend as much time away from them as possible. In third grade (9-10 yo) I met a set of twins that would become lifelong friends and their family a second to my own. At the head of their family was their grandfather. He was an extremely rough-around-the-edges, no bull giving or taken, my-way-or-the-highway kinda guy and the fact he was half Mexican and half Mescalero Apache didn't help. Everyone one of us boys at the house was scare to death of him and NO ONE wanted to go out of town with him to work. When I was 21, I ended up helping him on a job outside of Fort Worth and during this time we bonded. I called him Pop and he called me son.

A couple of months after we started the Fort Worth job, Pop received a call that his aunt had passed away. We stayed up having a few drinks and he told me stories about her till the roster crowed. He described her to me in the same manner that us boys would describe him to others. Now this woman would drink a fifth of bourbon and smoke five cigars everyday till the day she died but she made it to nearly 100 before she croaked. During the last 20 or so years of her life, the majority of her family had absolutely nothing to do with her, with the exception of one grandson. She had also amassed a nice little spread outside of Waco, having a 100+ acre ranch, a large farm house and a seven figure back account.

Pop decided that we should attend the funeral. A few days later, we found ourselves in a small funeral parlor in the crap-tastic town of Waco. The funeral was going as all funerals go with some people sobbing, others binge drinking and most of the kids looking bored AF. As Pop and I are sitting quietly, minding our own, we hear this increasingly louder conversation behind us... Enter the cast...

EM - Grandson's Mom EF1, 2 and 3 - Entitled Family, most likely the other daughters GG - The Good Grandson

EF1 - "Really? Everything? What do you mean, everything?"

EM -"That's what the lawyer said!"

EF2 - "She can't do this to us! Can she?"

EF3 - "There has got to be something that we can do about this. It's his fault she died! If he hadn't of provided her with whiskey and cigars all those years she would still be alive!"

EM - "Don't worry. He's my son and will do whatever I say. We'll sell everything and split it evenly between just the four of us."

It was at this point Pops caught on to what was being discussed, as I'm sure everyone else around had, and he being a man not to hold his tongue, lost it. It went something like this... "Y'all need to shut y'alls asses!" (he loved to say that) "This woman lived to be nearly 100 years old and your going to try and say he killed her! Over what? Money? If you cared so much about her, where were y'all the last 20 years of her life? He didn't do it for the money, he did it because it was his grandma and it was the right thing to do!"

Before EM and EFs could regain there composure, GG came up, looked his mom in the eye and said "Goodbye mom. This is the last time any of y'all will see me again" and simply walked out the door. The last I heard about any of it, GG was enjoying his life out on the ranch and refused to have any contact with his immediate family. I spent about another 6 months traveling with pops, working construction and learning masonry. He passed about 7-8 years back. I miss that man. Even if no one reads this, it felt really nice to talk about Pop.

- u/BuckDaddy420