What I got for Christmas

[Simon Bolivar]

nice one Peejay. The way to get him back is to wear it when he has friends around, being an embarressing parent is so much fun.
PS: You can't actually write a child out of your will in Belgium!

[smokin_e2011]

Super haul Stevieboy...

[Sgt_Banter]

My eldest son's idea of Christmas humour, mine is to delete him from my will!

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That is brilliant. Your son shoukd be applauded for top banter :-)

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[ValeTudoGuy]

PS: You can't actually write a child out of your will in Belgium!

Thats crazy, what if they are literally the worst person on earth... They just treat you like crap your whole life and then take your stuff when you die.

[Simon Bolivar]

My wife has three sisters, the oldest is the black sheep. Not adrug addicted woman of the night abut someone who abused her parents hospitality for 6 months, when she descended on them with her family of 4 after returning form Japan, with a japanese husband & two children whom they had never met before. When after six months in a 2 bedroom house (my wife was still living there too) her mother asked her to start looking for a place of her own. When she eventually left, telling eveyone her mother had thrown her homeless onto the street.
We we married I invited her family to our wedding. I said this is a new start & we'll give them a chance. They came to the wedding, broke bread with us & then never had anything to do with us again.
My father-in-law was diagnosed with cancer 9 months before our wedding, it was looking fwd to seeing his last daughter finally married off that kept him going, after the wedding he went down hill fast & died three months later.
The eldest had been bringing her family around & telling the children to be nice & ask for things they wanted when he died. She was after his car. After his death the car went to the 3rd daughter as per a previous arrangement. After the funeral she never saw her mother intentionally again. We would sometimes bump into her in town & she would try to ignore us. If mother was with us she would ask her why wouldn't she would visit & let her see her grandchildren.
This July my mother-in-law was booked to die 14th of June. We told the eldest but she never came. They told her the date of her funeral but she never came.
One her death the estate had to be divided into four (as you can't write any children out, as mentioned above) & my wife should now have her money but the eldest is fighting through her soliciter to get a bigger share, a large part of the modest estate will now be eaten up in legal fees.
The reason for her claim? 12yrs ago Mother gave away a large sum of money to each of her 7 grandchildren, which as long as she survived 7yrs was a tax free gift. This made the final pot smaller but could have meant that her children paying her nursing home fees, once her remaining cash ran out. When I say her children, it would actually only have been my wife as the others are on benefits or minimim wages.
If you think that's bad enough, there are 2 types of wedding contract in Belgium. The oldest is that when one spouse dies the estate is divided equally between survivng spouse & the children. This means when the children demand their share, the parent has to sell the home to pay the children off & this happened to a neighbour! We took the other contract where everything goes to the surving spouse & only on their death does it go to the children, as we both agreed you never know how your kids are going to turn out!

[Sean]

Bloody hell simon the logic behind that is strange i could only imagine your wife's head must be chocker mate

[Simon Bolivar]

Families mate, you can chose your friends but...

[PeeJay]

Simon that was very sad but also a fascinating read.

[MarkLondon]

Mate my wife ius Italian and we are over here for xmas and I hear lots of stories like that here too. Infact heard one similar just this morning with a friend of my wife's.

On another note....An old Italian guy just tried to con me in a tabachi. Made me laugh...but pissed me off too.
better to let my Mrs do all the talking in shops!

[PeeJay]

Come on Mark, story!

[Simon-JG-hr]

Guantanamera Simon.. Guantanamera!
Doubt he left you the deed to the entire province of Cuba


But seriously. Welcome back again Simon . Good timing too

Haha! Cheers, Jeremy. Hope you guys managed to get some Christmas power in the end!

I think Guantanamo would have been preferable... As it was, I had to grin and thank my parents immensely for the thought (if not the cigar...)

[Simon Bolivar]

Indeed!

[nev coss]

got a polished box of five PC's from my brother, had his family for Christmas day