If It's the Right Thing

When my mother-in-law visited, she told my mom about a plan that sounded to my mom like a Very Bad Idea. It involved my mother-in-law teaming up with someone who was currently in prison but would be out in a year, and buying a big semi-truck together and earning their living being truckers together.

Yes. My mother-in-law. This was her plan. I dearly wish she had told ME about it instead of just telling my mom, but at least she went into a lot of detail with my mom.

My mom and I talked about this a lonnnng time. Basic gist of conversation: "!!!!!!!" For one thing, it seems so out of character for my mother-in-law. But also, we thought it sounded like a con. It sounded to us like the most likely thing would be that the guy would want her to give him "her half" of the money so he could go buy the truck---and then he'd vanish. We suspected she'd sell her house to raise the money. Of course, this is all TOTAL SPECULATION. Maybe he was a stand-up guy and DID have money for half a truck and DID want to travel the country with....well, why WOULD he want to travel the country with her? Well, but maybe he did.

But in any case, my mom, hearing the details, was absolutely certain it was a con, and was certain that my mother-in-law would end up with no money, having been made a fool of by a horrible evil person. My mom was in a near PANIC about this. She said to me it would almost be better if my mother-in-law died than go through something so humiliating and so destituting.

My mom is religious, as you know. So she prayed, and what she prayed was that IF it fit into God's Plan, and IF it was the right thing to pray for, could my mother-in-law die before this happened to her---leaving her dignity and her estate intact.

This was three weeks before my mother-in-law died, so you can see how my mom is feeling a little funny right now, and also why she's very glad that she prayed "if it's the right thing."