What is your knee-jerk reaction

[studytime45]

Um, wut?!

[janiejones]

Family drama.

[poppyseed]

Huh? My knee-jerk reaction is something doesn't sound right.

[Muddled]

Huh?

Then re-read a million times.

[poppyseed]

Huh? My knee-jerk reaction is something doesn't sound right.

[bbaggins]

Yeah, my knee jerk reaction is "huh?"

[isabel]

That your mom is in trouble with knee-cracking debt collectors.

[wambam]

Knee-jerk reaction: mental illness

[margotmacomber]

I think exactly what lucy said.  Crazy town, party of one.  Or two, depending on who Alan is.

[jane6672]

That they are probably also building an anti-zombie bunker.

[Waffles]

That this person is about to fashion a tinfoil hat.

[Muddled]

I don't understand how deleting an email address from your contacts (if I understand correctly) would change anything? If that person has your email address, he/she can still contact you via email. Does she want to block someone?

The why is probably something that will make no sense either.

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May 17, 2013 9:53:06 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

Knee-jerk reaction: Dangerous paranoia.

yes.  this will be shortly followed by redirecting all mail to a PO box, cancelling cable, keeping the gas tank always 3/4 full in case there's a global electrical outage, paying for everything in cash, and putting fake names on all magazine subscriptions, if any.

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May 17, 2013 10:00:30 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

May 17, 2013 9:57:02 GMT -5 cville said:

yes.  this will be shortly followed by redirecting all mail to a PO box, cancelling cable, keeping the gas tank always 3/4 full in case there's a global electrical outage, paying for everything in cash, and putting fake names on all magazine subscriptions, if any.

Yes.  And tracking the fake names to see who sold their name where. 

Seriously though, it does make me concerned.

honestly, my grandfather did all of these things in my and in lucy's posts as his alzheimer's got worse.  except he added cable back, eventually, so that he could watch bill o'reilly.

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May 17, 2013 10:01:11 GMT -5 mofongo said:

May 17, 2013 9:57:02 GMT -5 cville said:

yes.  this will be shortly followed by redirecting all mail to a PO box, cancelling cable, keeping the gas tank always 3/4 full in case there's a global electrical outage, paying for everything in cash, and putting fake names on all magazine subscriptions, if any.

There is nothing wrong with keeping you gas tank full!! ::insert embarrassed icon:: I WILL tag you:)

Scotty- I would agree with paranoia:( I'm sorry.

i gets weird when you start calling your family members and insisting they do the same thing.  repeatedly.

[underwaterrhymes]

Paranoia

[underwaterrhymes]

I'm so sorry, scotty.

[hopecounts]

Given the drinking and this it sounds like she has a mental illness and is self medicating with alcohol.
First step is Rehab like yesterday, the counselors at a good rehab will eval for any mental illness issues and direct her to help from there.
Make sure she signs that they can talk to you it may be hard but you need access to the info so you can keep her on track after treatment.

[LLL]

ugh, how are you going to respond?

[annyong]

Paranoia.

[luckyval]

Knee jerk reaction is omg, mom's screwing around with Alan

[gozf]

I'm so sorry, Scotty.

[Deleted]

This sounds like something my dad would say and I'm pretty sure he's paranoid delusional/psychotic and he self medicates with weed instead of booze. Sorry Scotty.

[Deleted]

Ignore.

[textbookcase]

Ugh, I'm sorry. My mom is also an alcoholic, and it's getting worse as she gets older. I generally don't answer the phone after 4-5 PM because I know any time after that, she's wasted. I made the mistake of answering the other day and got a long guilt-trip tirade about Mother's Day. It's exhausting.

[angelaa73]

She got the cray

[cuddlyevil]

Is she afraid that the person will find out they were deleted from her contacts.

[fuckyourcouch]

tin foil hat?

i mean, not knowing the context or person it's hard to knee jerk here.

[muffin0]

She may be in need of some extra foil for her hats?

[margarita]

I'm sorry scotty.