I do not know if my mom will ever learn her lesson when it comes to trying to help my Grandma.
My Grandma is a truly demanding and entitled woman who expects her children to wait on her hand and foot.
This is despite the fact that her children are grown and have their own families to deal with… She still thinks all the people should drop whatever they’re doing and run over at the slightest hint of trouble. My mom and aunts are glad to comply, but then they get trapped at her house for hours as my needy Grandma puts him through the wringer. Recently, my mom made the mistake of going over to try to help my Grandma with her temperature control. She called in a panic and insisted that her air conditioning unit wasn’t working that day. She said the cooling system has been working good the day before, but when she woke up that day there was no cool air flowing from her air vents. She worked on the temperature control in the hallway but it appeared like everything should be running as normal. Rather than calling a professional Heating and Air Conditioning corporation out, she called up my mom and ask her to come look at her air conditioning unit. My mom has really no idea how to service a cooling system. She took one look at the a/c and told my Grandma that they should go out to breakfast. Well they were at breakfast, my mom secretly snuck away and called a local Heating and Air Conditioning dealer. She gave them the address and asked them to go out and fix the AC, and by the time my mom and Grandma return to the house, the cooling system was up and running again. My Grandma never knew that a real professional had stopped by to perform this unit repair, and my mom got to go home.