I don't get on Facebook much; except to follow my family, but I did see Rick telling his fans that someone had took over his FB page and he asked them to go on the page and report it as spam. He said he had been blocked from going on there.
I'm telling you I think I can't be surprised by the deceit of people and wham, someone is able to do something worse! People do these things it seems without conscience. I've lived long enough to see that while they may get away with their misdeed and may even be admired for their "cleverness" other people don't trust them. They don't give them the temptation to get away with their tricks on them. These people may smile to the trickster's face and say how clever they are but in the end they won't let them close enough to do any damage to them.
But what's worse in my world? My husband had what he thought was a best friend, I mean they were like brothers for about 50 years! Sonny was closer to Richard than his own brothers or at least he thought so for all those years. Then Richard really got sick and was taking some really "sock it to you meds." Richard thought he was dying. He didn't die, and is in better shape now. However, he and Sonny had talked about Richard giving Sonny our Classic car ('56 Chevy 210) to carry his ashes to cruises. As I said he was taking some mean drugs so he signed his name to the pink slip thinking to make it easier if he did die. He also thought that I would be the final signature on the pink slip. However, he gave the pink slip to his friend whom he trusted. This all happened when that friend asked to borrow the car for awhile because he wanted to take it to some cruises. As I said, Richard was sick and unable to do anything with the car so it seemed the right thing to do when its a man you trust.
When Richard asked for his friend to bring the car back Sonny told him, "no." He then told me what he had done but I told him the pink slip was in the safe and I haven't signed it over to anyone. I didn't know about what had gone on in the first of this narrative. However Richard told me the whole thing so I told him that I would call the DMV and find out just whose name was on the pink slip. Well I found out that even though Richard and my name had been on the pink slip it wasn't in such a way that Richard couldn't sign both our rights away. I knew there was a certain way to sign that pink slip to require both signatures but that car was also part of our Community Property and this so called "best friend" walked away with a beautiful and expensive car and paid nothing for it! Of course my husband isn't going to have anything to do with this man who has totally betrayed him. I thought I was going to lose him the way he was reacting to what the woman at the DMV told me; i.e., the car had been in Sonny's name for about a year. Part of his medical problems are two mild strokes and a heart attack; not to mention COPD and he could have easily brought on a stroke.
I've been with Richard for 33 years and I've known Sonny for that long as well. I have to tell you I never thought he would do such a thing to Richard. They both have had each other's backs up until this happened. I've thought that Sonny had a (let's say) lusting for that car but I never thought he would deny Richard the car I bought for him as a project car and the car he built from the ground up (with money from our combined incomes) the ability to enjoy the car until he died or we sold it so we could hire 'in home' help if it came to that; or some other necessity.
Sonny says he knew what he did would be an issue but he did it to prevent it being sold. Somehow he takes "brothers" to a new level in that he wants the car to go through HIS family. The thing is I'm not some 14 year old girl that can be sold that bill of goods so I reminded Sonny that Richard is not "his" family and Richard has a large family of his own! Two grandsons are big car guys for instance and both want the car! That is if staying in the family is so important. At any rate, that should be a decision Richard and I should make when we were both of sound mind!
Come tomorrow I'm going to see if something can be done about this. Sonny says he hasn't borrowed on the car but I don't believe a thief can be trusted to tell the truth. While Richard has been busy through the years working on his car, Sonny has been buying Jeeps to run with the Desert pack, motorcycles to run with the Native Americans, a Mercedes for his wife to keep up with the Jones's, and other high priced activities. Richard didn't begrudge Sonny his 'toys' and neither did I; frankly I didn't think much about it at all. I only bring it up to say that Sonny could have bought a classic car for himself either restored or had it restored but he didn't.
Oh Richard called Sonny up and asked him to return his car. Sonny agreed to do it but it's almost been a month and he hasn't done so. I think he believes Richard's health is worse than it is and he hopes to run him out. The object of this piece is to say don't trust anyone totally and completely if it comes to something materially. This family that Sonny is trying to make out as people who will sell that '56 have totally rallied around my husband when he needed them. He is alive today because we supported him!
