Dear ann:
Recently a woman wrote that when she and her husband had to borrow money They went to her mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law agrees to lend them the money but asked them to sign a note.
They resented the fact that she didn't trust them.
Well,there's another side to the story and I'd like to tell it.
In 1986, my son and his young wife went into business.
They borrowed a sizeable sum from my husband and me.
We didn't ask them to sign anything.
They told us how grateful they were and that they would pay us back when her father died.
He was in poor health and had a great deal of money in a trust fund.
Over a period of five years we loaned them 125,000.
You have probably guessed the rest of this story.
My husband died of cancer three years after the last loan was made.
He had several operations and his medical insurance ren out.
My son's father-in-law died, and after a respectable period of thim.
I asked for partial payment of the 125,000.
I was turned over to their high and mighty lawyers in Beverly Hills.
I am now considered a liar and crazy in the bargain.
Let this be a lesson to foolish people who lend money and don't get anything writing.
On the Dole in,
Seattle