Few things are more difficult than being civil to someone you really want to slap. Hard

[Siwsan]

Just had to call someone regarding my aunt's estate. She's not a family member - her husband is my aunt's husband's nephew. And she's a big time trump* supporter. (She knows my politics, yet the day my aunt died, she showed up wearing an oversized 'trump* for president button.) Even though NO politics were mentioned, in the short phone call, she still managed to make what should have been a brief request for information into something confrontational and it shot my blood pressure through the roof.

I will be SO glad to get this process completed so that I can close that chapter and erase this individual from my memory bank.

I'm headed to my bar to pour a shot of something strong into a glass. Or maybe a straw into a bottle.

[Phoenix61]

1. So true

When I know they are being difficult on purpose it makes it easier to stay calm. Seems to piss them off.

[Siwsan]

2. I was calm and courteous until I hung up the phone

Then the air turned blue and crackled with verbal lightning.

[Phoenix61]

3. Pat yourself on the back

You did good. My brother has been an incredible pain since our parents died. I'm happily looking forward to the day when I will have everything settled and don't have to talk to him again.
I left out, he's a born again, gun toting, Trumpster.

[Siwsan]

4. Sounds like this individual I'm dealing with

She and her husband barely gave my aunt a passion thought, for years. I think because the husband is pretty much the last direct member of her husband's family, she wanted to leave him something from her estate. So here's me, the one who did almost everything for my aunt, trying to wrap things up, while also still dealing with my mom's estate, and this woman gives me grief? I'm tempted to spit on the check, before I mail it out. I won't, of course, but I'm still tempted.