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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old are they OP? My In-laws are 76 and 80, and they have become shockingly incapable over the last decade during which I have known them. I can imagine them saying they didn't think they could figure out how to get to a new gate. However, they don't simultaneously ask me to pay for their tickets! [/quote]

Mid-sixties.[/quote]

What is with all these near helpless fifty and sixty somethings that we've been hearing about in these threads lately?  I used to live in a neighborhood where 70, 80 + year old people were still mowing their own lawns and some were still cleaning their own gutters. Many were still working.  I'll be right around 60 myself when my youngest graduates from college - boy I hope and pray that I am not **that** old.

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One would think in the final decade or two of life the best course of action would be to establish positive memories of yourself as the wise, considerate grandparent rather then as the demanding jerk who would happily drain the wallets of their children. [/quote]

I am constantly amazed at the people who use age as an excuse to be total jerks instead of spending that time bettering themselves and setting good examples for others.[/quote]

People do make mistakes regardless of age.[/quote]

Asking your adult son and his wife to shell out several hundreds of dollars for plane tickets (when they could get you free ones), is not a mistake; it's poor character. They know what they're doing. And then to ask them to spend up to another $1500 for the "right kind of baptism party" without even offering a cent? Bleh.

If they want to be exemplary people, they should tell their son and DIL to put the plane ticket money into the child's 529 account instead and thank you very much for sharing your points with us. And then say, if you can't afford the party, we'll split it with you or come up with the most cost effective solution. [/quote]

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