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Rick: when was the time you had ANY communication with these family members?? I’d be kinda freaked out if someone shows up at my house claiming to me my cousin and yet, we haven’t spoken in a decade. Add a pandemic and you’re gonna get the reaction you got.
He has answered this over and over and over. Try and keep up, please. Some of us manage to do so......
They didn’t know that, so I don’t see how it matters.
Yes, this has been addressed several times in the thread. The OP failed to let them know he was only stopping by to see if auntie and his cousins were ok. We'll never know if that would have made a difference in their reaction.
As far as the phone being disconnected goes, many people have gotten rid of their landlines and just pay for their cellphones.
So there may not be much more than that to the phone being disconnected.
The cousins are at the house, maybe the aunt has been moved to assisted living, maybe she still lives there but is in no shape to talk, maybe the house is a cluttered mess, they prefer their privacy and don't appreciate surprise visitors.
Would police even do a welfare check when the person requesting it has not talked to the family for over a decade?
I just sent a letter registered mail, with tracking and return receipt. Figure that when the mailman delivers and Aunt/cousins see my name as the sender, they'd have to accept it, right?
Probably think that something may have happened to someone... But once they open and see that everyone is fine, maybe think of calling or emailing me. I included my direct phone number and email, telling them to contact me - and I don't care what time of day it is!
I just sent a letter registered mail, with tracking and return receipt. Figure that when the mailman delivers and Aunt/cousins see my name as the sender, they'd have to accept it, right?
Probably think that something may have happened to someone... But once they open and see that everyone is fine, maybe think of calling or emailing me. I included my direct phone number and email, telling them to contact me - and I don't care what time of day it is!
They don't have to accept the letter, no. Even being served by the court is impossible if the person refuses to touch and take the letter, the process server has to drop the papers at their feet.
Hopefully they respond, this case is driving me nuts with confusion!
I just sent a letter registered mail, with tracking and return receipt. Figure that when the mailman delivers and Aunt/cousins see my name as the sender, they'd have to accept it, right?
Probably think that something may have happened to someone... But once they open and see that everyone is fine, maybe think of calling or emailing me. I included my direct phone number and email, telling them to contact me - and I don't care what time of day it is!
This is a little difficult, so bear with me...
I have an aunt - my dad's younger sister - sole surviving aunt now (all other aunts and uncles are long gone). We were always somewhat close - she had three kids, all grown now, but we all loved each other and sporadically kept in touch.
Anyway... I was driving down to Florida, made a brief stop in South Carolina, where my aunt and cousins live (her husband, my uncle by marriage, passed away some years ago). I got into their area and tried to call, but the phone is disconnected. So on a fluke I go knock on their door. Oldest cousin comes to the window and I say, "It's me, your cousin Rick!" I lowered my face mask so she could see me clearly. "Cousin Rick!" I said again. She said something I couldn't understand and disappeared without opening the door.
About five minutes later, her brother (my middle cousin) pulls up in his car. I wave to him, "Hi..it's your cousin Rick!" He said nothing, but backed his car out of the driveway and drove away. I waited and waited... no one ever opened the door! I left. I was always close to my aunt and cousins... I just don't understand this. It hurts me a lot because as I've said in previous posts, there's not many of us left in my family. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles all gone - this is the only aunt we have. And I don't even know if she's well these days - or still with us!
You may think there is a family bond...but might cousins might not.
In addition they might not the fact you dropped by unannounced.
I just sent a letter registered mail, with tracking and return receipt. Figure that when the mailman delivers and Aunt/cousins see my name as the sender, they'd have to accept it, right?
Probably think that something may have happened to someone... But once they open and see that everyone is fine, maybe think of calling or emailing me. I included my direct phone number and email, telling them to contact me - and I don't care what time of day it is!
So they respond and say she's fine. Will that satisfy you? They could be lying.
JUST CALL THE MAN!
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