[Trilby]

Yeah, I'm his whipping girl.

He was really mad at my little sis who was navigating while I drove but he hit me, ostensibly b/c I wouldn't pull over the second he commanded me to.

I realize old men get crotchety as their mental faculties decline but he's always been a bully and he particularly hates me. He has always believed in his own divinity, his "superior" intellect, his "Keen engineering mind," (Said without a hint of irony or humor). When I was a little girl learning math he would "teach" me math by doing certain processes in his mind without explaining them and I would be baffled as to how he came up with the answer and not understand and he would laugh at me and just say that he was much, much smarter than me. Of course he was - I was seven years old!!

He bullied me my whole life - and he's doing it even now. My mother does what she does best - she pretends nothing is happening. She's the definition of Helpless.

He's in complete denial about his decline. He THINKS he's as sharp as he ever was and he's soooooooo not. His memory goes back about ten minutes while my mom's goes back about two min. so he thinks he's okay.

It's a good thing my family never owned any guns. We'd all be dead.