And Barb knows Chris is going to be left out in the cold after she's gone. I think instead of a miracle, Chris was an accident. I don't know of any parent who was willing to (emotionally) abuse some one as Barb had done to Chris. Even going so far as to not leave a will knowing that Chris can't fend for himself. Mother of the year, here.
That would be pretty stupid, and wouldn't put it past her. Bob married a winner right there.
Broken clocks and one of the few truthful things Chris has likely said is Barb admitting she married Bob for him owning a house. Gold diggers is something people have known even back then but Bob had to be a drunken fool.
Or one of them used that money for a "investment" in something. Not sure if it was possible in USA that time, but in some european countries now it is possible to take a loan, put it into some low risk investment and make a profit. If you smart and into math (non-eurozone european countries have pretty big changes in interest rates time to time and/or have state bonds with not-so-small coupon, so it is possible to manage it - if one be able to take cheap credit). Probably profit will be (after deducting all costs) more like 2% per year compared to borrowed cash, but still a a option for someone with good credit history and pretty good math.
Well, I'm a eurofag and just didn't know how it looks in USA, but in EU most preys of "investing scam" (to be clear: not a stricte scam like "gib me money and I will gib you more money" + run away by perpretator; rather in just offering someone not-so-smart a instrument that is just to sophisticated for the prey, e.g. buying CALL options from a house wife - in example, most of instruments was more complicated than options) are typicall or low-than-average people and small companies.
Well, I'm a eurofag and just didn't know how it looks in USA, but in EU most preys of "investing scam" (to be clear: not a stricte scam like "gib me money and I will gib you more money" + run away by perpretator; rather in just offering someone not-so-smart a instrument that is just to sophisticated for the prey, e.g. buying CALL options from a house wife - in example, most of instruments was more complicated than options) are typicall or low-than-average people and small companies.
The point is, that I'm pretty sure that Bob in his last years was a potential target of something like that. He probably will be wise to not give Jordan Belfort a penny, but maybye he was enough stupid to buy "safe" corporate bonds. Why not?
I didn't tell that is any evidence or event a single clue, but the fact is that mortgage money have disappeared. Probably I'm just wrong with the spending habitats in rural parts of Virginia, but fact is I cannot figure out how they can waste a shitload of money. As I understood sonichu wiki, that was 130 000 USD in 2009. And it perished with no signs of life before 2016.
They loose 50 000 on attorney on a lost case, let's say another 20 000 - 30 000 on other legal spendings, but where go rest of it? They managed to turn 50 000 - 60 000 in barbage in just few years? Amazing in some way
Well, I was always thinking about Bob as a little more than a normal person in his good times. He earn his diploma in 1952, so it probably was something big in that days - and I'm more dedicated to "smart Bob get stupid and as a result marry a whore" thesis because he aimed to university before being enlisted in army. Two of his kids form the days of light earned PhD, so probably some ethics of science was present in his life in happy days.
This is all documented on the Sonichu wiki (https://sonichu.com/cwcki/Financhu_Crisis), but summing it up in the past Chris has lied at least once about needing a mortgage payment only to go spend it all on toys. In addition, Chris spends thousands on PSN games, and even more on LEGO and Transformers. If Bob ever did try and teach him how to manage money, Chris ignored it entirely.Well, I'm a eurofag and just didn't know how it looks in USA, but in EU most preys of "investing scam" (to be clear: not a stricte scam like "gib me money and I will gib you more money" + run away by perpretator; rather in just offering someone not-so-smart a instrument that is just to sophisticated for the prey, e.g. buying CALL options from a house wife - in example, most of instruments was more complicated than options) are typicall or low-than-average people and small companies.
The point is, that I'm pretty sure that Bob in his last years was a potential target of something like that. He probably will be wise to not give Jordan Belfort a penny, but maybye he was enough stupid to buy "safe" corporate bonds. Why not?
I didn't tell that is any evidence or event a single clue, but the fact is that mortgage money have disappeared. Probably I'm just wrong with the spending habitats in rural parts of Virginia, but fact is I cannot figure out how they can waste a shitload of money. As I understood sonichu wiki, that was 130 000 USD in 2009. And it perished with no signs of life before 2016.
They loose 50 000 on attorney on a lost case, let's say another 20 000 - 30 000 on other legal spendings, but where go rest of it? They managed to turn 50 000 - 60 000 in barbage in just few years? Amazing in some way
Bob's only mistake was marrying Barb, even for gold diggers he stuck a pretty low note. Still, he was pretty old by then and probably jaded as all hell with life, Barb probably found him on a low moment and he stuck by her despite being able to score pretty much anything better. One thing I respect Bob for is his love for his family, he was a flawed man but you can't deny he loved Chris and Barb even if he was deeply misguided in how he raised him!
Bob mentioned before that Chris is very bad with maths and money, knowing that and his absolute lack of any impulse control, the worst thing Chris could ever have in his hands (financially speaking) is a credit card. Banks make money from financially illiterate and/or desperate people, and Chris is a stellar fucking example of both, even if you're not a retard with no impulse control it's absurdly easy to lose track of your credit card expenses and they just throw unsustainably high spending limits on guys that are knowingly unable to pay them off. You could give Chris a million dollars and he would piss them all away as quickly as he could while mostly ignoring useful expenses!
honestly its damn depressing how much his family didn't seem to love him back.
The details about Barbara's sex life before, with and after Bob as well as her "only marrying him as he had a house" is mostly from one of Chris' post-hospital letters (https://sonichu.com/cwcki/Jail_Letter_-_11_May_2022). In his letters following the hospital he's been mostly blaming Barb for coming on to him, that the incest never occurred, and several other excuses. It is possible it is all a big bunch of lies, considering Chris is known to be a compulsive liar.
