I’m not sure what exactly happened with Aunt Ruth, but she has been crazy my whole life.
She isn’t dangerously crazy, no violence or criminal behavior or anything like that.
She does believe in aliens and government conspiracies, and likes to stay inside her house virtually all of the time. She also doesn’t like strangers coming into her house, which leaves her in quite the pickle. I was one of the only people she allowed to come over regularly, and I helped her out as much as I could. Bringing over groceries is one thing, but when her central HVAC system broke there was not much I could do to remedy it. She said she would pay me $500 if I could fix the cooling system without having to call in a worker. I explained that she could easily find an HVAC tech for less than that amount of money, but it wasn’t about the money for her. She just didn’t want a stranger in her house for any reason, so if I could find a way to fix the cooling she would pay me that money. I had to try, right? I started by finding out the make and model of her air conditioner, and then looking up tutorial videos on Youtube to match it. That took a long time, and didn’t help me fix the cooling, so I decided to make a bold move and buy a small, portable air conditioner from Walmart. It only cost $150, which meant I would still profit a nice $350 and Ruth would have cooling.