I don’t mean Crypt-keeper type stories, but stories from your own community of fellow Desis behaving so egregiously, you just have to share your tales with others. I’ll go first, then:
In my local community one gentleman in particular actually sued his own mother for a share of the house that she was living in (with his kid brother, no less).
It seems that the father of said gentleman (and I use the term very loosely) had bequeathed the house to his wife and children, to provide them with a place of residence after his death. After moving out of the family home (at the ripe old age of 30+, what a winner!) with his wife, the gentleman in question turned around and sued the mother for 1/3 of the value of the house.
It turns out the mother, who was widowed and did not work (and had not ever, in her life) wouldn’t pay the son the value of his share of the house and refused to sell the home that she and her second son still occupied in order to do so, so her firstborn took her to court and sued her for his share. What a gem! Interestingly enough, the case was thrown out of court (after the judge asked the son if he had ever made, or contributed to, any payments on the house in question), mother and son became ever more estranged, and the son and his wife found themselves the subject of local gossip and ridicule (if not outright social pariahs).
The son, of course, blames his *darling *wife for goading him into suing his own mother, though he isn’t planning on leaving her any time soon.
No excuse for not using your own head no matter how much of a silver tongue the wife may be.
