Getting Out And About - Real Mum story on MoM

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Isn’t it interesting to get out and about, amongst other people?! I find it very entertaining sometimes, just chatting to different people for their views. For example, on Saturday night I was talking to a woman who owned our local shop, it burnt down last March and hasn’t been rebuilt. She was going on about ‘an old derro who used to have Taranna Bakery.’ According to her, he went bankrupt and had to sell because he had a gambling problem,m’useless old fool’ she called him. Our local store isn’t being rebuilt, it’s been reduced to a shipping container just so we can get our mail……why hasn’t it been rebuilt, nearly 2 years later? The insurance money was paid out but there were too many debts outstanding. Once they were paid, there was no money for the rebuild. Hypocritical or what?!

Posted by mom81879, 16th November 2015

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- - BellaB said
  - 01 Dec 2015
    10:34 pm
I’m not sure I’d compare these two situations.

- - mom81879 said
  - 23 Nov 2015
    5:00 pm
I think it’s a good indication the insurance money has been spent and not on rebuilding the shop. It was a local icon. Now people have to travel for milk and bread and Post Office services. Did I mention the daughter in law/wife has a new partner and just spent thousands on IVF?

- - mom90758 said
  - 16 Nov 2015
    3:36 pm
That’s a pity! Gambling problems can really ruin lives of entire families!
- mom93821 replied
  
  17 Nov 2015 , 5:20 am
  It is a horrible addiction that can cause huge family problems and heartache.
  - mom90758 replied
    
    17 Nov 2015 , 3:12 pm
    
    And if the person with gambling problems doesn’t admit to have them, there isn’t much to do, sadly.
  - mom93821 replied
    
    21 Nov 2015 , 4:25 am
    
    Communities need to be more responsible when it comes to gambling as the impact is far reaching.
- - mom165081 said
  - 16 Nov 2015
    2:29 pm
Sounds complicated – insurance always is.