My grandpa accidentally threw away dad's bills and screwed his credit score... do we have the right to be mad?

Question

This happend 4 years ago and my dad can't heal till 5 years after the incident. he is a huge businessman, and because his credit score was ruined, he has to pay banks another 1% interest on top of the original interest he owes them. so if he borrows 1 million dollars, he has to pay 30,000 dollars interest, plus another 1%, making that 40,000 dollars. we were talking about it during dinner and my mom was laughing about it. we were pissed and my entire family was like it's not funny. she went all mad and stuff getting pissed since it's her dad. do we have the right to be mad at her and grandpa? he threw away dad's 10,000$ good college money. gone.

Answer 1

He didn't know what bills he had coming unless he SAW them?? It sounds like your dad is partially to blame.

Answer 2

You stated he "accidentally" threw them away so I'm assuming your father had them laying around somewhere instead of being properly stored. Your grandfather should have checked with your father first also. If they were just laying around than it would have been safe to assume it was just junk mail. My husband leaves his junk mail laying on the table all the time. You shouldn't be angry about it because, after all it was an accident and your father should have placed them in a safe place. But like I said, he should have asked if they were important before doing so. Maybe they were both at fault. If it was 4 years ago than you shouldn't still be angry about it. I'm sure he feels bad. Family should be more important than money.  

Answer 3

Getting mad is not only petty, it's completely useless, especially if it happened four years ago. Here are the lessons: 1) never let anyone get near your mail and 2) if you know something's due or you're expecting expecting a check, make sure you check your mail every day - if what you're expecting doesn't come by the time you expect it then you call the institution/person who was supposed to be sending it and make sure they know you haven't received it yet!

Answer 4

You can feel however you want but what good is it going to do? He obviously didn't do it on purpose and being mad at him isn't going to fix anything. Maybe your Dad shouldn't be borrowing so much money anyway. If he is a "huge businessman" maybe he should have built enough wealth to do business without relying on huge bank loans.

Answer 5

If you father is a good business man........he should know what liabilities he has.......and when they don't come do he needs to find out why.......I think your father dropped the ball.........