Thanks, everyone. My mom didn't tell her exactly where I lived, but I think she told her the city. In any case, her friend somehow knew that I live in this area. Yesterday, my boyfriend should have had off from work, but because of some crazy stuff going on (he works with computers), he had to go in, and was unexpectedly very late before coming home, and he might have to go in this weekend, too. That's something I b****ed about in another post elsewhere on these forums. Anyway, my mom had an eye doctor appointment yesterday, but she was thinking of canceling due to the weather. She didn't want to risk slipping on ice with her walker, which has wheels. I told her to call me and let me know if she wanted me to take her, but she did cancel, so I stayed home. She told me on the phone that this friend...I'll call her "D," since that's what her name starts with...said I should take her, and when my mom told her she didn't want me to (or whatever my mom really said), she apparently knew my boyfriend was off, because she was saying he should take her. My boyfriend has done some things for my mom, mostly before she gave me the car, but he's not obligated to her and D needs to keep her mouth shut about things she doesn't know anything about!

Leed, I do hope you're right about guns. I'm not sure about all my opinions regarding different types of guns, but I do have a problem when a nonviolent group (and mentally ill persons are generally nonviolent) becomes the target of a law to ban something everyone else can have. I also have mixed feelings about Obama. I like some things about him, and I'm not a conservative (but also not a liberal--more in-between), but while I didn't want Romney as President, I'm not happy with Obama, either.