My dad calls me up to 5 times a day. Its about to get on my last nerve. He will call at around 07:00 A.M and ask if you had read something he has seen in the newspaper.. if you have not he will read it to you.. Then, after you hang up sort of pissed he will call again 5 min later to ask a question that he has known the answer too for weeks ( asks the same question over and over) around 10:00 A.M, he will call again.. This time I don't answer the phone so he leave a semi Sh!ty message " Well, I just called and your not home so I guess I'll call later because your not home " Then an hour later will call again..and I won't answer again. Around 3:00 P.M he will call, and I'll answer. This time he will ask you again " what time is whatever it was whenever it was".. then proceed to tell me all about "his" freinds various doctors appointments, the results, what is wrong with them ( same stuff he told me yesterday and the day before ) Around 5:00 P.M, he will call my wife at work and ask her what time whatever is whatever it is. He will call again around 8:00 P.M and have something else to repeat from earlier in the day..

He does this to my sister as well, and its about to get on her last nerve.

A bit of background. My mother died a couple of years ago. Ever since he has become a high maint pain in the ass. He drinks way to much. ANY time we have a family thing he shows up half blasted.. ( example, mothers day. Shows up at my sisters blasted and proceeds to turn it into fathers day) Everything HAS to be about him, and if not he will somehow make it that way. He is 69 and acts like he is 90. He wants my kids to mow his yard ( he is totally able and he could use the exersize )

He is kinda creeping my kids out. They dread seeing him and won't answer the phone. If he does get my son on the line, he asks him to come over and do all sorts of stuff at his house, and lays this massive guilt trip on him.

My wife is getting pissed about the phone calls she gets at work.. he will leave messages 5 min long about totally nothing.

In short, he is an attention whore grade # 1 I understand that he is lonely. He has lots of freinds, and I talked with a couple and he calls them 3-4 times a day as well. I am sure he goes to the doctors simply to have someone to talk too. Its gotten sort of insane.

What to do with this guy ??? I love him but can't talk with him 24/7