u/Pitiful-Astronaut-82

My father has passed away. I have been estranged from him for several years due to many factors. He never cared to reach out to me or mend the relationship although I always held my breath waiting for him. I told my sisters I want to help with the aftermath of his death like cleaning his apartment, attending the celebration of life and they told me he stated in his will (which was actually just a text message) that he doesn't want them to include me. Is that legally enforceable? Do they have to actually do that or are those types of things up to the discretion of the people carrying out the funeral ect? I'm in Alberta Canada

There is a fellow Mom similar age to me who I encounter often at my daughter's daycare. We seem to usually pick up and drop off our kids around the same time, both of us have daughters a few months apart who are friends. Our girls are so sweet together, they get so excited when they see each other. Her daughter really is such a sweet cute little girl, she often greets my husband or I and we always respond back warmly to her. The first few encounters the Mom and I had I smiled or said hello and she didn't smile or say hi back which I assumed was because we were strangers. But it's been almost 3 years now and every time she sees me she gives me the most disgusted look she can muster up, and if my daughter ever says hi to her she doesn't even look in her direction. Today I arrived as she was leaving and when we made eye contact I could almost feel the seething hatred coming off her. We have never had any encounter that ended negatively. What gives? Why might she be so miserable when she sees me?

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Today I was shopping and almost bumped a lady and I quickly said oh sorry! She looked me in the eyes, sneered and walked away.

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The other day I made eye contact with a girl at a thrift store and I smiled when we locked eyes, she looked repulsed, rolled her eyes and shook her head.

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Why are some women like this? What is going through their head? I always try to be warm and friendly to all my fellow humans so I can't even comprehend what would compell someone to act like this. I almost never ever experience this same behavior from men.

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Sometimes when I'm at a store in public I'll smile at another shopper after we make eye contact and they give me the most disgusted look possible. The other day I was shopping at Value Village and myself and another woman were digging through a clothes bin and I said 'wow there's so much stuff here!' the other shopper just looked at me like I was a complete fucking idiot for saying that, then when her friend came over like 2 minutes later she repeated the same line to her. I'm not too bothered by these scenarios but I genuinely just wonder why are some people so needlessly rude to strangers like that?