DeadBattery11 If you have Mods installed, please test this out in a clean user folder. Go to Documents\EA Games and move The Sims 2 Legacy folder to your desktop to generate a clean one when you launch the game again. If it keeps happening, enable testing cheats (open the cheat console by pressing CTRL-Shift-C and entering boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true) and see if any error messages pop up when you try to do the interactions you mentioned. If they do, go to Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 Legacy and add the Logs folder into a ZIP file, then attach it to your reply here.
