Merry feckin' Christmas!!!

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Remember that crack head we let stay in the garage?

I am sooo amazed at what a good liar he was.
He sat there, at my dining room table and lied his ass off...looking me in the eyes just as convincing as could be.

And I almost believed him. I wanted to believe him.

Even prayed for that little bastid...damn him!

*don't mind me I'm just venting...I feel quite gnawshush really*

It's our own damn fault, I suppose. Things usually are.
Calculated risks and all that and we were'nt as on top of things as we should have been. Rich knew he should have changed the locks...the poor guy even gave the kid a key *throws hands in the air*

What was he thinking???!

Poor Rich lost all the tools he needed for his job. That really sucks.
Such hard lessons to learn.



lol

He should have just said, "Hey Dean why don't you just back your truck up to the trailer and just take all my shet and then I'll buy it back from you for fifty bucks."...woulda been cheaper in the long run, you know??

Just damn, so much for more Christmas shopping...which is'nt really a bad thing. I hate that with a budding passion. The whole time I was shopping I was thinking of all the ways to let the air out of that big bloated commercial products balloon. That part was fun...too bad I don't remember any of it.

j/k


Well I am not mad any more...thanks for reading.

*big hugs:) deep breaths*

He's going to jail though.
That's all there is to it.
The bottom is looming.

[meishka]

i had a little bastard like that in my basement last year who did the same thing. god i hate him. he's not in jail though. wat a shame

[HoneySuckleBlue]

How come he'snot in jail? It is so satisfing to hunt them down and exact a toll. *heehee i reverting to a primal state* You need closure dammit!

Our police said there is nothing they can do because he worked for Rich and he had a key. So now he has to take off and go convince some judge that the stuff was stolen but by then it should be pretty clear that he's not bringing the stuff back.

Jackass....(not you)

[nirgal]

That so sucks.... stealing a mans tools is pretty low.

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Esp. when that is how he makes his living...not that stealing a hobbiest's tools is any better.:(


It will be alright though. Funny how this stuff all works out...

There was this crew that came in from another housing company and lied about their ability to meet closing deadlines and underbid Rich a few months back and now the company that they originaly worked for wants Rich to bring his crew in and take over their homes because they are spread so thin and lagging behind on the deadlines. They are bigger than the ones he was originaly doing which is good when you get paid by the foot...they called him today and want him to start next Monday:)

It's one of those weird days where you don't know whether to be happy or sad...

[dirtybongwater]

If we stuffed everyones stockings with mushrooms, the world would be a better place !

[Jennyjenkins]

Be happy. He could have taken waaay more from your family. Thank God he didn't.

I want mushrooms in my stocking too, please.

[Fractual_]

oh how exciting, drug addict updates! surprisingly the uncle i told you all about showed up at the christmas eve gathering our family had, but was veryyyyy skinny which means hes most likely still hittin the rock, even harder probably... :confused:

[Scholar_Warrior]

erm. what was I saying?.....

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Is there any help for them or is it just a personal will to live kinda thing?

Did you talk to him fractual?

Rich talked to the guys uncle and he said the family has wanted to press charges because he's been stealing stuff from all of them but were afraid to because his parents would disown all of them for turning him in...so since RIch is out of the family he's actually done them all a favor the uncle says...

It's really weird to have to lock things now. Do you guys all lock your stuff up?


(...I heard you Gil, ;) calculated losses and all that and Rich actually found his tools at a pawn shop in West Ocean City...it's just a matter of Time. )

[Moominpappa]

During the 1980's, when Margaret Thatcher was in power, lots of state run drug-rehabilatation schemes were closed down in favour of private & charity ones. Large sums of money were available. A small Norwich charity that I was dealing with got over-ambitious and expanded dramatically - they came up with this bright idea that as well as treating local kids they would ship in kids from big inner city areas - London, Birmingham,Manchester, Glasgow for their tough love regime.


They reasoned that if you took the kids out of the environment that encouraged them to take drugs, giving up would be so much easier. A condition of the deal was that you would only get a return ticket to your home city if you completed the course. Unfortunately for Norwich, the drop out rate was over 75% - towards the end some kids were taking the one-way tickets to escape an area where they were known to the police and with no intention of completing the course. For them, being in Norwich was like being locked in the toy store at Christmas.

A mini-crime wave hit Norwich and the local police just couldn't handle it - it was them who forced the scheme to close down. I know from talking to the workers on the course that more than half of those who completed the course relapsed within twelve months. I know the schemes run in prisons were more effective in weaning addicts off, but once again they expected a 90% relapse rate. I would be surprised if similar schemes aren't experiencing similar figures - they just keep quiet about it.

Based on those experiences, I would say you would have to be a very strong-willed or lucky individual to give up and stay off. For the rest, the underlying factors that caused the drug-taking to become an addiction need to be addressed - and I suspect they won't because all main-stream human societies seem quite happy to accept that some individuals will be casualties of our rat-race mentality. I write this on Christmas Day, for many families & individuals one of the most stressful days of the year when the mis-match between the images foisted on us by advertising & media and reality is greatest - no wonder so many individual turn to drugs in order to be able to handle the realty gap.

[mariecstasy]

oh kim. i dont know how i missed this. it really sucks when people take away some of your trust, its a real mindfuck, eh?
im glad he found the tools and that he can get the little jerk...there are those silver linings but how dare he...

[HoneySuckleBlue]

He never really had my Trust...I trust no one:p not even myself, I mean, who am I really??...but I had Hoped and wished for a miracle and that wasted energy bums me out a little, but it was our choice and a gamble, plus what it cost Rich, but that stuff happened for a reason. Rich is learning alot about himself right now. It is really interesting to see this stuff unfold and how it affects him.

He quit working for the place where he was doing decks and rails and had to let his guy go becausehe had no tools...and then at a christmas party he agreed to go in as threeway partners with our neighbor up the road (he's been begging Rich to come on for about a year now) and is now looking at splitting 4.2 million dollars between them in the next ten years because they are triming a development..

That seems like a good thing...

I think when you get people that are so far gone like Deaner you pretty much have to commit to rehabilitating them for longterm and just give them a whole new life. It is so easy to slip back into old patterns when your will is such a slippery place.
Easy to see why they get discarded from the race, the cost to care for them is so high and what is the benifit? Aside from seeing them live...that is tough.