Friday, January 4, 2013

lessons learned the hard way



Now some of you may be wondering why he was still living with his parents? Was he in school? No and yes he was working. His dad had belittled him for so many years that he didn’t think he was smart enough to go to college. It took me a couple of years to convince him otherwise , and now he’s getting great grades and every teacher wants him to be their teaching assistant. He’s planning on grad school. But at the time he didn’t see himself that way, he was working and most of his pay check was going to his 50 year old parents for “emergencies” he paid the taxes on their property. After a car accident his dad got in to he put a down payment and cosigned for the new truck so his dad could get to physical therapy appointment with the promise that “he’d get paid back” when they settled with the insurance companies (he didn’t).  when his parents phone got shut off he went and signed up for two cell phones  while his dad was in shoulder surgery so that they would have phone service in case of emergency.  He was kind but STUPID.

Here is what eventually happened.
They did pay off the truck when they got the settlement 18ish months later. After they missed several payments. They did not pay him back.
About a year later, their cell phone company merged with another company.  They decided that because of this they didn’t have to pay their bill anymore although they kept using them.  We found out when we got a collections letter. We paid the difference.
When our oldest was small he agreed to let them borrow our car to visit his brother in another state. They were about to have a baby and the pregnancy wasn’t going well, I wasn’t pleased. They hit a large bird windshield was damaged beyond repair, the logic was that because the windshield already had one small not view obstructing crack. It was our fault. We had to pay for that too.

I think that is enough for today. This list could get too long.

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