No money no funny
I haven't been completely honest about the Fatherhood journey.
What I neglected to say is that I was born a boy.
No, really, what had happened was...a friend used to say that..anywho..thing is..
someone pledged £1000 to the cause and then disappeared. I tried to make contact but it's been at least 6 weeks and I haven't heard a peep. I'm slow to accepting the worse case scenario- which isn't the possibility of the pledger(?) being dead but that the he chose not to cough up and stayed silent.
I filled the silence with meaning over the last few weeks, nodded in understanding, crinkled my brow with circumstances beyond pledger's control and inhaled deeply at the possibility of a visit from the Angel of Death.
It tooke me a while but finally, eventually I accepted that I had been screwed over.
Silence sucks.
I had bitten off more than I could chew where the finances were concerned. So I tried to retrieve money I had loaned someone.
I texted, emailed and left messages.
More silence.
I don't know which one sucks more; the pledger's or the borrower's.
Say it with me: Ouch.
paradise
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Missing: person with cash. No reward offered!(I'm learning not to give) :-)
I wonder how people push it past their conscience. Or do they make that disappear too?
Ouch! miskiin! ;)
all i know that with Somalis i sometimes have to beg my own stuff back. If i could afford the bailiffs i would have sent them instead. As for money, once you lend it, do not expect to see that person again - unless you collide in public places and they are always in a hurry!
Good luck...
TheAdvocate, thanks, u could start a fund-raising thingie for me. -)