The end of the saga

Today ends my saga w/ the dude who refuses to pay us back.  2 days ago he finally called & said he'd be at my husband's work to pay him & again, he didn't show up.  I warned him that I was only going to bother him worse if he lied to us again.  So I kept my word b/c unlike him, my word is my bond.  Then yesterday I spoke to him twice.  First he was going to drop the money off at my husband's work, then when I started texting b/c he didn't show up, he called & said he'd bring it to our house.  Again, he never showed & quit returning my calls & texts.  This morning, I went nuts w/ the texts.  Between 3:30am (which is what time I get up for work) & 9:30am, I had sent somewhere around 50 text messages & called 6 times.

You can imagine how pleasant he was w/ me when he called me back after a series of 8 consecutive texts that said F you.

$100 was all this friendship was worth to "Elvis".

He yelled & said he called the police & filed harassment charges on me.  (I called the local police & as of yet, they have no record of him calling so he may have been bluffing.)    He said it needs to stop & that he would be by to pay us today.  I told him I've heard that before & I'll stop when he pays us.  He said it stops now, and I said, no, it doesn't.  This went on for a couple minutes before I just told him to F off & hung up on him.

Alas, once the police are involved, I wave my white flag.  I have never even had a speeding ticket in my life and as much hardship as he's already put on my family by not paying us back, I won't let him add insult to injury by ruining my squeaky clean record.  I came from white trash, abusive drug addicts & don't have a police record.  That's a matter of deep pride for me!

He called my husband after he spoke to me & said he was going to pay us today & then called me some choice names.  I know I won't see a penny from him, but it shows how fucked up in the head he is that he can't just be honest & say "I'm never paying you back".  He still insists he is, but once I'm quiet, he'll have no motivation to actually do so.

It's a bittersweet ending.  I'm glad to be done b/c it has really consumed me lately.  I'm absolutely drained from the whole thing.  I think the stress is what caused me to be sick last week & since then I haven't been able to eat much, which is great for weight loss, but sucks for overall health & well-being.  I don't feel great about the way it's ending. I was so determined to see this through, to win a battle for the nice guy & prove we don't always finish last.  Instead, bad trumped good.  But, too quote the wonderful Sam Cook, "that's it, I quit, I'm movin' on."