Since I have not been fortunate enough to have met any of my fellow bloggers here in blogoshere, mostly because I am new to this blogging thing, I must start this post by stating that I am a pretty generous person when it comes to my friends. I have loaned money and given shelter to friends when in need.
One year I was involved in a minor car accident. There was no personal injury but a good amount of damage to my car. Well, the insurance company decided to give me a nice chunk of change to repair my car. Great!!! After much consideration I decided, ‘To hell with this piece of shit car.’ I used the insurance check to purchase a new car. YYYAAAAHOOOOO!!!! So that means I had a banged up , albeit drivable, car sitting in the parking lot of my apartment complex. An old high school buddy asked if he could have the car since I no longer needed it. I, being the wonderful human being that I am (*ok...shadddup! Stop snickering) decided to give it to him as he had no car at all.
I told him that I needed to cancel that old car from my insurance and he’ll need to get his own. He begged me to not cancel the insurance just yet. “Give me a little time to get the insurance money together.” he says.
I, like a dumb ass said, “OK. I’ll give you a few weeks to get the money together to get your own insurance.”
Every time I approached him in regards to my cancelling this car from my insurance he had a sob story about how he needed more time and I kept agreeing.
Well one day after months of this run around I told him that I am canceling the insurance the next day, no if, ands, or buts. He sadly went along with that. Now what my dumb ass SHOULD have done was to take the tags off the damn car but I am to stupid for that…..nooooooo….I let him drive with the tags and no insurance.
Well, while he had the car he racked up 2 tickets and managed to get the car impounded. Even with this, he never went to the impound lot to retrieve the tags!
One ticket he received was in Baltimore City and they offered an amnesty so instead of paying the exorbeted amount of $840 I only had to pay $20. WHEW! That was great so I did that. Another ticket was in Baltimore County and those bitches never give amnesty so I was required to pay the penalty laced amount of $579!
Oh, this is not the end.......because the car was impounded and the tags NOT returned to MVA I had to pay a penalty...oh you'll love this.....of $1500! Yep!
I mentioned these fees to my buddy but his ass never came off of ANY money. I PAID ALL OF HIS TICKETS AND FEES!!! Never again will I give anyone anything that has my name attached to it!
With all that said and done, I didn't kick his ass to the curb......I decided to not let money ruin a friendship....it's only money.....right? Hmmmmmmmm......
Lesson learned. Trust me.
