Happy Solstice II, AKA The Revenge

yestermorrow (56)in #life • 6 years ago (edited)

Hey again,

Okay, so I just dropped my first post, Happy Solstice I about the last few days, and now for the next. First: another pic of my honey...

As referred to in my first post, I had an evil roommate who was using my car as his primary mode of conveyance during the time we lived together. It's an excruciatingly long story in terms of what all went on, but basically the guy invited me to live there specifically because his own vehicle was dying, and he planned to swindle me out of mine.

As it turns out, he in a psychopath and his modus operandi is to target folks with PTSD who are in distress, gets them to move in "So they have a safe place." and then slowly starts to gaslight and manipulate them through means both overt and covert, slowly driving them out of their mind, in some cases even drugging their food, whilst playing their best friend in the whole world, and basically it's pure fucking evil.

But first:

Way back when I was working sales in an ISP (1998), this guy showed up to open an account. At first I thought he looked rather cool, long hair, all in black, carrying a motorcycle helm; comported himself well... And then he opened his mouth. He was a rude, condescending, scrawny, little smartass... and trying his hardest to somehow be intimidating... thereby blowing all his street-cred with me. And I couldn't help but laugh, because his password was...

-drumroll-

GOTHICK

Lol, really? I saw the guy a few weeks later... on A SCOOTER.. not even a moped.. A GODDAMN POWDER PUFF SCOOTER!!! LOLOLOL! I had to try hard, really hard, not to just kinda accidentally bump him off the road.

I told this story many times over the years, always to riotous laughter and applause.. and last summer, I realized something.

It was him. I had completely failed to make the connection before, because he had cut his hair in between when I met him and when we became roommates. At one point, I was going to apologize... but then I figured out the scam...

So, I got out of that joint on July 1st, and all of his evil schemes came to nothing. He had conjured up $500 worth of debt that I supposedly owed him, and wanted collateral (my car) or else he would call the police and evict me, and gave me a week to come up with the money; and Hohoho!! I had a new joint in 3 days... And the car came with me. So in the end, all he managed to accomplish was losing his roommate, a life-long friend, and his only way to get TO HIS JOB, (7 miles) away.

EPIC FAIL...

One of the myriad things which he would throw fits about was the porch light. He wanted the porch light on AT ALL TIMES, whilst simultaenously bitching if -any- lights in the house were left on, and causing mass drama in order to get an apology out of people.

But considering I was in town anyways, and it was Yuletide, and the shortest, darkest day of the year... I just couldn't help but snag a certain something and leave a note...