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Been a jam packed couple of days. Shuffling the investments around. Buying stuff, and dealing with the copious weirdos here.

The guy whose car we stored for free and even got conned into running through inspection just went home for good. The day before we left for the United States he called, trying to get Jim to come fetch him from the hospital in downtown San Jose. We didn't even know car guy was there! Jim said no, of course, since we'd be airborne from Liberia when the hospital was releasing the guy with the purple messed up car. Tried to ask if he was okay, but car guy blew Jim off without a word.

But it turns out car guy has lung cancer. Not surprising since he was a heavy smoker. He's sold everything he owns here and jetted off to his home in the frozen north, his trailer, and his socialized medicine for treatment. I hope they caught it in time. I may be annoyed by some of the stunts he pulled but I still wish him the best.

Now Davey Jones, Davey Crocket, whatever you want to call him. Car Guy's sworn enemy I told to never ask us for a ride ever again without offering to pay for the gas, that dude has decided to trying to work Jim like he's his own personal slot machine. This is the same asshole that committed us to paying for elderly Velma's broken hip back in September.

He's determined to get Jim to give him a ride while he works his newest job/crazy get rich quick scheme/MLM - something to do with signing up folks to rent their places on AirBnb. But why anyone wouldn't just do it themselves, why they would sign up through Davey Jones I have no clue.

The problematic nature of giving him a ride today or tomorrow is that it's to the Pinellas / Avellenas area where the potholes are big enough to bathe in. Davey wants Jim to use our brand new car to transport him over the worst roads in the Canton while Davey told Jim he cannot risk damaging his moped on. So we're supposed to damage the car? We rarely go to that area because of the roads!

When Davey called today after yesterday and the day before and the day before that of sucking up to Jim, calling him 'his best friend' insisting that Jim take him Jim was legitimately able to say he'd thrown out his back and would be taking Davey nowhere. Not today, not yesterday.

We both laughed at the 'best friend' remark because Davey has been a straight up user of Jim right up until late May, and I told him off in September when he pulled the committing us to pay for Velma. The few times Jim's given him a ride to anywhere he's made Davey cough up gas money.

I told Jim, "Watch out, he's gearing up for something BIG!" and we found out what that was on Friday. Davey Jones signed up for some flim flam sounding business coaching / MLM sounding / training to the tune of 10K. He told Jim he's 100% out of money, and needs to borrow from Jim, thousands, to make ends meet. Told Jim not to tell me. Jim did.

Jim is so tight with a dollar sometimes it can be frustrating, like the situation with converting the hot tub to all salt water. Instead of having the pool guys do it, he did it himself after he picked a few folks brains. Remember I said he threw out his back? It was from trying to carry 55 pound bags of salt rather than paying extra for Eduardo to show up and do it.

Davey Jones picked the tightest man in the galaxy to get moolah from. Especially in a year when we had to buy a new car, had new furniture built, custom ordered a kitchen island, paid for a wedding even if he fumed and fought against open bar, and flying back and forth to the States a pile of times including this recent quick super expensive emergency trip to see my momma.

At least this should be amusing, loser who cannot stop blowing money on MLM type scams thinking he can squeeze a loan out of Jim! Heaven forfend!

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