Since my lovely work feels the need to block this website, I am jotting down my thoughts here at work and then copying them into the blog at the end of the day when I get home....
My blogs will most likely be rants since there is a lot of stuff in the world that irk the crap out of me. So if you want to hear a black woman go nuts, read on....
Today's rant is about thoughtless people. I currently am carpooling with a co-worker. July 11 of last year was when we agreed to start carpooling. Within a month or two, her car ended up going into the shop. I thought "no biggy". That was last year....... Now it is May and she still does not have a working car. Oh, she still pays me every other month for gas for the week she should be driving, but I am getting tired of being her bloody chauffeur. At first I just let her have the car in the evenings and on weekends because my partner and I don't go out much, but I have since put a stop to that. She was telling me that she was either going to get a new car or get the current one fixed. She has decided on keeping the one that needs a new transmission and try to get another car as a spare. The date for this miraculous event keeps getting pushed back.
The thing that gets me is she makes twice as much as I do, yet she keeps talking about how she needs to get a loan to get a new car. I have two cars, one still being paid for, a large car insurance, my rent is more than her mortgage and I have a partner who is not working and six pets to feed and I still manage to keep a bit of money if needed and I make half what she does. It has been almost 9 months since her car died, you would think that with what she makes, she could have gotten a new car and almost had it paid for by now....
What is causing all this lovely drama is that fact that she is addicted to the casinos. every spare bit of money goes in a slot machine. She has gotten a payday loan that she had said at first that it was going to be for a down payment for a car, but instead it seems to have disappeared and she claims she decided to pay off all the credit cards and then was going to put a car on them....that never happened.
The reason I put a stop to her taking the car on the weekends was because while my partner and I were out of town in our other car, she decided to take MY car across the border to Winsor to hit the casinos and didn't bother to ask if it was okay. I discovered this when I got back. She thought it was no big deal and still doesn't know why I am upset about it. Okay, you do not take someone else's car out of state, let alone out of the country, without their permission. That is beyond rude.
The latest little straw on this camel's back was almost two weeks ago I was driving to get her after work to take her to Bowling(on a Friday). I had a birthday 6 days prior and my partner had one coming up the following week. I was planning on getting my registration done on Monday. Well, I got about a mile from my house when I got pulled over. It seems that the registration expired on my birthday not hers, so I got a ticket. If it hadn't been for my carpooler, the car would not have been out on the road. I no longer take her to bowling after work anymore....
Ya know, I love being nice to my friends. Heck I would give them the shirt off my back if it would help them. But when they start to take advantage of my kindness, it irks the heck out of me. If she doesn't get a car soon, she will be walking to work......
Gods, I feel better now....
