Posted on 07/29/2012 5:51:06 PM PDT by Lazamataz
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
Just Damn, I think this man needs to be cloned!
Dayum, Laz!
That was a close call. Glad it worked out, but rest assured that I’ll never do that! And you better not do it again either!
Trust no one, believe nothing until proved to your own satisfaction.
End of story!
Laz my old friend, there is a lesson in here.
Embrace your inner stupid, love the pain it brought you as the Teacher it is, and learn like you’ve never learned before
And don’t you ever do anything this bone dense dumb again.
Ever.
Your friend,
Lurker
You just gave your self the best advice any one possibly could, now stick to it even when it hurts.
5th MEB
>>Read some Oscar Wilde to recover is my advice.
Laz, as it happens, we went to the matinee of The Importance of Being Earnest this afternoon at the Georgia Shakespeare Festival at Oglethorpe. I recommend it highly, it was funny as all get out, really well done. It plays several more times over the next week, then they close for the Summer. Get over there, it’s right around the corner from you.
http://www.gashakespeare.org/the_importance_of_being_earnest
wow - glad you made it out of that one ok Laz.
Amen.
There are some lessons only time will reveal.
Dear Laz,
This is your future writing to you. You know, time. Even though we both realize by the me you read this, it will be in the past...it’s ok, we both have to deal.
Life, they say, is a journey - from the brain to the heart, and what a wild ride it is huh?
Thing I wanted to tell you, I think it’s about “lessons” or somesuch, since the word frequently occupies replies is
trust your gut. What afterall is the takeaway here? Was it the keystroke, the withdrawal of funds, what?
At what point did your gut rumble and say; “ummm buddy mine, this ain’t a good thing” - at what point did you not listen? That is the thing here (I hesitate to use the word lesson)
You got your loving “good guy” that didn’t listen to his gut. Your “lesson” is why you did not.
It’s a deep thing. I have faith in your ability to go there.
See you later! (haha! That always makes me laugh!)
Crazy story! But in the end, the good guy prevailed. I will heed your advice. Addiction is a tough row to hoe. I wish you the best.
Glad all is ok! Next time post a vanity to “idiot-proof” your ideas;)
I hear ya. while I managed to stay away from drugs.. I was no angel...
The local LEO knew me by name. At the detention center well... “you again?” was normally what I heard.. I think I spent more time in the detention center one year, that outside of it. Come to think of it, I suspect that happened a few years..
I got so bad my own mother turned me in (as she should!) talk about a wake up call. sleeping on the couch and being woke up by the LEO your mother called.
I hear ya on the future gutter trash comment. It takes two to correct our ways. We both stopped being gutter trash when WE decided not to be. At that point we became the 2 worth helping.
The other one? Well for me.. It was God. If he can’t do it. No one can ;)
“2X2L calling CQ. Isn’t there anyone on the air? Isn’t there anyone on the air? Isn’t there... anyone?”
Twice I refused to co-sign for 2 of my kids...it puts everything you own at risk...
People in these programs work the system, I wouldn't trust a god-damned one of them, you might help one or two who were worth helping the rest are future gutter trash, working the system.
I was in the VA system for three years, and saw what Bill talks about.
Scum of the earth. Useless Eaters. Chemical-dependent violent offenders. And they game the system to dry out at the VA with 3-hots-and-a-cot, hit the streets, and cycle through it all over again. And they laugh at you and me, because it's our dime.
I know it’s scary, but sometimes people talk out their ass.
You would certainly be liable in a civil court for damages, but you would never get charged with a felony. The cops would talk to you for about five minutes and toss that warrant.
You learned a lesson. I’ve had several friends in the program. I usually only have to have the “no loans” and no bail conversation once. And it’s usually before they’ve fallen off the wagon. Honesty is the best policy.
Good luck on your recovery.
As John Wayne said “Life is hard-Harder if you are stupid”
Packrat35 says “Stupidity should be painful cause then you WILL learn from it.”
Not ragging on you cause Lord knows I have done more than my share of stupid things and got out alive. But take the first two quote to heart and you can’t go wrong.
Despite this painful lesson, keep your good heart.
You might be the only good heart someone meets — and you are a good heart.
My son in law made that mistake in a business partnership — rented the company cars for 3 partners and got left holding the bag when the business went belly up and 2 partners declared bankruptcy. My s-i-l bore all of the losses. He worked his way out, but it was painful — very painful. It’s lucky that he married my daughter who is a work-a-holic and who took many jobs to help put them on their feet again.
BUT, You made it out safely, Praise God! [and no thanks to Paris Hilton. just thought I'd throw that out there]
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