He was just turning his life around...
What if the restaurant guy was wrong and the guy parking cars was legit? Who pays 20 bucks for a 2 to maybe 5 buck service, imagine how much you would make parking cars at 20 bucks a pop, why would this scammer run a scam, he could make a fortune doing it right. And what was the scam, stealing the cars? Surely that wouldn’t last more than a day or two?
A lot of unknowns in this story, including, who will Melanie be dating now?