This is another reason I didn't think pot should be legal. Too many lazy people without the help of weed.
Agreed. I know there will always be abusers, legal or not. The prohibition is a deterrent from starting out though, either due to a lack of accessibility or a fear of getting caught. You never know you'll be an abuser of something until you're stuck abusing it.
Just look at how many people have gotten addicted to sports betting in the last five or so years as it has gained widespread legality. Hell, ESPN spends more time talking about the moneylines than they do the actual highlights now.
I really can't imagine how confusing this must be. Take it easy and stay focused
At this point it's not really confusing. In fact, there's been a lot of clarity arise from it. We knew this girl from our old church (which we left about two years ago). She's mid-20s and her mom died during covid. She took on the part-time babysitter role her mom was doing for her nieces/nephews in addition to her full time job. I made sure she had a plan for getting her car repaired. She's also borrowed this car before a couple years ago without issue, so to us it was no big deal.
In searching for our car this past week, we discovered that she was lying about still going to our old church. Apparently since her mom died, she started begging the church for financial assistance but was making no efforts to improve her situation. She then exhausted their financial help due to similar nonsense that we weren't aware of. They told her "no" when she went to them asking for help with something recently. Once that happened, it seems she quit going.
Whoever you lent that car out to isn't just smoking weed. Some harder drugs are for sure in that situation.... That is some methed up shit.
I won't say what I cleaned out of it and threw into the woods. Nothing synthetic though. All organic.
I have a suspicion that she was loaning the car out as well. She lives in public housing, albeit a newer complex that requires a keeping a full time job to live in.
That's the reason why people don't help other people
@Derphound01 . People take advantage of other people's goodwill and when they ask for help again and get none wonder why.
The worst part of it all is just before we switched churches, me and another friend there personally put a bunch of time and money into her car when the alternator died. We replaced it with an OE unit, caught it up on maintenance, and my friend even put a set of half-tread used Goodyears on it since her tires were cording. She borrowed our car then too and returned it fine, so we had no reason to believe she would do what she did this time.
That's pretty bogus. I can't imagine doing that to someone. My general rule when borrowing things is return it in the same or better condition than when it was given to you. Maybe if she hadn't spent her money on pot she could have paid for her car repairs. She's probably crying in someone else's ear to let her borrow their car now.
She was not present when the car was recovered. She went as far to claim she had been dropped off at work that day.
Within five minutes of us recovering the car that she claimed she wasn't driving, she called my other friend's wife asking for a ride home.
I don't know what the going rate for pot is these days. I do know when I quit smoking cigarettes 10ish years ago, the car payment on my Fusion felt like it magically disappeared overnight. So you're probably right.
