Posted by stjames on February 7, 2003, at 17:36:18
I could really use some trusted folks opinion here. I arranged for a "good" friend, who does
computer hardware work to sell $30 worth of hardware to another friend. I brought the money over a week ago and the second friend was to pick the hardware up the next day. Instead the money
was spent on whatever and the first friend has been avoiding my second friend all week. Last night the second friend arranged the meet the first friend to work this out and I was asked to come along. The first friend never showed.Giving this consideration, I could not help feeling that if my "good" friend would do this to one of my friends, sooner or later I was going to get screwed, too. I do not hang with people who take advantage of other people.
Since this was not the first time I have had issues with this person, a made the painful choice to go over a lunch and collect a book and some other stuff I had lent my "good" friend and end our friendship. I was as nice as possible,
and kept it to "I do not like the way you treated my friend and suspect if you will treat people this way at some point you will treat me this way, so I have to end my friendship with you."I know for a fact this person had the money to pay off the debt, but spent it on pot, instead.
This leaves me in the middle.However, I really enyoy hanging with this person, they are the only technical minded person I know as a friend, so it was nice to have someone to take tech with.
I am very torn on this whole issue, I cannot have friends that steal from my friends but I really will miss this person. Please give me your thoughts here.
poster:stjames
thread:1054
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