Many people who know me, know about Ed. Ed was a former roommate and friend of mine that I met in high school. Ed was for the most part an okay guy, a little scatterbrained with no real direction in life but otherwise fine. Of all the problems that Ed had he never really knew how to manage his money at all which leads to the problems that he and I ended up having. To the best of my recolection it was 2000 when Ed's car broke down and he needed a new one. He got this 1994 miata or something like that, I know it was a miata not really sure of the year still not really important. Anyhow, the miata payments turned out to be $300 a month and his rent was already $200 plus bills that ran around $200. We had alot of computers running our electric bill was pretty high. Anyway Ed started to fall behind on his part of the bills, since they were all in my name I had to keep paying them, debt starts to grow. I guess I should stop for a moment to point out that Ed did make enough cash to pay his bills, he just liked to take this string of strange girlfriends out to eat everynight depleating his funds. Meanwhile back in my broken string of thoughts, time went on his debt to me rose to $1100 and my nerves were shot. Ed had to go. Okay so the lease was about up, I went to the landlord and resigned the lease without him and assumed the entire thing on my own. Ed now had about a month to move out. I don't think he moved back with his parents but he might have for a little while at that point before he got another apt with a mutual friend of ours, derek. Somewhere in there he lived with Jamie for a while and his cousin for a while too. Once again, not important. Important stuff is, he left owing me $1100 of which I got a check for $300 this dropped him down to $800.
So Ed owes me $800 and he still works with me at ICS. Since i work with him he will have to eventually pay me back. Ed got fired. He blames me for this, and in all honesty I would have eventually got him fired, but he did get himself fired for goofing off at work, etc. So now Ed is jobless, I heard he got some work in Paducah and stuff not really sure. I didn't really keep up with him. So one day I get this call from some repo company looking for a car of theirs, the miata. Turns out Ed hadn't been making the payments and well they wanted their car back to auction it off for part of the debt he owed them. I was feeling a might bit spiteful so I told them that I would tell them where the car was IF they took me along to go get it. Here is where I fucked up. The guy said okay then I gave him the address where he could find the car. I never heard from them again. What I didn't tell the tow truck driver was that Ed had done something to the car to make it undrivable, burned up transmission or clutch or something. He thought he was some kind of stunt racecar driver. Eventually Ed moved to Arizona and I hear bits and pieces about him from here and there. I even still run into his mom once in a blue moon. I really feel sorry for her and his dad because the car really went back on their credit since they cosigned for him.
At the end of this story I found out Ed had a myspace account. I dropped in on it the other day to see this thread about how he has real friends in Arizona now and his old ones weren't really friends at all. I left him a comment about this fact and how I still want my money, but he deleted it off his myspace. I guess he is afraid of the truth. Drop in on ole Paul "Ed" Taylor and let him know you read my little tale.
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