the good, the bad and the ugly
after my horrendous teenage neighbour got evicted, a young couple moved in above me. jenny and chris were their names. i never really liked jenny, she was clingy, a compulsive liar and, quite frankly, she smelled rank. chris, on the other hand, was like a male version of me. we had the same tastes in music, t.v, junk food, cartoons, films, humour, the lot. i got on with him better than jenny did.
because of this(and because i had cable), chris spent most of his time with me.
no, nothing happened, i wasn't even remotely attracted to him.
we would share everything. if they got 3 for 2 pizzas, i'd get the third one. if chris got a B.O.G.O.F offer on dr. pepper, i'd get the free one. if i bought a new dvd, chris was always loaned it before anyone else or, more often than not, would come downstairs and watch it with me.
all seemed well and i believed i had great friends as well as great neighbours.
one day, i was packing my video collection into boxes before replacing my old video cabinet. i was very busy that day, so chris offered to do it for me. i had left both him and jenny alone in my flat many times, so i gratefully accepted his offer and went out.
when i got back several hours later, chris was surrounded by junk food.
knowing he was broke, i asked him how he had come by this stash of goodies.
"oh, i took some stuff to cash generators and got £25" says he. i knew he frequently flogged his stuff, so i thought no more about it.
3 days later, i began the task of unboxing my videos and putting them in my new cabinet. it wasn't long before i noticed something was wrong.
there were only 3 boxes of videos, not 4.
being a bit anal, i had kept a list of all my films. when i checked the list, i realised 25 of my films had disappeared.
then, it suddenly hit me: cash generators were paying £1 each for videos at that time.
not wanting to believe my suspicions, i confronted chris about my missing tapes. he denied taking them, but his body language clearly told me he was lying.
he was supposed to be one of my best friends, yet he'd stolen from me. if he'd just asked, i'd have gladly lent him the money. he knew this.
deeply hurt by all this, i told my younger sister who, unfortunately for chris, is a bit of a headcase.
she ran straight round there, all 9 stones of her, and punched this 15 stone bloke so hard that he flew backwards up the hall.
three days later, he and jenny did a moonlight. i never got my videos back, but i did learn a valuable lesson in trust.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 1 Oct 2009, 22:29, 8 replies)

Well played to your younger sister!
And as the old adage goes (though not completely apt here), if you lend someone £20 and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Thu 1 Oct 2009, 22:50, closed)

very true
i've never seen him since, but i ran into jenny recently. she and her new partner have 2 kids, which she would never have had if chris hadn't forced her to dump him by beating her so badly she ended up in hospital.
or so she says, i never once saw him raise even a finger to her. if he'd hit her, the walls were thin enough for me to have heard.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 1 Oct 2009, 22:58, closed)

Curiouser and curiouser...
Well, congrats for ending up as the, ummm, hero of the story!
( ejlflop errrrrgs. Regularly., Thu 1 Oct 2009, 23:57, closed)

nope, that was my sister ;)

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 2 Oct 2009, 16:13, closed)

We had a housemate at uni that did the same thing
He took some of my videos and took my other housemate's passport! He ended up running away with his girlfriend who turned out to be 14.

I annexed his sweet PC though, so that was a result. Well worth a few VHS tapes!
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Fri 2 Oct 2009, 9:56, closed)

not a bad swap!

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 2 Oct 2009, 16:13, closed)

????????????
He flew backwards up the hall? I don't think he did, did he? He may have taken a teensy tiny step backwards, but he didn't fly backwards up the hall. I'm getting really sick of all the blatant lies on here. Grow up and tell the truth you silly little girl. Come back when you're an adult.
(b3ta_polis, Mon 5 Oct 2009, 0:37, closed)

were you there? no, you weren't.
fuck off, you tedious twat.
*ignores*
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 5 Oct 2009, 21:39, closed)