Lifestyles of the poor and nameless

Back in the days when I was active on BlackPlanet, I had seen a guy's page and thought he would be an interesting person to know. We'll call him "Jeff". He was self-described as a young entrepreneur; he had his own video/TV/film production company (and yes, I thought he was attractive... and he is a college grad). Since I plan to start my own thing someday, I'm always on the lookout for people who have done/are doing their own businesses. I sent him a message and we had a conversation. Everytime I saw him online after that, he was "away", and I never got any messages from him, so I erased his screen name and moved on.

Imagine my surprise when I got a message from him this weekend, about 8/9 months after our initial encounter. At first I didn't even remember who he was. After a little refresher, we had a pretty decent convo. We spoke about business start-up for a bit and made plans to discuss it again at a later point. This morning I got a message from him, asking me to call him. No problem. I called. To make a long story short: He had about 6 outstanding parking tickets dating back to 1999. He got pulled over this weekend and his license was suspended at least until he pays off the tickets. He was locked up in a holding cell for most of the weekend. By his words, this was a "blessing in disguise", because he had planned to pay off the tickets and never got around to it. Now, he doesn't have a choice.

He wanted my help in the matter. I said "well...I don't know too much about traffic law, but I'll see what I can find out." He said "I kinda meant financially." And it wasn't just $5 either. This man had the nerve to ask for $150! Notorious B.I.G. said it best: "Damn, why they wanna stick me for my paper?!"

I'm offended that he would even ask me for money. That's a real "female dog" move on his part, if ya know what I mean. I've watched too many episodes of Judge Judy to fall into that mess. If Jeff was irresponsible enough to rack up all those tickets, get his license suspended and not even have $150 to spare to pay it off, then I don't think I need to know him. If I'm the first person he turned to, it's either because he thinks I'm a sucker and he'd get a free $150, or he owes massive amounts to all of his other friends/family and I'm the only person left.

Despite his promises to pay me back within a week, I declined to assist and suggested that he should try to get $ from his credit card. He mumbled something about not having a card and I told him "good luck". Ugh. *Disgust*

As Star & Bucwild would say: "that's today's loser/burnout/wannabe"