Could You Please Just Leave Me Alone?

Youngest son Sneed, the adopted one, against whom I have a restraining order, called me today, in violation of the order. He wanted to know if he had any messages from the many people he gave our number as a contact for him. Then he asked for money and when I refused he got ticked off. I eventually hung up on him. He called back and continued to berate me. This guy says he is off drugs and has a job lined up. This is his M.O. He says he is clean, so all should be forgotten. Evidently, he believes that it is my parental duty to take him in. We have tried this and it doesn't work. I keep suggesting that he needs to go to the Salvation Army where there is a program to help him straighten out his life. He refuses. I have given him thousands of dollars over the past few years trying to help him. It has been to no avail. I don't know what else I can do. On a lighter note. I hate to keep picking on my boss, but the guy keeps providing me the ammunition. When I got to work today, this email was waiting for me. Please submit your mileage. I just received this month's sheets that were due last week. Your immediate reply will be appreciated. Thanks, By way of explanation let me say that I have a company car. It is not one of those sweet deals where I can use it for personal stuff, but is is still nice to have. I park it at my office and use it throughout the day. Once per month I am supposed to record my mileage and fax it to the people who track these sort of things. I was certain that I sent mine in earlier in the month, so I pulled out my copy and confirmed that I had. Next, I called the woman who keeps track and asked her if she had received my fax. She had. A few minutes later the boss stuck his head into my cubicle to say hello. I told him that I had sent my mileage and that I had confirmed that it was received, so I was puzzled by his email. He said that he had not gotten his in on time, so he sent the email to make sure no one else was remiss. For a moment I was woozy. At a minimum all he had to say was if you haven't sent it in do so. Evidently, it never occured to him that he was going to confuse everyone in our work group. Instead he left the impression that he was in possession of some report of mileage offenders. This is his management style. He creates problems so that he can appear to be dealing with them. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Bonehead! No progress on the Circuit City front. They continue to throw up roadblocks in the way of honoring their extended warranty. A fellow at corporate is allegedly working on the situation. I hold out no hope. You can read about my travails with the Toshiba laptop here, or here. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong and sometimes just full of it. Tag: Daily Life Personal Finance Humor