Any advice/comments about letter I am writing?
The letter is to a long ago (the 60s) former friend who lives in Seattle, Washington. I live in southern California.
Back in the day, he visited me in a house I shared with friends in LA. He arrived from Seattle unannounced and uninvited.
I did not know he was a drug addict ("speed," I think). He had been OK months before when we had become friends in Seattle before I moved back to LA. I was in my 20s and very naive about such things.
He ripped off a LOT of stuff from my very decent med student roommates, thus getting me kicked out of my home pronto. Then he snuck into my room and stole every cent I had in the world. It happened while I was napping.
He stole my car. Friends, and suggestions from the police, helped me find him and my car. It took all day. I missed work on a job I'd just started, got fired.
It took two cops to get him out of my car. Eventually he got out and walked away but when the cops left, he reappeared on the sidewalk near my car shouting threats and obscenities. I was terrified but managed to drive away as he screamed the C word at me over and over. I was a sweet young hippie, so I did not press charges. (I now believe I should have).
Recently, I wound up living in one rented room on a small pension. A friend of mine who lives in Seattle tells me this guy is still living there. And prospering.
After some thought, I decided to get on the Internet and locate a few of the people who have ripped me off over the years and ask them to send me the money they owe. As I see it, it's just a postage stamp with a short letter asking for the money. Sometimes people clean up their act as they get older. Maybe I'll even get some money returned to me.
Back in the day, he visited me in a house I shared with friends in LA. He arrived from Seattle unannounced and uninvited.
I did not know he was a drug addict ("speed," I think). He had been OK months before when we had become friends in Seattle before I moved back to LA. I was in my 20s and very naive about such things.
He ripped off a LOT of stuff from my very decent med student roommates, thus getting me kicked out of my home pronto. Then he snuck into my room and stole every cent I had in the world. It happened while I was napping.
He stole my car. Friends, and suggestions from the police, helped me find him and my car. It took all day. I missed work on a job I'd just started, got fired.
It took two cops to get him out of my car. Eventually he got out and walked away but when the cops left, he reappeared on the sidewalk near my car shouting threats and obscenities. I was terrified but managed to drive away as he screamed the C word at me over and over. I was a sweet young hippie, so I did not press charges. (I now believe I should have).
Recently, I wound up living in one rented room on a small pension. A friend of mine who lives in Seattle tells me this guy is still living there. And prospering.
After some thought, I decided to get on the Internet and locate a few of the people who have ripped me off over the years and ask them to send me the money they owe. As I see it, it's just a postage stamp with a short letter asking for the money. Sometimes people clean up their act as they get older. Maybe I'll even get some money returned to me.
70-79, F
