Brian told me tonight that one of the reasons he doesn’t talk to our neighbor across the street is because something this man said to a mutual acquaintance of a family member got back to him.
This guy cleans carpets and when he found out that the customer (mutual acquaintance) knew someone in the family, proceeds to tell the customer some dirt on the family. Well, us to be exact. We’re losing our home because we can’t make the payments, don’tcha know. After all, Brian moved out of the shop he’d been leasing for so many years. Yeah, this guy’s never had a shop, he works from home with his work van parked at his house, WTF would he know about useless overhead? And what business is it of his anyway? What bothers Brian most is that our finances are even the topic of conversation, from someone he doesn’t know and someone who obviously has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.
Well, I think this guy is in the wrong business. He’s some sort of magician who’s pulling more than crap out of his ass.
The joke is on you, Chuck. We’re really in no danger of losing this house, never have been. What’s that old quotation? “Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” You spoke, no doubt.
This is the kind of thing that happens when people gossip. Everybody is affected in some way.
Right now I’m not having very fuzzy feelings toward ANY of the people involved in this. After all, what did it accomplish, besides to piss people off?
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