No, I Think We Can Make It

[mousapelli]

Many of you who are not new to mousie's life know that i have a loser friend from high school who lives in a trailer with her three kids, and whose phone calls I do not answer particularly often.

And here is why.

Today, she called to tell me that her soon-to-be-ex-husband called in the restraining order he has against her for harrassing him on the phone, and that she's at the police station with her mother, and to ask if i can pick her kids up from daycare if she's there too late to do so.

About ten minutes after that, she calls back and asks if I can run some cigarettes down. I say, yeah, whatever, why not, and off I go.

When i get there, she's actually got to processing finally, so I sit with her mother while she's in the back, because i've known her mother my entire life and honestly I feel pretty bad for her given how her spawn has turned out. Eventually an officer comes out and says they're taking her to the judge, and we can follow him, so we do, and I sit with her mom some more, and then finally we all get out at about 4:30.

So then she asks if I'll come with her to get the kids, in case the father shows up i guess, so I go along. It's on the other side of the river from me though, so it's kind of a drive. She has no gas, but she frequently drives on fumes, and whatever thing.

We make it the whole way there, and almost the whole way back, but then on the highway about five minutes from home, having gone about 30 miles on fumes, the car finally gives in, and we coast over to the shoulder amidst honking and swearing and everything.

And then we sit there for a half-hour until AAA sends somebody to give her like a gallon of gas so that she can go to a gas station (which she doesn't because she's broke which is sort of the point, so she drives to her parents' house to get some money from them, which is where my car is anyway).

and so now I am making dinner finally at 9 pm. whee.

Comments

[peroxidepest17.livejournal.com]

You're a good person. o.o

Here watch this, it's cute:

http://yamapi85.livejournal.com/37846.html

NewS+Puppies and Tego smacking! <3

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Oh god, well, call it your good deed for the month. But it must be good to have a friend like you.

[florahart]

Good grief.

Good of you to go anyway, though. Maybe eventually she'll get her act together.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

thanks. Ooooh, tego abuse!!

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

I'm calling it something, all right. Thanks.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

at this point, having known her literally since I was born, I'm kind of doubting it. Mostly I feel bad for the kids, but they're all little survivors. They'd have to be, I suppose.

thanks.

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

D: D: D:

My comment from this morning stands.

[snowym.livejournal.com]

Sugoi... you're a better person than I o.O;. I don't know if I would've done all that. I have a friend who sounds almost exactly like your friend, but she disappeared for the most part from my life after she had her first couple kids.

Glad you finally got home, though. You definitely earned some good karma there.

[snowqueenofhoth.livejournal.com]

OUCH.

[rooneytunes.livejournal.com]

That explains the random phone calls from her the other day, one after another. I was in class but yea. It all makes sense now. Mouse, you have more patience with her than I do.

[prillalar]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that some people really, really suck. I think you racked up lots of points for that day.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i hope so D:

I'm glad you're back! Marks and I were starting to get a little worried, actually. How are you?

[prillalar]

I'm glad to be back! I'm doing really well -- I just needed some analog time and it really, really helped me. Now I'm feeling great, much better than most of last year, and I learned to swing dance and to knit. (Not *well* but some.)

Now I'm trying to remember how to write fanfic again. The only part I'm finding easy is the procrastination.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

yay, that's good news! and knitting is awesome! I have a great sock pattern if you want it, where turning the heel is really easily explained. I got it from my mentor teacher in Vermont when i learned to knit again.

Haha, i'm real good at that part too. Fail!

[shabzilla.livejournal.com]

yeah you earned those jesus points-- I am a horrible person on the inside and refuse to do nice things for people I don't like/know/looks at me funny/asks me...

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Wow. Damn, that's a lot to go through in one day.