One of my friends called me frantically saying they needed £60 as a matter of life and death. They gave me some crappy excuse about why they needed it but im sure its for drugs so I refused to help (again always £60 and I never got the last £60 back).

 

What do you think it is at £60 a pop?

 

I had something similar happen to me before from an old school friend and he was a Heroin addict. No matter how often he said he was clean I knew that whenever he wanted money it was for his dealers. It was very destressing and I know that you dont dont help people when they are in this situation and you give them money.

Sounds like coke.

 

Feels bad saying no mate but its the only way.

you did the right thing by saying no !

Thanks, I know he used to have a thing for coke so has probably found it again.

saying yes just lines the dealers pockets and puts the guilt factor on you

if it all goes wrong for him like od.

 

they always find another source to get it anyways.

coke, if bashed he might get 1.5g for 60

My old school friend who ended up being a Junkie was really destressing. He just kept on taking more and more stuff since the end of the rave days in the 90s. One day he rang me up crying on the phone saying he was in a lot of trouble and that someone was going to kill him. He came clean and said that he was a Heroin addict and that he owed some bad people £600 for Heroin and Coke. He pittifully begged me for the money and I said I could not help as it was drug money. Cut a long story short I met up with his parents and we decided to pay his dealers off fearing for his safety. All this did was give him extended lines of credit, and when that ran out he started running shoplifters around for a fix.

 

He ended up burgling my house as well as other old friends of his, I felt like crying when I met him and he was some 6ft 6 Stone yellow gaunt smelly unshaven tramp. This bloke at school had really been a good looking guy interested in clothes with a sense of pride.

 

He has been through rehab 4-5 times but never manages to stay clean for long, I went to see him in Hospital as he had blood clots from injecting everywhere. Its a bad road to go down... its a matter of time before he kills himself.

Can you give me £60 then? :lol:

maybe its for a hooker:shuriken:

Certainly sounds like coke, and expensive at that I would say.

I respect that you would still visit these people and care for them as regards to they broke into your house. I know I couldn't be friends with someone who done that and I would struggle to hold the anger in.

Yea, going off past experience i'd say coke too

Dont lend friends money, simple. You dont generally get it back and it effects the friendship over a few quid. I had a guy, suposed to be a friend, ripped me off for thousands along with others. He did a runner in the end, police had no hard evidence to prosecute, no paper trail. Found he had been in prison for the same thing in the past conning people out of money. He had a gambling addiction and liked a drink.

After having tens of thousands of hard conned money, you would think he had a good lifestyle. His council house was full of old seconhand tat from the tip and never had food in the fridge, what a loser.

Anyway its not worth the hassle and im glad you didnt lend it.

 

Graham