So I'm in a tough situation with a good friend. We've been friends since high school and were just college roommates last year (06-07). Last summer I hit a monte carlo at the local casino playing poker and lended him 300 bucks to play some blackjack on the condition the he paid me back within a month. Of course he didn't pay me within that month, and he still owes me the money today even though he continually tells me he will pay me off with his next paycheck. But there's a lot more to the story.
When we were roommates he desperately needed money for various shit and decided to slang weed. While he was making good profit, he started smoking oxycontin. I tried it a couple times on the weekends but didn't like it much, but he kept buying beans and what looked like just a recreational drug use started to turn into a possible problem. He ended up dropping out of school at the end of the year with a cumulative 1.3 gpa and is bouncing around with jobs. He still owes me the 300.
So I'm back home from school now and talked with him a couple weeks ago for the first time in awhile. He wanted to know if I was interested in buying behind the plate 8 rows up Mariners tickets off a co worker that couldn't go to a game against Boston. It was 50 bucks a ticket. He needed the money right away apparently to buy the tickets off the guy before he left town. Well the day of the game I call to see when we are going and he claims he got called into work, so he was working on finding a buyer so we could make money off the tickets because they were worth 150 bucks a ticket. He said he put the tickets up on craigslist and had an email from a possible buyer. Thinking I didn't know his email password which he told me last year, I went on to his email to find there was nothing. It hit me straight in the face that he needed money for more OC and scammed me tough. There never were any tickets in the first place. Once he found out that I went on his email he stopped picking up my phone calls and not answering text messages.
So what do I do? He has a serious drug problem and is noticably skinnier. He also owes me 300 bucks. Do I approach his mom about it? Because that might be the only way I see my money at this point and get him some help, but at the same time he would go nuts and do God knows what if his mom found out about all this shit.
Any advice?
When we were roommates he desperately needed money for various shit and decided to slang weed. While he was making good profit, he started smoking oxycontin. I tried it a couple times on the weekends but didn't like it much, but he kept buying beans and what looked like just a recreational drug use started to turn into a possible problem. He ended up dropping out of school at the end of the year with a cumulative 1.3 gpa and is bouncing around with jobs. He still owes me the 300.
So I'm back home from school now and talked with him a couple weeks ago for the first time in awhile. He wanted to know if I was interested in buying behind the plate 8 rows up Mariners tickets off a co worker that couldn't go to a game against Boston. It was 50 bucks a ticket. He needed the money right away apparently to buy the tickets off the guy before he left town. Well the day of the game I call to see when we are going and he claims he got called into work, so he was working on finding a buyer so we could make money off the tickets because they were worth 150 bucks a ticket. He said he put the tickets up on craigslist and had an email from a possible buyer. Thinking I didn't know his email password which he told me last year, I went on to his email to find there was nothing. It hit me straight in the face that he needed money for more OC and scammed me tough. There never were any tickets in the first place. Once he found out that I went on his email he stopped picking up my phone calls and not answering text messages.
So what do I do? He has a serious drug problem and is noticably skinnier. He also owes me 300 bucks. Do I approach his mom about it? Because that might be the only way I see my money at this point and get him some help, but at the same time he would go nuts and do God knows what if his mom found out about all this shit.
Any advice?
