Thursday - night

Well, yesterday was crazy.  I start getting calls from a tenant about her ex boyfriend who is threatening to extort her to her parole officer if she doesn't give him another round of sexual favors.  Allegedly anyway, tho it gets better.  She wanted me to call the cops and I said why would I do that? He is threatening you, not me.  This goes on, back and forth for a while until she says thanks.

So, it's Wednesday, I was still off of work and the kids were still out of school due to the weather.  The roads actually, the weather had come and gone.  I dragged them with me to Ollies, Great Clips and then Walmart.  I'm buying a new keyboard for my computer - don't ask why - well ok, I spilled water on it and about 2 hours later the whole thing blew up. Not literally of course, it just started doing crazy stuff.  I verified it was the keyboard by plugging in another one I had laying around.

This other one is not a gaming keyboard and I couldn't play my game with it.  So, we're at Walmart electronics section and this ex boyfriend just happens to be there.  I see him but I really don't want to interact with him, he's out there. His speech is weird, like permanently slurred by excessive drug use or something, he's around my age.  We're standing at the check out in the electronics section, just buy the thing there and avoid the lines up front, I didn't want to stay long. 

But, he sees me.  So he comes straight up to me and says something and I say back to him that I've been hearing things about him.  If he's going to get in my face, I'm going to ask his side of the story anyway.  It got heated.  If you guy by what she says, he's threatening her not just with the parole officer but with other things.  I said that to him, that you've been calling her and harassing her on the phone.  Well, yes I have been calling her.....

Well why are you calling her? He had no good answer to that but he got right in my face.....his face was maybe 4 inches from mine. That set me off.  This isn't really any of your business, stay out of it.  She made it my business. It's none of your business...blah blah blah but he was attempting to intimidate me which is when I said a few words to him I won't repeat here and he backed off 4 feet instantly. I got riled up with his attempt to cower me into posturing before him as if I'm some sort of subservient and lessor than him.  I had the kids with me and I didn't want them subjected to this s***, after he got back from me I told him to back off, I'm not afraid of you and you are pissing me off.  

Then I walked off with the kids, this is the middle of Walmart for crying out loud, I'm not going to get into a fistfight in the middle of the store unless  I have to defend myself. I wouldn't get into a fistfight anywhere regardless but I am also not going to be bullied.  I spent enough years as a child being bullied until I got the guts to stand up to them and never looked back.  

Then he starts calling me...he used to live in the park in his own trailer before he got rid of that and moved in with the lady he is harassing and after that conversation in the store? It was 99% verified he is harassing her.  He left messages on voicemail and started texting me and then called again. Annoyed, I answered, told him to stop calling me and that now I am trespassing him from the property.  If you step a foot onto my property, I am calling the Sheriff to send out deputies and have you arrested.  I can show them the texts.  At the very least, I thought, they would force him to leave and issue a  criminal trespassing statement against him.

He wants his stuff back, but there isn't much there and she already said she would drop it off at some relative's house of his. I got on the phone with her and told her what had happened, she was ecstatic.  I said he's been trespassed, if he shows up there, call me immediately.

That never really left me yesterday, I am not in the habit of having people start that kind of trouble with me.  Later on, the manager calls me and says he has work for me tomorrow.  Good.  He then said disregard that it says first load on there, I don't want you and that new guy to be contending for the first load.  I assumed he had accidentally put my load as first load and was correcting it.  

I don't really mind doing a late load here and there, I haven't really done a lot of them lately so it's pretty much my turn. I don't like them but what are you doing to do.   But when I got home, I looked into the tablet and saw that he had given me 2 late loads in a row, the one for today that shows early but I am allegedly to be there second load time and a flat out second load after that. I sent a text: I'm trying to understand why I'm being given 2 late loads in a row?

Not just that there are two in a row, but also that the second one is the weekend, meaning I'll be wasting most of both weekend days working instead of getting it done early and have the day to spend with family. He got back to me and told me he would switch it but we need to have a discussion. Oh yes, we do. Because it became clear that this new guy was getting his way.  He can just show up whenever he wants and the manager doesn't have the balls to stand up to him. I'm not going to sit idly by and let either one of them get away with that nonsense.    The phone call never came, but I know what he did and if he tries to deny it, I WILL call him out on it, consequences be damned. This happens almost every time a new driver comes into the system, they just show up whenever they want to and they don't care if they are trampling on another driver's time slot.

For me, that's personal time they're eliminating off of my day's schedule. 

Not much else.  The roads were almost completely cleared up, only a few spots where there was actually snow and ice - places in the shade from trees towering about the roadway.  I dunno, but I was glad to get back to work even if I don't feel like it.  The truck is currently running decent tho this morning, it was cold and that thing barely choked - and I do mean choked, that's exactly what it sounded like - to life.  I warmed it up for 20 minutes before leaving.  Well longer, there was a valve that was stuck open from the freezing cold letting air pressure out.  I had to rev the engine for 10 minutes before I got full air pressure.

I did drive with it that way because I knew shortly it would reset itself and the air leak would stop. It's just a cold weather thing and yes, the leak disappeared.  

It's almost 10 pm and I'm getting up at 6 or 6:30, I don't intend on staying up late tonight. Got into a bad habit those 5 days off staying up til midnight or 1.  I'm actually more of a night owl than anything but I don't live that kind of life because of work schedule and park stuff.  Otherwise? I would stay up late and get up late every day lol.