azurelunatic | Reasons why you shouldn't get me mad:

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person: marxdarx

Reasons why you shouldn't get me mad:

I will get even.
I have a very good memory for basic trivia like your online handle and your mom's name.
You don't practice very good information hygiene, and when you were desperate and when you were trying to start a business, you put all your contact information out on the web where it can be Googled. Like, in public.
You were a rat bastard to My Virtual Nephew.
Congratulations, yet another set of bill collectors know where to look to start finding your valid information.

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Heh. You and I have a bit in common there. Even before the days of tracking-people-online, I used to pass down Collections Karma in the direction of Bad Ex-Roommates.

My favorite example... heh.

Sleeping with my still-resident-ex-boyfriend... Perfectly fine - a favor, in fact, since it got him out of my hair a bit.
Lying to me about it... Just a pointless exercise in annoying me, because I am much smarter than you and find out everything, anyways.
Having the neighbors inform me, when I come home briefly from where I have been hiding out (see part about ex-boyfriend still living there - I had Moved On), that you had attempted to dye your hair the colour of mine and were wearing my very distinctive clothes... Creepy, and not likely to help my compassion/patience with you.
Calling the phone company and pretending to be me to remove the long-distance block I had put on the phone, and then helping said ex-boyfriend run up almost a grand in long distance charges... Guaranteed to put you on the top of my Shit-List.

And because I am, above all things, *fair*... I gave ample warning before she moved out that I had Had Enough and that she should Watch Her Back. For example... allowing my soul-brother, who she had also screwed over and lied to, to dial into my voice mail and change my Favorite Standard Message ("Hi. You have reached [house number]. I am afraid we are not currently occupying this plane of reality. Leave your name, number, and a brief justification of your existence after the tone. Make it good, and I just might call you back.") with a new message that spotlights your shortcomings ("Hi. You have reached [house number]. If you are calling for [me] or [ex boyfriend], leave a message after the tone. If you are calling for [long diatribe describing roommate and her habits in highly unflattering terms], please hang up now and seek therapy."), and then changing the access codes so no one besides me could change it.

I would have thought that was enough of a warning. Apparently not.
Because... really... leaving (owing me money and having pissed me off, personally) with the cable still in your name and the TV and Radio cable boxes still in my house..? not smart.
Especially when I tell the roommates that replaced you and the ex boyfriend that one of the *requirements* for living there was to call in as many pay-per-view movies (including the expensive Playboy and Other Adult Movie options) as they could each night, even if they were going out and wouldn't be there to watch them.
*and* when I have access to all of the people you use for rides and free meals and whatever... because I am *damn* good at calling an operator and getting *all* of the contact info I need from them, even when I only have a little to go on.

Because... yeah... at some point, people will call my house and ask for the money for the cable bill (and it took them almost four months to shut it off, so that bill is *up there*), along with the equipment ("Oh, I'm sorry... she took it with her. Oh? It costs how much if it isn't returned? Well, I hope she still has it."), and I *will* tell them where to find you. I will provide them with your address and phone number. I will tell them where you work. I will give them enough information to make it impossible for you to avoid them all together ever again, without a witness-protection style identity change.

And when you finally figure out what happened and complain to someone who knows me?
They will smile in your face and say "I *dare* you to call her and complain about it."

It was the teddy bear thing that tipped it irrevokably. You just don't offer to cut off the head of a boy's teddy bear.

The fact that I evidently know how to talk to bill collectors about Not Living Here Anymore situations gives me points with them as well. I know a few, so I know how very rat-bastard *they* can be if provoked the wrong way.

Yes, yes. Bill collectors love angry former roommates, and angry former landladies.
I had one landlady, just out of the hospital from the aforementioned dead-beat call me. She had some choice info...

Oh, I bet.

She'd gone to evict him for non-payment. He put her in traction.
She gave us all sort of information, including contact information for his public-figure father, who'm he'd gone off to visit to lie low for a bit. He'd make a point of telling his father (recently moved to a state which doesn't extradite) that things hadn't been working out and he needed to crash on his couch, etc. etc.

And by the way, should this ex-roommate of yours happen to have other bills, I should mention that I'm a bill collector at a third party agency. Meaning I collect for a lot of companies, and never mind good tips.

Go get 'em. I'm all for people getting the shit they deserve.

His general habits have made it certain that I won't be giving him any form of shelter, and trying to make it easy for anyone who wants to find him to find him.

hcolleen was looking at me wide-eyed and very impressed about my general ruthlessness or something; she told me to remind her to not get on my bad side.

You sound about as vindictive as me. Most times people don't like to admit this sort of thing... but yes. I am a very vindictive individual on occasion, and am glad to see I am not the only one.

You cause harm to come to me and mine, and I will see what I can do to take you down. It's another thing if they have it coming, but my virtual nephew was not of an age nor of an evil to have that coming. His mom is a sweetheart but she has enough karmic backlog that I'm not going to get involved in the middle of that. But the LF was a non-combatant.

No, there's no reason to drag innocent kids into strife and trouble for no fucking reason. Kids have it tough enough.

*not to say that there would be reason regardless, but you know what I mean.

LF had undiagnosed ADHD. I was doing very well with him because I know how to handle ADHD without even realizing that I'm doing so. It's second nature. I had it burned into me from June 1995 when I met

pyrogenic until August 1999 when I handed That Idiot Shawn over to his bride. I tutored an ADHD first-grader and got him recognizing his letters and reading. I knew how to tell 'not listening on purpose' from 'spacing out', and I knew how to get the little fellow to respond when his name was called, within a few seconds, each time. Practice and reward. He was just spacing out and not responding when his name was called, and I talked with him and he wanted to respond when his name was called but he didn't know how to go about doing it. So I said, well, we could practice, just like we did for anything else he found hard. So I called his name, and he responded with "What?" and I would yay and clap and he would get an ego boost. And any time I saw he wasn't responding, we'd practice some more.

It takes hard drill to get social skills if they don't come naturally. gods do I know that.

It takes hard drill to get social skills if they don't come naturally.

Yeah it does, but that hard work pays off. Whereas if no one ever bothers, things will get hairy very quickly.

...his would-be stepdad, on the other hand? was trying to first be his bestest buddy and not give consequences when consequences were due, and then started trying to punish the ADHD out of him. It wasn't diagnosed then, but I could still tell the difference between situations where a negative reminder was needed and the things that needed practice.

..his would-be stepdad, on the other hand? was trying to first be his bestest buddy

Never works. Ever. Easier on the outside, but it will return to bite you and society in the ass later.

and then started trying to punish the ADHD out of him./i>

That makes me livid. That's something else that never works.

s/on the outside/on the outset.

Do remember me when calling people about his bills, love. I collect on everything from computers, furniture, and bank loans to vacation home rentals.

I think pretty much all he's got are school loans. I get a fresh batch of bill collection calls about every 6 months.

Drat. We don't have those.
But if he has those, they're probably not his only debt. The others just won't have as major of an interest in finding him. But they'll be there, if the student loans are.
If people are avoiding paying student loans, something they can be garnished for, they certainly will avoid things they're less apt to be garnished for.

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