I loaned $250 to a friend until they got their tax return. They sent me a check and I didn’t cash it right away because I forgot about it. About three weeks later I sent a message asking if it was ok to cash. They said it would bounce if I cashed it. Ok, I’m thinking when I write a check that money is no longer accessible. We play the can I cash it song and dance for several pay periods with no solid plan in place to pay me back.
I didn’t want to deal with a bounced check fee at my bank so I went to the friends bank and cashed the check. Two hours later I get a nasty text telling me what a piece of crap I am because they were going to get their kids drivers license that day. Nope not my fault.
We stopped this practice years ago when my sisters better (worse) half talked us out of a sizable amount to fund a job he was doing with the promise to pay us back when he got payed.
Come the time he was nowhere to be found. Hubby (you all know him) tracked him down and was told he could not pay us. He noticed a new set of custom wheels on his truck and a new stereo.
Needles to say things turned very ugly very fast. We eventually got our money and he tried to make us pay for the stitches in his mouth. It got ugly again.
No more.