I've Been Fleeced!!!!!!

WARNING: This blog may contain bad words. Read on at your peril.

I asume most people reading this are believers and are familiar with Gideon's fleece that he set on the ground. This blog has NOTHING to do with that.

I just got back from a meeting with our former landlords. Two years ago when we signed the contract, we paid a month's deposit. Nothing out of the ordinary. Except that this is the landlord from %#@! For safety's sake (the landlord's safety) I took our pastor to this meeting. They presented me with a list of everything taht we had done to "trash" their place. REEEEEdiculous. Sure the rugs were dirty, it costs about $20-25 to clean. Sure the curtains were dirty, especially after they tolds us NOT to wash them! Sure there were otehr small things. The real kicker was charging us for 47 visitors who spent the night with us during our stay these past two years.

As the list was being translated for me by the pastor, I am unsure who was most angry; me, my pastor or the landlord. Mirco was disgusted by the treatment I was receiving from a Macedonian. Afterwards he apologized profusely. It was not his fault.

The Readers Digest version of this whole affair is that we are not going to see one cent of that month's deposit. I have been fleeced.

I am very angry. I admit that. As I was getting into the car, I shouted (in English so no one understood) that these people were crooks. As Mirco backed the car up and turned around the neighbor across the street came out and Mirco talked to him for a minute. Mirco said to the neighbor how sad he was for him (the neighbor) having to live next door to such a man (as my landlord). The man simply said, it's been like this for years.

I know this landlord is not a believer. I know that he needs Christ. I know that in God's economy one month's rent is nothing. But I also know that this money came from honest, sacrificial, frugal Alliance people. I had hoped to get most of that money returned.

Oh well. Thanks for letting me rant a bit. I wish I could say I feel better. :-(

Till next time.

Trent