Marsha's Log: Dishonest People

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Some weeks ago my daughter asked if her friend could stay in our basement room. He lost his job then lost his apartment. We said that would be fine, and in return for a place to stay he was to do yard work and things around the house. That was all going well....he was keeping the lawn mowed and keeping the trash and recycle items taken out and other things such as that. Then one day my daughter discovered that $80 was missing out of her pouch where she was saving to eventually get enough to get a place of her own. That day this friend had gone to eat at Pizza Ranch, and on the way home he had stopped at Game Stop and bought a video game. He quickly convinced us that it wasn't him that had taken it and offered to cell his tattoo equipment to get her $80 back. Then later she came up missing $20. I didn't know about that until today. Yesterday I found a nickel in the trunk of my car. I have (or had) a cardboard piggy bank from church. We are to save change in it until close to the end of the year and the money goes to "Global Barnyard" to buy goats, pigs, chicks and such for other countries. Anyway, my piggy is gone. Then Jasmine tells me that all the silver change is also gone out of her change bank in her room. This morning something, or someone, told me to check Jasmine's state quarter folder. Sure enough, it's empty of it's $13 worth of state quarters. He is the only one that could have taken them as he's the only one that even knew it was there. Last week or so I was commenting about not knowing what was in this drawer down by my desk. I opened it and seen her quarters. I took the folder out to show him. I told him how I saved state quarters all year long back then to make folders for all 4 of my kids. And, at Christmas time how I had to go to the coin shop and pay 50 or 75 cents and some $1 to buy the missing quarters so that they got full folders. Do you think I am right to accuse him now of all the missing money?? Jasmine sent him a message telling him that he needs to get out of our house today and how you don't take advantage of people who are helping you out. We've given him a place to live, food to eat, and I always roll him cigarettes when he is out. It's not like he's not had money of his own as he's been doing lots of work for my sister-in-law and she pays him more than fairly for the work---just yesterday he got $50 for mowing! It's not been a good day here. He is off with my sister-in-law now doing more work and I'm not looking forward to when he will be back....unless he really does come to get his totes and go somewhere else.