Slappys Sob Story. So long folks


Welp, this will be my final post on this board for quite some time.

I wanted to take a minuit to thank everybody for all the good info i got, and even to thank jerks like tire-guy for keeping it real. hahahaha

This will be my last post for some time, as i will not be able to enjoy this hobby for at least 6 months, and logging onto this board will do nothing but make me sad and miss my rig. Cause my Rig is about to be scrapped.

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The Tale of Slappy's Rig.
Chapter 9. The end of the run.

Slappy made a bad decision that has come back to haunt.

Slappy had a roommate he was living with for 6 months. This guy was surly a few screws loose, and terminally unemployed

Slappys roommate was a dude called Ryan.
Ryan had no job, but earned social security due to a tragic event earlier in his life.
Slappy and Ryan roomed up, and things were great for about 4 months, then Ryan's Social security dried up and he couldn't find employment. It wasn't from a lack of looking around, but a lack of trying to get the job.

Slappy ended up paying this bastards end of the rent 4 times, on the last month of the lease Slappy paid his half and moved out, his roommate never paid his half, and due to Slappy shelling out a massive wad for rent and security deposit on a rental house, he had no money to cover his broke-ass friend.

Eviction came at the latter part of the last month of the lease. Ryan was a total jerk to the apartment management so they hated us. They didn't see any distinction between us because they only cared about the money, however, they sure were liberal when tallying up the total owed. It's a business after all.

Time has past and now payment is due. Slappy is engaged to get married (writes as wife though because he doesent feel like spelling out fiancée, yes, he is that lazy) and is fixing to buy their first house, a nice quaint 250,000 jobber in a rather "Well to do" part of southern Denver, a place truly worthy of his future wife.

Then it happens.
Mr. Bill collector says "total amount due NOW!"
Slappy cries "I don't have that much! I can pay in payments though! 400 a month maybe?"
Mr. Bill Collector says "No! Total due NOW! You pay NOW! Or we go to court and I garnish your paycheck! You get a big black mark on your credit! You wont get that house! Mwhahahahahah!!!!
Slappy pleads "Why don't you go after that Ryan bastard? He is on the lease too!!!?
Mr. Bill Collector coldly states "You have a good paying job, Ryan hasn't had a job in over a year. You are where the money is at, we don't care about who paid what, only that YOU PAY US"

Slappy checks with his legal services through work, sure enough, its right. Mr. Bill collector is in his rights to demand full due to the nature of the debt.

Slappy realizes that he must sacrifice his precious hardware or he wont get the house.

Later that evening, while Slappy is at work, he posts his stereo up for sale. Please forgive me fellow audiogoner's I need the money FAST, posting here wont get it sold in time. Shipping is a problem too.
Slappy posts his modest rig at work for sale for 3,500.00, a cool grand over the needed amount for the bills. But a good 2,200 below what he paid for it.
If nobody buys, he bought a bunch of gear from a major retailer less than a month ago that he bought with money received from selling all his Deftech speakers. He can return the gear and have most of it, but will still need to sell gear piece by piece to get the rest.

And thus, the demise and complete dismantling of Slappys rig is under way..

Slappy knows it the apartment situation was not his fault, but it WAS his responsibility, and is willing to pay the debt.

Its ok though, come january im going to rebuild my system. It will be faster. It will be smarter. It will be cleaner. And it will be good. And there will be Electrostats.

Peace out folks! Thanks for the fun!
See ya in january
slappy

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I told myself i wasnt gonna come back untill i had some gear, but i wanted to just read through... then i couldnt help myself

Thanks for all your support, but yeah im gone. I figured there would be some people calling BS, and saying i dont have enough responsibility, yadda yadda.,...

I am by no means rich, but i make more than any of my buddys do. 250,000 gets you less than 2000sqft house in colorado. And Douglas county is the Richest county (not city, county) in the US. Look it up. A 230,000 house in Corpus Christi Tx, will run you half a million in colorado.

I dont need money for a down payment, because i am prior military and i have a DD 214 that says i am allowed to apply for a VA loan, IE, NO DOWN PAYMENT. NO CLOSING COSTS. Its already as good as done as long as i get this bill paid.

I pay all of my fiancee and my bills. and after all the work ive done to get myself out of debt, this last one is the real punch-in-da-nuts. But after paying 1100 rent, 750 for cars, 550 for insurance (colorado insurance is way expencive), all utilities, cellphones, food, and such, there is no money left to save with. My Fiancee already has a garaunteed job at a new spa opening up for just a hair under what i make(Pending her graduation in december), so even though we cant save now, after she graduates her massage school, we will damn near double our income. that makes a major difference.

for those who say im not mature enough or responsible enough to own a house, well, thats your opinion. I think if im willing to sell my entire stereo which is my favorite toy at less than half cost to overcome a bill so i can get a house for me and my soon-to-be wife, and im willing to pay all of our bills while she goes to school full time, speaks quite enough for its own.
thats just MY opinion though..

later folks, =) its been fun!!!!!. :)

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-Due to Financial difficulties, Slappy will be disconnected with an ETTR of January, 2004. Thank you.
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Sorry Kub, seems like crazyness follows me no matter what i do! =)

im already back in the game thanks to a very generous fellow Techfile! i put a new thread explaining.

hard to stay away from this place, its like "Learning Crack" i learn something every time i log on here and this place is addictive!