I am shocked

When I first came here, I had been talking to a guy from Yemen via IM. He wanted me to bring him a used laptop since there aren’t any reasonably priced ones here. It wasn’t much money, something like $400, and I figured that if he didn’t have the money I could always sell it myself. So I brought it over for him. Not surprisingly, he didn’t have all the money, he had $250. He had done some things for me so I figured that I’d just give it to him and just kissed that money goodbye despite the fact that he “swore” that he’d repay me. The next month he came around asking to “borrow” more money. That got me really hot, I told him that he should ask for money from people that he didn’t already owe money to. I then told him that I didn’t want to see him again until he had my money. I still figured that the money was gone, but at least now I also figured that I wouldn’t see him again, lesson learned.

Well, last night he calls me up and tells me that he has my money! He came by and gave it to me. I am still blown away that he paid me back. Good on you Sufian, I know that’s a significant chunk of change for people here (about 37% of the “average” annual income over here) and I’m very happy that he was able to sort out whatever he had to. He’s still a bad credit risk in my book, but at least he’s an honest guy.