I just need to vent today. My husband has a few very needy friends and he's always rescuing them from bad situations. These people are adults (in their 30s and 40s) but it's like they're children with the amount of rescuing they seem to need.
Here's the current situation - my hubby recently bought a newer, nicer vehicle for a very good price. His old vehicle was fairly junky but still ran okay, it was still a working vehicle but older with high mileage and some issues. He has a friend who needed a car, so the friend had bought a really crappy car for $600 but that car died the very next day and friend can't afford to fix it. So, my hubby gave his junky car to his friend (technically he sold it to him for $1, I remember watching an episode of a TV show and it said that legally you have to sell a car for something or you can get into some sort of legal issues, but essentially hubby gave his friend the car). We made sure that friend was informed of junky vehicle's issues and quirks.
Well, it's 2 whole weeks later and friend and friend's wife decided to take junky vehicle on a multi-state road trip. Not the wisest decision since we did tell him that junky vehicle has some issues. He did it anyway. They got into a multi-car accident like 3 states away. I'm not sure of the details of what happened there, but apparently they got the car towed and got it running. They made it 2 states closer to home and then junky car apparently properly died.
So, hubby's driving 3+ hours to go rescue them. This is after he rescued them by giving them a car that they wrecked 2 weeks later. To sum up - he gave them a car, they almost immediately wrecked and killed the car, and now he's going to rescue them and bring them home. Seriously. These friends just seem like they're taking such advantage of my husband! They're nice people, but they're leeches. I'm seriously mad. I know they didn't intentionally wreck the car, but come on. Nobody's luck is that bad. They've been through 2 cars in as many weeks. Nobody does that! Especially not when you're handed a free car! Ugh, that just makes me mad.
I think my hubby is upset too but he's not showing it. Junky car was a car that he loved (at one time it was a really nice car) and he had a hard time getting rid of it. He trusted his friend to take care of it. That it's wrecked and dead only 2 weeks after he said goodbye to that car, I know hubby has got to be upset about that. It's just so not cool. I don't even want to talk to these so-called friends anymore. I just want to yell, "We gave you a car and you F'ed it all up! What is wrong with you??" Who even takes a car like that out of state? You're just asking for trouble. I think these friends are trouble and we're asking for trouble by remaining friends with them.
Adding to this situation, though, is that hubby works with friend. In fact, friend was the guy who hired hubby. Hubby has a job because of friend, and that's not nothing. So it's not like he can stop being friends with the guy, because he sees him every day at work. So, ugh. It's a really frustrating situation. I'm just so disappointed in the whole situation.