Things i don't understand

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There are a few things in life i don't understand. The one thing that escapes my comprehension and totally irritates the shit out of me is when somebody has a problem and when asked about it blames something totally unrelated to the issue as the cause. Case in point, This morning my dad called and asked me to go to one of his rent houses and try to get some rent money out of the idiot he rented it too. Apparently the guy won't answer the phone when my dad calls and since my dad is in the mountains of idaho for the summer it makes it just a little bit difficult for him to handle it himself. I didn't mind doing it i was on my way in that general direction anyway.

First some background on the idiot who rents the house, Single male late 40's early 50's. recovering, not so well in my opinion, alcoholic. My dad met him through some sort of work/recovery halfway house program that has a day work program. he worked for my dad for a few months and proved himself to be a capable and competent contractor/handyman. My dad decided he wanted him as a full time employee and let him live in a rent house free as long as he made much needed repairs and renovations. he did that and did it well. after the house was renovated my dad set him up in another house that needed minor work so he was allowed to stay there for half rent for 3 months until the work was done. After those three months is when things started to get interesting.

Almost immediately after full rent was going to be due he mysteriously gets hurt and is unable to work. shortly after that my parents get a letter from a lawyer saying they need to settle this lawsuit because he hurt himself working for them. Clever how that works huh? My parents called their lawyer and that matter was quickly gone. For some reason that i will never understand they decided to let him stay in the house instead of booting him right then.

So today i head over there to try to get some money from him for last months rent. He walks out casually and asks me what is going on, It doesn't take a genius to figure out why i am there, If i owe somebody money and they show up at my house it usually is not to discuss politics. so i tell him that i need to get the rent money that he owes. he starts him hawing around injuries and no money. how down and out he is and then he says the one thing that sends me over the edge every time. "It's not my fault and besides i am only fifteen day's late. If the government would approve my Social security i wouldn't be in this mess" I was thinking "Right, its not your fault that you won't take a job you can do it's the government fault for taking so long to approve you lazy ass for free money" What came out of my mouth was "I don't know about all that, what i do know is your 2 weeks late on the rent and it's due. He then went on to explain to me that he wouldn't be able to pay anything until the first, i guess it escaped him that on the first he was going to owe 2 moths rent. It's not his fault though because pretty soon he was going to get that welfare that he so desperately needs so he can sit in house and do nothing.

I told him to call my Dad, i was just there to collect money not solve his problems. I just talked to Dad a few minutes ago and he never did call but he did finally answer the phone and apparently my dad blew a gasket as soon as he heard can't pay you till the first.