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I find myself back here under a pseudonym. This request bears no relation at all to any previous post by me.
In the full expectation of receiving a barrage of MTFU, grow a pair, dominate, etc etc responses, I have a question.
The missus seems to have befriended the local loony. She's vaguely known him several years but via a mutual connection he's recently decided that she's his counsellor & confidante. This manifests as him turning up at the house on a regular basis. Up until now she's wanted to "help" him so she lets him in and feeds him tea and biscuits while he rants.
This guy runs his own one-man business but he's seriously unhinged. He's also a complete stoner (by his own admission) and seemingly can't function properly without a smoke.
He's got into a dispute with someone over a job which he's decided he wasn't paid properly for (nothing to do with us) and keeps turning up and re-telling the story and restating what he's going to do about it. I've always been of the view that someone who shouts and raves about what they are going to do to someone, won't actually see it through. His current list of threats against his debtor range from killing their kids to poisoning their dogs. It's said that with one person who he perceived to have wronged him in the past, the "offender" had a bag put over his head, was driven in a van, then marched into the woods with a shovel and a shotgun, and told to dig his own grave. Once the grave was dug and the victim had (literally) shat himself, our subject walked away and left him there (alive). No idea whether that's real or a figment of his warped mind. Probably the latter if he's talking about it.
I've offered him some simple straightforward advice on how to deal with his financial issue (it really isn't a big deal and probably all stems from a misunderstanding) but if you suggest he does anything other than what he thinks right himself, he just gets a face like thunder on and refuses to do anything different.
I'm sick of the sight of this bloke and I want to tell him, and have no problem with that, to do one on a permanent basis. I don't want him anywhere near the house. However, the missus is concerned that if I do that he'll turn his possibly-violent tendencies in on us and our family, and she wants me to keep quiet until he gets bored and goes away. He knows I'm out for 12 hours a day, too, that's usually when he turns up.
Sorry to disappoint the 40 year old virgins amongst you but theres no issue with him trying to get into the missus' knickers, he bats for the other team.
So, what is the way forward here?
In the full expectation of receiving a barrage of MTFU, grow a pair, dominate, etc etc responses, I have a question.
The missus seems to have befriended the local loony. She's vaguely known him several years but via a mutual connection he's recently decided that she's his counsellor & confidante. This manifests as him turning up at the house on a regular basis. Up until now she's wanted to "help" him so she lets him in and feeds him tea and biscuits while he rants.
This guy runs his own one-man business but he's seriously unhinged. He's also a complete stoner (by his own admission) and seemingly can't function properly without a smoke.
He's got into a dispute with someone over a job which he's decided he wasn't paid properly for (nothing to do with us) and keeps turning up and re-telling the story and restating what he's going to do about it. I've always been of the view that someone who shouts and raves about what they are going to do to someone, won't actually see it through. His current list of threats against his debtor range from killing their kids to poisoning their dogs. It's said that with one person who he perceived to have wronged him in the past, the "offender" had a bag put over his head, was driven in a van, then marched into the woods with a shovel and a shotgun, and told to dig his own grave. Once the grave was dug and the victim had (literally) shat himself, our subject walked away and left him there (alive). No idea whether that's real or a figment of his warped mind. Probably the latter if he's talking about it.
I've offered him some simple straightforward advice on how to deal with his financial issue (it really isn't a big deal and probably all stems from a misunderstanding) but if you suggest he does anything other than what he thinks right himself, he just gets a face like thunder on and refuses to do anything different.
I'm sick of the sight of this bloke and I want to tell him, and have no problem with that, to do one on a permanent basis. I don't want him anywhere near the house. However, the missus is concerned that if I do that he'll turn his possibly-violent tendencies in on us and our family, and she wants me to keep quiet until he gets bored and goes away. He knows I'm out for 12 hours a day, too, that's usually when he turns up.
Sorry to disappoint the 40 year old virgins amongst you but theres no issue with him trying to get into the missus' knickers, he bats for the other team.
So, what is the way forward here?
bigandclever said:
Lookin4Clues said:
I find myself back here under a pseudonym. This request bears no relation at all to any previous post by me.
Yeah, yeah, who was the helmeted arsonist? Is it the same loon?Sheets Tabuer said:
Well, i'm not sure about todays world but in the world i grew up in the man of the house would have told him to f
k off.
Which is precisely my intention but she's worried that he's unhinged enough that it'll backfire. And I'm 30 miles away at work every day. Then again given the Rankin revelation above ( I had no knowledge of that, not that I particularly believed it anyway, seems too far fetched) then maybe all he does need is a double dose fk off pill. k off.
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