The Crazy People Across the Street & Crazy Ex's...

I came in tonight wondering if I was going to:

A: Write an entry tonight
B: If I was going to write about something, what would I write about…

So its not that I didn’t want to write anything, I just did not have anything interesting to write about. I am feeling better today, my cold is subsiding as is my cough. But like that is really big news or even interesting to read about. I still loathe my job, and have not been offered a job. So I have not stumbled onto anything interesting yet!

I come in to work tonight, get settled in and thankfully it is a wonderfully blissful, slow and boring evening. I pray for these nights. After all is calm, and tasks have been assigned, and I have done all those things I am supposed to do, I check out a blog I read most everyday. And holy shit, this guy has done all the work for me. He has given me a clear cut topic to talk about. Crazy fucking spouses and Ex’s.

I think this is an issue of epidemic proportions in our country and we need to do something about it! This guy I am talking about has an ex that is a total bitch. His ex just fucked up royally, and instead of dealing with her shit, she wants to not only make her ex miserable but drag their child through the pile of shit she has created.

Well, as dramatic and interesting (I mean interesting like a freaking train wreck) his crazy ex is, I am personally witnessing a meltdown of two people that were driven into chaos by two conniving crazy ex’s. Mimi and I had become pretty unhappy since November because of my job and the financial strain we find ourselves in, but when the worlds of our neighbors not just collided but drove itself like a train from hell right into our world as if it were some blob of shit that could no longer fit in their house, but had to find another place to inhabit too, we realized how thankful we were for what we have and each other!

So we have these neighbors across the street, I will call then E (husband) and T (wife). Each of them have their own stories which are pretty insane, but the two of them together could make an effing Lifetime Channel movie. So E is this mild mannered guy. He works from the house, and has an immaculate house and lawn. He is set too, his house is paid, he has almost no debt, a steady job and career, and is in his Mid 30s. A generally nice guy, pretty much what any mid 30’s woman would be looking for in a man. T (this is based on only knowing her a short time before things began disintegrating) is an attractive woman (I say this from a general perspective, she is not my type though), she seemed nice, a little chatty, but generally a pretty cool woman. She had three kids, her oldest a girl and two younger boys, one my son’s age. We didn’t know too much about her to begin with, but she was likable.

So I am at work one day, and I get this call from Mimi on my cell phone. I was on a conference call, but since it was Mimi calling my mobile I knew it was something at least fairly urgent. I answer, and she begins to tell me how the police were across the street and continues to give me a blow by blow description as the door gets broken in, and cops go in, and then all sort of stuff starts getting taken out of the house to include his computer. At first we thought E might be laying dead in the house until all the stuff started being confiscated.

As we spoke, we realize we have not seen E for several days. Towards the end of the week we learn he had been in jail the whole week, and was arrested at work two days after getting married to T. The end story was that his crazy ex called the police and told them he had been molesting their daughter. E’s ex live in the next state over and is an alcoholic and a drug addict. She got custody of their daughter by taking her to the state they live in, filing divorce from her mother’s domicile and entering rehab, thus allowing her to get custody.

Meanwhile, as all this is happening, T’s ex starts filing for all kinds of crazy shit among filing for custody of the kids. All of these kids have been with her since the divorce, and her ex is a deadbeat with a minimum wage job living at home with his parents. In the court’s infinite wisdom, they split custody so T gets her daughter and youngest child, who by the way is the spawn of Satan himself, I am convinced. Her ex got the middle child. So then there is a question of child support. Not sure how this shook out except that child support ended up being a wash, which I still think is bullshit.

So now E and T are married, and the world suddenly comes down on them. E gets out of jail, and is restricted from being around ANY children ANY time without another adult present. As things turn out, Mimi and I find out that the two ex’s somehow found out about one another, didn’t like the idea of E and T getting hitched and so they conspired to put a double whammy on the newly wed couple.

I have to tell you, there is a lot of shit that has gone on with these two and the story is like a freakin book. Should I get requests I will revisit the subject and tell more about their soap operatic life. However, to bring you up to the present, T got pregnant, and the child is about my daughter’s age, they are now in debt up to their asses in legal fees defending themselves, E’s mom has been thrown in jail because of T’s ex so the in-laws hate the other spouse, and now these two are crumbling. All the while the threat of real jail time is looming over E because of his ex’s fucking ex’s charge of molestation.

Like I said before, I could write forever about these two. Mimi might even write some about them at some point. The reason I mention them is to tell anyone with crazy ex’s that things could be worse. These two got married hoping to make a better life, and yet, their crazy ex’s have been determined to make E & T’s marriage a living hell. So much that they are on the verge of a divorce.

All I know is there is a bunch of lawyers making a bunch of money by sucking the life out of all these people who want to make each other miserable. So if you ever consider whether a lawyer really gives a shit about you or your situation, the answer is; only till the money runs out, and their interest was only the money and winning in the first place. You are just another mark for them. It is a shame we have to debase ourselves, and are forced to use lawyers to dissolve a marriage that was put in an irreparable way because one or the other of the couple ultimately decided to say fuck this marriage. Because in the end that is what they said, fuck this marriage.

My disclaimer… If you are a lawyer and are reading this, until I am proven incorrect, I know only one lawyer (he is one of my best buds) that is worth a shit. The rest are blood sucking leeches on our society.

A joke I heard last night:

Why does New Jersey have all the chemical manufacturing industry and pollution and New York have all the lawyers?

A. New Jersey had the choice.