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I got a call last week from a "friend" I hadn't heard from in a year.

I use the term "friend" loosely here.

He bounced a check he wrote as a wedding gift.

He nearly got me fired from a college summer job the one time I helped him get a job with me.

He has borrowed around $2000 from me over the last 15 years, never paid back a dime. I stopped loaning money to him 8 years ago.

About six months ago I got a collection notice at my address for his defaulted student loan. (I'm sure he figures he doesn't have to pay it back since he never got a degree.)

He has outstanding warrants in Texas (and I suspect Florida now too).

He has flirted with alcohol, pot, cocaine, opium, and heroin that I know of.

He decided to call at 2:30 a.m. on a Tuesday morning to announce he was back in the Chicago area. Fortunately my phone was downstairs and I didn't hear the call. I have no intention to call him back...ever. Thank God my address is not in the phone book (I wouldn't be surprised to see him turn up at my front door.)

My point? Some people cannot be saved. This guy looks at all acquaintances as people to beg, borrow, or steal money from. If you are anything less than a complete @$$hole to him, he assumes it is okay to come back for favors again and again. Some people you just have to cut off and let rot. Fortunately, some people can be saved too--I just haven't met any yet.