I need an emergency ride!
I hate doing this, as anyone who knows me will know, but I have come to the point that I have no choice. If anyone in Atlanta or visiting for the big con can give me a ride to the Dragoncon area, please, PLEASE contact me. I can pay for gas, for all of it if you are not too far!
I am not attending the con, I am in a huge emergency situation, and the only place I have been offered to stay the night is at a friend’s hotel room, who is thankfully in town for the con.
And here comes the part I really don’t like, but I need everyone to understand what’s up.
Me and my girlfriend have had a BAD week. I mean rough, okay? We had our work hours cut, so we were having to look for a cheaper place to rent. We thought we found a place, so we were just going to tell our current landlord. Problem is, he flipped out. He became nasty, verbally abusive, and threatened to kick us out that very minute. He threatened to charge us for every dent in the whole apartment, to take us apart, etc. I challenged this saying that I had a receipt for rent, and he relented.
Yesterday, he came into our room saying he needed it cleared out, that we had until the end of the day, and became aggressive and verbally abusive to us again. He told us to go find a place to store our things, and that he was renting out our room to someone that night.
So we packed up and drove off to find a storage place. We finally found one, booked it, despite not having the funds to really do so, and left.
On the way home, we were in a major car accident.
We both sustained minor injuries, from being in the red car, but the car was totaled. Because it is a long weekend, and because it is a hit-and-run case, investigation will not even begin until Tuesday.
Loss of the car means loss of both our jobs, not to mention hospital bills aren’t cheap. I can’t use my right hand for long periods of time, so that knocks out not only both of my main sources of at-home income, it also means that I can no longer cook very well. For someone on food stamps, this is pretty bad juju.
We have arranged a new place to stay, and we will be moving there on September 2nd or 3rd. We have just enough to get by, but moving expenses, etc are all adding up very quickly, as it is in another state. (We will probably end up needing some kind of financial aid, too, so if you can’t offer a ride, and can throw a few bucks my way, or just a dollar, even, I would be forever grateful, but that’s neither here nor there.)
The important thing is that, while we have something lined up from tomorrow night on, we have nothing today until we have transportation. Our landlord, upon hearing about our accident on the TV, gave us an extension, but he wants us out by 8AM tomorrow, and our things can stay. He gave us $40 for the storage, so we can help with gas!
I do know he can not legally kick us out. I just have an extremely low level of tolerance for abusive language, as I was abused growing up. It makes me incredibly angry and unstable, and I start to scream back, and that’s not ok. I don’t want to end up like that. It’s not worth it when I’m so far on the path to recovery from my childhood. I really just want to get out so that I don’t have any more stress. This week has been stressful enough for both of us, and we are in pain, and we just want to go to sleep.
We are packed and ready to go. We have cash. Can anyone help us?