This one episode bears sharing. To you new guys, former/recovering Betas or white knights—PAY ATTENTION. Back in my early twenties (strait out of college), I was UBER Beta/White Knight. There were NO resources like this or other great sites around the net (there really was no net, or what we have become accustomed to.) I was working for a good older friend, 20 years my senior. We played music together, hung out, had the same friends, he was just older. He had a daughter that was about 5 years younger than me at the time (she would be about 20). VERY exotic gorgeous looking, personality of a dog turd. She still lived at home after flunking out of college. I normally ignored her when we hung out or were going over business for the day. She radiated bitchiness like a nuclear silo.
Suddenly, things changed. She started talking to me, wanting to go to movies and get ice cream. As I said, she was smoking hot, so played along. What she was doing was probing my Beta-ness and setting me up for the kill. A few weeks went by and she calls me out of the blue. Me being the UBER Beta that I was, I was thrilled she called. Long story short, she needed “help”—specifically financial help. Putting on her best award winning acting and turning on the water works for full effect, I caved like a rotten tree. She was vague about what she needed help with, but I went in FULL WHITE KNIGHT mode and offered her my credit card (I know, f~~~ing beyond stupid). It was a new card, never purchased any thing on it. She took it, thanked me and departed for the weekend with the promise of paying me back in full (hahaha). She returns, gives me the card and is visibly uneasy looking–almost kind of sick. And it seems that she had oddly reverted back to he super-bitch mode. A few days go by and I check my mail and there’s the credit card statement. I open it and immediately drop to my knees as she’s 300.00 OVER the limit on the card. Oh s~~~.
I call her and calmly explain that I am concerned. She says she will pay me back shortly. A day later I go over to my friend’s house and while we are going over a few business details for the week, I am told that dear daughter is frantically looking for an apartment to move into asap in a town that is about 5 hours away. Now I’m worried–I have a ,300 bill staring me in the face and I have no idea what this bitch is going to do. I call to see what services were used with the card annnnnnnndddd—-you guessed it—-an abortion clinic, also several dinners for two, 2 nights in a hotel. Do you think I knocked her up?? HELL NO—never touched her, made a move, etc. This was a HORRIBLE blow to my ego. Some jackass uses her for his sexual amusement park and I GET STUCK WITH THE BILL. This is what happens when you DON’T think with your head and gut and you DO think with your dick and ‘heart’.
P~~~ed off & very upset, I manage to calm myself, gather all the bills and march to her parents house. I inform them of everything she’s been up to. They inform me that this is pretty standard practice for her and that they will help resolve it. She calls me trying to cover her ass, I sink her with a barrage of information I’d discovered and how she needlessly involved me in something that I have and want no part of. The conversation ended with a lot of yelling and me being called a “f~~~ing asshole.” It took about 10 months, but her parents forced her to pay me in full and I did get a check. It actually helped my credit score, but it really did a number on me. I’d never been so blatantly used and deceived like this–and to my face. She never apologized or admitted to any wrong doing. Never spoke to her sorry ass again. Did some digging on her, this was her 2nd abortion and she has an illegitimate child as well. Also found out that she was stripping at a club in a large metro city a few years later and was able to get some nude/semi-nude pics. Thinking about turning them into a wall paper for man cave decorations…we’ll see.
My advice—until the snake proves that it is not venomous, you must treat it as such.
NeoSe7en 4 years, 5 months ago.
