To Simply Simon -- that's terrible. Having all of that done to you just because you tried to help a friend. No one ever tried to fight for me, when I was being so badly bullied by schoolmates (daily). I would have welcomed the help and fought for them, afterwards (to the death!). Your friend isn't a friend. As for my neighbor, I did go to the police. I'd had the tire fixed before I went there and couldn't provide them with it, so they said they couldn't help me. (I'd have had to prove that she slashed it, and not someone else)

To Jax2923 -- it was the way she said it. She spat it out at me. It was like she was saying "I'd prefer to have a man help me, but I'll settle for you." Like I was better than nothing, but not much. I felt like saying, "Well, excuuuuuuuuse me!" I cried a lot, thinking about it, last night. It just seemed to illustrate the way I've always been treated.

Today was a riot, too. Long story -- I found out today that I have something on my phone line (a line share indicator) that was left over from a DSL account that was set up for me, but one that I never got hooked up and working, from early this year. A company I was working for (from home) wanted me to have DSL (so I could be on the internet and on the phone with them, at the same time). The modem never got hooked up, the job ended, and I sent the modem back to them. They never cancelled the account, apparently, because I still show the line share indicator on my phone line. I think they wanted to avoid early disconnect fees so they gave the modem to someone else in their company and just didn't tell the DSL company that the account wasn't still for me. Not that it's a big thing, that I still have the line share indicator on my line. But, if/when I want another DSL account in the future, I can't get one until this is removed. (I'm also not sure it isn't causing the phone problems I've been having lately ) What all this means is that I now have to have more correspondence with that company, which I DON'T want to have. It's a hassle. They haven't been very nice to me since I left their employ. I reported them to the EDD as my last employer (back in February, when work stopped). They've been fighting that designation all these months (to avoid paying into my unemployment). The EDD did an investigation and said I was an employee. The company fought that and hauled me to a hearing in which a judge also said I was an employee. Totally tiresome. And now I have to have more contact with the company (because of this line share indicator thing). I'd like to forget they exist, but the melodrama keeps going on and on. Gawd...JUST what I need, while I'm trying to fight depression.

Are we having fun yet? EVER????