The following day I went over to Scott's house, and we went inside his bedroom.
Scott flopped down on his bed with his hands behind his head.
"Hey Scott can I have my wallet back?" I asked.
Scott acted a bit nervous and hesitated.
"My wallet, you know, I gave it to you last night and told you to hold on to it until today?"
He still hesitated, and finally, he reached under his bed and pulled out my wallet and reluctantly handed it to me.
I opened the wallet up and looked in it and there was absolutely no money in it.
"Scott. Where's all the money?"
Scott responded, "Well you owed me twenty dollars," he said.
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"Remember, in the second grade you borrowed twenty dollars from me?" he asked.
"Scott, that's the most ridiculous thing you've ever tried to tell me. You don't really expect me to believe that story do you? I didn't even know you in the second grade." I said.
"Yes you did, and you borrowed twenty dollars from me." he stated as a matter-of-fact.
I responded by asking, "And you just happened to have twenty dollars on you then when you were seven years old?"
"Yea," he said.
"And what did I need the money for when I was seven?" I asked.
"I don't know?" he said.
"OK, well, so even if you took the twenty dollars, there should still be fifteen dollars in my wallet? Where's that money?" I asked.
"I spent it," Scott said.
"You spent THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS since five o'clock yesterday?" I asked astounded.
"Yea," he said.
"On what?" I asked totally shocked. I couldn't for the life of me understand what he could spend all that money on in less than 24 hours!
"Well I went to the Pizza Parlor and had dinner, and then I played video games all night." he said.
I was disgusted. I put the wallet in my back pocket and said, "This is unbelievable."
And I left.
-- Edited by The Phantom on Friday 12th of March 2010 03:15:39 PM
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