I took photos of the texts with my phone as future evidence. Sure enough, she had detailed plans to meet up with some guy at a hotel to have sex. I snuck over to her side of the bed, took her phone and went out into the living room to go through her text messages. That night I woke up out of a dead sleep with my heart racing, with just a feeling that something was wrong. A few nights later she tells me that she is going to go cover a shift for a nurse co-worker who just had a miscarriage and that she would be working late. We would be sitting on the couch and she would get text messages claiming to be from a female friend, yet she would always set the phone face down. She had been acting “off” for about a week. Had a suspicion that the wife was seeing someone else. He claimed he loved each payday because it reminded him how little she was getting.ĭrDiarrhea Shutterstock 14. He was a good employee too…good with customers, showed up on time, no absenteeism or anything like that.

But I thought it was brilliant if not crazy-level spiteful.

She was furious of course, and tried to re-sue him but failed at least once and when she claimed that the settlement was not keeping her in the life style she was accustomed to, he simply told the judge that the divorce was traumatic to him and he could no longer do his old job as a result.Īt least at that time, she did not manage to get out of the deal. He said to me that “She gets 75% of nearly nothing now.” He had other money stashed away, so he didn’t even need the job and he had the house and its equity as well.Īlso, no kids, so there was no child support. As soon as she took the settlement he quit his job and looked for a minimum wage job. He and his lawyer somehow managed to get her to agree to let him keep the house in exchange for 75% of his pay. He was married but the marriage fell apart and in the divorce, she demanded that she get the house and 40% of his wages. I asked him how he could afford it and he explained it to me: He had been an SVP at a well known fortune 50 company, pulling in 300k with bonuses and stock options. One night after work he gets into his car, and I couldn’t help but notice that it was a very very nice newish Jaguar. He was older, well groomed, well spoken, clearly educated, all of that stuff. He was not really like the other retail monkeys. When I met him he was working in a sporting goods store making 8 dollars an hour. I worked with a guy who really stuck it to his ex wife. Not me, but a guy I worked with 10 years ago. Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Words Will Hurt Me Far More I didn’t really have to say anything to him. Just a couple minutes later, a couple of police cars pulled up and officers quietly walked in and he immediately gave up. Meanwhile, I started acting like I was working on his loan and stalled a bit. First I thought, “Really? You came back here?” I gave my boss-it’s literally a two-person store-our not very frequently used signal to discreetly call the police. I asked him if he had pawned anything before and he said yes, so I asked his last name and entered it into our computer system, which promptly said STOLEN. He came back something close to three months later to pawn something else. We had a customer pawn a chainsaw, which turned up stolen and was confiscated by police, which causes the store to lose money and police to be aware that he is a known thief. I worked at a pawn shop for a couple of years.

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