I wonder if that is the same friend or should I say former friend that we have. We were very close at one, live across the street from each other for years, raised our kids together, spent holidays and vacations together. Like my hubby, the husband is...or was...an RN. He took a job selling medical equipment to hospitals and doctors and started making lots of money. It changed him. Suddenly they are driving matching BMW's and jetting off to Paris for weekends, they bought one of those tacky McMansions. Flashing his money around. We still maintained some sort of friendship until he told my husband he could get him into the company. My husband politely declined because he loves being a nurse. This guy kept asking until my husband exploded and told him what he really thought. My husband was well aware that it was a ponzi scheme, he was required to bring in other sales people and he got a percentage of the the sales that the people he brought in made. He knew that his "friends" continued income depended on bringing in more sales people. It was 2009, in the midst of the crash and hospitals weren't buy expensive medical equipment. That was the end of the friendship. Fast forward 10 years and the husband called my husband and asked if he could have a "short term" loan of $10,000. A couple of months and he'd pay my husband $15,000. Hubby declined. Actually hubby didn't even tell me until I told him that the guy's wife had called me. She said they were in a "bind" and asked if she could borrow $5000 for her son's tuition. Short term, just a few weeks, she'd pay interest yada yada yada. I said I couldn't help her and then she offered to sell me some jewelry. I declined. That evening, I told hubby about the call and that's when he told me that the husband had called him a couple of weeks prior. The kicker was that the wife then called a mutual friend who is a physician and told that friend, one my best friends, that I SUGGESTED that she ask her for the loan! Unbelievable! I understand that they were desperate but that was just too much! So desperate that she couldn't figure out that my friend, the doctor, is like a sister to me. Of course she'd call and ask me about it. We never heard from either of them after that but it's a small town, we did hear that their house went into foreclosure and they were not driving matching Merecedes anymore.
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