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This whole thing started three years ago when one of my friend's ex-girlfriend decided to move to New Mexico to run from her already raging Heroin habit. She had a long board that she wanted to get rid off, and I had a urge to ride a long board that summer so I agreed to buy it for $50.00. By the time I had the money to spend on it, she had already left, but she made a agreement that I could stop by her parent's house, get the board from the garage, and send her the money.
I went to her parents house and called her to let her no there was no one home, she told me where the board was (in the garage), and I left with the board in hand. The next thing to do was buy a money order to send out her way, so I went out and bought a money order and sent it out post-haste to the address that she gave me.
My girlfriend went to New Mexico for a couple of months and I decided to got there as well, I knew Kelly was living down there and figured she had straightened out her life and had been down there long enough to get a handle on the bar and music scene, so I decided to call her up. It was still the same old Kelly, I talked to her for about a hour and decided that meeting up with her would be against my better interest, still the whole time I talked to her she never once mentioned the long board.
The next time I heard from Kelly was about six month's later when she called my mother claiming that I never sent her the money. Now Kelly has been using junk for the past 10 years and to me this was just a way for her to worm into my life again and get a extra $50.oo dollars from my mother. My poor momma was scared to death of the whole situation and wanted to pay her to get her off of my back, but I refused to let her do it. It was a matter of principle, I didn't want to be blackmailed for something I had already paid for and didn't want to give her the power to keep doing it. She stopped calling her after being ignored and I thought that was the end of it.
Today I got the number of the Sheriff that was calling me and I called him back, we talked for about fifteen minutes about the whole situation and I had this feeling that he was profiling me, well turns out I was right because he had gotten my name wrong and had a different Michael McGowan, and the person he thought he was talking to has a previous record filled with felonies. I think he was slowly changing his mind longer I talked to him, and the more he found out about Kelly.
Next order of business was to call Kelly herself. I'm pretty sure she's still getting high because she sounded faded, her main argument was that I couldn't have sent her the money because the place she was living at (Taos, NM) would only accept packages that came through Fed-Ex.
All in all there was no way for me to prove that I had payed her, I bought the board over three years ago and didn't keep the money order receipt. I talked to her and told her I was going to give her the board back. The more I think about the situation though the more I realize that she was probably hoping that I no longer had the board, so she could black-mail me for the money all over again. She had told the Sheriff that the board was worth over $200, but in actuality her boyfriend had traded a $50 bag of pot for it.
I only have one piece of advice for anyone out there that decides to buy something second hand, GET A RECIEPT! You can buy a book of blank reciepts at any dollar store. It could save you a big headache in the end, and you won't have to worry about people stealing back whatever you've purchased.
