Money gets in the way

The other day Simon came around to my place. It was a pretty big moment in my houses history, few people ever drop around. He soon made it clear though what his intentions were, he wanted to get my laptop of me for about two hundred dollars.

A very cheap price, for a laptop that is only a year old, has 2GB of memory, Bluetooth, 160GB of hard disk, CD-DVDBurner, SD Card reader and heaps of other features I got it for. But haven’t really used much, and then Windows died on it, so I didn’t bother fixing it, loaded up Linux and used it maybe once a week until I got my new Mac (that I like using heaps more than I ever did my other laptop). Problem is that he wants to get Windows onto the system, and is having problems with it that the tech guys he talks to say will cost him a couple more hundred dollars.

I didn’t get the cash from Simon when he came over, but happily let him take the laptop so he could try and get it working and he promised to come around and drop of the cash. But hasn’t come around. Instead he calls me up and asks if he can not do the sale. Sure I answer.

Then he has another attempt at “fixing” the laptop (I have heard some arcane things have happened to the laptop to try and get her running Windows again, that apparently she does now, just not very well). And I go over his house and figure that he will drop around tomorrow and leave the laptop if I’m not in like I offered him. Or possibly call me and say when the money will come.

I should be more laid back about it all, but it is a strain for me. Money is so precious and I get strung up about it all the time. From the furry I feel when I make a downpayment and have to wait an extra few days for a delivery, when I figure I should had made a different choice. To when my money is inacessable because of needing an SMS from he bank, or the bank not liking the characters I type on my phone for anything but the password to get into the online banking. I get furious.

It is one of things I am taking a holiday from though, I have my cash easily acessable incase I want to spend it, and have plenty enough that I shouldn’t be worried about any costs. If it works though? I am yet to see…