Wow, some parents

Ok so this is some messed up stuff. We watch a couple of kids for a friend. We have for several years. Just recently, about a year ago, this friend got a divorce. Now this is where it gets messed up. They went and got a divorce the cheap way. Online. Normally that would not be an issue. When they set up the divorce, the custody was supposed to be 50/50. I say supposedly because it never worked out that way. The guy would show up at 6am to see the kids, or he would show up around 10 pm to see them after they had gone to bed. Still not sure what this guy was thinking of while he did this, but I have never know this person to think straight. This is the same guy that told me the little red record light on my DVR from Directv was a CIA mandated camera. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Anyways, custody was to have been 50/50. He never took the kids, never really wanted to keep them overnight unless our friend had taken my wife out of town to do mystery shops and the kids had gone with. He would neglect to tell anyone this until they were already out of town and it would be pointless to turn back. This would escalate into "You WILL let me see my children tonight" knowing full well they would not be back until the next day. On the days my wife would think that he would be taking them, he would call at the last second and tell his ex that he had to work on his truck or something so he could not take them. I know for a fact he would not be working on his truck. He was glued to a computer screen playing games, just like he spent the first 3 and a half years of his daughter's life. He could not be bothered to get up to watch the kids, or to help with dinner, or to do anything with us when we were over there. What made it even worse was that he had a computer program put on his ex-wife's computer that would allow him remote access to EVERYTHING on it. He knew what she was doing, was posting things on her profiles from different sites. He used the excuse that he had to do it that way so he could "help her out if she had problems with it." Instead, important emails were deleted, sites that he had no right to access were accessed and things posted on there. Help her my ass!

All this is really pretty minor. The thing that gets me is that this guy does nothing to keep a job. To tell how much I trust him, check this out. He was working at Wendy's here in Pocatello. All of the sudden he came to get the kids, saying that he was laid off for the winter. I looked him right in the eye and called him on it. "Bullshit! Fast food does not lay off for the winter. They either fire you, or you quit. Which one was it?" He would not admit that he quit for about 6 months. You can not pull that with me. I worked as a manager in fast food for years. He just can not hold a job, or will not hold a job. And the fuel to the fire is the fact that our friend has the kids almost all the time, and HE is the one that gets the child support. Since he does not have a job, he gets the child support. And to top it all off, he calls my friend this morning to ask if she has paid her child support because he does not have any gas in his truck. For one, that is not what child support is for. It is money that needs to be paid to support the children. Hence the name "Child Support". Secondly, you know that your truck is a piecer, yet you keep it around anyways. What is the point? Sell it for scrap, take what you can get out of it, and go find a way to get a decent vehicle and go from there. Quit living off the government, you can support yourself.