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A story and an open request
OK this morning I got an email and I'm steamed.
10 years ago I lived in Perth and I broke up with my partner of 4 years Tania. I had a lot of stuff, over 1000 books but I left everything but a couple of boxes of stuff, I think about 4 boxes, a diary of travels through Europe, some antique books "How to judge people" etc and some favorite books "The wasp factory"etc, some negitives and some tapes of shows.
Toby wittington, [humanoid] offered to store them in his fremantle studio, so I did.
I met him at the Windsor fest one or two years later, [I think it was about a year and a half, and i gave him some money [$100 or $200, I forget] to set about looking for shipping.
Time passed and then I get the first of many emails over the years, rather than admitting he simply spent the money he redefined the whole thing and put it down to a downpayment on 'storage costs' and tried to hit me up for more.
This stuff had huge sentimental value to me and i really didn't want to have it thrown out but i thought the whole thing was a bit slimey.
So I get emails from time to time and it just pisses me off, the "i will chuck your stuff out if you don't pay me bullshit hidden in the new slightly 80's tinged "I'm a businessman now" bollocks-speak.
I've researched shipping and even years back sent him a link to a local international shipping service and told him to get it priced. Nothing happened because Toby wants his own income dealt with first. [This is just my speculation]
{Toby is not a performer any more, now he's a fashion designer}
So this morning I get the latest, "It's been 10 years" email and he's itemised everything, he has photos of my books, my negatives, etc etc. There are a couple of things missing, I remember he asked me whether he could have one or two things and now fuck him i want them back. and now he's hitting me up for the itemisation as an additional "service" and wants to get the shipping done in a "timely manner"
Fucker, greasy little 7foot wanker.
So i will pay him, I will pay the fucker [again] what he asks for his little extortion gig,
and then i will be rid of the cunt, some fucking favor.
So 10 years have passed, I probably can get my ex to pick this stuff up and i'll pay for shipping, obviously Toby would charge by the hour for moving stuff to the door.
But I'd rather have some other Perth based person to deal with.I'll give it 48 hours, It's 4 boxes. I'll pay you, because i don't want to pay him a cent more than whatever he fucking demands of me in his reply to the email i've just sent him where i called him an extorting cunt.
If you are in Perth, or you know anyone in Perth {my contacts have moved on, Alex and Bizcircus have all changed emails and i've lost contact] then please consider helping.
I will now have my second cup of coffee.
10 years ago I lived in Perth and I broke up with my partner of 4 years Tania. I had a lot of stuff, over 1000 books but I left everything but a couple of boxes of stuff, I think about 4 boxes, a diary of travels through Europe, some antique books "How to judge people" etc and some favorite books "The wasp factory"etc, some negitives and some tapes of shows.
Toby wittington, [humanoid] offered to store them in his fremantle studio, so I did.
I met him at the Windsor fest one or two years later, [I think it was about a year and a half, and i gave him some money [$100 or $200, I forget] to set about looking for shipping.
Time passed and then I get the first of many emails over the years, rather than admitting he simply spent the money he redefined the whole thing and put it down to a downpayment on 'storage costs' and tried to hit me up for more.
This stuff had huge sentimental value to me and i really didn't want to have it thrown out but i thought the whole thing was a bit slimey.
So I get emails from time to time and it just pisses me off, the "i will chuck your stuff out if you don't pay me bullshit hidden in the new slightly 80's tinged "I'm a businessman now" bollocks-speak.
I've researched shipping and even years back sent him a link to a local international shipping service and told him to get it priced. Nothing happened because Toby wants his own income dealt with first. [This is just my speculation]
{Toby is not a performer any more, now he's a fashion designer}
So this morning I get the latest, "It's been 10 years" email and he's itemised everything, he has photos of my books, my negatives, etc etc. There are a couple of things missing, I remember he asked me whether he could have one or two things and now fuck him i want them back. and now he's hitting me up for the itemisation as an additional "service" and wants to get the shipping done in a "timely manner"
Fucker, greasy little 7foot wanker.
So i will pay him, I will pay the fucker [again] what he asks for his little extortion gig,
and then i will be rid of the cunt, some fucking favor.
So 10 years have passed, I probably can get my ex to pick this stuff up and i'll pay for shipping, obviously Toby would charge by the hour for moving stuff to the door.
But I'd rather have some other Perth based person to deal with.I'll give it 48 hours, It's 4 boxes. I'll pay you, because i don't want to pay him a cent more than whatever he fucking demands of me in his reply to the email i've just sent him where i called him an extorting cunt.
If you are in Perth, or you know anyone in Perth {my contacts have moved on, Alex and Bizcircus have all changed emails and i've lost contact] then please consider helping.
I will now have my second cup of coffee.
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