Homeless

 I was homeless until just over a year ago when I moved into the place I'm living in now.  I'd been homeless for about 9 months.  It was a bad time in my life.  But my good friends helped me and I got a place.  I used to have this friend C.  I had known C since the early 2000s.  When I came back from Kansas, C and I got closer.  We would periodically go eat Chinese buffet together for our birthdays and stuff like that. I, to this day, have never been to C's house.  Not when he was living alone, not when he was staying with his mom and not after he got married (which was a total surprise).  He had been where I was living.  I bought him a Christmas gift one year, got him a shot glass from The Stanley Hotel when I visited it, and even sent him $50 when he and his wife (who I hadn't yet met) were desperate for money.  He's never actually given me anything nor did he pay that money back once they were on their feet.  Ok fine.  You don't do things for people expecting reciprocation.  But last year he would periodically call, drunk, to complain about his wife or his job, etc.  Always saying that next time he was in town he'd take me for Chinese. Finally the place we used to go closed.  I'm sure he forgot because he was drunk.  But whatever. Then he calls one night with this sob story about how the guy he was selling his grandparent's house to who had claimed to be a preacher stopped paying and trashed the house before disappearing. Then tells me how he's going to lose the house anyway because he's not been paying the property taxes on it.  After I had just gotten a home having been homeless for 9 months and he was acting like I should feel sorry for him.  I told him I was disappointed in him.  For whatever reason he had let the situation go for months before the city called him about the garbage on the property. He was going to lose the house and property because he was too busy, too depressed, too whatever to be bothered to drive over and check on the place once the guy quit sending him money.  He hasn't called me since I told him I was disappointed. He never asked why I was disappointed. But honestly it's because he was a shitty friend.