Extreme Ways wrote:So we can conclude he moved to Spain to live with his gf. They broke up shortly after and she kicked him out of the house, but her pc still had his CC-password on it so she deadbeated a lot of games.
Foolproof.
Lol, that reminds me of the most tragic story I've ever heard.
Many years ago, on an online game I used to play called War of Conquest -- 2004 or 2005 I think -- I had a partner who used to be in most of my empires. He was from Lisbon. He lived with his disabled father and two brothers, and he was the oldest son so he was expected to take care of everyone. But he had a girl that he was planning to marry, and they had already managed to put a down-payment on a house, and they were planning to move into their house together shortly.
Meanwhile, he had bought tickets on a bus excursion to Barcelona to see his favourite soccer team play. I'm not sure if Barcelona was his favourite team, or if his team was expected to go beat Barcelona or what. In any case, he was on a bus excursion to go there, and all his buddies were coming, and it was a really big event.
Well, the day of the bus excursion came -- Friday if I remember it correctly -- and that morning his father had a heart attack. It wasn't fatal and the father was expected to pull through, but of course Pedro was a good son and he stayed at the hospital the whole time and missed the bus to Barcelona. Later that night, with the father sleeping comfortably and everything okay, he decided to go to his girlfriend's house, and he caught her screwing someone else. Of course she expected him to be in Barcelona and thought it was a good time to cut some notches or whatever. So in one day his father had a heart attack, he missed his bus and a big non-refundable tour he'd spent months looking forward to, and he lost his girlfriend and presumably the deposit they'd put down on the house.
Okay, it's not
King Lear or
Candide, but it's one of the most tragic stories I know.