End of the week comes, Christopher still hadn't returned yet from "dropping Tim off at the trailer." It seems that he has taken a bit of an extended vacation. Nick and Tony got into a huge fight on Friday after work, where Tony demanded that Nick park the company truck in the lot and leave it (originally both Chris and Nick had been allowed the company trucks as personal vehicles but that was abused). A huge fight ensued with Nick giving his two week notice. He then walked home over ten miles from the office. (this I know as he called and was talking to me as he was walking down the highway.) Nick asks about possibly returning to Ohio to live.

Tim calls saturday and tells mom that he has blown his rent money (he rents mother's trailer in Florida) on drugs. Given that he is paid by Social Security by about the third of the month and it is only just about the third by the calendar, you can see the dilemma inherent. Mother tells him it is his problem to come up with the rent (He had said "We have a problem.") and hangs up on him.

She calls Nick and Chris to find out what is going on and during the ensuing conversation with Christopher even more pertinent information is revealed. It seems that during his jaunt down to "drop Tim off at the trailer", Tim and he were partaking of drugs INSIDE the trailer. Given that a term of living in the trailer was that A.) no drugs were to ever enter the trailer nor be used in it and B.) Christopher was never allowed back in the trailer for violating rule A. a year ago... mother was less than pleased.

Chris: "You spoke to Tim?"
Mother: "Yes, he told me he blew the rent money on drugs... I told him it was his problem to fix and hung up on him."
Chris: "Well we were both doing drugs, you should never have bought that trailer in the first place, you know how that area is."
Mother: "Oh really."

Enter another phone conversation with Tim in which mother tells him that he is out of the trailer and that she will be down by the end of the month and that he is to have his shitockie packed and out before she arrives. He sheepishly acknowledges everything she found out and says he will be out.

A flurry of phone calls come in day after day as each brother calls attempting to hash out the maelstrom falling upon the state of Florida... Tony fires Chris for never returning to work... Tim is told by his boyfriend that he can't move back in with him because he won't have drug usage in his house either... Nick tells Chris (they live together) that he has quit and is now moving to Ohio, thus the apartment must be vacated by the end of the month... Chris gets thrown out of his stepson's condominium by his ex-wife (can't stay there either)...

Initial discussions with Christopher include his implying that he will be returning to Bradenton and staying in the trailer, to which he is told that he isn't welcome at the trailer, STILL, and that he needs to make other plans. He accuses us of all trying to make him and Tim live on the streets, and that he is going to write off the whole family. (cough)

Grandfather begins stirring in the background up here, clearly getting phone calls from the boys down south seeking funds. I begin calling him every other day, telling him what is going on and trying to keep him from falling for any lies and casting any cash on the midden heap.

Mother makes plans for the trip to the trailer in December. Tony tries to buy me a ticket to come down also, but I refuse to go and have another holiday ruined by the drug-alcohol using members of the family. He is disappointed, but there is always another day. Nick starts making plans to get everything packed and moved to Bradenton to wait at the trailer until mother arrives, so he can follow her back on the drive return to Ohio in January. He is directed to keep both Tim and Chris out of the trailer.