Post2 (15-march-2013)

“That was the first time and I hope that it will be the                                           last………”

                   I always hated to be without the money. I seemed to have a short supply of it. I worked hard at earning and earned more than a lot of people, but somehow I could not save even a cent from my income. I tried several times to save ten percent of my income but fail to do so. Then things took a turn for the worse. One month I found that I could not makes ends meet. I was short of exactly a hundred dollars .I had to pay the license for the radio and the television set. Actually if I had put aside ten dollars for each month it would not have been problem. I kept postponing this fro a few months and then suddenly it was November and the time for renew the license. I calculated my pay again and kept coming to the same conclusion; I had to get those hundred dollars from somewhere. But from where I would arrange the money?

               The money lender was a scruffy man and he smiled his gold toothed smile at me. I could see he was happy to see me. Since he was willing to lend me the money, I decided to take a loan of$200 instead of the $100 that I needed. I was to pay back the loan in fur installments of $90 each. I felt sure that I could manage. I took the money and solved my problem. I kept it a secret from my wife and told her that I had just borrowed $100 from Thomas and I told Thomas to back me up if Daisy called him. He did not mind telling a lie to help a friend.