The con artist couldn't believe it.
Open his mouth and get cash.
Easiest cash he had received since he last mugged an old lady.
He's the unknown entity.
Menace is part of his gig.
Also getting the fear into someone.
He's got balls.
He'll do anything for his weed.
All he had to do now was drop in, unannounced and see if this guy was still a soft touch.
He'd take him for a long ride.
He'd even steal his car.
He just couldn't find the right time.
It would have been his otherwise.
'I saw this lost junkie,' he said to me.
He was here to save me.
Fuck.
What I did I see.
I saw this thief, who reeked of dodginess, who one day would make his play.
He just needed the opportunity.
And he found it.
'Go there, man, yeah, wait for me, I'll see if I can get you some dexies.'
It was never about getting me anything.
It was about getting him his weed.
He's that great guy you want to hang around, because you got no choice, he's rocked up at your house, and just sits there, like a fuck up, seeing how you react. He'll gauge that, and up the ante. Until you got the fear in you.
I'm surprised his old man hasn't taken him out to the bush and made him disappear, like Muss does with cars.
He's the master of psychology.
You know you are being conned, because it's all about what the guy can get out of you.
He'll play the victim. 'I'm so misunderstood'. But the coppers know otherwise. That granny who died of a hit to the head knows too. He's scum. Scum of the earth. No mentoring will save this guy. He won't save himself. He'll take you down, says his brother. 'That's him.' Thanks for the warning, I said.
And yet, when someone says they are going to pay him a visit, he gets all violent. Well just look at yourself, Muss, you aren't exactly a role model citizen.
Eventually I cut him off. He was running rings around me. Once a con, always a con, says my land lord.
Huh!
Yours is the only move.
I'll prove you all wrong, thinks Muss. Fuck, he's been exposed. Will he get shit face and right a few wrongs? No one knows, only Muss does. Because he's is the next move.
