Frustrated!

Today, I felt a bit frustrated. I just don't understand why people have to keep cheating us of our money when we are already cash-tight.

What happened was my brother had a friend who helped him to apply for his handphone line but I was the one who paid through my card. As the two-years contract ended, I told my brother to cancel the line since we already had so many handphone lines at hand. He remembered his friend telling him that the telco company gave him voucher which he used to get a new handset. So I told my brother to double-check with this friend first. If he truly gotten a new handset under this handphone line, then there would be a two-year contract again. This friend told my brother that he was willing to pay the penalty and told us to go ahead to terminate the line. So we did.

A month later, when I received the bill, I got a shock. The penalty was $700 plus. I told my brother to quickly ask his friend to pay before this amount was credited to my card. This friend said ok. But on Sunday, when I checked my card statement, I was shocked to see the amount credited. So I told my brother to check with this friend what happened. This friend agreed to pay my brother yesterday. But yesterday came and no news. So my brother called him but he refused to answer. Then his mother answered the call and threatened to call the police if my brother called again. This made us very angry. Owe money pay money - this is the logic and should be observed. Later, his mother called to apologise and said that his son was financially irresponsible. So she begged my brother not to go after him for this amount of money. After much consideration, we decided to let go of this matter.

But I am not very happy. Why must people keep cheating us of our money and make it look like we are in the wrong? I really hope that this will stop and that I can quickly clear off the amount on the card. Two stupid mistakes don't make a wise action.