No New Year Celebration, just New Drama... Friday, January 31

What would you do if someone did something really bad, really unthinkable to someone you loved?
What if the someone you loved were someones, as in a group of people?
Would you simply call the police, seek revenge, or try to help them make right their wrong?

What if the person who did the wrong was someone you didn't like from the beginning?
What if they were your good friend or even a best friend, would your answer change?

I was in bed, about to go to sleep, when I decided to check in on Pyen Chi via our security cameras.  And when the camera shots popped up on my phone, I was shocked.  I saw Mouse Doctor sitting in my office at 2:40am with some broad-shouldered man in front of him, my heart instantly dropped.  I searched the security camera for any sign of Snickers at the club but he wasn't there.  He wasn't picking up his phone either.  I thought about calling Mouse Doctor but I feared he wouldn't be able to tell me what was happening because of the man.  No sooner did I catch sight of this scene on the camera, I was out of bed, throwing on whatever clothes I had on my chair, and then running like a bat out of hell to Hulk's.  Turns out it the man in the office with him was WOW.  They were waiting for Snickers and some others.  

I mentioned this situation very briefly the next day to someone I ran into downtown when they said I looked tired.  I told them I was up all night because of some friends' problem, they laughed and said my friends were "trouble makers".  They had no idea just how far from the truth their label was and after the very, very stressful morning I had just had, it surely was the wrong thing to say so I just turned and walked away.  "Trouble maker" is insulting my friends and thinking you'll get away with it and with your teeth in your mouth, seriously... well not really, sarcastically speaking that is.  Yes, many of my friends here in Korea sometimes kick up trouble and many of them were trouble makers back in the day.  They did hard time behind bars but hard time makes hard people and many of these hard people in my life are hard working, successful business owners now.  I didn't know a clean past was a requirement in being someone's friend.  And here all these years I thought trust and respect were the requirements, well that and an ounce of sarcasm and perhaps a love of sports and dash of silliness surely helps with becoming a friend of mine.

Today's problem didn't really concern me or Snickers but we involved ourselves in it.  Snickers insists on helping control the situation and look for a solution, so for the next few days he'll be MIA and I will probably not see him.  But that's how our friends are, that's how us "trouble makers" roll.  We may be labelled bad but we're so good to each other.  I remember back when my scooter was stolen and then we found it.  My friends set up a look out, watching it 24/7 for a little over a month, taking shifts.  My scooter isn't really that great either, it's a banged-up outdated scooter, but they knew I loved it and because they loved me they insisted on doing this for me.  Now THIS is what my friends do, they look out for each other, stick together and support one another.  Trouble makers or not, they're family.  People really have no idea just how great my K-Crew family is.  Their loyalty is incredible and their trust and honesty is so admirable.

The guy who caused today's trouble was NOT my friend -- never has been and never will be.  My friends are by no means perfect, thank goodness for that, but they're honest to me.  The issue at hand involved several people but half a dozen of us stayed up all night at Hulk's, trying to sort out the problem at hand.  By noon, word of the situation had spread like wild fire in Cheonan.

Today I was supposed to go to Granny Kim's house.  That never happened.  Those annoyingly loud mini-Koreans screaming in the wee hours surely don't seem as bad now in comparison to the guy we're having to deal with now.  Here's to hoping we'll be able to start make right his big, big, so very big wrong.