Life 101 is sure a hare class isn't it?  Especially when you don't read the
instruction manual and try and do it all on your own!
Rhonda

-----Original Message-----
From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Kathy Du Bois
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:09 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: we've heard from Chris

Hi Guys,
	Chris called last Thursday evening.  We must have talked for more 
than a half an  hour.  He admitted, to me, that he is not very happy, 
but I think that he still feels that he has to find a way to save 
face or something.  He admitted that he knows that he should move 
back home and try to pull his act together and go back to church, but 
he just doesn't want to face that.  He's living with a highschool 
drop out right now; a friend of Nicki's older brother.
	He still works, when he feels like it,  at the tela--marketing 
job.  He has discovered, however that you can not show up for work 
for weeks and still have the job if you want it. I guess that they 
are desperate for workers.  I asked him how he was paying his share 
of the rent if he wasn't working steady.  He told me he was working 
on it.  That gives me chills.   He told me that his supervisor was 
arrested, on the job, for doing cocaine in the bathroom.  He really 
knows how to pick em, the circumstances, that is.
	The thing that concerns me the most is that Nicki's parents enticed 
Chris into taking out a cell phone plan for all of them, in his name. 
Evidently, they can't get a land line or a cell phone plan in their 
own name because their credit is so bad. He thinks that its okay 
because they told him that they will pay his part of the bill and if 
they don't he can just have their phones shut off.  However, they 
have the trump card because, if he does that, they may be pretty mean 
to Nicki.  He told us that they are already mean to her when he 
doesn't give them money.  Can you believe this?  I couldn't write a 
fiction story this stupid. He said that when Nicki's father got his 
pay check last Friday, the first place they went was to the 
cacino.  Yes folks, they do it all in that family, drink, smoke and gamble.
	 He told me that he tried to break up with Nicki a few weeks ago 
because he is board with the relationship, but that he went back 
because she got really depressed.  Brother.  Now that he's in even 
thicker with them over this cell phone deal he's going to be dealing 
with them for at least two more years, unless the whole mess goes 
belly up, which will probably happen and in doing so will really mess 
up any hope that Chris had for establishing a credit rating.  I think 
that he's regreting the cell phone thing already.  He doesn't like 
where he is living and he let me say some pretty hard things to him 
last Thursday without snapping back.  He wants to get his deploma 
because he wants to go into the military, but he hates going to 
classes.  He's still failing everything.  He wants things, but he 
still isn't overriding his impulses enough to go about life the right way.
	  He wants to see Caleb in his first wrestling match this 
weekend.  We invited him to stay the night and ride to the meet with 
Greg and Caleb.  If he takes us up on the offer, maybe we'll have 
more time to talk.  One never knows, however.
	That's the latest from :Maine!  As always, thanks so much for
praying!
Kathy

P.S.
Caleb has been sleeping most of the day so I believe that the worst 
is over for him.  I just pray that nobody else gets it.