The last two days we stayed at a friend’s place and I am very happy to see my very good friend Piper again.
We had a wonderful time, we even went with the tram to a friend’s place and it was very exciting to look out of the window.
Piper is a very very very good friend and I like him very much. When I see him we are always happy and we do have a wonderful time.
Vil is quite pissed and he wrote a final ‘goodbye’ to the Welfare Ladies via WhatsApp.
“Hello Welfare Lady. The keys will be sent to your social worker via registered mail to have prove of delivery. The police advised me to do it that way. Please send me her postal address. Also, I made a report at the police station of fraud. the local police man will surely come and visit you both and he will have some interesting questions for you. I apologise for the things I left, but I couldn’t stand your faces anymore. Anyway, you will stop ducking up people. I will make sure of that. Additionally, i will evaluate the opportunity to claim compensation for my financial damages. NO regards and no swearing words you both surely deserve.”
We came ‘home’ very late and this morning we’re woken up by a woman we don’t now, telling us we need to move: NOW!
“Excuse me, please. Who TF are you?”
“I am a friend of your landlady and I want to make sure you move.”
“Allrite. Well, I tell you what I will do. At first, I will get ducking dressed. Do you understand me? Then I will have a coffee and then start moving. I will go and get a van, come back, pick up my stuff and then leave That’s the way it will work and nothing else.”
“But we want the keys now.”
“Naaaaaa. Do you really think I trust you enough? After all? I don’t. I will get my stuff and when I have everything packed, then I will give you the keys.”
“Then we will get your stuff and throw it out on the floor.”
“Go for it. And the next thing I will do is reporting the landlady and the social worker to the police. She rents out for more than five years, the social worker is aware of that, around 25.000 euro fraud the last five years. That’s criminal. So you better think and consider what’s at stake. We have nothing to lose, but the social worker will because her behaviour could be considered as aiding a criminal, which will cause serious problems for her. Again, be reasonable. We will get a van now and then pack our stuff.”
“When? You need to be out ……”
“No real idea, but as soon as possible. I will get then van now. See you later.”
We went to get a van from our good friends at boo-rent.nl. No stress, we will move our stuff, easy!
Guess how many time a day someone asks to pets me? Especially children and adults with their small children approach us to pet me.
So please guess how many times? Ten times, twenty? Well, I would say around forty or even fifty times depending where we are around. Maybe even more.
“You touch my dog, you read her BLOG!”
Then we calculated this for a month and a year and when we go for twenty-five papers with a link per day, then we talk about big numbers. 25*365= 9125 contacts a year. If we are able to convert only ten percent would be around one thousand active followers a year.
OK, we might need to ramp up the numbers a bit: “Why not?” 😉 If we really focus on “contacts”, it shouldn’t be a problem to reach five hundred people a day.
These numbers show that there might be potential and it’s worth a try. Let’s dream and go for amazingly twenty percent response and like rate, we could “harvest” interesting numbers.
And now Vil found the most catchy opening sentence ever to collect likes and shares.
“You touch my dog, you read her BLOG!”
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tl;dr
You need to know that the rooms are rented out illegally because this is a subsidized flat and the landlady is nuts and on welfare. We were told by neighbours that she rents out for years now and no one complains…… and the most shocking fact: “The social worker is aware of that and she does nothing to stop this exploitation of the welfare system, actually quite the opposite, she supports this behaviour by not reporting her, but read more.
A phone call on Vil’s mobile.
SW: “Hello, here is the social worker of your landlady, we met before and you know who I am?”
Vil: “Hello, yes I do remember you. What’s up?”
SW: “My client is very sick, stressed out, she doesn’t eat and you need to leave the house NOW!”
Vil: “That was not agreed. I already accepted that she is not OK with us on whatever reason, but she gave us until the end of the month and we voluntarily agreed that we move somehow next week.”
SW: “If you pay now, then you can stay until tomorrow and you lave tomorrow. ”
Vil: “Isn’t it funny. You client is very sick and when it’s a bit money, she feels better
SW: “But you need to leave today, she is very sick…..”
Vil: “She is sick about the situation, I totally understand, but I can’t leave now, there is no place we can go to and we won’t sleep on the streets. So your client needs to live with the consequences of her actions. I am ok to leave next days, as agreed, but NOT immediately. Maybe I can arrange something for tomorrow, but not today.”
SW: “But that is so much stress on her.”
Vil: “I understand and the last days we made ourselves nearly invisible, we just sleep there, we did everything we can to make it as easy as possible, but we won’t accept to go on the street, because your client doesn’t know what she does.”
SW: “You need to leave today or…..(OR?)”
Vil: “Naaa, stop! Excuse me, please? Well, I think it’s not a good idea to work with threats right now, because if you insist on threatening me I will report you and your client to your superiors. The room is rented out illegally, this is a subsidized flat and you are aware of that, that’s a fact and this goes on for years now. So if you continue to insist that I leave today or continue to threaten me, ….. You have way more to lose than us. I will arrange a van tomorrow and put all my stuff away, but I will sleep there today. There is no discussion.”
SW: “You can go to the Salvation Army.”
Vil: “No dogs allowed.”
SW: “You can go to a hotel?”
Vil: “Most likely no dogs allowed and who pays the room? Us? No way! I will sleep there tonight and tomorrow I will arrange the van. I already paid a van once and your client can be happy that I am not asking some money back.”
SW: “….., but you need to leave. My client is sick and stressed.”
Vil: “Again, I totally understand, but what about us? I am diabetic myself. I do have severe never damage and my stomach is not very good right now. Believe me, all this is no good for me as well. Also to stay out all day is not very nice as well. How do you think it feels when you have no place to go and the people are playing with you?”
SW: “….. but I need to do my job and care about my client.”
Vil: “I get it, BUT what about us? We don’t go on the street, because your client doesn’t know what she is doing. Naaaaaa, no way, you should have done your job in the first place and we wouldn’t have this situation right now. You knew what’s going on., you met us before and that time all was “hunky dory” and now you change your mind without any awareness of consequences? No way! We will come back late tonight and sleep at the place. Tomorrow I will organize a van and move all to a storage place and that’s it!”
SILENCE! ……. Click!
Ivan called and he might found a sofa for us for the next few days and we can go there immediately to meet the girl living in the apartment. We went there and first, she agreed to give us shelter for a few days until we can go to Lei’s place, but a few hours later we received a WhatsApp and she told Vil that we can’t stay on her sofa because she fears about her stuff, I might destroy it.
I understand, but that’s never the case. I bit cables only once and the electrical shock was enough. I never put my nose in things I shouldn’t ….. Hmmmm,… maybe except some doggies but….
ARRGHHHHH! You need to imagine, we are not able to find a place for a few days without any issues.
[UPDATE: MAYBE!]
She texted us via WhatsApp and apologized….. And finally she came over to the pub and we met face to fur and I think I made a quite good impression. She is nice and maybe we can stay on her sofa a few nights anyway. Let’s see.
Life is a roller coaster
[UPDATE: We stayed for three days, I destroyed NOTHING and we had a good time. Thank you!]
They live on welfare, but they enjoy a huge variety of cable TV channels and a 200 MBit Internet connection.
Today we moved our stuff to Zaandijk, moved boxes (again) and we had a nice day until the landlady told us that she doesn’t feel good with us and we need to leave until the end of the month. WTF? That’s a new record. 🙂 We’ve got thrown out before we even finished moving in. We don’t understand why, but we need to accept. Arrghhhh.
That’s the second time we got screwed like this. Nothing personal, but why people doesn’t consider the consequences of their actions? Maybe first they see just the money and then they realize that nothing is free?! No idea, but unfortunate we need to life with the consequences.
It’s a very long story how we ended up in Badalona, but one year ago we relocated from Spain to Amsterdam, because Vil got a very nice job offer to be an internal cloud sales consultant for one of the biggest companies in the world. It was a very good job offer, but in the end, it didn’t work out.
We really struggled, we had no food, no job, no place to stay and Vil was seriously sick. But he didn’t give up, he fought and since then Vil was able to survive, his health is way better now and he even managed to score a job in one of the best companies in the world. He really likes his job, his manager likes him as well and after being very sick, he really wants to go back to work, but HOW?
Without a place for us, there is no way and if we don’t find a place he surely will lose his job soon. It’s a shitty situation. Since now we managed somehow to find places to sleep, live on very little money after we paid all bills, but now we run out of ideas. We are members of every website imaginable, we post on Facebook and on the intranet, but nothing, absolutely nothing. It’s frustrating.
All of this because of me! Vil could have way less ‘issues’, but he doesn’t want to give me up! Vil will never leave me alone. NEVER! As a result, on Monday, all our dreams will come to a shattering halt, we need to leave the place we stay right now and there is no place we can go.
All because we are not able to find an affordable and permanent place for us. STUPID! We tried literally everything, but somehow it’s not meant to be.
What will be? We have no idea and we might need to go back on the road, but we are not afraid about that, because we can stay together and that’s most important for us.
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