A Quick Ten

Mike was arrested last week.  Now honestly I am amazed.  This is the longest he has been out in his adult life.  He was doing the same things he always did.  So I was shocked that it took so long for him to be arrested.  I guess the difference was he stuck more with one drug of choice and it wasn't as obvious to the world as meth is.  Either way it was past time.  His addiction was progressing and he no longer felt the need to follow any one's rules...mine or society's. He had moved out of our home the weekend before. 
I put $10 on my phone.  And he blew through that in less than two days.  The big gist of it was to bail him out.  He worked every angle.  He called the bail bond company to see what he could work out.....with my money.  He knows I have money in an IRA and thinks I should take it out and maybe take a penalty from the IRS.  He thinks I should put up title to my rental house. He thinks I have money just sitting around for his use. He was told no over and over and over.  I heard how he can't beat the charge if he is inside.  Needs to be outside so he can work on it.  Kept telling me they have no evidence.  Well I don't know what they have or don't have except him and his girlfriend.  And I'm good with time served and that is what all this is.  Every day that he is in there goes against whatever he gets.  And if he "beats" it, well then it is days not in the drug world.  He is mostly safe, has a bed, a shower and three meals a day.  He wanted to know about doing the same as last time.  Weekly commissary and phone money.  He really was not listening when I said no to all of that already. 
So the first ten is gone and I'm not immediately putting more on it.  I don't want to listen to all the ways he thinks he can be bailed out.  I don't want to listen to crying about how he was getting married on Christmas.  I'm just not into the whining and this way I only have to listen to the phone ring and ring and ring. 
On top of all of that he played the kid card.  How could I want him away from his kids.....didn't he just move without them?  He wants to be home for Christmas because he missed the last three.  He has missed a lot of their Christmases, birthdays, big firsts, little firsts, and the rest of the holiday.  And so far they haven't even missed him too much from moving.  I didn't tell them he had or that he had been arrested.  Neither has yet asked when he was coming back.  And isn't that just sad?