CH 3.
A FATHERS DRIVE
He’s a tiny man, who is very round, smokes and drinks an yet
he is very religious. He has a heart of gold and I know that if we ever need
anything, seriously need anything, he would be there. Now those who know me
well know for a fact we really really would have to be desperate to need
anything as we are fiercely independent and what we can’t get that we could get
off others, we do without, but, we really really know this man is an angel put
on earth sadly his heart is used and abused by others.
It’s awful to hear his stories, just how his family and
colleagues treat him. I just wish I knew someone who would be good enough to
love and treasure him and respect him for what and who he is.
He has two Sons and a daughter. He’s separated from his wife
who got involved with serious drugs. His youngest Son followed his Mother down
the dark lane of drugs dealing and using. The stress and worry that Son has put
on this taxi driver/friend is terrible and shows with every word that he
speaks.
Jim’s older Son announced at Christmas that he was gay and
the flat mate he was sharing with, paid for by Jim, was indeed his boyfriend
and between the two of them, they had got into over nine thousand pounds worth
of debt… Guess who paid that off?
His daughter told her
Dad she was pregnant last July and in November, gave birth. She’s seventeen.
She doesn’t know, who the Father of her child is.
This taxi driver works every hour he can to pay off debt his
wife left him in and pay for his oldest Sons flat even though the oldest Son is
in his mid-twenties. He pays for his youngest Son to go to rehab but he says the
last time was, the last time. I just hope he sticks to that self-promise.
At his house now, is the youngest Son and his daughter with
her baby. He watches his Son meet people in the back lane from his bedroom
window. If he kicks him out, where will he go? His daughter isn’t coping with
the baby though the baby boy is looked after, the daughter’s mental health isn’t
what it should be for a seventeen-year-old.
Gosh, my heart breaks for this Dad as he has so much love to
give his kids, he worships them but he is on his own and has nowhere to turn.
Hub tries to help him as best as he can with words of wisdom. And we watch the
taxi driver go through periods of uplifting lightbulb moments, but sadly before
long, those bulbs have blown and he’s in the dark again. I just wish his maker
would give this man a break. I wish his kids would realise what a good man he
is. He brought his children up on his own as his wife wasn’t fit to be a
parent. They never went without anything but sadly the area they live have
people living there who are a bad influence!
Jim’s life is a mess. And he really doesn’t deserve this. My
heart hurts for him and for his Grandbaby. What a life that baby boy has to
face.
© Fiona Cummings
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