I have never met Gerrit Schwartz, but he is indeed a pain in the ass. He is “renting” my house. Unfortunately he has never remitted any payment. He has occupied my house for six months now and is using my boat. I am tired of his shit and have told him to vacate my premises immediately.
Every time I ask for money I get strange responses.
I know from other people around here who consider themselves your friends that you must be an incredible smarr person, but somerimes it seems to me that you want to be misereable and that you have a deep distrust against everybody. Well thats not a jim only problem. US americans display this kind of paranoia of beeing cheated upon in a very disturbing way. In general the assumption is that everybody is just trying to get their money in fraudulant ways.
I dont get that but i didnt grew up in the states, so what do i know.
At the moment i even try to get 65.000$ via crowdfunding for 10% interest for buying the tronconegro from jack kennedy. Pretty much the main reason for that is, that i probably would earn about 150.000 dollars in two years and then would offer you that money for the house.
My plan is to stay here around 5 years in panama and if possible eben just here in this house on solarte. I like it a lot beeing away from people :-).
I hope you understand that i dont want to take advantage of you and that i really care for this place out of simple respect and greatfullness to what you letting me do here. But i need some more liberties to live here and enjoying the life out here as best as possible.
Really? More liberties? The guy hardly ever returns an email and when he does it is a pipe dream. The guy can’t glue PVC joints, can’t install a light switch or a door knob and now he thinks the world is going to lend him $65,000 to buy a boat?
What kind of drugs are you doing Gerrit?
I am not anti american at all. My homecountry was liberated by largly american soldiers. I honor that very much and i visited several ww2 memorials speficly for expressing my gratitude. This paranoia stuff is somerhing i obverve everytime when getting in contact with us americans. The most visual expression of that is the general distrust in the federal government resulting in the tea party movement. From an outsiders perspective thats just plain paranoid behaviour and i follow the us news very closely.
You could call someone a racist, when he or she states that african americans are far morehomophobic than caucasian americans. Well a few independent social studies actuelly say exactly that this is the case. Why that is i dont know, but its a fact in society. I dont get it if someone from an opressed minority than picks on another minority.
I would argue that germany isnt the home of the best humor worldwide. We build good cars and machines but compared to british or american culture we are a humorless bunch.
Thats a not very flattering thing but still the truth allthough i would like it to be different.
All I did was ask him to pay the rent.
Jonathan Allen LaFleur