So an interesting turn-of-events has gone down in the ghetto games played in my local hood. And I need y'all's opinions on whether I should be goin' with this flow or just sayin' no...
I preface this by saying that I have a decently-sized a dope habit.
My dealer, known here as Mr. T, went missing on this past Sunday. Odd because I went out with him the previous night and partied with him and despite him being a bit frazzled (and disorganized to the point of dropping small bits of the tasty little boy in my car :D), he was fine as he stumblingly staggered into his pad around 4am in the Sunday AM.
Anyway, next day he's gone (Oddly enough, phone A had a voicemail recording instructing to call phone B and phone B had a voicemail recording instructing to call phone A, and you into the maths and logic should put that into your rigs and slam it...) and as he feeds a great amount of those in the local hood (or those lucky/unlucky enough to be hooked on the city's finest), everyone's strugging to figure out whose the backup on that line.
In my own personal quest for meaning, I remember back some time ago when Mr. T's phones went down for a week and he was calling his clients from random hoodrats' phones. I began storing the randoms in my phone directory as "Mr. T Alt 1" "Mr. T Alt 2" and so on (I was basically anticipating that it would come back to help me in the future in a situation likened to this one
). So my technique was to call them one-by-one, * 67'nd and whatnot, and ask (in the best impression of a seasoned local that this suburban white nerd could do) "What's been goin' on with Mr. T and where he be?" and "What
upstanding gentleman picked up the slack?" After a series of bad reactions, I get a nice enough fellow who explains it all to me (too well - I think he thought I was an undercover cop and does not like Mr. T, haha). We'll call this fellow Mr. B.
So in exchange for a bag, I get Mr. B to introduce me to the new guy in town. It all goes smoothly, but Mr. B offered to buy me Wendy's afterward (I was hungry and he seemed
sexy enough cute enough) and tells me some interesting news. Mr. T was selling to me and a group I was included in for $X and to others, in a group including Mr. B, for $Y, where X = 2*Y here (I mean twice as much, kids). I get the impression that Mr. B is in a select group that gets the low price (and bulk discounts), but that he's also not a big spender.
Anyway, yesterday Mr. T rose again and apparently had just got bailed out of jail (got done Sunday morning for booting up in public view (as he told me, "someone was taking a shit in the McDonalds stall and he just couldn't wait anymore and went in public). So he's back and again wantin' to sell to me at the higher price.
I call up Mr. B and basically say "you do like a bag or maybe two a day and I do, well, a lot more. How about I give you some cash and you buy from Mr. T at the discounted rate $Y your group gets charged. And then I'll effectively be paying for your habit and still be paying less for mine than before." He's like "sounds like a win-win situation to me" or something a bit less clear, and we do it once.
So boys and girls, do I:
1. Keep doing this with Mr. B and just tell Mr. T that I quit (I wanna keep hanging out with him despite him being a greedy bastard because otherwise he's a good guy). The positive would be cheap dope, but the negatives are that I feel like a bitch paying for Mr. B's habit and like a deceiver going around Mr. T's back to get his own dope.
2. Confront Mr. T about "hearing through the grapevine that he's got a VIC (c is for customer) list and tell him that I want on it." The positive is that I could get on it and get even more dope (since I won't be paying for Mr. B). The negative is that I could get rejected and lose my friendship with Mr. T, and also I just don't have the suaveness to go about something like this without getting myself into trouble. I could always fall back on 1. if this failed, though.
3. Keep buying from Mr. T at the higher rate, removing Mr. B from the picture. I would really feel like a bitch here, but it would involve the least change (and change is bad - republicans and big bills are better).
4. Something you guys come up with that is better.
Please give me your insight into this, forum members.
