Need to vent!

Hard to know who the TRUE friends are.....

a buddy of mine picked up a jeep wrangler and I told him I would help him make it a trail rig.....and in a matter of a few months between him and I we took it from a stock $4,000.00 jeep to a $10,000.00 full on off road rig.

I had to drive about 40 miles round trip everytime I went out to his shop to help....sometimes 3 or 4 times a week.....in a v8 suv. He never offered to give me gas money or nothing......he would buy dinner every once and awhile but pizza won't move the orange needle in my ride of the E mark lol.

I was being a friend so i never asked him to pay me to do any of the work I did either.

he owns a fabrication shop that his family used to build roll cages for nascar a few years back.......and the shop is equipped with a supply room with plenty of metal........ one day I asked him if I could get a chunk of 1/8" plate steel about 12"x12" in size so I could make some support plates for the floor in my duster for my new bucket seats ..........and he went off on me about it how he does not like giving hand out and told me to go buy my own.

its that type of ungrateful way of thinking he displayed that made me decide not to help him any more.....and when I stopped showing up to help....he started calling me hinting around and all the work he had on his plate and said " you should stop out man " ........but I never would.....and then he stopped inviting me out on the trail riding trips and what not to.

he never ONCE offered to help on my duster since I have owned it....and even when I had asked him to stop out some time and give me a hand...he never would.

I can not count on any of my "friends" to help me do something.....if it does not benefit them in some way shape or form.....you can bet they will be a no show......which is why I have done my duster all by myself.

anyhow....sorry for the long post, I just can relate to the ungrateful friends thing.