Booting a Computer Thief

2010-08-12 Columns

August 11, 2010 | 04:36 PM

I take you in like my own son nine years ago cuz your parents didn't want you no more. I get you your first job delivering for da flower shop, let you stay here fo' free, give you da good room, let you lay on your ass all day long, you never get one job (oh, one, fo' one day!), give you money, let you have your skank-ass homeless girlfriends spend da night, bail you out of jail, twice, you never pay no rent or nothin' and you steal auntie's hat, money from her purse, my aluminum cans, you broke everything of mine dat you touched, and now you jack my computer right out of my house while I'm sleeping! What, you don't think I know it was you? No wonder your parents gave you up! Just bring back the computer and I won't tell the police where you live.

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no respect
August 12, 2010 | 10:11 AM

ICEHEADS!!

clean n lovin it
Take a needed break!
August 13, 2010 | 04:24 AM

Starchild Bliss is a lovely soul, but she has it wrong this time. Tough love is your answer for your problem. You have been walked over enough, now is the time to wrest control back from the user and give to him no longer. Pono this, pono that; enough! The loser has taken your pono and spit it back at you. Stop giving to those who cannot return the favor. He may not be ready to work back to lawfullness, it is not your time to give any longer. The next step is up to him, it is no longer your problem until he shows he has true remorse.

Bill
Starchild bullshit!
August 13, 2010 | 09:46 AM

Get real, the guy tried to help and the kid never appreciated a thing. Change the locks, and don't let this bum back in the door. This kid is poison and no good will ever come of him. When he needs help again, and he will, let his real parents help the little jerk. I feel for ya man! Save your help for someone who really needs and deserves it.

Wise old owl
August 13, 2010 | 12:34 PM

I am so sorry to hear that you are carrying so much baggage. Clearly, for 9 years, you did not give from your heart. No wonder this narrative turned out so badly for you. You wanted it to all along, you designed it that way.

I suggest you return to the traditional ways of the kanaka maoli. Do a "non-violent communication" hooponopono, where you come together with this "icehead" in a space of unconditional love and acceptance. If you give up your own attachment to your own narrative, in which you are the giver and he is the reciever, then I think you may be brave enough to see the truth: you are the needy one who was violating his boundaries and creating a space of unhealth and lack of respect.

I invite you into a place of peace and acceptance and love, being fully present in the moment. I have been accepted by the hawaiian kahuna, ever since moving here from Berkeley. Now I am initiated as a kahuna, in the lineage of Daddy Bray, and I am willing to be hired by you to help you regain the traditional hawaiian wisdom that you have lost.

Starchild Bliss Berkowitz, Haiku

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