Okay, I went from being worried about someone to a 99% suspicion that this individual, who seemed nice online, in text messages, and in person, is in reality a horrible jerk. I have several light welding projects (fabrication and repair) I have gone through six people trying to have done. One died, one I was recommended by several people but hear he is unreliable which I don't need so didn't try to contact, one retired (or something--anyway, isn't answering), one I Googled after being unable to contact and learned he is in trouble for repeatedly raping a child who is his own relative, and one is nice but charges $80 an hour. One for whom I had real hopes, I bought a few odds and ends from such as old bricks, and he said he needed to practice his welding and would work cheap. I put the things in the car on March 10 and except for being removed a time or two have driven around with them there ever since! One time his car wouldn't work, another time he was robbed and had to meet with police, and there was at least one other time I tried getting together and couldn't. A fourth time I went to this town, which is 30 miles away so it's not like I get there all that often. I kept in touch with him through texts. He said he was running late, and I said I was hungry so would stop to eat, to text me as soon as he was REALLY THERE (it's a deserted junkyard next to the state prison so not a place I'd hang out) and I would come over. After an hour with no word I was done eating and about to drive over and check anyway, when he texted, said he had a dead phone, that he waited an hour and had to leave. So I am going to the town again, tried to text to ask if we can get together and the message was NOT DELIVERED. I went to Facebook, found his group still there but NO SIGN of his personal page and I cannot reply to messages either.
I did Google him, too, to try to find a snail mail address. All I found is some collection agency won a judgment of over $4,000.00 from him two years ago.
Afraid something was really wrong, I posted in a few places asking if anyone knew what happened to him and a lady posted back saying she can see his information fine! Of course then I knew he had blocked me on Facebook and the phone, not gone off the grid. The only other thing I can possibly have done to set him off was when I posted some bad stuff here, for which see above, I did on Facebook, too, but none of it had anything to do with him or anyone he knows--I don't know him that well. So I PMed this lady telling her this, and when I went on Facebook again, my post is still there but her replies are gone! But she hasn't blocked me as I was able to PM her asking if she removed her replies!
I am more than half tempted to drive to the place when I am in town and leave a note asking what exactly his problem is! I did find another source (seventh time lucky?) which looks very hopeful for the welding (about time as I have been at this a solid year trying to get someone to work on these jobs which are not all that major) but might still like to do business with this guy if he wouldn't be a horrible jerk. What possible right does he have to be angry with me when I have repeatedly made every attempt to contact him and have driven around with these items in my car for over two months?