Badly Beaten

Problems are like surfing waves. It never stops on coming and the deadlier part is not what you see in the surface but what's underneath."

It's class time. And once again the streets are flooding with people. Flooding with prospective customers. There's a simple catch though, why am I still not inching forward. It's been almost a week now. And still my sales do not even measure half of my sales last year. My competitor isn't faring much better either. Maybe because of a new school policy. The students cannot have much time to take a break and go to my establishment.

I maybe paranoid. It's been only a week. Sales will soon push up. But the sad thing is while I am still waiting for my market to pick up, everyone near me pulls me down.

1. The loan shark gets double the money compared to vacation time. Thank God there's only a week remaining debt on him.
2. My landlord requires me to pay a hundred up to three a day. (Not even letting me stabilize my condition before filling up their pockets.) (They must be thinking that: It's class time, and I would have enormous sales so go get lucky)
3. The drought time last vacation depleted my inventory. Now I am grasping for money to fill my budget on material expenses. Thank God my suppliers sometimes lets me give a couple of hundreds raincheck once in a while. ( still not enough)
4. My son is now with me because I transferred him here. Not expecting this monetary trials, now I am always getting a problem where to get funds to feed him. ( I was used to eat late, or not at all to save cash)
5. My time in the shop was shortened. Because I have to close shop at lunchtime and at the afternoon to wait for my son on the school gates. (good timing: that's when most of my customers arrive)
6. The stupid installment I got that I am now very regretful of: At first I pay only once a month (which was pre-agreed). Now they tell me that I need to pay every 2 weeks. ( I could not make any logical explanation on it)
7. I am already two months due to my bank loans. They are already harassing me and my wife.
8. My very much overdue loan grants to my friends are not paying back. (huhuhuuuu)

I am now at the end of my patience. If not for my son and wife I would had made a killing spree here because of too much going on my head. Too much problems. God help me. I have pleaded so many times already I could not help but complain. I think two more months like this and I would snap.

"I may be badly beaten, but I am not broken."

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