About my roofing mentor

a memoir of sorts

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”

– James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

One upon a time on a roof

Ironically, Mickey was caught in a situation that’s very similar to what I’m going through. His experience isn’t hearsay, because I was actually there and witnessed all of the things that happened to him first-hand.

He created a roofing company with his significant other, but she pulled the rug on him when the relationship soured. She involved authorities and lied to them in order to keep him away from the business. She basically utilized the police to execute a hostile takeover of the company. Not cool.

How did she lie? She exaggerated, greatly. While the incident that she reported involved her violently throwing her purse at Mickey because she was upset with him about business finances, which then led to him eventually spitting on her face, she reported this incident as him pointing a gun at her. Mickey was presumed guilty due to this one big great lie.

He had his livelihood stripped from him and couldn’t work. He got sucked into an ugly court process, both civil, and criminal, and died before he could fight for his innocence. Mickey was 50 and it took 5 months for this ordeal to kill him.

Neither he nor I got paid for our work, and my civil legal issue ended up being stretched out for so long until…