I know it seems extreme, but I can't think of any other way to describe them.
So two years ago now I decided it was time for me to get myself a new hobby, I'd been suffering from mental health problems for a while and really needed to find something to get me out of the house. I saw a sports team advertised in the local paper and went along on a whim one night.
I immeditely felt like I'd found somewhere I belonged at last. The club was run by a husband and wife, the wife was the main driving force but the husband was heavily involved as well. Ive made lots of really good friends, but especially this couple. They seemed lovely, warm friendly and welcoming from the off. They would do whatever they could to help team members who were having problems etc and I got to know them and their family really well. They weren't local and were originally from a town about an hour a way from here so didn't know many people and I assumed had founded the team to make friends.
So I became quite heavily involved and enjoyed it a lot, but looking back both always displayed questionable behaviour. They ran a business when I met them, then suddenly got bored of it and closed it down leaving people out of work. The wife in particular had a lot of personality clashes and fell out with so many people I'd be here all day if I listed in them all. Both were incrediably vinditive and would sit and tell you how various people had wronged them, and most disturbingly of all would talk about ways they could ruin their lives (get them sacked etc). To my shame I took the view that they'd always been nice to me and turned a blind eye. Their lives seemed to be full of fall outs, house moves to get away from people and hare brained money making scams and businesses that never came to anything.
So fast forward to now, about three months ago they suddenly decided they didn't want to be involved in the club anymore. They wanted to close it down but the rest of us enjoy it so much and have invested a lot of time in it and wanted to carry on. A group of decided to take over the running, well basically they have left us in a shit load of debt that we are unlikely to ever repay because money from clubs accounts has vanished. All Facebook messages and texts are being ignored, but I can see from FB that they have now set up a new venture in a town 20 miles away with the same kind of fanfare they launched our team with.
It's like they go from place to place, causing chaos and trouble and using people then buggering off. We are probably going to have to close our club, something we enjoy because of this mess. I'm angry and also aghast that I didn't see through them, I pride myself on being a good judge of character and I was so wrong on this one.
How can I have been so easily bloody shafted?