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Well i don't even know where to begin, let me just say we were a middle class family for the most part. We weren't rich but we had a nice apartment for a family of 4. My mom left my dad when i was about 8 or 9. My brother stayed at the apartment with my Dad, and i went with my Mom. I lived with her and her boyfriend till i was about 10, my mom and her boyfriend got avicted from their new apartment due to not paying rent. Then it happened a second time, and her and her boyfriend couldn't provide a stable home for me, so i moved back in with my Dad and my brother. Everything was great during my 3 years of middle school. I had a normal life!
My dad was a single parent, and he worked graveyard hours. He paid rent, he was never behind or late on rent. Rent was something I never had to question about. My 8th grade year, my dad got laid off his job at Mission foods. They were getting a new implant, Taco Bell or something so they laid a lot of people off. He took a break from work of course, i mean who wouldn't?? The thing is, he never went and looked for a job after that. He was gone a lot, dressed up in his black leather jacket, and when he wore that leather jacket that's how we would know where he was headed. Ameristar Casino, Horseshoe, or Harrahs. Well i thought everything was fine at the time, I had no clue of what really was going on. I didn't think anything of it.
I guess we ended up going to court for the aviction notice and all that. My dad likes to procrastinate. He didn't have no other place set up to go, and we didn't even get to finish putting the furniture and stuff in the garage. Two days before we had to officially be out, My dad went to jail. Their was this lady that he was friends with and she said that he had hit her, when i know he never did because he's not abusive what so ever. He was with my mom for 26 years and their was no domestic violence with them. The police had my mom come to stay with me and my brother, but she was homeless too, and her boyfriend had got sent to federal prison. My brother was 18 so he had his own car.
The next day their are people in our apartment telling us we have to go. Half of everything is still inside, but somebody eventually moved it to our garage. My mom and i had to take my dads car and we had no where to go so we were sitting in very hot weather. And thats where it all began. That is the day my life changed forever. Nothings been normal since. It was the beginning of June. While my dad was in jail i stayed with my friend, and then went to colorado to my aunts to visit. When i came back he was out of jail, and we still didn't have a new apartment like i expected. It was my first year going into highschool, so i lived with another one of my friends that went to my school.
I stayed with her for about 5 months, but we would never wake up for school. We would skip, show up late, not show up at all. We would smoke weed and hang out with friends (i was already smoking back in 8th grade) and go for late night drives. When i look back now, i never really was so concerned as to where my dad was staying at, he always stopped by to see me. But i then had to leave this girls house, and you won't believe where i started staying next. Me my dad and my brother lived with the lady that had put my dad in jail for a couple months. My school was right across the street, but i still missed days. I was still smoking weed and drinking with friends.
My dad still hadn't got a new job. him and (i'm just gonna reference her as D) argued probably almost every day. Well one night when i was out walking around with friends, we walked to buckeys and theirs this girl i meet. She was cool, and she wanted us all to come over to what was known as the " trap house " everybody knew that house. We went over there, that girl told me she had xanax. I told her i would take one, but i get into her bedroom and she looks at me and says "Meth" . I definitely said no to that, but i stayed in her room because i didn't want to seem sketch. 3 adults come in this room and that girl had a big glass bong. It was passed around, and the person who i didn't know sitting next to me passed it to me, i didn't want to sketch them out so i grabbed it. i was gonna give it back to that girl... but i guess i didn't. I tried it. I tried crystal meth.
i didn't smoke meth for probably a month after that. I had a boyfriend and i didn't want him to ever find out. He cheated on me and immediately got with this girl who was new to our school. My friend T, his girlfriend broke up with him too so we became best friends. Well i ended up messaging that girl asking if me and him could come over. We went over there, and i smoked again. I continuously went over there probably 3 times a week and got high. I stopped going to school completely, and D got avicted from her apartment too. My brother was gone for good after that, he left on his own and never really spoke to my dad.
I ended up living at the trap house. I started staying there because my other homegirl that i've known since 6th grade-that was her house. So, the girl that i was smoking meth with E, she was friends with my friends mom. She brought me in once and i guess we all smoked. Since then i was always sneaking in to my friends moms room to smoke dope. I would be up for days. I've been heavy set my whole life so i went from 160 lbs to 130 lbs. I was never sober, i never wanted to eat because i wanted to lose weight. That was the only time i was actually happy with my body. All the teenagers would smoke weed and drink, i would switch back and fourth to go and hang with the adults in my friends moms room to smoke and then come back out and hang with everybody else. Nobody knew what i was doing.. but eventually everybody found out, and looked at me different. My school, the whole school found out. Mind you.. i was 14 years old, hanging with adults. Yeah i know, that's something i definitely shouldn't have been doing but it happened and i can't go back and change it now.
A couple days before my birthday my bag of clothes, the only clothes i had on me, and i'm talking like a big black trash bag full of decent clothes, gets stolen from me. That same day, my auntie calls me to tell me that my dad spent storage money at the casino. Everything my dads collected in a lifetime, got auctioned off. Mine and my brothers too. Thankfully, the lady who had bought everything that we knew was home gave us me and my brothers baby pictures, birth certificates, and all that kind of stuff. Soon the school year is about halfway over, it's april and my birthday is coming up. I met this guy on my birthday through my other homeboy, and my friend wanted to kick me out of her house because she was mean like that.. so i ended up staying with that guy Ace. He lived in a familiar neighborhood where i'm from so if anything happened i felt safe to leave if i needed to. He smoked meth too, and that's when i was really on meth every day. Me and him ended up being a relationship, until i missed a court date and had a warrant out for my arrest. This is May now. I soon get arrested from his house and stay in DCYC for 22 days.
My mom had finally got her own little place at the time, a one bedroom studio. I stay with her on ankle monitor.. and i didn't want to, i was strung out. During the end of july i cut off my ankle monitor and run with Ace. That didn't last long, i got locked up and didn't get released until september 14th. i was in a shelter group home for a month. I got back out on ankle monitor and completed my probation.
Not long after i got my ankle monitor off, D put my dad back in jail, lying saying he pushed her and she fell. She did break her wrist, but my dad never pushed her. My dad was in jail for 9 months, he didn't get out till last June. When he got out my mom got avicted from her studio, so then again we had no where to go. Also, i forgot to mention Ace went to jail, then prison for an 8 hour high speed chase, August 10th. I end up staying at Aces house with his mom. Then my mom and dad eventually start to stay there too, because we're all homeless. My dad paid his mom 100$ for rent, we had the basement. We stayed at his house for 6 months. Can you believe that?
My dad didn't save any money to try and get his own place. While we were there he spent paychecks on paychecks at the casino. I almost every paycheck he got except two or 3 the whole time we were there , straight gone! Ace got released for two days out of jail and i made sure i was gone from his house, because i was waiting for him since i was 15. I still haven't seen him and i turn 17 in April, he's currently still in prison. I had found someone else, and when we left Aces, i had to stay with J. I stayed with J for a couple months... and one day my dad FINALLY got a place!
You could only imagine how happy i was. I hate being away from my parents. I'm so close to my mom and dad, i probably tell them things most teenagers wouldn't tell there parents. We moved into a two bedroom duplex just recently, about 3 months ago. The first place, that we have had of our own since i was 14. It's crazy. It was big, and cheap as hell! Only $565 a month . The kictchen was big and it came with a washer and dryer.
Here's the sad part, it's already gone. We're getting avicted from this new place, and we have to be out April 1st. My dads been late on rent, and i guess he didn't pay nothing the last two months or something... i don't know. He blames my mom for us getting avicted. My dad had a job, and he lost it from missing 3 days in a row being at the casino not long ago. My dad then received $5,267 in taxes. He spent about $200 on me for some clothes because i'm so fat now that i've been sober, nothing ever fits me anymore. He bought me a samung smart tv, flat screen. The nicest TV i've ever owned in my whole life. He told me he paid the landlord. He promised he wouldn't blow his taxes. He's promised me that he's not going to blow any more money at the casino. They have all been broken promises. He spent that tax money he got, at the casino. And then, i come home from school and my TV is gone.
I don't know why he did that. He wants a place of his own, it took him 3 years to finally sign a lease and get a place. It was perfect. But now it's all gone. He doesn't have a job, and he doesn't have a car. My mom and him argue REALLY bad every day, and she is the one with the car so she won't let him take it because he would always sneak out and take her car to get to the casino. He's always telling me, "Dont worry, Dad will figure it out he always does, doesn't he?" and he smiles at me, trying to reassure me that he will figure it out. But the thing is.. he hasn't. It breaks my heart, because i didnt get to live the normal life of a 14 year old. I'm almost old enough to really start doing things on my own.. and i'm not ready for that yet when i should be. I'm still torn, i am not recovered at all. I don't want to be away from my mom and dad again. My mom wasn't in my life for 5 years, i eventually realized she was also addicted to meth and her boyfriend kind of.. dragged her down down deep. When i got older i had understood that my mom slept on benches outside and in tents and in cars during winter, having to carry bags on her shoulder to get some place. And i had absolutely no clue what my mom has went through, and that also still breaks me. And My dad had a little problem with it too, he would get high and be at the casino all night.
I just want my parents to finish raising me, i'm not ready to let go just yet. We're going to be homeless ... again . And i'm going to have to stay with my boyfriend, again. I was reading yesterday about gambling addictions, the effects from it all, and my dad needs help. He needs professional help. It is to the extreme right now. I've got so much stress on my mind, and often times i find myself really thinking about all of this, all of what i have explained in this text here. The good thing is that i've been going to school and i've been sober, and i'm not going to resort to drugs again. But i just don't know where my dads gonna go, or how this is going to plan out. Although i've usually been surpressing my feelings, I feel a deep sadness when I really dive back into reality of how things STILL are. My dad blew his last $400 check from his job and BLEW all the money away friday night!!
I hope somebody reads this, and maybe can relate or give me advice. I know this was a bit long. I feel temporarily better. I still have hope in my Dad and that we will all get through this.
If you have any questions about a parent who has a gambling addiction, please feel free to ask any questions.
--March 24 2019 --
-T

I have in-laws from Philly that straggle out here from time to time and I've become a bit of a tour guide in that time. If you're staying overnight and have a little coin in your pocket you can get a lot done in a couple days out here. There's fine dining, comedy clubs, dance clubs and night life. There's two of everything I can think of out here and they're usually right next to each other so getting to and from them isn't much trouble. Do any or all of the following. This would be the best way to spend two days and a night here without spending all day in the car if you ask me.
Lets say you get into town Saturday mid day. First, head down to Historic Old Westport and have lunch and coffee. Westport is a place best enjoyed in daylight in my opinion so save your night life for stuff to come later on my list here. It's a nice place to spend an afternoon. Try McCoys Public House for lunch and enjoy a reasonably priced meal and a micro brew beer. Don't let West Port suck you in too much because there's more to do.
When the sun goes down head over the hill from Westport to the Plaza. They just turned the lights on this week and it's worth a look. They have horse carriage rides for like $40 and I'm sure your girl will enjoy that. There's fine dining and shopping in the area but it's hardly the cheapest place to do any of that. Definitely the nicest, but not the cheapest for food/drinks/lodging. This might be a better place for ice cream and another cup of coffee and a carriage ride and then head out. If you don't mind paying about $150 for both of you for a full dinner then I like Houstons. Have the prime rib and let her try the fish. Very nice place.
After dinner hit the Power and Light district for a little night life. It's worth the cab ride a few miles north, but all these areas are very close together. They have a huge heated out door area with dancing and a huge projection screen playing whatever big game ect. is on. Every bar theme imaginable is represented somewhere in this multi leveled, conveniently designed, modern strip of bars, clubs, and restaurants. This place is everything from a huge indoooutdoor night club, country bars, sports bars, dance club, and my favorite is the local jazz/blues music. If you're done with the crowd go get a martini at a piano bar like Howl at the Moon. KC actually has a great Jazz scene and you can see some pretty authentic stuff down town if you try.
Call it a night and book a room at a Casino. 10 miles North of the Plaza area is Ameristar Casino. Try your luck for a few hours on the tables and slots and get a reasonably priced hotel room with plenty built in if you're not done with the restaurant/babeedance/music yet. Book early and you wont' have trouble getting a room for $100 or so.
Game day will be eaten up by the game of course. I would recommend you don't sleep on this too much and get going early. Arrowhead is only about 10 miles South of Ameristar but you need to get BBQ first. Odds are as an out of towner you're not going out there with tailgating equipment like portable grills ect so stop at Gates BBQ in Independence (there are multiple locations but this is close to your hotel on 10440 East 40 Highway Independence, MO 64055) They open at 10:00 or so and pick up a slab of ribs and a couple pounds of some spicy sausage or brisket or both for sandwiches and some beans and potato salad. Get your red on and just bring a folding table and a couple of chairs and a football to toss around the parking lot and tune your radio to 101.1 FM for pre-game. About noon should be the gate opening for a 3:25 kick off game and you'll want to be well on your way there by then because traffic gets clogged quick. If you really want to have a good time tailgating just bring a case of beer and start handing out to passer byes who are out for a good time themselves. Don't be shy, you will be welcome with any of them. Head to your seats with an hour to kill so you can tour the stadium a bit. Stop for your beer and popcorn before you get to your seats because the walk around vendors are kind of rare out there as compared to most stadiums. The game is going to take care of itself and should take up most of your afternoon/evening. After the game have a walk about the stadium and enjoy some of the displays in there as well. Traffic out of the stadium is worse than traffic in so 30 minutes spent touring Arrowhead is better spent then 30 minutes trying to get out of the parking lot.
If you're not just done for the day at this point and don't need to be on a plane or whatever, 10 miles west of the stadium is the Crown Center area. Warm up after the game over burgers and sodas at Fritz's Rail Road restaurant where food comes by model train to your table and then go ice skating and visit the mayors Christmas tree after sun down. Shop/eat/drink/music ect. That's about the best 20-30 hours I could dream up for a KC winter and nothing is more then about 15 miles from the last thing so you're not driving all day. Enjoy.