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Well its been awhile, ive debated on what I should say next, to defend myself or not, im not to happy on how I handled the last situation I was in, but im even more unhappy on how john jr handled it. I was told when I took that job, fifteen dollars an hour and all expences paid,that is the only reason I moved away from my children and gave up the truck I was buying, which I lost eight hundred dollars giving it back. I went to work for john sr and everything was fine for a couple of months, then on November 15, out of nowhere I was told to fire 5 workers and I was not being paid by the hour anymore, I had three days pay coming to me, to last two weeks, at this point I have already established myself here, ive spent thousands of dollars on things and could not argue the wage cut because I was stuck, at his mercy, no way to leave. I had planned on bringing my daughter out for thanksgiving but could no longer afford it, that was a very big let down for me, but I continued to try to see the good things in my future. I made it till dec 1^st on the 300 dollars I had to last me two weeks but I was very discouraged about my future here, but I kept working hard and trying to do my best for john sr. December got even worse for me, I was still working 50 and 60 hour weeks for a salary of 1600 a month, that's less than I was making at home, while I was around my family, this was very frustrating to me, what was I doing, but I felt trapped, like there was nothing I could do about it. Well like I said, December got worse, expences were about five hundred every two weeks and john gave me expence money on dec 3^rd, 5oo dollars, but on the 13^th when he went back to California I told him I only had a little left, he said we would take care of it later, as the days passed, and I had a deposit to make, I told him I had no more moey for expences, he told me we would work it out and to make the deposit, so I did, that was around the 28^th, so I had to spend what little money I had to take care of his expenses, meanwhile the water got shut off at my house which he told me he paid, needless to say I was very frustrated with the hole situation, to top it off, come pay day there was no check, as a matter of fact there was no check till the 8^th because I guess john forgot to pay me, ive worked very hard for this man, and accomplished more in the 4 months I was there than john jr could in a year, as a matter of fact, he comes out and lays around in bed all week moaning about his back and charges his dad a thousand dollars and calls me the thief. Their was not one tool stolen, that is a flat out lie from johns mouth, I know that I did not handle the situation right but I also know that I did a very good job while I was there, john you wrote a lot of things about me that weren't true, for my children to read, believe me I would like to do the same to you and your trips to ok, but I wont, ill leave everyone guessing, lets see how trustworthy you are. And if anyone is wondering, yes, I did start doing drugs again, for about two weeks, but ive been clean sence ive left okmulgee on the 8^th of jan, and as for me being a thief, ask john about the deposit of over two thousand dollars I made on the sixth, two days before I left, james