「Endless ★ Story」

Thanks to the world cup 2006, I got a phone call from a friend who had never been contacted for ages. It was the day after the final match of Italy and France, the day of judgement. Since I know who I was talking to, I suddenly realized that there must be something wrong. After the greeting conversation, he began to talk about his life in details. Unluckily, as I had expected, he cried and asked me if I can lend him some money. He lost amount of his money on the football betting. Moreover, he ran up debts of nearly 20,000 bahts since the first match. He told me that he was looking for a well-paid job so that he can get more money and repay the whole debts. He was threaten be the creditor that he will be in trouble unless he paid them all the debts. I asked him if his parents can help, the answer was he didn’t want to disappoint them. Thereby, I ended up the conversation with the excuse that I had just paid my money on textbooks and didn’t want to disturb my parents by asking them for more money.

The next day, while I was watching television, the news reporter reported that the rate of larceny had been increased dramatically since the end of world cup 2006. It was believed that the football betting of world cup 2006 leads to this high-rated robbery since the robber robbed in order to gain money and repaid the dept from the betting. Hopefully, my old friend wouldn’t be one of these people who solved the problem this way. Thanks, again, world cup 2006.

Ps. the illustration is taken from iannnnn.com