A strange twist in the tale.
I rang her this evening at 5pm after no contact on Wed or Thurs and the phone rings out, no big surprise and I was about to concede defeat.
Then my phone rings 5 minutes later, it's Emma T sounding a bit 'Brahms and Liste' and telling me how bad her week was and how she was now back home in Waterford !! and how she was meeting her daughter and taking her dog fer a walk, Etc...
I cut to the chase; "How about paying me back the 30Euro I gave you last Sunday morning ?".
She is all apologies and thanks fer looking after me so well and tells me that she will be on the 11am train to Cork on Friday morning and will meet me in the city to repay the money.
I did put it to her; "If this is a Hustle then just tell me and we let it go",
But she replies; "No, No, No, I will repay you."
No show on Friday and I had all but given up, rang her once over the weekend and got 'number not in service' which I reckoned was that she had blocked me.
Just about to concede defeat on here I said I would try her once more and it came up as 'number busy' which I reckoned was game over.
As I'm reading the updates on this topic my phone rings, it's Emma T again sounding 'Two sheets to the Wind' at 5pm of a Monday and telling me that she will repay the money later in the week or can post it on to me if I text her my address and then she adds;
"But remind me on Wednesday when I get paid and I'll go to the GPO and post it to you straight away".I dunno ! She was wandering the streets of Cork at 8am of a Sunday morning without a pot to piss in and pissed as a coot both times she rang me on Thurs and Mon evenings at 5pm. I reckon this woman has a lot of problems going on but I doubt she was a Hustler/Grifter but just a woman in a time of strife. I doubt she will repay me and I won't pursue it any further rather than to text her my address and a reminder as requested next Wednesday.