Gift or Grief?

[DanaC]

Monster's idea of talking it trhough with him and asking his advice about cars sounds a good route to me.

As to the idea that if he were a real friend he'd have come through long ago: I disagree. Life just isn't that simple. It's easy to get wrapped up in your own shit, for months or years at a time. And that friend you love dearly, but who lives three hunded miles away and you haven't seen in a while, recedes into the background of your thoughts. Doesn't stop them being a friend.

Not to mention that friendships themselves are not always simple. They can be a source for feelings of guilt and inadequacy as well as feelings of warmth and companionship. If he likes to be da man, as Sam suggests, then pride might easily have kept him away until he was in a position to repay the favour.