Derone
Appearances
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
He says, well, I took it out of the refrigerator at your house. I said, oh, so you took my Coke and sold it. Well, that's called 100% profit. So, you know, I was teaching business. I didn't see anything really wrong with it. Now, he got in trouble for it at school, and he got in trouble for it with his mother, and I let him go.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
We went to BJ's Wholesale Club, and he bought a case of soda, so it only cost him like 25 cents per can. And he says, the kids wound up smartening up some, but, you know, he was still able to sell them for a few dollars apiece at lunchtime, if only he'd only bring one or two cans a day. So B's like, who wants it the worst? That's how you create demands. And you limit the supply. Very smart, Jake.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
And then the next thing he did was selling, this got him in bigger trouble, the selling cigarette lighters. All of a sudden, that was like a big no-no. I remember he wound up getting in trouble freshman year of high school. He got caught and arrested in school because they found marijuana in his locker. Jake told me, he says, it was in my pot. It was in my locker, but it wasn't mine.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
It was a friend's, and he wouldn't give up the friend. They were going to let him go if he turned the guy in, so he wasn't a rat. You got arrested. I remember we got him a lawyer. We would shut it up. No, don't do it again. Slap on the wrist.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
I think that's what kind of made him go towards drugs as a way to escape and to kind of alleviate anxiety. But the problem with doing drugs is that it takes you out of yourself so much. It numbs your senses to the point where you get apathetic. And I think he Although, you know, he had spurts of enthusiasm for doing something.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
He decided, you know, like he was interested in the culinary arts because I had a restaurant. And I said, if you want to do that, you know, great. Finally, something that he wanted to do. So I let him go to cooking school while he was still in high school. He became a chef and he was really good at it. But then... Yeah, then his mother died, which brought on more depression and more anxiety.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
I didn't even realize the drugs he was taking. I thought he was just a pot smoker. His drive and his interest seemed to be waning all the time. And I was hoping that, you know, he would really stay excited about something because he wasn't. He wasn't into school, except for the social. Jake was always in trouble over not doing well in school.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
You couldn't stay angry with Jacob because he was always just a sweet kid. I didn't want him to have the kind of relationship that I had with my father because I was afraid of my father. You know, and I also knew, well, I got to be his father and not just his friend. It was like kind of both.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
I just wanted him to have great experiences and to try to get him to be exposed to everything that the world has. Unlike the way my parents used to be, try to like guide me one way or tell me, why don't you do this? I just would let him ask if he needs something or help. But he didn't ask a whole lot. And if whatever, if he needed something, you know, I'd help him with it.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
I wasn't the kind of person that thought babies were cute or beautiful. So I was just hoping he would be looking all right. But he was beautiful. He was a beautiful baby.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
As he grew up, very gregarious and liked to have fun and was jovial. And then as he started to get a little older, he started developing anxiety.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
He was, you know, basically depressed. I think clinically depressed, but he didn't want to deal with it. And so his mother and I had differing opinions on how to cope with it.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
3: Wayward Son
Because these kids had so much cash in their pocket to spend, my son would figure out what they wanted and would supply it. So he would come to school with one can of Coca-Cola, 12-ounce Coke, warm, but whatever, and he'd hold an auction at lunch. He says, I got $20 for one can of Coke. He goes, Dad, how much does a can of Coke cost? I said, well, let's see. How did you get that Coke?
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
6: Blink Twice
He was getting all his reports from the hospice nurse, not from Al, and somehow, miraculously, he didn't die. He was still alive.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
6: Blink Twice
Derone says, you know, I have no idea what's going on with Jake. I haven't heard anything in months. I'm going to get the police to give me an escort. Do you want to come? I said, of course, I really want to see him. So the police officer comes. We go. We ring the doorbell. Nothing. We knock, knock, knock. Nothing. The cop goes with us. We're like, the drone said, can we look through the windows?
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
6: Blink Twice
I mean, I don't understand how no one could be home. He's supposed to be in there on hospice. So the cop went with us and we looked all around and there was no sign of anybody living there. And we were like, where the heck is Jake? Did he die? What if It was the worst feeling because you don't know if he's dead or what the hell's going on. It was gut-wrenching. It was so bizarre.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
6: Blink Twice
He was calling hospitals. He even went and started walking around hospital floors and looking in rooms, peeking in. He was going to nurses' stations and asking questions. Nothing. Couldn't find anything.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
5: Making Peace with Death
He said, you better come. He's dying. I said, I can't come. There's a restraining order against me. He says, we got that taken care of. Just come.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
5: Making Peace with Death
I just lost it, and I started screaming and burbling, and I ran downstairs, and I ran upstairs, screamed at her some more. She screamed back at me. I ran back downstairs, and I took a deep breath and let out slowly, and I said, okay, for Jacob's sake, I'm going to make this go away. So I calmed down.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
5: Making Peace with Death
I was gonna go upstairs she meets me at the top of the steps and I saw I'm like two steps below and I went to put my hand on her shoulders and she yells out you're strangling me and then I was about to laugh and then hits me in the head with a soda bottle and I lose my balance and I do a backflip down the stairs. Anyway, I wound up like needing seven staples in my head. I broke my wrist.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
5: Making Peace with Death
I was concussed. I may have blacked out for a second, but... And then I had all this blood in my eyes and I called 911. The ambulance stopped a block up from my house. And I'm yelling at them, hey, I'm over here. They go, we know. I see you, come get me. And they go, no. We have to wait for the police.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
5: Making Peace with Death
So I went, kind of crawled up the street, and they started cleaning me up and took me to the hospital. I get slapped in handcuffs and get treated, and I finally get booked to the jail. Tuesday morning, I get to go to court, and, you know, I'm one of the last cases. I'm in front of the judge. I'm coated with blood. She stood up and she said, I'm deathly afraid of him. He's going to kill me.
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
5: Making Peace with Death
That's all she had to say. Well, Judge Grant's sort of restraining order against me, so I'm kind of like shell-shocked, and I wound up hiring the best criminal lawyer in Worcester.