He was going to join the ranks of respected citizenry. He talked about Jesus. He wanted to make his family proud. I had heard it before. He even talked the same twelve-step crap I'd heard out of his lying yap the first time he screwed me.
Life's too short to spend it waiting for users to change their ways.
Old habits die hard so, of course, he got into trouble again. Being a Loser, he also got caught. He spent a few months in the Big House for his sins. Upon release, the judge said that as a condition of parole, he wouldn't be able to leave the area. That ended the Loser's long-haul trucking career and his plans for financial redemption.