Last night, I was home sitting on the couch watching the tube when Roy comes upstairs and asks me the seemingly innocuous question, "So how long are you planning to stay in Vail?"

I'm thinking, what the fuck is going on here? I tell him that I don't know. It depends on a bunch of things that need to be sorted out. He says, I have to move out on the 20th (when the next rent check is due). I ask him why. Is there anything that I've done? He says no, but things are really bad between him and Lilla and I'm not making it any easier being around. I said, are you evicting me? He said, well you don't have a lease or a rental agreement and if you want me to make ugly I can. And I believe him.

The thing is, Roy is the kind of guy who makes everything in his life ugly. Now I know that all I have is a verbal agreement that I would rent the room until the end of the ski season which is something like April 20th. I'm sure I have rights based on that agreement. I'm also sure that his wife Lilla will back me up. She wasn't too happy when I told her the news. However, I don't want to continue living in that house with it's toxic and highly uncomfortable atmosphere.

So where does that leave me? I might have to quit my job and leave town because it's very hard if not impossible to find a place this late in the season let alone someone who will let me move in with two kittens. If I am forced to leave, what should I do? Should I take legal action or should I just move on and let it go and get on with my life? Being forced to leave is going to cost me a lot of money in lost comissions.

I don't know. All I know is that I'm really pissed off.