That's a damn good question.....he wasn't and isn't a farmer. The land was sold and he has the acreage now. I'm pretty sure he'd been "doing something for cash" along and bought it on a contract is my guess.



This thread is making me angry and I probably shouldn't be, or I might find myself throwing a paper airplane tomahawk at the fat hobo chic who is about due to walk by the office with her backpack and pull behind luggage.


I do have genuine empathy for people who have no options....who are destitute and they exist. I donate plenty of time, effort and funding on their behalf, because I know what it's like to have a duct taped shoe as a kid. I'm just lucky my folks worked their asses off and taught us pride and hard work instead of the easy road.

But the "I can't afford to mow our yard, could you do it as a gift" card, when you're sitting in your 65degree house watching a 60" flatscreen..............F that.

That's very true, but I'd still be harnessed to a desk 40 hours a week watching all the deadbeats leave early or just not show up like I do now. Granted, I'd have a higher salary, but I'd still get shafted when it comes to Free Time. I have pride now, but sometimes I wonder if it's worth it!

I'd consider it for the Free Time alone, but I'd be piss poor. Not many safety nets for single people 18-60. Believe me I've looked!

Smoker's entitlement pisses me the **** off. It was always like that in the restaurant industry. Smoker's were constantly going out back to take a smoke break or some shit while all the non-smokers had to keep on working.

As I've gotten older, this has shifted over into the parenting realm. We have a large group of friends, most with kids. Some of the parents still smoke when we get together socially (though they don't want their kids to know). So this group of smokers are constantly sneaking off outside to smoke cigarettes, leaving the rest of us inside to watch their ****ing kids and run cover for them when they kids come asking where their parents are. They'll disappear for 20 minutes at a time.

I flipped the hell out on them the other night. Everyone was at my house. There were about 20 kids running around inside. I'm trying to get dinner ready, and all the other ****ing adults scrammed outside to smoke. On top of that, some dumb twunt (a smoker) started preheating the oven for some shitty casserole she wanted to throw in, not realizing that my pork loin was resting in there, wrapped in foil.

I came barreling out of the house and unloaded with both barrels. "Alright, folks. I'm coooking you dinner already. I'm not babysitting your kids, too. Plus, you almost ****ed up my pork loin, and that's a crime I won't forgive."

For some reason, people were walking on eggshells around me the rest of the night.

Nah, I'm not outdoorsy enough for the Full Time Hobo Life, I can ride bikes and take walks and occasionally camp, but fuck living outside permanantly.

So true. WTF?

[QUOTE=NewChief;7757177]Smoker's entitlement pisses me the **** off. It was always like that in the restaurant industry. Smoker's were constantly going out back to take a smoke break or some shit while all the non-smokers had to keep on working.
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I've heard people claim watching others take smoke breaks when they couldn't motivated them to smoke and kept them that way for life.

im convinced some of these folks dont have souls much less pride.

I had a lady who makes 35k a year and a husband making 65k a year (he works there too) bragging a year ago about she's getting WIC to help pay for grocery bills. Two people making 100k a year getting help paying for their groceries? it used to be the people accepting this stuff were the pathetic dumbasses, now it's the people NOT accepting this stuff that are the dumbasses.

It's called keeping it real. I have that same problem. When you don't take other people's shit and you stand up for yourself it makes you an asshole.

I am an asshole because I told my SIL (who I rent a room out too) that when she uses our kitchen she needs to clean up her mess.

Or when it's 2 am and I want everyone outa my house...apparently telling everyone its time to go makes me an asshole. Or when some low life friend wants to invite her low life boyfriend over to my place, saying "no" makes me an asshole.

I don't wanna air too much of my personal life, but yeah, I am an asshole for many reasons just like that. I'm pretty much known as an asshole though.

As a smoker I have to say something here. I work at a call center where I am tied to the phone all day. I have an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon where I am covering the inbound e-mail portion of the job and am not on the phone. This is when I take my smoke breaks (2 15 minute breaks, 1 60 minute lunch). This way I am not negatively impacting call coverage and if e-mails get backed up, I can complete them between calls during the rest of the day.

BTW, I learned to smoke when the opportunity arose while working fast food. I agree with many, people who smoke all the time and thus do less work suck. My point is that, as with most things, there are exceptions to the rule that are missed when the big brush is used to paint a segment of society.

My tolerance for people's bullshit has decreased with age. At one time, I think most of our circle of friends were like, "NewChief is such a nice guy. He's like a saint or something. Always kind and sweet to people." Over the years, I think it's become, "NewChief is kind of a dick."

We've all been saying that here anyway.

You are also the one they respect and whose house they will respect. Continue to handle business where you are in the right. the more they whine at you the more you know you are right.

When I was a kid, we lived next to a Brazilian family that bragged to my mom that they got a divorce so they could get on all those gov assist programs. My mom was a mid-20's single mother with 3 kids and no car working minimum wage at the time and she had too much pride to accept "government charity". She still holds a grudge against that family because she worked extremely hard to provide for her kids on her own.

Your house your rules. Those that don't like it won't come back meaning the only people who still come over are the people you want there anyway.
I know that's how I like it.