Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Phobia

I wouldn't mow a lawn for anybody but a widow or a disabled (legitimately) neighbor. I have several around me but they pay a service which is a-ok with me. I have a single mother across the street that seems to think I'll do plumbing or anything else for her for free simply because we live near each other. Every time she calls me over the first thing I tell her is the price I charge for those services. I'm all about being charitable and neighborly but I do this stuff 60 hours a week for a living...

This type of stuff makes me glad that normal people typically have no use for my services. I very seldom have a neighbor come over and say, "Hey, Rain Man, can you build me a mathematical demand model? And get the opinions of 384 people around the country for me?"

[Iowanian]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

This type of stuff makes me glad that normal people typically have no use for my services. I very seldom have a neighbor come over and say, "Hey, Rain Man, can you build me a mathematical demand model? And get the opinions of 384 people around the country for me?"

"Iowanian, I saw you unloading some heavy things into your garage last weekend, I'm really tired from running this marathon and developing statistical data models to anticipate reproductive velocity of the ejaculation of the elbert squirrels in Rocky Mountain National Park.....could you come over and put these 2 large boulders in my back yard? If you don't mind hurry up and be quiet as I'll be relaxing in the hand made hemp hammock I traded a tribesman for in Madagascar"

[Iowanian]

I doubt she gets out of the chair to have the taxpayer funded food produced shit dug out of her ass by the poor, taxpayer funded CNA that is unfortunate enough to draw the short shovel at work, let alone cook.


I'm more pissed off the more I think about it....I was more shocked when she called, now I'm angry.

The harder I try to not judge people and be a decent, charitable, helpful person, the harder people try to make me take a tomahawk to them. I could seriously go roll a hobo for sport right now.


I'm fairly certain by looks that the offspring is "low functioning", but didn't get a good enough look while she laid on the bed, or gossiped with Mrs Grape while I was hefting boxes of books and stuffed animals and sofas and chest of drawers up steep ass, narrow stairways to the hovel where she'll masterb8 with a gold plated dildo.

[Fish]

That fat would dull your tomahawk in no time.....

[Iowanian]

Originally Posted by KC Fish

That fat would dull your tomahawk in no time.....

I'd sharpen it on my granite hard cock due to the mental images.

[Dave Lane]

There are lazy worthless non-workers that I have no sympathy for but to say if you have a house you rent and an xbox means you are too well off to be considered poor is absurd.

[RaiderH8r]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

There are lazy worthless non-workers that I have no sympathy for but to say if you have a house you rent and an xbox means you are too well off to be considered poor is absurd.

No, it means they should quit crying about needing more from working folks and just say, "Thank you."

In fact, every person on any form of government assistance should be writing a thank you check to a tax paying citizen every quarter of the calendar year. Dicks.

[Bugeater]

I'm now doing maintenance work and one of my properties is income-based (translated: lazy asses that don't pay no rent). It's great listening to these people constantly bitch because we can't put brand new everything into the apartments that they're not paying for.

And even better is that I not only get to help pay for the juice and pop and potato chips and candy bars for the kids, I also get to pick up the empty juice packets and pop cans and potato chip bags and candy bar wrappers that they leave all over the grounds since their parents can't seem to find the time to teach them to pick up after themselves.

And then they have the gall to bitch when shit doesn't get fixed fast enough...well gee...if I wasn't spending 2-3 hours every week picking up after your kids and cleaning around the dumpsters that your ignorant lazy asses can't seem to get your trash into, perhaps I could get to these things in a timely manner? Wait, no, I can't say that because they'd slap a fair housing lawsuit on us.

On the flip side, I also take care of another property that is elderly and disabled, mostly poor ones that don't have anywhere else to go. And with a few exceptions, they are truly in need of the help and are very nice people to whom I'd do anything for.

[Extra Point]

Hand these fuggers at the street corners a business card that reads:

GET A ****ING JOB!

You're a good dude, Iowanian. But you have to properly vet the recipients of your kindness or you're going to grown so bitter that more deserving people will not benefit from your kindness in the future. Don't do the work and bite your tongue... just walk away. When you've evaluated that the person doesn't actually need your help, walk. You think when you need help reaching something on the top shelf that one of those tall fat broads is going to come over and put you on her shoulders? No, she's not. Just walk.

[milkman]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I'm a charitable person, probably to a fault.

Here is an example of what happens when you help the poor.
I've been mowing a couple of yards since 07-08 for up to 3 elderly people.
One who lives across the street knocked on my door and asked me to do it "as a gift" because they couldn't afford it. I wanted it mowed, so I've been doing and have received a grand total of 1 thank you in 3 summers.

Last week my home phone started getting messages from the guy, and one from his wife whom I've never seen in 4 years(Gilbert Grape's mama). "Our daughter is moving home to help my sick wife and you, our dear friend, said you would help, so come and help move her stuff into the house saturday"....8 days in a row of messages, of which I've never agreed to do. Progressively more demanding..."so be here at 8am, because our daughter will be tired". The old man says, as the wife bellows 1000wpm in the background on the messages.....

I'm out in a poker game until 3am saturday morning, but get up at 7 because I've got a long list of things to do at my home and the family is gone. 8am, not there, 9am, not there......so I begin on my projects, new light fixtures, interior door, fixing the odds and ends stuff I can't do when the family is home.

It's hot...12:30 I look out, and it's not a pickup, but a Uhaul van truck backed up to their house. I go over and find one other sucker, sweating trying to unload this truck. Guilt kicks in, and I tear into a pile of boxes to pack up the stairs(everything goes to 2nd floor).

I get to the top of the stairs and have 3 choices of rooms. I hear conversation and step to the room to find 2 fat hogs who look like bullfrogs sunning themselves stretched out on their backs on a bed. One points to the other room without saying a word.

The other man and I unload the entire truck, while the old man attempts to help but physically can't....and the entire time, via a hallway, I can see Gilbert Grape's mama's Arm hanging off of a chair with a soda and her leg....and a 60" big screen. She's bitching about 500mph because the truck isn't unloaded fast enough, we're letting air out because I had to take the door off to get the F'ing sofa indoors and up the stairs.

Eventually we get everything unloaded in the sweltering heat......not 1 box..not a single box was carried by the 2 sows who now live across the street with the old people.

I'm pissed, have the truck unloaded and am putting the door back on, when one of the bullfrog twins trots to the door and starts in about how I need to put in the window AC in her room and switch headboards and on....and I finally have my fill and say "you know what, you are rested up enough to handle that shit yourself.

4 people in that home....not 1 thank you.

I've been mowing their yard for free for 3 years, they've got a bigger TV than I do. Ask for help, but bitch while I litterally do it all.


In short....This guy, is NOT feeling very sympathetic to the plight of people who don't take care of themselves.

And yes....Their AC was running to keep that house cooler than I can keep mine.

There's a difference between charity and stupidity.

[Okie_Apparition]

We're starting to wonder why Iowanian keeps going back... This won't be pretty...

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by Okie_Apparition

We're starting to wonder why Iowanian keeps going back... This won't be pretty...

I bet Gilbert Grape's mamma gives an excellent gumjob.

[Okie_Apparition]

Or he's growing wacky weed in their back yard

[Iowanian]

Update:

I ran home at lunch for a minute, 3 missed calls, 1 message on machine.
"hi, this is your neighbor, Husbandofgilbertgrape'smama, and we thought our daughters were going to be able to mow the yard and they can't, so you've been doing it a lot of times over the past few years and it's getting a little tall and we're still going to need you to do that, mow our yard. Thanks"




How in the hell does one respond to that without being the biggest prick on earth?