An extremely drunk or high old man tried to open my door at about 2am last month. he was totally sauced off his rocker, because no matter how many tims I told him to "go home, this is not your home," he kept trying to open my obviously locked door. If he didn't look so feeble and, well, homeless, I would have called the police for sure. But he wandered off on his own.
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I've mastered the art of getting everything into a backpack.
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I've mastered the art of getting everything into a backpack.
And Wal-Marts.
I'm really starting to hate my in-laws. Most of them are poor, but they are poor because of their own bad life choices. For example, my father-in-law had an amazing job making around $30/hour and full benefits that he quit simply because a manager yelled at him once. ONCE. Now he works a minimum wage job at Wal-Mart because he has no education or marketable skills and is in his 50s. Tthey are perpetually behind on their rent and other bills because my mother-in-law can't work due to medical problems. So for him to quit a well-paying job simply because a manager got a little snippy with him is the absolute height of irresponsibility.
Then you have my wife's cousin, who can't hold down a decent job or take care of her kids because she's in her late-20s but still thinks it's okay to party like she's a teenager. Not to mention she refuses to dump the father of her kids despite the fact that he cares more about drinking and getting high than providing for his family. He's another one who gave up a good career due to his irresponsibility. He was a welder, making good money, but now he works minimum wage at Taco Bell because in one of his drunken stupors he ended up getting arrested.
But none of that is why I have come to hate them. The reason I hate them is because they take advantage of my wife at every conceivable opportunity and it pisses me off to no end. Whenever she goes to visit them they guilt her into paying for everything and she tries to justify it by saying some crap like "well I am staying in their house so it makes sense that I should pay for stuff while I'm there." Okay, fine. Reasonable enough. I don't agree with it, but I can kinda see her point. However, they just came to visit us for my youngest daughter's birthday, and yet again, my wife paid for everything. When I confronted her about this she tried giving me a sob story about how her parents and her cousin (who also came to visit) don't have any money so it wouldn't be fair to ask them to pay for stuff. I called BS on that crap and responded by saying if they don't have any money, then maybe they shouldn't be taking vacations. I also had to remind her that we potentially have a large legal bill we are going to have to deal with due to the lawsuit against the previous owners of our house.
And it's not just this one incident that has me fuming at my in-laws. This was just the final straw. Several times they have asked us to pay their rent for them, to which I flatly refused and told my wife that if she gives them any money for their bills, our marriage would be over and lectured her on where her responsibilities lie now. Those responsibilities being to me and our two daughters. We are her primary family now, and she needs to get that through her head. That's a big reason why I moved us back to Ohio, so we'd be far away from her family who live in Pennsylvania. Apparently that's not far enough away though, so I have an old army buddy in Texas looking at trying to get me a good job there. That should be far enough away that we won't have to deal with her family and their leeching ways anymore.
Then you have my wife's cousin, who can't hold down a decent job or take care of her kids because she's in her late-20s but still thinks it's okay to party like she's a teenager. Not to mention she refuses to dump the father of her kids despite the fact that he cares more about drinking and getting high than providing for his family. He's another one who gave up a good career due to his irresponsibility. He was a welder, making good money, but now he works minimum wage at Taco Bell because in one of his drunken stupors he ended up getting arrested.
But none of that is why I have come to hate them. The reason I hate them is because they take advantage of my wife at every conceivable opportunity and it pisses me off to no end. Whenever she goes to visit them they guilt her into paying for everything and she tries to justify it by saying some crap like "well I am staying in their house so it makes sense that I should pay for stuff while I'm there." Okay, fine. Reasonable enough. I don't agree with it, but I can kinda see her point. However, they just came to visit us for my youngest daughter's birthday, and yet again, my wife paid for everything. When I confronted her about this she tried giving me a sob story about how her parents and her cousin (who also came to visit) don't have any money so it wouldn't be fair to ask them to pay for stuff. I called BS on that crap and responded by saying if they don't have any money, then maybe they shouldn't be taking vacations. I also had to remind her that we potentially have a large legal bill we are going to have to deal with due to the lawsuit against the previous owners of our house.
And it's not just this one incident that has me fuming at my in-laws. This was just the final straw. Several times they have asked us to pay their rent for them, to which I flatly refused and told my wife that if she gives them any money for their bills, our marriage would be over and lectured her on where her responsibilities lie now. Those responsibilities being to me and our two daughters. We are her primary family now, and she needs to get that through her head. That's a big reason why I moved us back to Ohio, so we'd be far away from her family who live in Pennsylvania. Apparently that's not far enough away though, so I have an old army buddy in Texas looking at trying to get me a good job there. That should be far enough away that we won't have to deal with her family and their leeching ways anymore.
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Sure she does. I've let her know in our arguments that if she isn't happy with my decisions, she is free to leave at any time without any resistance from me. Thing is, she doesn't want to be poor and she has no career ambitions. She wants to be a stay-at-home mom (she's expressed that to me many, many times) and she knows if she leaves she'll have to start working.
And really my problem is not with her at all. When she's a away from her family she makes good decisions and does a really good job of managing the household since I'm at work a lot. For example, she's doing most of the leg work with this lawsuit right now since I just don't have the time to handle that and work. But when it comes to anything with her family, it's like her brain just shuts down and she can't make anything resembling a good decision.
I did no such thing. All I did was state facts about her. She really does have no career ambitions and there's nothing wrong with that. The fact that you see that as me "denigrating" her says more about you than it does about me.
Now her family on the other hand? Yeah, I'll rip them to shreds all day, every day to anyone who will listen. Why? Because they take advantage of her and treat her like garbage and I actually do care enough about her that seeing that happen pisses me off. Especially this last camping trip they invited her on. She went and ended up coming home a day early because they were treating her so poorly that she called me in tears letting me know what happened. Yet she still bends over backwards for those people, even to the detriment of our household and it baffles me. At least she was still upset enough over that camping trip to agree to making them sleep in our leaky basement when they came to visit. I think she might be starting to come around and see her family for what they really are.
Well that's about the only thing that could even be remotely construed as "denigrating" in anything I said specifically about her.
I was referring to: "But when it comes to anything with her family, it's like her brain just shuts down and she can't make anything resembling a good decision."
Whether or not you believe it to be true, it's still an unnecessarily mean thing to say about someone, least of all your wife.
Whether or not you believe it to be true, it's still an unnecessarily mean thing to say about someone, least of all your wife.
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Personally, I find it questionable if your long-time wife that you have two children with falls into a "If you don't like it, you can leave." approach.
"Honey, we're moving to Texas!"
"Why wasn't I consulted? No?"
"The front door's wide open! Bye!"
"Honey, we're moving to Texas!"
"Why wasn't I consulted? No?"
"The front door's wide open! Bye!"
Does it matter
?(I'd love to be able to overpack... but I don't have a car anymore, so I cannot :/ )
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This is why we like women to get educations and have careers, so they're not stuck in abusive relationships because of financial dependence on jerks.
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I got into a fight on Facebook about employment law. I got shouted down because I said there are certain things that are blatantly unenforceable in a court of law unless you're negligent when it comes to non-solicitation clauses. It's annoying how much people treat law like a nebulous abyss of mystery to the point that "An employment lawyer will toss that out immediately when you get the contract reviewed" is somehow harmful 'advice'.
But also, Netflix is making a live action Avatar show.
I think a comment on reddit said it best: "Is that a threat?"
But also, Netflix is making a live action Avatar show.
I think a comment on reddit said it best: "Is that a threat?"
Note to self: Remember not to join Facebook. Morons post there. (Present company excluded)
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At least it will be hard to make it worse than Shyamalan's movie.
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No, you're right. I'm a moron too. I'm better than the other morons though because I know I'm a moron.
Apparently the original creators are on the team, but like... why? This doesn't need to be adapted to live action.
A wise man knows himself to be a fool, and a fool thinks himself wise.No, you're right. I'm a moron too. I'm better than the other morons though because I know I'm a moron.
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