Feb/28
2010

Mooch

You're poor. I know. You and your wife have spent your life making a lot of bad decisions and you're poor. But you're happy, right? Wife stay home with the 2 kids most of the time. You work a crappy hourly pay job. Fine.

The rest of us are pretty well off. That said, we've all had bad stretches. Every one of us has been unemployed for more the six months at a time. So, we understand being frugal. So, we all got together last night. The email invite went out a week ago. Said very clearly that we were going to order food or pick something up. There was even a couple of emails discussing what we want to do for dinner. You participated. We wanted to make sure it was cheap because the hosts recently had a kid and the husband got laid off.

Getting to the point, I want to know what the fuck you showed up with a penny in your pants. We ordered pizza. $5 a person. Easy. Cheap. You only had to put $10 in for you and your wife. So, I really wanna know, why didn't you have $10? Or even $5? It wouldn't be bad if this was the first time. It's not. And frankly, we're all getting sick of it.

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Comment from: u235 [Member] Email
I have friends on the other end of the spectrum. Husband was laid off a long time ago and now has a real bottom-of-the-barrel hourly job. When the season allows he works two jobs. She was laid off too. Then got cancer. Now she's recovering and going through more surgeries. Their daughter is in middleschool. Still, they're the ones throwing their house open to everyone. She cooks mounds of food from basic ingredients. They had a BBQ with pounds of marinated veggies instead of slabs of meat.

The point is that you can contribute if you want to, and no one will look down you for it. But to show up, consume and not give back? Well I hope they don't mind not being invited back.
02/28/10 @ 17:02
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