Rant on a Hot Tin Roof

[TBoneTX 45,303]

2 minutes ago, Ontarkie said:

I guess not since they only like to talk behind our backs and have nothing to do with us the rest of the time

Fotos of family's backs now, see man.

[TBoneTX 45,303]

Awaiting phone conference-caucus at half-past 1 this afternoon, wait we man.

Financial advisorette, Mrs. T-B., us, and probably abogado, lawyer man.

Caucus on how best to invest & allocate POTS* income, too much of it man.

 

*Order your pre-owned toilet seat(s) in time for Father's Day delivery, act now man!

[TBoneTX 45,303]

Afternoon/evenin', absent Commie- and other babes with +1 inventories!

[SAT 9,609]

1 hour ago, N-o-l-a said:

 

Somehow I bet it is not as bad as pregnancy and childbirth.  Men are wimps.

Dutch= wuss

Steve= man

[SAT 9,609]

1 hour ago, Ontarkie said:

Exactly!

needless to say the surgeries I had to endure to have the last two.

Surgery pic...

[SAT 9,609]

1 hour ago, Ontarkie said:

I guess not since they only like to talk behind our backs and have nothing to do with us the rest of the time

Hillbilly's family are snakes I tell you!

If I were you, I'd disown them right now!

[Asia 2,498]

On 13.06.2017 at 7:28 PM, N-o-l-a said:

 

I hate people like that... always complaining they have no money, but yet will have a $900 phone or a new car that they trick out.

 

Oh, we have a friend like that.

Well, she's not as close as a friend to my and my friends, rather an acquaintance.

A year ago she discovered she had cancer. Her friends decided to help her to collect the money for a treatment.

It looked like this: if you had something to sell (you know like a book, a CD, a photo of celebrity, simply anything), you put it on an auction and the person who won the bidding transferred the money straight to that girl's account and you sent them that thing.

It was a great cause, everybody wanted to help. After a couple of months I asked how much money was collected, and how was it spent. I was told that no one asked about it, but me, that the girl didn't want to talk about it (I didn't ask her, cause you know she was fighting cancer... I asked her friends). I got my answer, but left the whole thing, signed myself off of it, since I'm all about transparency. You're collecting people's money, give them a feedback. Be fair. Let them know you put their money for a good cause.

The thing is she was treated on the government insurance, so nobody knows if she needed our money at all. Tho she used to say that her husband left his job to help her with their children and around the house.

And a year after I asked about the money/feedback, other people started asking them too and they got the same answer. No clear information how much money was collected and what it was used for. And yet they kept collecting that money...

And last month or something the Backstreet Boys put their next year's cruise on sale. And what happens? She and her bunch of friends purchased some cabins! I mean they had to pay around $500 already and the rest (at least $1,500) till November this year, if I remember correctly.

And when some of the girls from our facebook group started complaining that it's so expensive, that it's all about American fans (the cruise is from Miami) and so on, she and her friends started saying that the other girls are simply lazy and just like to complain, instead of start saving that money, cause it's so easy to save such money. Sure, some people have opportunities to work a second job or they simply have rich husbands, but the reality in Poland is not that colorful. And yet they kept saying that it's SO easy to save such money!

Oh, we almost confronted her about that money! But nobody dared since she's sick and everybody takes a pity on her. Well. she's not sick anymore, from what I heard lately, but still nobody wants to confront her. But a lot of girls have left that auction thing and I'm afraid that when the time will come and she will really need the money, nobody will help her.

 

OMG that was a really long rant

[SAT 9,609]

That was a record for Asia...

 

And the norm for Tark

[cdneh 3,112]

Reprieved. UD is not coming on Friday. Coming.....later.

[SAT 9,609]

20 minutes ago, cdneh said:

Reprieved. UD is not coming on Friday. Coming.....later.

What's "UD"?

 

 

Udder Daughter?

[cdneh 3,112]

13 minutes ago, SAT said:

What's "UD"?

 

 

Udder Daughter?

Useless Daughter. Hers.

[SAT 9,609]

Oh lol

[Russ&Caro 1,549]

2 hours ago, Asia said:

A year ago she discovered she had cancer. Her friends decided to help her to collect the money for a treatment.

It looked like this: if you had something to sell (you know like a book, a CD, a photo of celebrity, simply anything), you put it on an auction and the person who won the bidding transferred the money straight to that girl's account and you sent them that thing.

It was a great cause, everybody wanted to help. After a couple of months I asked how much money was collected, and how was it spent. I was told that no one asked about it, but me, that the girl didn't want to talk about it (I didn't ask her, cause you know she was fighting cancer... I asked her friends). I got my answer, but left the whole thing, signed myself off of it, since I'm all about transparency. You're collecting people's money, give them a feedback. Be fair. Let them know you put their money for a good cause.

The thing is she was treated on the government insurance, so nobody knows if she needed our money at all.

This is so bloody common. This exact thing happened to me 20 years ago. My brother and sister in law sent out a blast mail to all friends and acquaintances that a dear friend of theirs fell off a ladder while painting and was now a quadraplegic. Many hospital bills, no more job, blah, blah, blah. I didn't know this person from Adam, but I scraped together $100 and sent it their way. Five years later I ask my sister in law about her friend and paraplegic husband. Well, it turns out, since they had no money, Medicaid paid the whole bill. The wife divorced the husband, married another guy, and now houses the ex-husband in a separate wing of their new house while collecting his social security disabilty checks. In the end, they are financially way better off than where they started - and even better off than I was when I donated $100, I might add. Nothing was mentioned about what they used the donations for. I am assuming it went to an extravagant honeymoon with the new able-bodied husband.

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

I have a similar story - family is suffering a medical issue and asks for money (and receives it) to build an addition on their house so that people don't see their messy playroom when you come in the front door.  

 

Mind you, that is exactly what you see and would have to walk thought when you get to my front door... when you have kids and don't have a large house, your living room is your playroom.

[SAT 9,609]

Sounds like my SIL. The one that got married in 2013, remember?