She aint messin wit no broke niggaz Part 2
First off, since no one commented on it, I'll bring it up myself - What do you think of my updated header? I finally figured out how to include the fork, via Photoshop. I love me some Photoshop.
And The Love Boat theme song finally left, in case you're interested. It was replaced by this song, which is infinitely better by comparison.
And now, back to our regularly scheduled post:
Oh hell yes, YRLFSATP called The Thing. She went there.
And if any of you are thinking that YRLFSATP is now or has ever slept on my couch, you must cease reading this blog now, leave and never return because you are obviously a stupid douchebag who doesn't know me at all. However, The Thing, being the sensitive and overly kind man that he is, came to me asking if there was anything we would be willing to do to help her.
This is where I got torn. Because, seriously, what do you do?
On one hand, every good, moral fiber of my being is screaming 'there is a woman and toddler who are probably going to sleep in their car tonight when it's 30 degrees outside and you have a large house and an air mattress.'
The other hand then smacked me across the face and said 'if you enable that selfish gold-digger by again coming to her rescue and not making her be responsible and dealing with the consequences of her own actions, I will never let you masturbate with me again.'
The other hand won by a landslide.
However, being the good sweet people we (okay, I totally couldn't keep a straight face on that), The Thing is, we came to a compromise.
YRLFSATP has to find a job and a place to live on her own. She cannot, under any circumstance, stay here. But we did agree to help in two other ways. First, we became her storage unit. Any of her personal belongings that won't fit in the car with her now reside in our garage. And second, we took in her two cats temporarily until she finds new housing.
Last I heard, she was sleeping on Baby's Daddy's parents' couch, and quite miserable doing it. I know this because a week after all this went down, she stopped by our house again to see about money and/or a place to stay. Unfortunetly for YRLFSATP, The Thing wasn't home and she had to deal with me. I only help those who help themselves. I figure, if that's a good enough rule for God to follow, it's good enough for me.
posted by ƒåυνέ @ 8:35 AM
11 Comments:
Totally love the fork!
And you're doing the right thing - she won't learn how to help herself until she *has* to and there's no time like the present if you ask me.
Are you at least rooting through her shit?
And good job getting the fork in there. I knew you'd figure it out.
Heh...love the fork. I've been reading blogs through a feed lately and missed it before.
Can't see the fork here at work. I'm sure it's lovely!
You go girl!!! I agree, she needs to help herself.
This is brilliant. And I love the fact that you took in the cats but not the people. Too funny. She does need to learn to stand on her own feet, though, so I completely support your position.
I like the fork.
And I'm glad the other hand won.
Oh hell yeah! I'm with Bob about rooting through her stuff. She probably has stuff she could be selling, but isn't willing to part with it as long as someone is providing for her gold diggin' ass. Ya'll did more for her than I would have. I would have given her $50 and said don't ever contact me again.
you're not as nice as i am. i would have let her stay and then i would have been miserable and complaining and all that stuff so even tho i am nicer, you're smarter. :-)
totally diggin the fork! i usually read you in google reader so i don't always see the header or hear the muzak.
so glad you're posting more tho.
I thought for a moment you were going to say you compromised and took just her kid, LMAO!!! Although, that's not a bad idea.
It would make you look like a saint while totally bitch-slapping YRLFSATP.
Part of me thought of that but 1) I don't like kids and 2) I work so either that would be a huge pain for me (she's only 15 months old, hardly at the age where she can go play while I work) or YRLFSATP would come here everyday for her daughter, which would suck.
Besides, YRLFSATP wouldn't do it anyway - wouldn't go anywhere without her daughter. When I suggested they go to an emergency shelter, Baby's Daddy refused to let the Baby go, saying YRLFSATP could but Baby would be staying with his parents. Which is how YRLFSATP got to be staying on their couch - she simply refused to go without her daughter.
As a true lurker, and someone who's with someone who has ALOT of former girlfriends, I had to read about THIS!
As a not-very-good lurker, I had to comment. Good. Job.
P.S. I say go through her shit too. And then blog about it. :P
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