No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

 

I sympathize with the Mayor. That’s exactly how I feel after doing a house project for the MIL, knowing full well she’ll make a mess out of it inside 2 months.

1. You know that people don’t appreciate what they get for free. How many “lotto” winners are stone ass broke in 2 years or less? I have a plan(in the back of my head of course. It’ll never happen. *SIGH*)for what I’d do with life if I somehow ever hit it big. A PLAN. Ah well, “Dreams I’ll Never See” was one of my favorite songs of all. Would that fate allowed me to test my will.

   Posted by cmblake6       07/30/2008  at  01:26 PM  



2. Extreme Makeover, Home Edition should buy it back and do a remodel slash home swap show.  ONce the remodel is done, ol Ty and his merry cast of interior decorators go across the street and knock on the door of the poor sob who has probably been suffering from severe penis envy these past three years and hand him the keys. After that, they go visit the Harpers at the flea bag motel they are sure to be holed up in and give them the keys to the dump across the street from their foreclosed property. Now that is good television.

   Posted by Kuso JiJi       07/30/2008  at  04:57 PM  



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   Posted by cmblake6       07/30/2008  at  08:51 PM  



4. Reminds me of a line from “Unintended Consequences” by John Ross (a great novel for gun enthusiasts). A financial analyst for a stock broker, referring to someone who has just won a huge lawsuit settlement: “If four million bucks sits there in cash, I guarantee you it will be burning a hole in the guy’s pocket, and in two years that money will be gone. I don’t say that because he’s a janitor, or comes from south of the border, or anything like that. This is your buddy Tony talking, the guy who spends his days watching big companies buy up littler ones.

   Whenever one of the sellers gets a big wad of cash, not stock in the new company, nine times out of ten it’s gone in two years. And these are guys who built successful, thriving enterprises from scratch. If you aren’t used to handling serious dough in big chunks all at once, you will lose it. And you’ll lose it faster than you ever dreamed possible.”

   Posted by KGrupa       07/31/2008  at  12:16 PM  



5. "Extreme Makeover, Home Edition should buy it back and do a remodel slash home swap show.  ONce the remodel is done, ol Ty and his merry cast of interior decorators go across the street and knock on the door of the poor sob who has probably been suffering from severe penis envy these past three years and hand him the keys. After that, they go visit the Harpers at the flea bag motel they are sure to be holed up in and give them the keys to the dump across the street from their foreclosed property. Now that is good television.”

   For once, I think that may be a good idea. When it comes to some things, people simply do not appreciate what chances they have been given, and that their actions have consequences.

   Pathetic. PATHETIC!

   One could probably find and wring out a “moral of the story” thing about the West in here somewhere, but I can’t be bothered to find it.

   Sickening how irresponsibility can ruin a gift.

   Posted by Turtler       07/31/2008  at  02:12 PM  



6. Just one point here - they did not have a single condition, disease, or disaster thrust upon them - they simply chose to pursue their particular desires (a vast music collection) without tending to a serious home problem. . .

   EM:HE should not have chosen them - as their priorities were skewed and possibly should have indicated that this would be the result.

   Hopefully this will result only in EM:HE making tougher calls when deciding whom to chose - not in communities thinking twice about supporting EM:HE or families in need.

   Locally, it brought in thousands (as in $$$) - the neighbors were very nice, as were the EM:HE people. (show will air in Oct ‘08)

   cmblake - we too have a Plan (in case of a Lottery Win)- and we too have not had the opportunity to put it into action. Go figure.

   Discovery (or is it TLC) did a couple of shows on Lottery winners - man, oh man how people can waste money - but in our msm - those who donate to charity and/or pay the way through college of family - just don’t send the same chills up their spines - so they aren’t brought up and shown.

   Sort of like Soldiers who come home from war and get back to day-to-day living. And sort of like teenagers who go to school and do community work or scouting - Boring.

   And they wonder why our county is going to he** in a handbasket.

   Posted by wardmama4       07/31/2008  at  03:13 PM  

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