Prompt # 285 - What have you done to make ends meet when you were broke?
I’ve never been broke.
My family is pretty well off, so having money was never an issue when I was growing up. My sister and I had an allowance, like lots of other kids we knew, and we got summer jobs when we were old enough. That was just icing, though.
Then there was the accident.
I was in a coma for a while, and when I woke up, I wasn’t as ‘functional’ as I had been before. That was one of the words used to describe my condition. My memory was affected the most; so going to college was out. So was my potential hockey career. I didn’t want to live with my parents for the rest of my life, so I got a job as a janitor, moved out, found a roommate who doesn’t patronize me - much.
I’ve done talks on safe driving at the high school I used to go to, but I didn’t get paid for that. I didn’t want any money. Chris Pratt was an idiot, at least once, and four people’s lives were changed forever. That doesn’t include their families. I’m not going to ask for money for sharing my story.
My parents didn’t want me to move out. They thought I couldn’t do it and they didn’t like Lewis - my roommate - very much. That was too bad. I guess it was tough at first, but I didn’t have to resort to anything illegal in order to pay the bills. I did without, if it came to that.
In a way, I guess I’m always broke, because I’m permanently ‘broken’. I read this out to Lewis and he thought that was ‘quite clever’. I don’t know about that.
It is what it is.
Muse: Chris Pratt
Fandom: 'The Lookout'
Word Count: 289
My family is pretty well off, so having money was never an issue when I was growing up. My sister and I had an allowance, like lots of other kids we knew, and we got summer jobs when we were old enough. That was just icing, though.
Then there was the accident.
I was in a coma for a while, and when I woke up, I wasn’t as ‘functional’ as I had been before. That was one of the words used to describe my condition. My memory was affected the most; so going to college was out. So was my potential hockey career. I didn’t want to live with my parents for the rest of my life, so I got a job as a janitor, moved out, found a roommate who doesn’t patronize me - much.
I’ve done talks on safe driving at the high school I used to go to, but I didn’t get paid for that. I didn’t want any money. Chris Pratt was an idiot, at least once, and four people’s lives were changed forever. That doesn’t include their families. I’m not going to ask for money for sharing my story.
My parents didn’t want me to move out. They thought I couldn’t do it and they didn’t like Lewis - my roommate - very much. That was too bad. I guess it was tough at first, but I didn’t have to resort to anything illegal in order to pay the bills. I did without, if it came to that.
In a way, I guess I’m always broke, because I’m permanently ‘broken’. I read this out to Lewis and he thought that was ‘quite clever’. I don’t know about that.
It is what it is.
Muse: Chris Pratt
Fandom: 'The Lookout'
Word Count: 289