I have seen the Gateway to Oblivion...at a BP.
Why do I even bother waking up in the morning? Every day, I get up, shower, dress and go out into the world to be confronted by stupidity, arrogance, ignorance, and selfishness. I was accosted at a gas station on my way to work today by a man who asked for any spare change I might have. This man was wearing dirty, torn clothes and smelled of sour
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I do know what most consider I hard life because I lived one. You may not believe this now with the house I live in and the stuff that I have... When I was born, and when my sister was born...really the first 8 or 9 years of my life was a hard. We didnt have anything...we could barely afford any of our payments...and were close to welfare...
My mother came from a poor family that could apply for welfare (but my grandfather never took handouts) and the only way she payed her way through college was a scholarship for lower income familys.
My father was cut off from all financial support from his family as soon as he left high school.
When they got married my parents were living on close 5 dollar an hour total. my mother worked as a nurse, and my father worked at a liquor store (he would have taken his art degree further and become an architect...but he couldnt afford the tuition for a good university that had such a program).
As the years went on a nurse's wage got slightly better but my parents lived this way until a few years after my sister was born three years after me.
Now I remember this...we could barely afford the payments on our small house (my dad didnt want to raise a family in 2-bit apartments like what my father and mother had been living in up until my birth). For the first few years of my life all we had this small house and one car and each other and that was it. We were lower class by all meanings of the term So my father got fed up with this kind of life and went to nursing school in 1992 when I was four. From 92 to 96 we had even less because my dad could not go to work and go to school. So we only lived on my mother's paycheck. My father could not pay for school so they charged it on a credit card. And we're still in debt because of that.
so dont tell me that I dont know what it means to have close to nothing because I had close to nothing.
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