when friends become numbers...
i have a couple of friends, well, now more than likely former friends that just don't get it. pyramid schemes suck. they all have the same formula, sometimes even the exact same price tag, and sometimes just creates enemies...this was apparently the case.
lemme start with a little bit of backround. these two are your usual mormon couple. after knowing each other for about a month they got engaged and a few weeks after decided to get married. don't get me wrong, i like them both. she's always been nice to me and never judged me on my appearance and the guy never felt threatened by me like every other guy i seem to meet. anytime someone gets married i wish them the best of luck, especially with how high the divorce rate is. i've also proven that mormons are NO exception to this despite what they may tell you (i.e., "i got married to my wife at 18 and look at me 20 years later!") as far as i can tell they both don't have a college degree, and from what i can gather of my visit to their home, they have had to either make some serious cutbacks or just couldn't afford to get married to begin with. with all that in mind, i told you that story to tell you this story.
anytime someone gets married here they pretty much get cut off from the rest of the single world...it's just what happens roughly. so me and the GF took a stand and decided that we're not going to keep the married people down and invite them out to stuff so they don't feel ousted...especially the guy since he moved to bakersfield from another city almost an hour away. they showed up on one instance to a pre-4th of july pool party we had just cuz it was too hot. every other time we call to ask to hang out we get no response...nothing, not even an excuse. silence.
out of the blue i get a text from the guy asking if we had time to watch a dvd with them and thought, "cool, a movie night!" so i agreed to meet only to have this weird feeling that it wasn't all cracked up to be. it's like i was using the force when i just guessed that this may be one of those pyramid sham videos...i guessed correctly just as we were pulling up to their home.
same lingo, same "make money fast" speech, and almost the same price tag i've seen (i've had to sit through many a video and/or "business convention") and afterwards they ask us the dreadfull question, "so what do you say, are you in?" and all i could think in my head was "fuck no!" but the girl saved me with the cookie cutter response of "sorry but right now we barely have enough money for our bills and don't have the 300 bux required to even start this program" or something like that.
the very next day we were supposed to have a "man-date" where a bunch of us go river tubing and leave the girlfriends behind...even that fell through since one of the girls feels VERY insecure about leaving her boyfriend alone and constantly thinks i'm going to take him to a titty bar. so i inquired as to what happened to our last guy-date and just simply asked why he wussed out yet again (we've invited him SEVERAL times, especially since summer is almost over). he sent back quite the fucked up text by asking me why i wussed out on owning my own business and to get a job.
so that's it...i've gone from being a friend to now being a number. and since i didn't agree to the sham he now sees a negative number and why should he go tubing with us when he could be out recruiting another sucker.
both of their excuses for doing this pyramid thing is that they "hate their jobs"...gee who hasn't said that. soon they're going to hate going through friends and family and only see them as possible dollar signs. like it's my fault that they decided to get married so soon and unprepared. so until my day comes, i will enjoy my A/C, flatscreen, PS3, Xbox 360, unemployment check, and hooptie ride and go river tubing every other day and enjoy my life with friends.
lemme start with a little bit of backround. these two are your usual mormon couple. after knowing each other for about a month they got engaged and a few weeks after decided to get married. don't get me wrong, i like them both. she's always been nice to me and never judged me on my appearance and the guy never felt threatened by me like every other guy i seem to meet. anytime someone gets married i wish them the best of luck, especially with how high the divorce rate is. i've also proven that mormons are NO exception to this despite what they may tell you (i.e., "i got married to my wife at 18 and look at me 20 years later!") as far as i can tell they both don't have a college degree, and from what i can gather of my visit to their home, they have had to either make some serious cutbacks or just couldn't afford to get married to begin with. with all that in mind, i told you that story to tell you this story.
anytime someone gets married here they pretty much get cut off from the rest of the single world...it's just what happens roughly. so me and the GF took a stand and decided that we're not going to keep the married people down and invite them out to stuff so they don't feel ousted...especially the guy since he moved to bakersfield from another city almost an hour away. they showed up on one instance to a pre-4th of july pool party we had just cuz it was too hot. every other time we call to ask to hang out we get no response...nothing, not even an excuse. silence.
out of the blue i get a text from the guy asking if we had time to watch a dvd with them and thought, "cool, a movie night!" so i agreed to meet only to have this weird feeling that it wasn't all cracked up to be. it's like i was using the force when i just guessed that this may be one of those pyramid sham videos...i guessed correctly just as we were pulling up to their home.
same lingo, same "make money fast" speech, and almost the same price tag i've seen (i've had to sit through many a video and/or "business convention") and afterwards they ask us the dreadfull question, "so what do you say, are you in?" and all i could think in my head was "fuck no!" but the girl saved me with the cookie cutter response of "sorry but right now we barely have enough money for our bills and don't have the 300 bux required to even start this program" or something like that.
the very next day we were supposed to have a "man-date" where a bunch of us go river tubing and leave the girlfriends behind...even that fell through since one of the girls feels VERY insecure about leaving her boyfriend alone and constantly thinks i'm going to take him to a titty bar. so i inquired as to what happened to our last guy-date and just simply asked why he wussed out yet again (we've invited him SEVERAL times, especially since summer is almost over). he sent back quite the fucked up text by asking me why i wussed out on owning my own business and to get a job.
so that's it...i've gone from being a friend to now being a number. and since i didn't agree to the sham he now sees a negative number and why should he go tubing with us when he could be out recruiting another sucker.
both of their excuses for doing this pyramid thing is that they "hate their jobs"...gee who hasn't said that. soon they're going to hate going through friends and family and only see them as possible dollar signs. like it's my fault that they decided to get married so soon and unprepared. so until my day comes, i will enjoy my A/C, flatscreen, PS3, Xbox 360, unemployment check, and hooptie ride and go river tubing every other day and enjoy my life with friends.