I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

I have a very conservative friend who voluntarily moved from the Seattle area to rural Texas, because housing was so much cheaper.

Here are 2 things I can't figure out-

1. How the heck is she such a conservative? She has 5 children, all grown now, by 3 different fathers. She received welfare benefits for each and every one of her children because she wasn't married to the fathers at the time. She eventually married a couple of them, but not until after she'd used food stamps and welfare to her advantage. 

2. She is white, her current husband is Filipino. The last place I'd want to move, if I was married to a non-white person, and I was white, would be rural Texas.

Mary 

Yep! What she said.

That is for sure, Gardengumby. Another friend's SIL is a farmer, who has benefitted greatly from farm subsidies. He's one of the biggest Teapartiers there is. I'm just waiting for him to ask for federal help this year because of the drought. 

Mary 

Welcome to Thursday, Athena....  you can have Friday tomorrow, just like the rest of us!!

I was going to say nothing, as she is in her late seventies, but, damn-it, so is my mother, who would a) never act this way and b) probably be ten times more disgusted than I was.

Pay no notice to what I just said. It concerns a different thread.

(And my dearly dearly departed granny who died at 100 (people had children late in my family): She would be merciless! No nonsense tolerated by her up until the day she died.

Ha, ha. I live in Georgetown, and I am happy to say that it is a liberal bastion. We have four-way stop signs on almost every street in this 'hood and at the height of the Iraq war people were writing "the war" under the signs.

Athena-maybe your latest comment on that thread will make the mods lock it. That would be a mercy and a good idea in this case. That thread has become pretty much a "support someone's miscellaneous physical/mental not-breast-cancer issues" thread. I don't usually like to see threads locked, but I think it would be a good idea in this case.

Mary

PS Of course, there's always the possibility you'll be banned for being honest. 

Mary, I added to Athena's thought train. I don't know why the mods would lock the thread for our comments though. I'm sure they're frustrated as you know what with this nonsense.

I was hoping they would lock it to cut off the person whose thread it has evolved to be. I wasn't thinking it would be punitive to Athena or you, Yorkiemom. I just think it's a non-productive thread that has a potential to keep spiraling downward.

Mary 

Aren't trolls/poseurs predictable? As soon as you "out" them they come back with some sob story about how they or their dear family member or friend is near death or gravely striken. Seen it happen twice in two days.

I've been so good ignoring that other world, then y'all piqued my interest. Wish ya hadn't. Anyway do yourselves a favor. Walk away.

Methinks she is affected by fumes from paint thinners or something.

Much enjoyment here today......glad to know how to get rid of cancer.....it really should be Friday. 

Jackie

An hour ago Chickadee wrote:

I've been so good ignoring that other world, then y'all piqued my interest. Wish ya hadn't. Anyway do yourselves a favor. Walk away.

That's really good advice, Chickadee!

I used to be a tel operator and we had some regulars. We recognized their voices. They were often elderly ladies. They were very lonely and used directory assistance to have someone to talk to. Sometimes they made little sense. Of course we were on timers and had to find some way to dispatch them politely. Wasnt easy at all.



Assuming what we know is someone's reality, I sense a lonely person, perhaps no longer sharp, who has found somewhere to connect.