Anyway, don't know what's worse, dIvorcing before the kids reach adulthood, or (hypocritically?) sticking it out until Junior graduates. Okay, so the young man's not exactly a 3.8, still he's not a total moron; looking back, he realizes that his parents had felt miserably stuck for the last 10 or so years. So, now, both pushing late 40s or early 50s, they're gray-dIvorcing - like their having waited is supposed to make Junior feel better about the entire drama? Uh, probably NNNOT!!
Okay, granted! Junior was never much in math - flunked it back in 4th grade and had to do summer-school, and nearly flunked it again in 7th grade. Still, doesn't discount the fact that Junior knows how cds work, and that they work best in a low-risk, long-term place. Come old age - when your back won't let you change out your own engine, and your feet won't let you stand in front of a cash register for 2 - 3 hours - those cds come in handy when your car quits, and your washer also around the same time property taxes are coming due.
Junior, our numbers-numbskull millennial hero hasn't quite mastered balancing his checkbook, so he pads it with money he earns doing roofing jobs here and there. In short, the checks he writes are good.
All Junior knows is, the home he grew up in is being sold. His boyhood memories were, for the most part, happy and secure. Was it all a lie? He can't help pondering that question.
He's probably more pissed that he can't afford his own apartment, groceries and running car to take care of himself like a full adult, but his boomer parents keep voting for the politicians who act like it's still 1980 and you can pay rent or mortgage on a simple job down at the grocery store. As for property taxes, you need to catch up, Gen X on down can't afford to buy houses. Also the jobs lay you off and you have to move to stay financially alive. That's over too.
ReplyDeleteDear Peeps, and this overblown flu - which young/healthy people get over quite quickly - has been purposely designed to further persecute folks under 40 and keep them in poverty, keep them angry and get them to vote socialist.
ReplyDeleteYoung people are dying of it too or getting lifelong heart and other problems. As for the socialists, at least unlike Republicans they care if people have food to eat and healthcare. What is the Republican answer but go die in the gutter. Republicans won't even deal with the reality of increased automation taking the jobs away. I asked just now why you vote against Social Security and Medicare. Maybe you are loaded, otherwise makes no sense.
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