Really weird family in the neighborhood.....

[Bozvotros]

There's this weird family in our neighborhood. They have 10 kids and one of the biggest houses in the area. It's a big old house that has been remodeled and added on over and over but most of it is run down, all except this one gigantic three story addition tacked onto the back that doesn't look like it belongs with the rest of the place. I have even heard that there isn't even a door to the rest of the house. One of the kids lives back there. Like I said....weird.

The mom and dad are miserable, constantly fighting over the kids and you can hear them going at it all hours of the day and night. To be fair it is mostly the old man who does the yelling and threatening, while she mostly whimpers and tries to calm him by giving in to him and trying to prevent him from taking it out on the kids. Its pretty ugly. I have thought often of going down there and just kicking his ass myself as he is clearly a bully and a phony and used to getting his way.

The Dad is one of those holier than thou Christians who believes in lots of discipline for everyone but him. No matter what he does it's OK. He treats the kids like shit, always scolding them in public and telling them how lazy and ungrateful they are. All except the one kid in the big back wing who he just seems to worship.

The mom seems nice enough. She is like his third or fourth wife and we had hopes that maybe she would straighten Dad out but it looks like she is like all the other ones. The kid who lives around back is a bad trip. He is always bossing the other kids around and his parents too, and they just keep giving him anything he wants. It's almost like he is blackmailing them.

The other day we were having a big snow storm and I heard this crashing and pounding going on at their house and I got enough nerve to knock and see if they were OK. The mom answered and she looked a bit embarrassed. She said that they didn't have enough money to heat the whole house so they were breaking up the furniture to burn in the fireplace. There were open cans of dog food on the floor with spoons in them and I could tell that this was dinner time. And this is when it got weird.

A van pulled up from a local catering company and three guys got out and unloaded a shit load of food and drinks and stacked it up on hand trucks. They marched right by me up to the side door on the big addition in the back and knocked on the door. This punk kid comes out with a couple of his friends and he pulls out a huge roll of money, peels off a couple of hundreds and tells the caterers to keep the change. Loud music was coming from the door and it was clear there was some kind of a big party back there. There was even a live band and I swear it sounded like Ted Nugent. The mom blushed deeply and said her son was entertaining tonight. And then she added “But he bought everything with his own money.”

I never saw that kid lift a finger so I asked “Where does he make that kind of jingle?”

“Oh, we give him an allowance but he is very good with money and invests it carefully” she said. In fact, the rest of the kids work for him in return for room and board.”

“Wait a minute.” I said. “You guys are freezing and starving and he gets that whole wing and catered parties with live bands? How is that fair? And you give him an allowance and the kids have to work for him to stay in your house? That is crazy!”

“No it isn't” she said defensively. Our kids wouldn't have jobs without him and he takes my husband on vacations and lets us all live here with him.

I started to get a little loud about now. “But he wouldn't have anything without you guys. You gave him everything you had and he now has everything and you have nothing. Why would you do that?”

Just then I heard a car door slam and I turned around to see a couple of clowns coming toward me. One was a big fat guy who was picking his pants out of his crack and another was dressed like a rodeo clown. They were carrying cases of twinkies and gallons of kool aid.

“Look,” she said, “He is providing us entertainment and even bought us supper tonight.”

What could I say? You can't reason with people like that.

[Bunny]

1. Ohhhhh-kay.

[Drale]

2. Sounds like how the republicans operate in America

[Sonoman]

5. I think that is the point.

Well done.

Sonoman

[Ramulux]

3. Thats a fucking trip

[Codeine]

4. uh-huh.

[Sonoman]

6. Ain't that America?

But, at least, we get little pink houses.

Well done, Bozvotros.

Sonoman

[TygrBright]

7. Perfect allegory of the GOP and the backwash base. n/t

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. Wow, that's a really convincing story...Ted Nugent and all. (n/t)

[NV Whino]

9. Sounds like

Trolling since 2002.

[mattvermont]

10. a joke I heard recently

"A unionized public employee, a Tea Party member, and a Wall Street banker are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The Wall Street banker reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the Tea Partier and
says, "'Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.'"

[HarveyDarkey]

16. I wish it were only a joke

unfortunately, I think it's reality.

[Luciferous]

11. Well done :)

[RandomKoolzip]

12. I found Hitler's diaries in an old bookstore.

[jberryhill]

13. Quit spying on my house /nt

[Poll_Blind]

14. Very well-done.

I don't run across many posts like this anymore and I miss 'em.

PB

[Maru Kitteh]

15. Bad trip does not equal relevant analogy.

[Texasgal]

17. What?

Just then I heard a car door slam and I turned around to see a couple of clowns coming toward me. One was a big fat guy who was picking his pants out of his crack and another was dressed like a rodeo clown. They were carrying cases of twinkies and gallons of kool aid.

Are you serious????

REALLY????

:rofl:

[Bozvotros]

18. Thanks for the kind words.

I used to post a lot under a slightly different name back in the early days. Too busy mostly now, working, staving off creditors, stocking up on dog food and busting up chiffarobes. But this analogy just popped into my head this morning and I whipped it out tonight.

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. This story sounds so weird. Like a story Charlie Sheen would tell.

[Motown_Johnny]

20. sounds like a drug dealer using the under aged kids to run for him

but there isn't enough information there for me to do anything but take a wild guess