I know. No connection betweens action and consequences. That’s the ‘evolution’ of modern man.
These people make me sick.
Before I was born, mom worked at Sinclair oil as a secretary.
Dad worked second shift at Fairchild.
They had ONE car.
While mom was working, my dad rode around town asking people if they needed lawns mowed, gutters cleaned, *anything* that would make them extra money.
When her quitting time came, she drove him to work and went home.
She’d go pick him up at his quitting time.
They built their house with NO loans and literally one brick at a time.
When I was 3 years old, we still lived in the basement of the unfinished house.
When I was 4, dad had enough money to buy cinder blocks and the upstairs started being built.
To this day, I can remember riding my tricycle between the wall studs.
Many years later, dad mortgaged the house to buy the mountain behind me.
He was working second shift at the prison by then.
At daybreak, he’d go up on the mountain and cut timber and sell it to the local sawmill, come home, take a bath and “go to work” *again*.
By working hard 16 hour days, he paid off a quarter million dollar loan in just 2 years.
He was never part of any union strike and never asked anybody for a dime.
He abhors owing anybody anything, even to the point that if he needs something ordered off the internet, he will give me what it cost plus “extra” for the time it took me to look it up and buy it for him.
They don’t make people like they used to.