Has greed taken us over?

[bloodmoon]

The guitar shops thread has officially bummed me out . So here's a true current story. Two weeks ago I got rear ended, high school cheerleader going to a ball game, hyped up, distracted she hit me. Nobody was hurt (best thing EVER), I could drive my car, FINE. We exchange info, you know cops are there, and you know how it is. She's on grandpa's insurance, he's cool, we talk. I tell my wife later I don't care, the cars fine I'll bailing wire the bumper cover and forget about it. Well because she got issued a ticket she had to inform her Pa's insurance, and I have to get this $2300 car fixed for her accident forgiveness thing or something, and they'll drop the ticket. We RUSH to get an estimate and a fix date and offer to go to court on this girls behalf so she won't get dinged. Her Gramps starts crying, and says anybody else would have been kicking down his door to get money. WHY?, Are my wife and I THAT different? Whatever.. Ya know? It's just a car &@#* ?

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Hey I like your story...
I too feel that way at times. I know there are a lot of people going through some hard times. I always wonder just how hard. Some have it real bad and some not as bad as others.
But many know that my wife and I lost our jobs at the same time. I wont go into all that all over again. But while waiting on our unemployment we got down to nothing to eat. If it wasn't for 2 people that helped us out we would have gone hungry.
This has shown me that family and so called friends really did not care at all! I have found it funny in some ways how people that aren't having it hard think that people must be joking when some is have a bad time with things.
I remember when I was a kid (and we were poor) My Mom and Dad would go hungry to make sure that my brother and I could eat. But when people found out we were going hungry People came together and helped us out.
What ever happened to people? Have we become so greedy that we only think of ourselves?
I can even remember my Mom feeding others when we had vary little to do so.
So many out there could make a deference is someones life but they have let greed or a bad experience make them look the other way.
What is it going to take for people to wake up? People are hurting and need for someone to reach and and help them or touch there lives in a good way. When did helping someone become such a bad thing to do???
I don't know but the world is all out of whack!!! There are not too many out there that put the other person first. There are some but not enough!
Again what is wrong in helping and not expecting anything in return?
You did a vary good thing in my book!
I'll get off my soap box.
I'll close with people need those that care enough to love on them when their down not have backs turned on them and to be told "you know there are a lot of people out there going through hard times" Like we that are going through some bad times don't already know that and that we are suppose to find some kind of comfort in that fact! Give me a brake!!!

[bloodmoon]

I feel for ya man. I know what hungry is. When I got married my wife was 17 we already have a kid, my ma and law had to drop her off her insurance that Friday, I couldn't pick her up on mine til Monday. We get married Saturday morning, our daughters temperature spikes that night, 6 days in the hospital with NO insurance. Wiped what little we had out, we went hand to mouth. THEN we find out she's pregnant AGAIN (ON THE PILL), and because we hadn't been married 3 months my insurance wouldn't cover. We both went without food SEVERAL times that year. If someone needs food or a dollar to eat and I've got it, I give it to 'em cause I've been there. I have to help my oldest daughter cause she fell into the same D@#n boat, 2 kids by 18, I love my grandsons, but it's gonna be tough on my daughter. Especially now a days. I wish you well eagleblues, I hope things look up.

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Boy your life sounds close to mine.
My wife and I met at 17 and got married at 19. She too got PG on the pill.
We have had our good days and our bad days with money and health. Med bills has taken everything form us and now not having jobs things are getting worse again. I know it wont last for ever but I have filled out over 60 apps now and I had one inter view in person and a phone inter view because that job was out of sate and two letters of being turned down. I know it's because I'm 55. But that's all I'm going to say about it.
Never though I would be in the place I'm in. don't know what we will do but I know I will over come it!
some how some way!

[bloodmoon]

Keep banging away friend, just keep banging away. Sometimes I think, especially in an economy like this, we may be lucky in a way. I mean we're on the bottom, there ain't no place to look but up. Imagine having the world and looking down seeing how far your gonna fall. I feel for those people. I can't imagine what it would feel like to have MORE than I need going to being homeless and hungry overnight. Whenever that "why me" crap pops in my head that's what I think of. I settle down pretty quick.