Ask.Mefi: Help someone find a job without pressuring them? ⇒
27 September 2006, mid-afternoon
This lady is 25K in debt, and has a boyfriend who sounds like a bit of deadbeat. This is all run-of-the-mill stuff for Ask.Mefi, that is until the boyfriend shows up in the thread. He then proclaims, "i shouldnt have to get a job if i dont want one!", which leads me to believe the deadbeat comments in the thread might be spot on. Things get nasty. As with most train-wrecks on MetaFilter, there is a MetaTalk thread that is also quite entertaining. Some people think it's all a big hoax, but I think it's all very believable.
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The only expression that came to me after reading the entire set of responses was: “OMG That’s awesome.”
It’s tragic, but at the same time, if this entire scenario was played out on tv, people would probably watch it. In the end though, it’s not like any amount of advice will actually help those two. They just have to wake up and put in a real effort to fix their situation, and that won’t happen until they’re ready to do that themselves.
But since I always root for the antagonist, I hope Xteraco slips in the last piece his car needs onto the credit card his girlfriend froze in the freezer (LOL), sells even more of her belongings on EBay, and runs away to another state (while at the same time keeping her convinced that she’s the one he loves and that he’ll never leave her and he’ll still come back after she’s done paying off all his debt he put on her) only because that would make the situation even worse.
by Iluvitar on September 28 2006, 12:13 am #
The Ballad of fr0zen and xteraco. This song is going to be a classic.
by ramanan on September 29 2006, 1:23 am #
The Honda is doing good, never did get it that last mod piece, but its still running strong. We’re getting married in October, cant wait!
by xteraco on August 4 2007, 9:55 pm #