If you start giving yourself grief for not letting strangers live in your house, it's a slippery slope from which you may never recover.
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
'Shindig'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2005 12:01:36 pm PST #3638 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
-t - Feb 03, 2005 12:02:10 pm PST #3639 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Totally what tommyrot said.
Nilly - Feb 03, 2005 12:03:40 pm PST #3640 of 10002
Swouncing
Gus, what Juliana [Edit: and everybody else] said. Also, {{Gus}} even though, with the difference in our heights, the punctuation reaches pretty much only as high as your knee.
tommyrot - Feb 03, 2005 12:04:26 pm PST #3641 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also, {{Gus}} even though, with the difference in our heights, the punctuation reaches pretty much only as high as your knee.
Hee.
Off I go....
Gus - Feb 03, 2005 12:05:16 pm PST #3642 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Nilly!
What in the world are you doing up at this hour? Googling "shitheel"?
Yeah, tommyrot, that is exactly where I was: "Dude's going to burn down my house to get high on the fumes."
Ginger - Feb 03, 2005 12:06:17 pm PST #3643 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I guess I could relayed a request to the judge to let me help the dude out with some kind of job and a place to stay in one of the way empty bedrooms in this old farmhouse.
I think he's already spent enough time in your house, Gus. He may be a victim, but so are you.
aurelia - Feb 03, 2005 12:06:33 pm PST #3644 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
A self-preserving shitheel, Gus. That situation may not have been the best.
I concur.
If you really want to do something, try checking around to see what support services exist in your area for the homeless and find out if you can help.
erikaj - Feb 03, 2005 12:07:26 pm PST #3645 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
My mama still curses his name. Not as um, strenuously as Shrub, who gets "Wire"-grade expletives. So sorry, Gus. I am touched by your concern for him, though.
Scrappy - Feb 03, 2005 12:09:32 pm PST #3646 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Also, this guy needs more than a place to stay--he needs access to AA, some structure, medical help, steady meals--and he may actually get a lot of that in the jail system. He's going to jail, right, not prison? Well, there will be social services available to him there, and folks who have dealt with a lot of homeless and a lot of addicts.
Gus - Feb 03, 2005 12:11:52 pm PST #3647 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
If you really want to do something, try checking around to see what support services exist in your area for the homeless and find out if you can help.
The Golden One scores a hit. In WI, of course, it is more like "try checking around to see what support services exist in your area for the homeless and find out if you can" ... start one.
I'm down with it, though. First chore tomorrow: Get the ball rolling in rural WI on homeless help.
eta: Robin, he is going to prison, near Milwaukee (the big city hereabouts), on a State "rap", so there might be some of those things you talk about. Maybe.
WI, and all notwithstanding.