If you're a skilled mechanic with a good clientele, you can be way more than middle class, for sure.
I thought of one! It's a Panic at the Disco lyric, but I DON'T CARE. Reversebang!Dean wouldn't mind.
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Amy - Nov 08, 2011 12:42:39 pm PST #22705 of 30002
Because books.
Cass - Nov 08, 2011 12:43:22 pm PST #22706 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I DON'T CARE
Technically that's an FOB title.
::runs away::
Amy - Nov 08, 2011 12:44:24 pm PST #22707 of 30002
Because books.
::grabs Cass's ass because she's not fast enough::
P.M. Marc - Nov 08, 2011 4:25:50 pm PST #22708 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
If you're a skilled mechanic with a good clientele, you can be way more than middle class, for sure.
Middle class income, but there are still class divides between blue collar and white collar work. Our unspoken class system in the US is a complex clusterfuck.
Amy - Nov 08, 2011 4:28:29 pm PST #22709 of 30002
Because books.
Very true. But I'd happily have the income (and not ALL mechanics earn that well, obvs) and be considered blue collar. I think my neighbors two blocks over consider us blue-collar-adjacent, because my block definitely skews that way.
Which is fine with me, although I guess I'd feel different if I owned (property values blah blah).
JDM was on Craig Ferguson last night, and they discussed bifocals, babies, sex while babies are napping, and boners. I can die happy now.
§ ita § - Nov 08, 2011 4:42:29 pm PST #22710 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dean has the capability to be a sales manager. He could run a shop, easy, or more than one. That could put him safely out of blue collar, right?
Amy - Nov 08, 2011 4:48:04 pm PST #22711 of 30002
Because books.
Oh, yeah. And if you own your own shop, I think that automatically elevates you above blue collar.
Not that I think Dean would care, particularly. John was pretty solidly blue collar before the fire, which is the barometer that would matter to Dean.
Sam is another story. Sam was dreaming of middle class in the crib, I'm pretty sure. What I love is the role reversal -- Dean got the chance to live it, and expressed interest in it even before that, and Sam couldn't give a shit about it anymore.
Although his bride might. ::nods::
Stephanie - Nov 08, 2011 4:49:37 pm PST #22712 of 30002
Trust my rage
Dean was an account executive in that one ep where Sam was the phone sales guy.
Amy - Nov 08, 2011 4:51:13 pm PST #22713 of 30002
Because books.
But he wasn't Dean Winchester in that world.
Stephanie - Nov 08, 2011 4:54:23 pm PST #22714 of 30002
Trust my rage
I thought Zachariah said he was - just with different beginnings? But I admit I am terrible at remembering those details. (Well, I now that I think about it, they weren't brothers. So I guess he wasn't Dean.)