Out of business (for now)

[peeonme]

We should be moving in about 5 weeks. I made a deal with some friends so they could finish the prepaid (paid in advance) customers in exchange for a list of my week to week customers.
I have been in a state of depression for a month or so now. Between customers calling me because the asshole park manager wrote them up because of their lawns, the recent shooting death of a young man, along with my wife being in constant need of something when ever I enter or leave our home I am worn out.

I was on a friends porch last night when his friend who rents a room from him came out with what is commonly called an assault rifle. Another guy who was pretty drunk wanted to handle this gun, I told hm to leave it alone as he had no idea if it was loaded or not (my rule is that all guns are to be considered loaded at all times) and along with that beer and guns don't go together. Does any one have a damned brain anymore?

I spent 40 fucking years teaching simple math and how to read a ruler to people, what will happen when I die? Will people be able to wipe their ass with out me? Between having a dope head brother, a psycho mother that couldn't clean house or pay bills followed by a life time of incompetent coworkers and bosses and still having to hold peoples fucking hands now I am just fed up.

 

[Dominus]

I'm sorry to hear about your current state. Feel better

You are a lot older than me so normally it's you that should be giving me advice. But let me take a stab at this one.

I used to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders. Then one day I realized that I wasn't responsible for anyone else's life. So, I stopped paying attention to it. If they can't wipe their own ass, eff it. Let them walk around with unwiped ass.

Unfortunately, the business I am in now I cannot have that attitude with a group of people... my tenants. I've gotten insane complaints. Like the dryer isn't working right only for me to find out when I got there that they never cleaned out the lint filter. I once had to explain to a family of 4 that if you leave food out you will get ants and other pests. Here's my favorite one. It's 90 degrees outside. Have 3 window AC running full blast. Keeping some other windows open. Then complain about how high the electric bill is. I didn't believe my maintenance guy at first. Then I went to see it for myself.

Anyway, if you're just some dude walking down the street with toilet paper hanging behind you, I don't give a crap. Not my job to wipe someone else's ass.

 

[rareboy]

Sorry to hear you have hit a bit of a low spot...but glad that you are proceeding with the move and hope that it will all work out for you and your wife.

and yeah. everyone will be able to continue on after we are gone. it is the way of the world.

But along the way, there will have been a lot of people whose lives you touched positively. Think on those moments.

Enjoy the time you have with your wife and hope you start to feel better once the move is behind you.

 

[peeonme]

Thanks for the comments. I was pretty pissed off when I posted this... it has been a crazy year. One guy died from morbid obesity, 450 lbs. His wife had a stroke a few weeks later, another woman (a former bosses daughter) died of cancer in her 40's.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Can SWIM play with guy's guns in American trailer parks too?

 

[NotHardUp1]

Sorry to hear of your woes, friend. Good luck with the move.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Can SWIM play with guy's guns in American trailer parks too?

guys'

 

[Vannie]

How about some kinda naked house cleaning business?

 

[peeonme]

How about some kinda naked house cleaning business?

I will probably go with lawn care after the move. In the spring I intend to get new customers near where I am moving. I took on 60 plus this year thinking that I had a worker that was up to the job... next year if I do it it will be 20 max.