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July 29, 2009 |
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Dear Nathan
FOUND by Ramin
in Manchester, MO
I found this in a pile of cards in a suburb of St. Louis.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
What the heck? $500??
Where is her phone number..I can buy a new wardrobe for that much money.
This guy sounds like a real winner.
But Nathan figures.... "Hmmmm... if I only spend a forty bucks at the Thrift Store, that will leave me enough for about two-and-a-half years of playing World of Warcraft!"
He licks the Cheetos® powder off his fingers.
"Sweet!"
Nathan took the $500 and bought some ho-ho's to drown the pain of his mother calling unemployed, fat, and unmotivated. He took the rest and moved to NYC to become a huge success. That is my fantasy end of this story.
No, see, Mom, that's where you got it wrong. By handing him 500 in cash, you're perpetuating your position as codependent cash-cow.
If you really want to get rid of him, you take him out yourself to buy the interview clothes (one suit, two or three suits, one pair of shoes), and drive him to the first interview. Then, while he's busy there, you have the locks on the house changed.
Or you can do what my roommate's mom did. Send her on a study course, and while she's away, turn her bedroom into your new office/sewing room. Classless, but effective.
Mom sounds like a real enabler, here.
Tough love ...
ould like you to meet our newest junior account executive, Nathan. I know many of you are wondering about the propriety of hiring my stepson, but I assure you that there will be no favori
"I know you"....real supportive.$500.00 ...not bad.
Giving the money for clothes helps but instilling confidence in your child from day one would have been a lot better. Many people have a legitimate reason for not wanting to work.They're TOO realistic, though, and just have to bit the bullet and get out there.
Good luck , Nathan. I wonder if he was hired anywhere ?
"...the last $ I am giving you AT THIS POINT"
Hmmm. No need to panic yet, Nathan - there's more money heading your way!
@ Monica's friend
At first I read it like you, "I know you (Loser)" but if you hit magnify you get to see the other side.
It says " I know you can do it if you want to..."
Nathan had been home schooled his whole life because his mom was afraid of how he would interact with the other kids. She sheltered him for years, and the next thing she knew he was twenty-one, fat, and addicted to World of Warcraft. She realized from parenting books that this was apparently bad, so she decided to get him a job interview and $500.
and lose those moobs too!
Bad timeline, though. If he buys some flashy new threads now, and THEN loses that extra weight (BTW, thanks a lot, Mom, for instilling a horrible body image and starting Nathan off on a life of eating disorders; if YOU hadn't fed him all that sugar, fat, and corn syrup laden junk as he was growing up ... but I digress). Anyway, if he buys the clothes first and THEN loses the weight, he'll just have to buy more clothes.
And don't think Nathan has a shot at a job other than the would-you-like-fries-with-that sort of job. Not yet, anyway. Not until years of therapy gets your nagging voice out of his head.
Hang tough, Nathan! Don't let her push you around any longer.
I'm still puzzling over the Finder's blurb. "I found this in a pile of cards in a suburb." ??? In a suburban *house*? Were you going through someone else's desk? A pile of cards tossed on the street? Hm. Don't think so.
Sounds like Ramin may be Nathan's new roomie. R is disgusted that N is so slow about paying his share of the rent and utilities, preferring to spend his new salary on junkfood and custom made t-shirts, so he went through Nate's desk looking for blackmail ammo, found this, and posted it on Found.
Of course it can take years for a submission to appear, so in the interim Ramin threw Nate out in the snow and got a new roomie. Nate is now a homeless person, still in his Mom-bought "interview suit" and shoes, much the worse for wear, living on Cheetos and Fresca and sleeping under the underpass.
Mom, you went too far with "lose that extra weight." He stopped listening after "here's $500."
funny, but that is a tough point to be at. i'm sure he responds even worse when she tells him in person, so this time she tried a note. she knows it's getting naggy, but he isn't changing. she can't just stand by and support it any longer. but can't kick him out of the house. at least not until he has a job. I blame them both, her for enabling and him for being a slack-ass, but him more. because he's not taking this train off the tracks. at this point, only he can stop it without a crash. she can only kick him out which would be very ugly. she probably should.
@ tired: unless he's a sex offender in miami there's no way he is living under the underpass. cops would bust up his site.
Who thinks that $200.00 went towards clothes at Wal Mart, and $300.00 went to Dominos Pizza and Old Milwaukee?
Well, considering the weight comment, at least we can be fairly certain that Nathan won't spend the dough on crack or crystal.
At least that's something.
Ooops. I always forget about "magnify". Mom is supportive. :D $200.00 for clothes at WalMart & $300.00 for Old Milwaukie...LOL !You may be right.Wish we knew for sure, though.
...uh yea I've seen this before - it's called throwing good money after bad. Nathan was found dead on Omaha beach after he smoked up the money and then did nothing.
A piece of blank paper to scrawl a note: $0
A pen: $1.49
Interview clothes for Nathan: A check for $500
Being an absent Mom who thinks writing a note, and giving some little directives to redirect an inert son to action: Priceless.
I wonder how much money she has given him for "interview clothes" in the past, since this is the LAST TIME! How much did she give him the first time and how many times have there been in between. I think Nathan is sitting on a pile of cash and just milking this for all it is worth!
This is D-Day for Nathan, so get those clothes, lose that weight and commence that amphibious invasion of Europe!
And, no, that is not a reference to Call of Duty, you pudgy, slovenly dressed gaming enthusiast.
ugh. This note made me nauseous.
I like Muse's muse, however...I actually chuckled to myself on that one, since I am know a few families like that.
If Nathan did all this, he is happier today. And his mom is certainly happier too. They are now one happy family.
One can always hope.
I would have called it "This Is D-Day (for Nathan)."
Mom needs to drive Nay-nay down to the Big-n-Tall and plop down the money there. It'll probably cost less too. Maybe have enough left over for lunch at MickeyD's before the big interview which she would also be wise to drive him to.
Otherwise she might as well just give the money straight to the casino.
I would use the money to get a life-long membership to the gym, then never go.
After buying a purple velvet suit, he showed his mother how industrious he could be by becoming the fattest pimp in St. Louis.