There I'm feeling miserable and suddenly you call, out of the blue, I didn't even leave you a message. Do you realize this must be the first time you've called just from seeing my number on your missed calls list, no message, no request? I was so surprised to hear your voice I nearly fell over the phone wire.I'm still pissed, though. Not at you - I'm pissed at my computer problems, anbd pissed at the way the world treats dear friend D.
Computer. The Sims 2 arrived yesterday; computer is a month old, should run new game no problemo. Doesn't, of course. Much fiddling around, decide that the video card is inadequate. Why the fuck didn't I write down the requirements since I *knew* half the point of a new computer was to play this game? Why am I such a fucking idiot? Of course that's not the only problem, the computer also refuses to connect to the internet and I can't work out why. I should have got it from a PC World type chain store where there is lots of tech support instead of saving a couple of hundred by going to a small store on electronics row in town, which I'll now probably have to pay to get someone to sort it all out. Fucking computers. They never, ever work right.
And the world, and how it treats D. D is one of the sweetest, loveliest people on earth, and I love him. He's talented, kind-hearted, compassionate, funny. In better times he gave $10 to homeless people on the bus. He also suffers from severe depression and has been on disability for it for a couple of years now. He lives in a big city, where disability is not nearly enough to cover the costs of living. He has three days to pay his rent before he gets an eviction notice.
He's been selling stuff on eBay, just about keeping solvent, until a recent auction where someone bids $500 then asks if they can pay it in $20 a month increments, then backs out (after having won the auction). Which is his rent money gone - sure, he can put the auction back up, if he still has a home in a week's time. Fucking cunt.
D's mother is pretty well-off. D has a handful of friends who could afford to lend him $500 for a month or two, and he's *always* paid people back. D is always there for his friends - he's nursed his mom when she's been sick, he's been there in the middle of the night for friends in crisis time and again.
And does anyone fucking help him?
And how are people meant to live on disability when they can't even pay their rent? People are forced into benefit fraud to survive, then the fucking Repukes use this as a reason to throw people off welfare.
D could move somewhere cheaper, you say? It'd have to be way the middle of nowhere to make up for the saving of ten year's rent control, but more to the point you can't move if you have no money to move with - two month's rent down if you can't make one month's rent now is rather an impossibility.
Why does the world shit on the good?
