Hmm, several times he's mentioned his job at the "thrift store".
You don't suppose he's guilty of disability fraud, like the crosseyed character from Iowa, do you?
Does the Social Security Administration pay bounties for turning in crooks, the way the IRS does?
I always had the impression it's a "make-believe" job.
The apsie primitive's talked about it before.
He hangs around a thrift store and does some things.
Sort of like the brain-damaged dwarf (an honest case of disability) who hangs around a gasoline station in the big city, chatting with customers and dumping the trash, for a 99-cent bag of Doritos, which actually pleases him very much. He gets all agog and excited when I go there, and seeing him, buy a $1 Powerball ticket for him.
Of course, that's an authentic case of brain-damage (from birth, not drugs); in the case of the Odin2005 primitive, he probably hangs around the thrift store and does some "work" because he's bored sitting on his ass at home. After all, there can't be too much to do up in Minnesota.