Star Member 1-Old-Man (2,467 posts)
I'm just frothing with anger - let me get this off my chest
My wife and I have a friend, once her best friend, who is a ****ing idiot. But idiot or not both of us still love her to death and can't stand to see the sort of treatment she is getting from her family.
The lady in question is younger than we are, somewhere in her late 50's or early 60's. She is married with three grown children. She is also a long-time alcoholic and heavy user of illicit drugs. The alcohol has been with her since childhood, the drug use can mostly be attributed to a bad eye infection she fell victim to years ago; it was the pain killers she was proscribed that got her on the path to taking any and all similar medications she has been able to get her hands on. There hasn't been a day in the last 20 years during which she was not inebriated.
Her husband is worthless. Her old child, the son, is scary crazy; a violent bastard (not a slur, a fact) who even as a child frightened full grown men. She also has two worthless daughters, possibly the laziest young women I have ever known. The youngest of the two, who still lives at home, is about 20 and weighs three times as much as I do and won't get up to make her own food - mama's got to do it for her.
Colleen, that is the ladies' name, has cancer. Mostly its in her throat but it has spread to everywhere. Were it not for her younger sister, a person I would not trust as far as I could throw my pickup truck, she would be dead today. Despite her husband's insistence that there is nothing wrong with her the sister hauled her to a local hospital three weeks ago. She did that after going by the house and finding her emaciated, laying in a bed often soiled, dehydrated, and unable to speak or eat. At this moment she is back in that same hospital receiving chemo and radiation treatments. She's been in there for three days now, my wife has been with her most of that time.
And where is the husband? He's at home fiddle-****ing around with his gadgets. Where are the two daughters (both of whom live within 5 miles of the hospital she is in)? Who the **** knows. And where is the son? Haven't seen that ****wad anywhere around either.
Despite her failings this is not a mean woman, not in any way imaginable. She was a caring and devoted mother. She would never lie to you, never cheat you, never steal a damned thing from you. She is just a very decent person with a lot of problems and not one god damned bit of support from her own family.
I'm so pissed off about this that I'm dam near foaming at the mouth. What in all of creation is wrong with people.
Somehow this is a Republican's fault I'm sure.So the old man hates everyone, except this caring and devoted woman, who, by the way, is a "****ing idiot." Confused? So is at least one dummy:
diwali 1103 (6 posts)
1. Come again?
You started out this thread calling her a "****ing idiot" and end saying she is "just a very decent person with a lot of problems."
HUH???
Another thing--why is she an idiot anyway? Because she has an addiction? I am having difficulty with this post.
Man, the DUmmies are just bursting with quality these days. I wonder if this guy isn't really talking about LFR's family?
