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Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« on: January 14, 2014, 07:01:09 PM »
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Just another ordinary day in paradise.

I woke up this morning, to the sound of rain falling outside my window. Soft tapping on the metal roof of my family's home here in Northern Maine. At first it was nice, the gentle, rhythmic sound of the rain. Then I abruptly realized that it meant the road would be even worse than it had been yesterday - which was already very icy. You see, the driveway is on a slight incline that is covered with about three inches of ice. Despite buying fifty pounds of ice melt and tripping all over the place trying to create walking space, I still have to wear these "grippers" (rubber shoes with spikes in them that go over your shoes) to get up and down the driveway. If I tried to park in it, I'd never get out, so walking to the end of the driveway is necessary any time I want to go somewhere - as my car is parked in a very slight spot just off the side of the road.

As I have on many days, I'll choose my steps with great caution to make my way to my car. Then, even more carefully, I'll attempt to drive down the three miles of the road I live on to reach the highway. Last Saturday I went off the road four times just making the attempt (I had gone maybe a mile, at five MPH) and had to call in to work - the Boss wasn't happy, but there was nothing I could do. Now provided nothing happens and that I can somehow make it to the main roads, I should be able to make it the thirty miles to work. I wonder some times though, how people without snow tires fare. I had to borrow 450 dollars for mine, and I still can barely make it anywhere.

In any event, I'll eventually (hopefully) make it to work at a semi-local hotel. The knowledge that I have bills that are overdue will be dragging my heels, the knowledge that I'm making eight dollars an hour will be filling my head with thoughts of disaster... what if the car breaks down? What if I get sick? No health insurance, can't afford even the day off from work I was forced to take on Saturday. What if I get fired? My boss is increasingly angry and stressed lately - and does not hesitate to yell and threaten. It is very easy to make a mistake when you're working with computer systems, answering phones, and generally trying to manage the front desk of a hotel without breaking anything.

When I woke this morning, there were tears in my eyes, as there are on most mornings - I don't know if it's a sleep thing, or just the knowledge of another ordinary day that makes me sad. Perhaps the feelings and thoughts I normally shove down somewhere dark inside of me emerge at night and are slow to leave in the morning as I groan my way downstairs to make coffee.

The place that holds my car loan is calling every day - I'm a month behind. I have to decide this Friday if I want to beg my parents for help, or take my computer back to the rental place, as I can't afford both payments. If I miss another day of work, poor road conditions or not, I suspect that I'll be let go, which will make the issue moot as I'll lose both.

There is an overwhelming feeling of depression and anxiety that slows my steps even more than the caution of (literally) walking on ice. While I'm giving it everything I've got to shrug off my sadness, just getting ready for work feels like climbing Mt Everest.

I share all of this here because I wonder how many of us feel the same way. There has to be something better, a better way to live, something to inspire hope, ambition, motivation.

Earlier in my youth I sought a way out of this working class misery, thinking perhaps to become a monk or some such thing, as I'm given to quiet reflection and love to read. What stopped me is the fact that I'm agnostic, or perhaps "gnostic" is the proper description. I believe in what my senses tell me, and to some extent, in what I feel inside. I have long been convinced that there is too much misery in this world for me to believe in a higher power.

I feel as if I'm hanging from the edge of a cliff, my hands clinging to a rock wall so hard they bleed - sooner or later, I fear I'm going to slip and lose whatever measure of sanity and hope remains to me.

Forgive my venting, I'm sure many of you have lives that suck worse. There are people who are starving, who are without homes, without warmth, without love in their lives. I have a wonderful family and a place to live, for now at least, I'm safe in the knowledge that my parents will keep food on the table. At twenty-nine years of age though, I feel that I shouldn't have to rely on them for help. In a society that tends to judge a man by the strength of his ambition, by his work ethic, by his ability to take care of at least himself, I often feel a miserable failure.

There are things to be grateful for, all around me, but somehow, this does not lift the depression that seems to follow me around like a dark cloud.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2014, 07:16:49 PM »
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There is an overwhelming feeling of depression and anxiety that slows my steps even more than the caution of (literally) walking on ice.

Just remember DUmmie, down the road, not across the street.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2014, 07:18:41 PM »
Two Words:  New Mexico

Or a word that has the "two" sound in it:  Tucson.

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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2014, 07:21:18 PM »
Hey DUmmy here's a clue, you take the computer back before you miss your first car payment, not after.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2014, 07:21:39 PM »
Well, at least david the short, fat, ugly gnome-like primitive isn't begging for money.

Yet.

BTW, short, fat, ugly gnome-like one, what mom & pop motel is open in the wintertime in northern Maine? The only people visiting there are drunk snowmobilers and drunk Moose hunters. Other than that, who wants to look at the plywood trees?

My advice to you is: Get a gun and get it over with! Maybe in your next life you won't be borne to Eskimoes and can get the ten dollar an hour desk clerk job in Portland. Then you can ride the bus.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2014, 07:27:07 PM »
Oh dear sweet Lord. What a bunch of tripe.

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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2014, 07:38:51 PM »
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Just another ordinary day in paradise.

No health insurance, can't afford even the day off from work I was forced to take on Saturday.
Here you go. One problem solved.
http://www.legalconsumer.com/obamacare/?ST=ME

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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2014, 09:36:08 PM »
The upcoming DU replies should be interesting.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2014, 09:41:54 PM »
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Tears On My Pillow

Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart
Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart

You don't remember me, but I remember you
T'was not so long ago, you broke my heart in two
Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart
Caused by you

If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate
I'd gladly take you back and tempt the hands of fate
Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart
Caused by you

Love is not a gadget
Love is not a toy
When you find the one you love
That'll fill your heart with joy

If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate
I'd gladly take you back and tempt the hands of fate
Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart
Caused by you

Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart
Caused by you
Caused by you
(Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart)

Caused by you
(Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart)
Caused by you
(Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart)
Caused by you
(Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart)
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2014, 12:13:12 AM »
They all have a long list of problems but they have no idea what their problem is.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2014, 06:27:05 AM »
The DUmmy might like to become a monk but lacks any religious affiliation. That's a problem.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2014, 06:49:49 AM »
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7. Have you applied for insurance through the Affordable Care Act? I don't know much

about it, but there was a booth at Walmart last week with navigation assistance.

japple might not know anything about ACA but fear not, DUmmy ProSense will soon add to the knowledge base. Call out to ProSense, callout to ProSense!

And then there is that matter of WalMart? Did this DUmmy suggest that he go to Walmart to sign up for obamacare? This cannot be true. This cannnot stand! Stay the heck out of evil Walmart DUmmy. Walmart is the root of all evillllll!


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10. I have.

All of the plans are unaffordable for me - I called in to ask about subsidies, and the nice lady on the phone told me that I made too little income for Obamacare, or it's subsidies to apply. There was something called a catastrophic plan, or something like that, but that would have been too much for me to pay out of pocket. Her suggestion was to apply for Mainecare, which have, and will probably do again some time in the near future.

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The problem is that our Republican Governor rejected the Medicaid expansion, and is in the process of cutting the hell out of our State insurance program. Something like eighteen thousand people were just cut, and I expect there will be more cuts in the months to come.

So now we get to the problem, it's the rethuglican governor.


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There's also a matter of thousands of dollars in debt in past medical expenses, as well as student loan debt - when someone from a random collection agency called me yesterday to demand a payment of 200 dollars a month, I asked if he'd let me borrow his car then, so I could get to work to pay it - as that payment would make me unable to afford the car I have now. He laughed, before threatening to garnish my wages, maybe take me to court. He told me that he was going out on a limb even making that offer. I told him, "Yes, thank you Sir. Burn in hell very much. Goodbye.", then I hung up. That one will probably come back to bite me... it's not that I dislike the fellow, everyone needs a job - but the companies that employ him are the scum of the earth, kind of like my own big Boss, who owns a couple hotels and frequently bitches that all of his employees have their hand out. I want to tell him that their hands are out because he only pays the eight dollars an hour without benefits... but I wisely keep my mouth shut, and keep my job... for now.

DUmmy davidthegnome, first of all, quit your pt job and move to the southwest. There are millions of jobs in say New Mexico or Arizona just for the asking. They will have an appreciation for your college education. Why spend your valuable time working PT in a motel in freeking Maine?

OK, get in your car, drive to one of those states and when you see the banner above the road that states "Welcome David the Gnome" stop your car.You have arrived.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2014, 07:15:40 AM »
Quote from: fatboy on January 15, 2014, 06:49:49 AM

DUmmy davidthegnome, first of all, quit your pt job and move to the southwest. There are millions of jobs in say New Mexico or Arizona just for the asking. They will have an appreciation for your college education. Why spend your valuable time working PT in a motel in freeking Maine?

The lawn ornament primitive could get in his car and go out to North Dakota, or to west Texas, and work in the oilfields (in a support job).  His debt would go away fairly quickly.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2014, 07:25:25 AM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on January 15, 2014, 07:15:40 AM
The lawn ornament primitive could get in his car and go out to North Dakota, or to west Texas, and work in the oilfields (in a support job).  His debt would go away fairly quickly.

That's what I was going to recommend, but then thought the lawn ornament primitive would really screech when confronted with a western NoDak winter after being raised in Northern Maine, where winter is a mild cold snap in comparison.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2014, 07:33:58 AM »
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It is very easy to make a mistake when you're working with computer systems, answering phones, and generally trying to manage the front desk of a hotel without breaking anything.

He makes it sound like he's piloting the starship Enterprise. I think he'd find it easy to make a mistake if told to sit on the floor and not fall off.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2014, 08:00:49 AM »
He needs 2 tickets...


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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2014, 09:10:28 AM »
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It is very easy to make a mistake when you're working with computer systems, answering phones, and generally trying to manage the front desk of a hotel without breaking anything.

Why doesn't he run for president? I hear the qualifications for the job have been drastically reduced in recent years.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2014, 09:23:20 AM »
Who rents computers there days?

Probably the same people that rent wheels for their cars.
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« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2014, 09:26:38 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on January 15, 2014, 09:23:20 AM
Who rents computers there days?

Probably the same people that rent wheels for their cars.
What about camper wheels/tires?
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2014, 09:28:29 AM »
He sounds like an unfortunate victim of the horrible Obamaconomy.

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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2014, 10:20:52 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on January 15, 2014, 09:28:29 AM
He sounds like an unfortunate victim of the horrible Obamaconomy.

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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2014, 12:44:32 PM »
Tucson!!

Free furnished apartments with stocked fridge and kitchen appliances!

Free make-work jobs!

All a deadbeat needs is a bus ticket to Tucson.
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #22 on: January 15, 2014, 02:24:48 PM »
This has to be a mole.  :lmao:
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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #23 on: January 15, 2014, 03:14:45 PM »
Quote from: Aristotelian on January 15, 2014, 07:33:58 AM
He makes it sound like he's piloting the starship Enterprise. I think he'd find it easy to make a mistake if told to sit on the floor and not fall off.

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Re: Depressed Primitive Stuck In Paradise
« Reply #24 on: January 15, 2014, 04:37:03 PM »
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I recognise the writing style, this has to be none other then Stephen King !!!

Check out the setting he brings us to, rain on the roof of a home with a metal roof.

Then on to draw us into the visuals he creates.
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