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mrstickball said:






txrattlesnake said

       Well for one thing, he hit on one of his college professors, and as a result was thrown out of college.  He'd also been putting forth a lot of controversial ideas in his time in college that made some people that didn't want to hear them put him on their blacklist, so he's not really popular in the community where he lives, and he was raised in a very sheltered environment in a community where his family made quite a bit of money while almost everyone else in that community had very little education or were mainly on the working poverty line, so he never made many friends growing up (another part of the that was his dad was an alcoholic yet one of the most prominent people in his community at the same time, so the person was brought up to live in kind of a hush hush environment that further led to the separation that he had to put between himself and those others in his community.)  No one really knows him where he lives even though he's live there over 35 years, he has no references to put on job applications.


      Also, even though it is true that it is his fault that he was thrown out of college for the bad decision listed above, he was always brought up to believe that he would have strong family backing throughout his life and that he would always have strong family support and no real need to work for anything when he got older.  However, his parents got divorced, his dad married another woman, and had a heart attack a few years later and left everything to her.  And his grandparents that used to dote on him and give him significant amounts of money almost every weekend of his life died and their money went to their second son as he survived their first one.


The person I'm talking about didn't receive anything from those that he had been brought up to believe that he could always depend upon and he had none of the resources that formerly let him compete with the higher ups for the better things in life, so he thought how can I compensate for this loss, and decided to start playing dirty in certain ways to compete for the same quality of things that he had been led all his life to believe it was his right to compete for.  But the good or bad guys won instead.


 


Anyway after that bit of trouble he landed himself in he had great difficulty in finding jobs.  He did land a job as the maintenance man at a fast food restaurant but he primarily studied arts and humanities in college and after 30+ years of rather sedentary living where the heaviest things he generally lifted were video games, video tapes, and text books his body wasn't quite cut out for trying to be the guy that unloaded trucks and did the majority of lifting and cleaning at a highly rated fast food restaurant where maintaining those high rankings was really the only thing the managers and supervisors cared for.


I don't know if the sedentary lifestyle was entirely his fault.  He did have asthma that was originally believed to be cystic fibrosis by several doctors that may have led him to become lazy and sedentary  that coupled with the fact that there weren't many opportunities for him to play sports where he lived and where he didn't much feel like mingling with the other kids in his community after an incident where he was going to be in a church play when he was eight and on the way home he managed to say something about his father's alcoholism to the people that were bringing him home that day and he received a severe beating in the middle of the night that night after his mother told his father what he had said to the group of people bringing him home from church play practice made him a bit more reticent to speak to those in his community about himself.


Anyway, he did land the job at the fast food restaurant that I mentioned in the earlier post a few years after he was kicked out of the university.  But after a couple of years the early nineties luxury car that he used to travel to and from work each day wore out and he's been trapped in the small town he grew up in ever since then as he has no vehicle of his own and lives about 60 miles in any direction from even a small city. 



So your story, to sum it up, is:


Guy makes stupid decisions in college, punches his teacher, gets blacklisted, ruins his education, and is lazy and sedintary due to a medical condition. Has silver spoon pulled out from him, gets screwed by parents, and is forced to make ends meet on his own.


Correct?


 line somewhere.

     He didn't punch his teacher.  I said he hit on his professor.  He made suggestive remarks in an attempt to seduce said teacher.  She was 31 and he was 30.  And she made comments back to the effect of if you weren't a student blah, blah, blah.  But she did ask the department head who also was rather fond of this teacher to get involved.  And they had a meeting where the department head basically just said you're trying to steal my lady, I won't allow that.  But the individual was brought up to believe that he was just as good as anyone else yet the opportunities due to his reduced circumstances in life due to becoming disconnected from the lifestyle he had led for the prior 27 years (after most of the family money had departed for other realms) meant that he could either accept reduced circumstances in life and go quietly into that good night or at least try to make an effort to accomplish something grand in life, so what should he have done?

     If you make an effort to do something great and fail you're really not a loser, but if you don't make any effort you're just a quitter.