...I'm getting a lot of these phone calls lately from people that want money for whatever it is they are supporting.

To all those callers out there....

I'm sorry...but it seems that most of my money is locked up in my life....i.e. water and electricity and a truck payment and the gas to run the truck, along with the upkeep...a couple of credit cards and another loan towards taxes last year that just seem to keep getting raised (but I just don't see it on my street) every friggin' year and on my vet bills (I don't have kids so don't go there), plus the phone bill and internet use and the groceries that I have to buy...like toilet paper and detergent and various toiletries and pet food (like I said...don't) and my medicine plus the doctors' bills I'm slowly paying off along with the student loans I just got another forebearence on.

Oh, I'm sorry if I occasionally eat out...but I haven't been out since January. I don't drink like I sometimes wish I did and I don't do drugs...unless, of course you count chocolate and and a visit to the Chinese buffet...I watch too much television and I spend too much on certain magazines and books...hey...reading is fundamental.

I pick and choose my charities...Children's Make-A-Wish and Ducks Unlimited, National Wildlife Federation. I wanted to walk in a breast cancer walk-a-thon but I wasn't able to. I also give to a policemen's fund, but it's getting pretty hard to tell who's who, especially when they called me twice one year. I also take in anything that needs fed or sheltered, but anyone who isn't an animal lover won't understand that one, and I don't care, because it's probably your dog or cat that I'm taking care of.

I'm supporting one Marine over there (I just sent my second care package to him, but still no word on whether he got it or not), and possibly another who apparently is so depressed about being shot at he doesn't know what he's fighting for anymore. I signed up to volunteer at a women's shelter; I even said I'd do an all-nighter, but for some reason they never called. Am I on some list somewhere that says I'm a bad person? No problem...it's their loss.

Sometimes I bring my neighbors something from the store...fruit for the two on my right, and a package of Little Debbie's for the one on the left. Both households are older and have had a bad year.

So if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if I didn't get those calls every other night...and I especially don't appreciate it when you hang up on me because I said, very politely, "I can't do it this year." I don't like being made to feel guilty because I can't give money to everyone. Oh, and please, just once, pronounce my name correctly.

Maybe you should call that gomer down the road who just bought a Hummer, or the rich dicks who have a three and a half car garage (gotta have room for the golf cart) and a three story house for two on the country club lake...they can certainly afford to give some money to someone who needs it.
posted by Wanting at 7:21 PM