One of the "Special Happinesses" of being poor.

[Half-Century Man]

I, by contract, have to use a car I spent $800.00 on to do a delivery job every day. I must rely on something which is unreliable to be, myself, reliable.

Having to spend the projected gas budget on emergency car repairs.
Utter failure of the front passenger side disc brake.
Parts $75.00 ( 1 set of pads, 1 new disc).
Tools $45.00 (1 set lifting tools, 1 star driver socket in 1/2).
The other poor people I rely on for garage space and a floor jack had to work. I had to use the car to do a contracted delivery job within 5 hrs of brake failure.

Today, have to figure out how to last the month out with a devastated budget and respiratory issues from having to stomp a mile and back to the parts store with COPD (a quick summation of events, much more "bad comedy-ish" in real life).


The thing is, I'll handle this. I always do. However it is too frequent a circumstance in my life. It is too frequent a circumstance in the life of most of America. The unrelenting and all pervasive financial rape of America has hurt so many. (And I think rape is the proper word. Sexual rape is not a crime of sex; it is a crime of brutal dominance, suppression and theft/denial of humanity. What has financially happened to the vast majority of us is a monetarily based act of brutal dominance, suppression and theft/denial of humanity).

Just had to vent.