Hey, this is not so much a diary as a WTF rant.
When I bought my house in 2001 I paid about seven hundred in mortgage. Now, because of increased property taxes in the main, I pay about thirteen hundred.
I'm on a "budget" for natural gas, my furnace and water heater are both gas. My budget payment every month is about ninety-five dollars. My bill today politely informed me that my budget payment bill every month will be over one-hundred and sixty dollars every month.
I don't have a kid, but I love kids. I'm a great "uncle", or godfather or that kid that never grew up. Today in the grocery store, a kid followed me in from the parking lot, started crying and running all over the store because his parents weren't paying attention and he had walked away. His parents were found, but gods damn it, someone could have just picked him up and stuffed him in a car while his parents weren't looking!
I had to give an old guy a dollar in the grocery line because he was short a buck on three dollars worth of crap food!
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