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April 19, 2012 at
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Looking for opinions:
If you have a specific skill or trade do you feel it's okay with charging immediate family members for your labor/time. For example, if you are a mechanic, would you charge your son or daughter, father or mother for your labor? Or do you feel like since they're your family (and let's of course say for arguments sake that everyone likes each other and has a good relationship of course
) you should give your help where you're able to and leave it up to the person on the receiving end to give if they should feel inclined?
If you have a specific skill or trade do you feel it's okay with charging immediate family members for your labor/time. For example, if you are a mechanic, would you charge your son or daughter, father or mother for your labor? Or do you feel like since they're your family (and let's of course say for arguments sake that everyone likes each other and has a good relationship of course
) you should give your help where you're able to and leave it up to the person on the receiving end to give if they should feel inclined?
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I guess when he's really old and needs me to run his errands or take him to the dr, or care for him when he can't care for himself I'll ask him what he has to offer me in return or tell him my" discounted family rate". I mean that's the lesson here right. Everyone's time is worth something and acts of love are not forms of payment!
The lesson here is your parents have likely raised you from birth... or wait did you buy your own diapers and cleaned your own ass when you were an infant?
I guess when he's really old and needs me to run his errands or take him to the dr, or care for him when he can't care for himself I'll ask him what he has to offer me in return or tell him my" discounted family rate". I mean that's the lesson here right. Everyone's time is worth something and acts of love are not forms of payment!
You realize the law doesn't require him to have anything to do with you at all except financially for 18 years.
I guess when he's really old and needs me to run his errands or take him to the dr, or care for him when he can't care for himself I'll ask him what he has to offer me in return or tell him my" discounted family rate". I mean that's the lesson here right. Everyone's time is worth something and acts of love are not forms of payment!
You have shown no act of love here, only hatred toward your father, because you are not getting things YOUR WAY - too farking bad
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In real life, with very good friends; I have lent that type of money to them with no strings attached; other than they use it for the need it was intended; such as lawyer fees. When they are able to pay it back they will; but the need to get them up and running with something like a lawyer was more important than the $1k to us. That's how much some of our "dear friends" mean to us.
But not this useless OP that is posting - she would never make it to the top 10
A thank you is knowing they are on the road to recovery from what "ails" them, and gets them back on track. Like our friend last night with his vehicle, we knew he couldn't afford to leave it where it sat with all his work tools in it over night ; nor have it towed to a garage to be repaired. Thus why we went to all the trouble we did so.
Just don't stab me/us in the back, when we are doing things like this for you as a "friend" - you know my "motto"
You have shown no act of love here, only hatred toward your father, because you are not getting things YOUR WAY - too farking bad B-R-A-T
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OK, it's late evening, so I guess it's story time. Sitting comfortably? It's not a happy story, but it's a true one.
I too had a father once. My father passed away in November 2010. I had to make an emergency flight to Poland for his funeral.
At this point, we had a recap team for Rite Aid threads and I was a member of this team. Each member had a day of the week assigned for their recap work. It was about half an hour on average, sometimes more if the week was busy.
Obviously, dealing with grief, but also with an unexpected chance to see my mother and sister, I did not want to have to worry about a Rite Aid thread while away. Not to mention I wasn't even sure about internet connection at my Mom's.
Luckily, or so I thought, we had a person who volunteered to be a back up if any of us regular recap people couldn't handle our assigned day. The person was... yes, Supergirl, the very OP of this thread. As soon as I knew of my emergency trip, and that was a few days in advance of my recap day, I sent a PM to her. Never hear a word back. (and the person in charge of the recap team can confirm I sent this message, since she was CCed on it, as was former Mod Slayers).
Supergirl, I will say it loud and clear: you, of all people, have no right to talk about compassion, kindness, helpfulness or other values like this.
No, I don't hate you. I don't hate anyone. But no, I will not forget this, ever.
So there.