Posted on 10/13/2002 9:22:35 AM PDT by American Preservative
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Many middle-class people joke about being "one paycheck away from the street." This is the story of a couple who've slammed hard into that reality.
Over the past 18 months, they've gone from his six-figure salary and life in a tony townhouse apartment complex in Silicon Valley to collecting aluminum cans and sleeping in a 28-foot-long recreational vehicle in a parking lot behind the husband's old office building. Once distracted by VCRs and mega- cable, they now watch local television on an old black-and-white set, stand in line at a public food bank for groceries and do their laundry with a garden hose.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Bad things can and do happen, but I don't spend my life worrying about the possibilty. I do pray for my children and in a general way yours, best wishes and good luck!
Me too, and 'thanks'.
I have a cable modem but was still continually on the phone for meetings and communicating with the other groups and managers.
Nowadays I'm a network administrator.
I don't think I did tell you what you know about anything.
The comment was that some people on this thread don't know about bad fortune. Since I was one of the people taking a critical view of both the article (almost certainly fake) and the careless, spoiled people it portrays as victims I thought it a reasonable assumption that the comment was directly, at least in part, at me. If this was incorrect, I apologize.
Best regards.
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