For many years I was tasked with taking people like this and teaching them things. Stuff like making your bed, cleaning your room, being dressed properly, responsibility for your actions, etc. I like to think I turned out some responsible citizens by the end of their sentences.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

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Originally posted by shovelhead:
Happens at places of employment also. Worked with a white trash hood wannabe years ago. Bounced from department to department due to his own actions and customer complaints. Car dealership, he was a lot jockey and got sent to parts in the hope of management to “save” this kid. Ego thing on their part “Look what we did, we made something of him” while alienating everyone around him.

Culminated with his apology, a handshake and the immediate transfer of Junior hoot rat to the new car sales as their new lot boy.

I worked at a Chevrolet dealer [porter, by title. told people I did everything but fix & Sell the cars] in college, this type wouldn't have lasted there.

The Honda dealer I worked for, definitely had some of your experiences there, but they usually didn't last too long, with 1 exception that bounced around until he cratered the sliding door on a brand new Odyssey.

Strangest thing to me was that people like the ones we described here usually have some sort of connection to one of the higher ups through business or country club, a “do me a favor” thing.

Twenty years or so before that I even had a better one. Parts driver, long story but it led to me telling my manager “him or me, take your pick”. We dumped him onto the new car department, he brown nosed the dealer enough to become his personal assistant. Finally got terminated due to stealing a customer’s new Corvette and getting picked up as a DUI early in the morning.

Funny thing about that, one of the managers happened to be in the dealer’s office while he was on the phone with the police arranging to get the car out of impound. The officer asked the dealer what about the arrested driver. His response was “keep him, I just want the car back”

Yep - Been there. We once owned a home in a up and coming subdivision. We had a Subaru owner, a bank VP, a Ford Motor exec as neighbors. As the years rolled on, they moved away and the replacements were turds. Where the bank VP lived a couple moved in and he tried to kill the Mrs With a shotgun. Blew the front door off the hinges. Where the Ford couple lived, they had an alcoholic dad and a drugged out kid. We stayed too long.

All around my county apartments have sprung up. Some quite large complexes. Lots of successful folks bought dream homes in nice established neighborhoods with quiet streets. Now it seems the zoning boards are chomping at the bit to ram low income apartments right in there.
Apartments are a dead end trap for the renters. Mixed development helps no one. It raises prices for rent and degrades the surrounding homes. Better would be some properly zoned communities of low maintenance, true starter homes for potential renters to OWN.