No, no, no, not happening

AndyG said:

Tell me about some craizies you know so I can feel better about my life

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I just love people who think they're entitled to YOUR stuff.

Does he smoke a lot of pot? Pot tends to arrest development at the point of starting to use the drug. I know a 50 year old 17 year old. Regular pot smoker since - you guessed it! - about 17 years old.

AndyG said:

I have a neighbor who is unlike anyone I have ever seem, 43, jobless, lives with parents, meddles, on Xanax for decades, and happens to be related by marriage and is the brother of a close friend. We grew up around this guy. He did not grow up at all.

So I have a TJR and an LJR , and I like them. A lot.

He comes by recently and tells me he “met a guy who can V8 swap them” and asked if I would give him a key to them so he could drive them to his shop to see them whenever he could.

First, I’m not interested in a V8 swap, and secondly I would not give him a key to my lawnmower.

So I said no as politely as I could, and he got mad.

Part of this is his penchant for stirring up strife....he asks you something he knows good and well you will refuse and then gets mad at how selfish, etc you are. He is creative, I’ll give him that.

Secondly, I figured he went and told them HE had a jeep and wanted them to check it out. (That realization came when he refused to let me drive him there in one - I offered to do that just to see what he would say).


Think how far out this is- someone wants a key of their own to come get a vehicle of yours to get evaluated for work you are not even considering.

When I had dads vette at the house when dad was sick he asked “are you gonna put headers on it?”. No man, it is not mine. Also told me he knew a guy that could add 200hp with a tune .

I finally ran him off by calling bull on some of his behavior, all the while watching my stuff.

I have never seen anyone like
him.

Tell me about some craizies you know so I can feel better about my life

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Sounds like a lot of fun. I have a brother in law that lives in his own reality and truly believes the lies he tells and will play people against each other for zero gain. Just likes to start shit I guess. He’s been married for 15 years or so. That was the best thing that ever happened to him, and the worst thing that ever happened to his wife. My father in law just went into a nursing home and we are settling his estate. My brother in law has been lots of fun to deal with during this time. Fucker is a legit waste if oxygen.

My life is not complicated because I don't allow complicated people in my life.

I just let an employee go because she couldn't grasp the idea that I didn't want to be friends with her, go out drinking with her, and text with her at all hours of the night. Mind you, she's in her 30s, lives at home, has a young kid, and does pickup work.

You were likely correct in your assumption

Hes a BS artist, and likely recently told the guy he owns a Jeep, and figured his neighbor would just give him carte blanche like his parents (enablers) do all the time.

I would just say stay vigilantly aware, because ya dont know how unhinged a loser like this could be. Drug addicts are so used to lying, it just rolls off the tongue like breathing

bmcgc said:

My life is not complicated because I don't allow complicated people in my life.

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That is my strict policy also
I only keep successful people around me

You cant soar with the eagles if you hang with pigeons
Neighbors are outside of your control unless you move

Zorba said:

Does he smoke a lot of pot? Pot tends to arrest development at the point of starting to use the drug. I know a 50 year old 17 year old. Regular pot smoker since - you guessed it! - about 17 years old.

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supporters of legalization will tell you it's completely safe and natural and doesn't do anything like that until they're blue in the face but your statement certainly lines up with my personal observation.

My brother is super smart but he started in high school or college and now he's 37. He's gotten better but he's had a hard time getting settled on what he wants to do for a career, has trouble making good life and financial decisions (such as choice in romantic partner and taking 4 vacations in a year when he's 6 figures in debt). For the last year he's been dating a 26 year old who just got out of college and despite his extra years of life experience they seem to be a fairly even match in terms of maturity. Interestingly enough SHE's the one who doesn't smoke pot and got him to stop a few months ago...and since then he's paid down $60k in debt and had the most successful year of his career.

My closest childhood friend started around high school. I still like the guy but we just dont have anything left in common. He went on to harder stuff and has been in and out of rehab, trashed his liver and lost his drivers license and depends on his long-term girlfriend to get him around to random handyman type work.

My uncle on my moms side, who i've posted about before, spent his entire life in and out of living with his parents, held an actual job for maybe 5 years of his entire adult life, then took advantage of my grandma's alzheimers to rob her of everything she had to will it to his sons before offing himself.

Uncle on my dads side had a TBI in the 90s and found MJ to be the best medicine to stabilize his mood. he gradually used more and more and now has been stoned out of his gourd and living on my grandmas couch 24 hours a day for almost 11 years, except going out to the garage or back patio to smoke. His oldest son is basically him minus the TBI, in his 40s but lives like an 18 year old.

I've never touched the stuff. Went through a phase where I thought I might try it to help with some anxiety but when I look around me I can't name a single person that had a net positive result from it, except my dad, who used it briefly and in moderation in his early 70s to relieve the side effects of bladder cancer treatment.

freedom_in_4low said:

I've never touched the stuff. Went through a phase where I thought I might try it to help with some anxiety but when I look around me I can't name a single person that had a net positive result from it, except my dad, who used it briefly and in moderation in his early 70s to relieve the side effects of bladder cancer treatment.

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I've never touched any of it either - not even as much as a single glass of rotten grape juice. But as far as I'm concerned, they can legalize the whole mess. People who want to screw up their lives are going to do it, Nanny State or no Nanny State.

Sounds like a likely candidate for the prison system at some point.

Andy why does this guy come around? Is it possible for you to have a discussion with the wife about not giving him reason to come around?

Zorba said:

I've never touched any of it either - not even as much as a single glass of rotten grape juice.

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well, I've touched PLENTY of THAT stuff. Just not weed or any other "drug". I HATE being drunk though, so it's rarely more than 1 drink in a day and basically never more than 2. If it acts as a social lubricant at that point, I wouldn't know, I just know I don't feel any different with that amount.

Zorba said:

But as far as I'm concerned, they can legalize the whole mess. People who want to screw up their lives are going to do it, Nanny State or no Nanny State.

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I've called myself a libertarian (lowercase L there) for a long time and in a perfect world I agree. But at the same time I've seen enough addiction that I don't take a concrete position that it should just be a free for all.

Zorba said:

Does he smoke a lot of pot? Pot tends to arrest development at the point of starting to use the drug. I know a 50 year old 17 year old. Regular pot smoker since - you guessed it! - about 17 years old.

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freedom_in_4low said:

supporters of legalization will tell you it's completely safe and natural and doesn't do anything like that until they're blue in the face but your statement certainly lines up with my personal observation.

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I've experienced the opposite. I know several that smoke and/or use edibles and have for as long as I've known them. They're all very successful and make damn good money. I think for them though, its a way to unwind. Sort of how I would pour myself a cocktail after a long stressful day.

I've smoked it, I've enjoyed it. My first career out of college they required a clean drug screening to come on board. After that it was yearly with the occasional random test tossed in. A fun hour or two during the weekend wasn't worth getting fired over so I stopped.

AMS417 said:

I have a brother in law that lives in his own reality and truly believes the lies he tells...

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