As you may know, all 3 of my horrific skids are now adults in their twenties and have been officially PASed out for 15 years now (16 if you count the older two).

But Chef has former co-workers, one in particular, who is about the age, possibly older than Pumpkinhead (OSS stb 28).  He always adds a "Y" to the end of his surrogate skids names (ex. Dave becomes "Davey", etc)

Well "Davey" who is married to a BM with her kids and an ours kid, is always crying "poor mouth" which i don't care for-- And I've told Chef so.  To me a sign of ill breeding.

"Davey" has  borrowed money from us in the past and Chef (read: me) has paid for his vehicle repairs as well as let "Davey" scrap for cash any scrap metal/ appliances/old heating equipment Chef replaces for his customers as "payment" for the haul aways.  Somehow Chef is always over generous with others... in this case his surrogate kiddult and he always seems to get taken advantage of. 

Now this surrogate skiddult had borrowed money from us before and I insisted on a full written agreement which Chef thought I was being a hard ass on.  He did pay it back but I believe only BECAUSE I had the written agreement. 

He calls Chef quite frequently asking for work advice and I kid you not, ROMANTIC ADVISE, which of course Chef advises never to "spoil" a woman, don't buy her candy/flowers, etc.  This was Vday 2023 btw that he gave this advise to "Davey" as Davey called up Chef frustrated that his wife was expecting a certain type of confection.

So now Chef has let me know that Davey wants to borrow about 2 grand for a hauiling/dumping trailer.  Davey just revealed that the company he works for (Chef used to work for and quit several times bc he knew he could rely on MY wages) is having a slow down as the economy grinds to a halt. 

Chef advised Davey to tell the new owners of the company at the next meeting that they suck!!!  I doubt Davey will do this as he is quite the timid sort and at least he doesn't take his wife's wages for granted.   But I told Chef after he got off the phone that saying that would be a good way to get fired and then how would he pay us back?

Chef: (insert bravado) "Davey could go anywhere and get a job...I don't know why he doesn't quit that company anyway!"

Me (rolling eyes)  "You DO know that the employees market is rapidly drying up now, don't you?"

*crickets*

So see folks, you don't even have to have skids coming around to "enjoy" the skid dynamic.