Just yesterday, someone replied to a witticism that I’d made days before, and that I assumed no one had gotten. (So I’m betting your last brilliant comment had us all in awe, to the extent that any response would be drivel compared to your insightful-yet-amusing post.)
That’s probably it. 
Bumping this based on some of the recent discussion going on over here, specifically regarding the shovel that Lute finds impossible to put down. Turns out that he’s gone to the Doper Donation well in the past, also for pet problems. Guy just can’t figure out how to support his pets on his own, it seems.
What part of
do you not understand?
Didn’t you just adopt yet another animal that you apparently can’t afford to take care of?
Things are different now. I’ve been working an average of 20 hours overtime per month since the end of May and have an actual savings account as opposed to trying to keep money in checking and relying on my annual tax refund. I keep forgetting I even have a retirement account that can be borrowed against until the occasional (quarterly?) statement arrives.
My sister’s requirement of being self-reliant includes not borrowing anywhere, including from my retirement.
The part where you seem to require your sister to explain to you how to act like an adult and manage your own money, rather than repeatedly mooching off of strangers (especially when you HAVE the money in another account).
Why aren’t you capable of being responsible by yourself?
I still don’t understand why you think we should care about what your sister has to say. What’s her relevance to the Dope? Did she give you the animals? Does she hold power of attorney over your finances?
Where’s your wife in all this, didn’t she enable your begging last time?
It seems to me that Lute is at least trying to be more fiscally responsible, so I recommend letting that particular line of questioning go. I just want to know why he feels he needs to keep re-justifying his actions. Stop picking at the scab and just let it go.
Lute, the fact of the matter is you had money, but you didn’t want to take the tax hit to use it. So instead of taking the financial hit on your savings, you held your hand out and begged. You had money all along. Don’t give me crap about your sister or that you couldn’t access the bank or whatever. You HAD money! Don’t you understand that that is the reason people are pissed?
What you need to do is apologize, return all the money you kept from the second time you begged, and then shut the fuck up. That’s the responsible thing to do.
Yeah, I think he said that his wife helped set up the Paypal, or it was going through her Paypal or something.
Lute, are you actually mentally disabled (besides super double depression or whatever you blamed the last time)? If so, just tell us and we’ll let it go.
The problem most people here have with you isn’t that you asked for money when you already had it available. And it’s not because you were fairly withholding with the information on why you needed the money.
It’s because you keep making excuses for your behavior instead of just standing up and saying “I fucked up guys, I’m sorry.” Instead, you make excuse after excuse and lay the blame on others and on your depression and anything else you can think of other than just owning the mistake.
And you also do realize that we’d all mostly forgotten about you until you started that new thread with yet more excuses (“I murdered my kitty 30 years ago, that’s why I suck so bad!”). You just keep on digging.
I’m a fiscal idiot. Seems to run in the family.
There was that time I bought something I needed but had to return it a few minutes later because I realized I had spent the $1.25 or whatever that I also needed to give Metrobus so I could get home.
How about from people on a message board?
Was it an animal?
Yes. Ajustment disorder with Dysthymia and occasional bouts of Major Depression. Attempted suicide in 1990. Spent the summer of '94 in a mental health ward due to being suicidal again.
Wouldn’t be surprised if I also have undiagnosed Aperger’s and mild retardation.
That’s not an apology, Lute.
Christ Jesus, buddy. Just man up, give an honest apology, return the money, and be done.
Heh. No, a canteen. I had just signed up to be a volunteer summer camp counselor.
I don’t think this would surprise anybody.
Manned up and reutrned the money two months ago. Unless you’re referring to the sick kitty, that was almost a year ago; I have no idea who sent what and we’re gone from PayPal.