Entitled demand for money from Dopers?
Insincere apology filled with excuses and whining?
Storming off in an angry huff when called on behavior?
Why, it’s Wednesday on the Straight Dope! We pride ourselves on having something of a community here, but I feel that just encourages some amongst us to try and take advantage of that community’s good will. For such people, ‘community’ translates to ‘people with money they haven’t given me yet’.
Don’t beat yourself up too much–while I probably wouldn’t have donated, I didn’t think your request was far enough out of line to justify many of the posts I saw reviling you for it.
And I don’t think your original thread title helped things.
But your basic situation of being poor, but getting by until the next catastrophe, is a hard place to be.
So you asked for help, and didn’t get much in the way of sympathy.
I’m sorry for that–that I’m part of a board where it sometimes seems like many people enjoy being nasty to people who are having problems.
Meh, based on his own words he’s got a short term problem that there were multiple sources of funding for but he chose to go to the begging for money from strangers option before the loan from the vendor or tapping retirement accounts options. I don’t think the lack of sympathy was for the situation but a defense for those who are actually in a worse financial situation who were offering help.
I think that Lute did more to negatively impact people who are having problems than any of the comments did.
He’s not poor. He’s a homeowner with multiple retirement accounts and an “asset” he refuses to disclose. That ain’t poor.
The OP says he does not intend to post in this thread again and since at least one poster has gotten his money back, there’s reason to think this issue is being resolved. Posters who took issue with the original request for money have had their say here and there is still an active Pit thread where they can continue to do so. With that in mind, I’m closing this thread.