Does this bother anyone else???
The other day I was driving through town, and I noticed that a little satellite dish had been placed on top of what can barely be called a house…
Has anyone else seen this??? I’ve seen it 4 times now… just in my small town… dumb, very dumb. (the people, that is)
It just seems like those people should be putting their money towards improving the pigsty they live in… rather than buying entertainment… I dunno… 
My husband used to do computer work for a satellite dish company. They telemarket the HELL out of them (obviously) and a LOT of pretty poor folks get them…because they’re on a payment plan. Easy terms! Instant financing!! WWF 24/7!! Of COURSE they can’t resist.
Shrug.
My personal pet peeve! However did you know?
I hate it when people on welfare (I deliver the checks, I KNOW.) are getting Primestar guides. I work and can’t afford it. I’d love to able to get Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel again, but on my part-time pay, as a single parent I can’t do it. Maybe I should just quit my job and let the state pay for round the clock TV.
There is a very run down, grubby trailer park in my town where ther is a satellite dish on one of the trailers. I not only am bothered by the fact that the owners would be better served spending their money on a better home, I’m also mystified as to how this partcularly decrepid trailer can suport the weight of the dish.
I think it just has to do with your priorities. I know if I had a bedridden husband or child, I would definitly get a satellite before pruning my hedges. I dunno…
and don’t worry so much about somebody else’s.
A relatively cheap dish may be the only luxury in an otherwise drab life, you see.
Myself, I have old “rabbit ears” on my 10 yr. okd tv. But I do get to take an occasional vacation. And I can afford this expensive toy I’m playing with at this very minute. 30-40 bucks a month to entertain a whole family ain’t a bad deal, imo.
Peace,
mangeorge
I’m with mangeorge. Why would someone else having a satellite dish bother me? People have to take their harmless pleasures where they can find them.
Catrandom
I have to go with Zinger on this one. Part of my duties at my last job were to handle cable calls and payments. I would get the most disturbing phone calls. People with over $100 in owed cable bills, telling me their pitiful life stories, laid off, blah blah, welfare check not in yet, gonna have the phone shut off, HAD the phone shut off and calling from a pay phone, etc. Always asking to keep the service on. Sorry, but if you can’t pay the bill, then you should not have it, cable TV is not a necessity in life. I just imagine some of these people being of the same mentality.
I dunno, everyone has their things they like to spend their money on.
Occasionally some so-called liberal graduate school friend makes a little comment about how certain people (of a specific ethnic group) would spend money on flashy cars, when their houses sucked.
To which one of us would reply: How many “broke” graduate students do you know who still insist on buying Clinique makeup? It’s the same thing, IMHO.
I’m not implying that the OP is saying anything prejudicial… it’s just, from the outside we all have ideas about what constitutes smart spending, and others might not agree. Maybe the shack-dwellers think (erroneously?) that a satellite is better because they have equity in it, instead of cable that you pay for and don’t OWN.