Thanksgiving Day
Is it really that time already? Thanksgiving isn’t much of a giant deal to me. I figure one should be thankful on most days…. why do we have a special day?
What I am looking forward to, however, is the wine. Since I’ve quit smoking, I can’t exactly drink the “Steve Brunner” of beers anymore, because that is what I drank when I smoked, and I would want to smoke if I drank one. Now I drink wine…. and I’ve drank quite a bit the past few days. I did make what seems to have been a huge wine mistake though…. I got the Ernest and Julio Gallo kind for home, which tastes like someone pissed on a watermelon. I’m a fan of the blushes, specifically this one called a Reisling. That’s good wine.
I now know what makes the homeless people homeless. It’s one of two things.
1. You are mentally ill.
I am sorry that our mental health care system sucks. I feel bad for these people. They want to try, but their illness is viewed as a choice, and not an illness.
2. You are a raging asshole.
I am SICK of the people who have the least being the biggest dicks. If you are homeless, be happy that you got one pillow and a glass of water. I will NOT get you three pillows, warm blankets, and a cup of coffee. I don’t have time to do that for ANYONE, not even the lawyers from Scottsdale. Don’t be an asshole. Just. Don’t. These people are homeless because they don’t have the social skills to keep a job, family, or home. They do drugs. They are selfish, and they are draining our healthcare system. You want to see an alternative to rising healthcare costs? Let me kick these people in the ass a few times, and let’s all stop paying their medical bills. There are two patients that I see EVERY DAY. In an emergency room. Because they want attention…. someone to talk to. Every time I treat one of these fucks, it costs our government $3000. Do you know why it costs that much? Because of the people who don’t even have (or are too lazy to apply for) government insurance, and just walk out of their bill. Because of the HMOs that scrutinize every single test ordered, and deny people claims. THAT is why it costs so much to go to the doctor. These people are scum.
This guy got assaulted yesterday because he was being an asshole to another homeless guy (the crazy variety). Since his shoes and pants were wet, I gave him new clothes. NEW shoes, socks, shirt, pullover sweater, and pants. Do you know what this guy had the audacity to do? He bitched because the pullover sweater wasn’t a jacket. He bitched because I didn’t have a belt for him. He bitched because he had to go back into the streets “looking like this.” I called security, who kindly escorted him right back out to where he belongs: IN A BOX. Every second I have to spend with pricks like this take away from the time I could be spending with your sick grandmother or child. Every second I spend with these people ruins a second for someone who really did need me. They are thieves of time, money, and healthcare, and I am sick of them. Now I must go back to work and act like I want to take care of these people. It really is a shame.
