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For those that don’t know, I have a couple living in a trailer I bought for their use (no, I didn’t give it to them) several months ago now.  They were basially homeless and I wanted to try and help them out.

I haven’t really said too much about them, I have waited to see where, if anywhere this was all going to lead. 

They mostly keep to themselves.  The woman never comes out of there except to go to the bathroom and on 2 days a week, she goes and gives plasma for money.  She is VERY heavy, I’m guessing around 400 pounds.  I imagine that is an easy weight to get to when you are sitting around all day long doing nothing and watching TV.

This was NOT part of the deal.  The deal was that at least one of them would occupy themselves with the task of attempting to find a job somewhere, get themselves a little solvent financially and perhaps be able to rent out their own place.

NOTHING of the sort has yet occured.  The man goes around here and there looking for odd jobs at people’s homes, he does not go to businesses and fill out applications.  I’m not saying he’s a lazy ass, he works around here and does all kinds of stuff outside.  That’s great, it really is, but still, it wasn’t the main jixt of letting them have a temporary place to stay.  I can cover the outside without anyone’s help, really.

Also, before they moved over here, the man stated that his girl would come in here, my house, and do cleaning chores.  She has yet to even clean up the bathroom they are using, much less do anything else. 

More – troubling to me – I have yet to hear a “thank you” – not one single time – since I gave them a break and let them in here.  Yes, I am charging them $25 per week for the use of  utilities, but that’s it.  I NEVER said living here would be a total free ride.  I wouldn’t do that – ever – it doesn’t set well with me and I would be very irritated if they came here and did nothing at all.  The point with the woman, though, is that she IS doing nothing at all.

To exaerbate the problem, she does not speak to me.  She just came walking through here, I said good morning, she grumbled it back to me, kept on walking and gave me a look while she was passing by.  Understand that I have done NOTHING to these people.  The only time I got upset was when she left the gate open the DAY they moved in here, my dogs got out and I had to enlisst Michael to go hunt them down – I wasn’t at home at the time.  Instead of apologizing, this woman said: “Well I only left it open a LITTTTTTLE bit”. 

Then, the guy left the gate open a few weeks ago, the dogs got out again. 

I am considering whether to continue to have them here.  I am definitely going to confront the guy today and find out what the woman’s problem is.  If, for some reason, she doesn’t like it here, I don’t NEED a notice, they can LEAVE.  She is CLEARLY unhappy about something, but what, I don’t know.  I do know there is much more work to be done in that trailer – I also know I have other things to do around here than spending all of my free time working on that thing.  It will be no loss at all to me if they leave.  I was doing them a favor, and right now, from where I stand, they don’t seem to appreciate it very much. 

Whatever.  Just getting that off of my chest.  It isn’t THAT big of a deal, but I do find it unsettling to have people living here where one portion of the party basically doesn’t want to speak to me.  Considering it’s my trailer and my property, doesn’t that seem odd to you?