"Exactly. You can't ignore somethin' just because it's not all happiness and rainbows." What a sunshiney attitude these two share.
"Yeah, it does. Or maybe I just run into a lotta of 'em." He frequents some sketchy areas back home, and the Depression hasn't helped things.
He laughs sheepishly. "Something to say?" Starting a rant hadn't been his intention, but he's too opinionated to gracefully deny it and spare her his griping. "I guess I do. It's just hard to have sympathy for guys like that, you know? The ones who decide to wallow in their problems when they're perfectly able to fix 'em--especially if they've got people who depend on 'em. I see guys like that all the time." Ruining oneself is forgivable or at least dismissable, in Firo's book. Ruining one's family is another thing entirely.
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"Yeah, it does. Or maybe I just run into a lotta of 'em." He frequents some sketchy areas back home, and the Depression hasn't helped things.
He laughs sheepishly. "Something to say?" Starting a rant hadn't been his intention, but he's too opinionated to gracefully deny it and spare her his griping. "I guess I do. It's just hard to have sympathy for guys like that, you know? The ones who decide to wallow in their problems when they're perfectly able to fix 'em--especially if they've got people who depend on 'em. I see guys like that all the time." Ruining oneself is forgivable or at least dismissable, in Firo's book. Ruining one's family is another thing entirely.