What the hell? Father on facebook.

[SlowwHand]

It's appears to be an exceptionally nice house, but that car doesn't go with it. There might as well be an old Plymouth Reliant sitting there. I could park my old Toyota Tacoma with a golf course in the background and it wouldn't be mine either. What about an ocean, with a giant cruise ship floating on it? All mine! Cool deal!

[Al B. Sure!]

you all think he's bull****ting? It didn't occur to me because well I don't know what land prices are like in Lebanon. I always imagined that someone with an American education could go to any second-rate country and live kingly by retirement age.

[DaShi]

You also think that all Euro toilets are squat toilets.

[bc1871]

Alby you’re a MARINE.....you don’t feel pain!

After all, didn’t poverty make you a better jarhead...so I’d say you should thank the bastard for your poverty, since it helped you succeed, during your time in “The Corps”.

[SlowwHand]

Maybe it's real.

[KrazyHorse]

Alby you’re a MARINE.....you don’t feel pain!

After all, didn’t poverty make you a better jarhead...so I’d say you should thank the bastard for your poverty, since it helped you succeed, during your time in “The Corps”.

Cruel, Asher.

[Aeson]

So true Albie... I could build you a house like that for $3.50*... just sayin...

I will however not build you a railing on the edge of your roof, because while there may be some utility in it for those working on the roof or cleaning the gutters, that work would be done by persons who are worth less than one of the balusters by any reasonable economist. I may reconsider this if you happen to want to build an intricate pergula or have a suspended outdoor chandelier/waterfeature (and who doesnt?) underneath the work area, as a falling worker could damage valuable property (a significant % of the $3.50 pricetag).

*That will be the initial estimate, which may or may not grow to several hundred thousand over the course of the project.

[bc1871]

Cruel, Asher.

Why the hell are you giving ASHER credit for my post?

[Aeson]

Maybe because "bc1871" is only on your posts once, whereas "Asher" is twice.

[KrazyHorse]

Why the hell are you giving ASHER credit for my post?

Because only Asher could be so hilariously evil as to refer to albie's "success as a marine"



EDIT: how'd that extra "o" slip in there?

[BlackCat]

He's in Lebanon. That might explain the old Mercedes.

Yeah, right. A mercedes in lebanon without bullet holes - that really makes sense

[Dinner]

So my father who I haven't seen in a decade and who was never around when I was growing up is suddenly on facebook and friend requested me.

In his photos, he had his house:




Yes, I believe that's a Mercedes... he even has a garden with a gazebo in another picture.

Is this what he was doing with the money that he wasn't using to raise me?!

I don't know how to feel about this.

It's a 10 or 15 year old Mercedes as most low quality wanna bes in the middle east are prone to drive. Either way it looks like you're dad is a douche. Sorry to knock your family but any man who abandons his kids is a douche bag.

On a lighter note you'd be amazed how little a cheap concrete house like that in the middle east goes for (the big problem is they're in the middle east which is a ****ty place). It's just concrete with a nice looking facade and almost universally poor construction. They do look nice before they fall over in an earth quake though. I've got even money that the house isn't even his.

[Dinner]

Whatever. I guess I shouldn't feel anything. I do kind of feel like asking him What the hell? You live like a king while I grow up poor? and see what he has to say.

Meh, you can buy shoddy crap like that in the mid east for $30,000 while the old ass used Mercedes is about $4000. If that looks like "living like a king" to you then you must really have grown up dirt poor. In fact that ****ty old car has a smell of desperation to it as if he wants things he can't afford. I'm reminded of the black guy who lived next door to one of my friends while we were growing up; he kept bragging about "all I ever drive is Cadillacs" and then you see the rusted out 30 year old heap sitting in his drive way.

Seriously, I'd rather have a new Toyota then that old piece of crap which probably is on its last leg. Even a run of the mill Camry would be worth 5-6 times that old car.

[SlowwHand]

Here, Oerdin.

[Dinner]

well i could lower myself to mudslinging on what i understand must be a sensitive issue, but i think im a bigger man than that

my question was rather more hypothetical - if i can reasonably expect to not be punished for my fathers misdeeds why should i feel an entitlement to share in his success?

Fathers are legally required to provide financial support for their children. Albie's dad is apparently a piece of **** who fled the country rather then support his kids so he deserves scorn.