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How You Know You're Poor by gutss(m): 5:50pm On Jun 29, 2016 |
Being poor is knowing exactly how much
everything costs.
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for
asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes
away.
Being poor is knowing your kid goes to
friends’ houses but never has friends
over to yours
Being poor is coming back to the car with
your children in the back seat, clutching
that box of Raisin Bran you just bought
and trying to think of a way to make the
kids understand that the box has to last.
Being poor is wondering if your well-off
sibling is lying when he says he doesn’t
mind when you ask for help.
Being poor is off-brand toys.
Being poor is a heater in only one room of
the house.
Being poor is hoping your kids don’t have
a growth spurt.
Being poor is stealing meat from the store,
frying it up before your mom gets home
and then telling her she doesn’t have
make dinner tonight because you’re not
hungry anyway.
Being poor is Goodwill underwear.
Being poor is not enough space for
everyone who lives with you.
Being poor is feeling the glued soles tear
off your supermarket shoes when you run
around the playground.
Being poor is your kid’s school being the
one with the 15-year-old textbooks and
no air conditioning.
Being poor is think 30k a month is a really good idea.
Being poor is relying on people who don’t
give a damn about you.
Being poor is an overnight shift under
florescent lights.
Being poor is finding the letter your mom
wrote to your dad, begging him for the
child support.
Being poor is a bathtub you have to empty
into the toilet.
Being poor is making lunch for your kid
when a cockroach skitters over the bread,
and you looking over to see if your kid
saw.
Being poor is people angry at you just for
walking around in the mall.
Being poor is not taking the job because
you can’t find someone you trust to watch
your kids.
Being poor is the police busting into the
apartment right next to yours.
Being poor is not talking to that girl
because she’ll probably just laugh at
your clothes.
Being poor is hoping you’ll be invited for
dinner.
Being poor is a sidewalk with lots of brown
glass on it.
Being poor is people thinking they know
something about you by the way you talk.
Being poor is needing that 10k raise.
Being poor is your kid’s teacher
assuming you don’t have any books in
your home.
Being poor is crying when you drop the
mac and cheese on the floor.
Being poor is knowing you work as hard as
anyone, anywhere.
Being poor is people surprised to discover
you’re not actually stupid.
Being poor is people surprised to discover
you’re not actually lazy.
Being poor is a six-hour wait in an
emergency room with a sick child asleep
on your lap.
Being poor is never buying anything
someone else hasn’t bought first.
Being poor is picking the 100 naira milk
instead of the 120 naira milk because
that 20 naira would scatter your money.
Being poor is having to live with choices
you didn’t know you made when you were
14 years old.
Being poor is getting tired of people
wanting you to be grateful.
Being poor is knowing you’re being
judged.
Being poor is deciding that it’s all right to
base a relationship on shelter.
Being poor is knowing you really
shouldn’t spend that buck on a Lotto
ticket.
Being poor is feeling helpless when your
child makes the same mistakes you did,
and won’t listen to you beg them against
doing so.
Being poor is a cough that doesn’t go
away.
Being poor is making sure you don’t spill
on the couch, just in case you have to give
it back before the lease is up.
Being poor is four years of night classes
for an Associates of Art degree.
Being poor is a lumpy futon bed.
Being poor is knowing where the shelter is.
Being poor is people who have never been
poor wondering why you choose to be so.
Being poor is knowing how hard it is to
stop being poor.
Being poor is seeing how few options you
have.
Being poor is running in place.
Being poor is people wondering why you
didn’t leave. |
Re: How You Know You're Poor by Nobody: 5:53pm On Jun 29, 2016 |
this obviously Ain't the 9ja definition of being poor! |
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