Deer Tags

Hi, My name is Sarah. I'm 21 years old and I need my car fixed. I work full time and I live on my own, but with the expense of bills it's really hard for me to save up and fix my car. I just recently bought it, after having my previous car stolen from me. I had to go a year depending on other people to help get me to and from work after my car was taken. And now I'm right back in the same spot all because of an accident. It was late, a deer ran out in front of me and I hit curb. Bent my core support up into in my radiator. From what I know, it's going to cost me $600 to get it fixed. Please, if someone could help me, I'd be so thankful. If you do, just know it's going to a girl who works her ass off for everything. And no matter how hard I work, I can never seem to save up for it... Please and thank you.

Proud Grandma asking for temporary help with getting caught up on unexpected bills. I was presented with the situation of my bipolar daughter and son in law who was using drugs losing custody of their children. This seems common but I never expected it to happen to me. I used to work in the corporate world and had settled to a quiet life now working for a non-profit (more rewarding work) working with special needs adults. I picked the children up from another state in November and then was faced with cutting back on my hours so I can be home with the kids. This has really put me in the hole. I would never have allowed my grandchildren to go into foster care and will do whatever it takes. This area is very poor where I now live and is a simple life which is a wonderful environment for the children. I have been sick a lot since picking them up which has added to more loss of work/pay and then I hit a deer the other night on my way home from work and this has now messed my vehicle up. Just need some help right now. Don't like asking....but! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

We are a family in crisis in so many ways it's hard to know where to begin. My husband was hurt on the job over ten years ago, and recieves no compensation or medical help. Our daughter was a passenger in a rollover wreck this summer and we now have over $50,000. in medical bills. Our other daughter was bitten by a deer tick and has second stage Lyme disease. The medical bills are mounting. We are uninsured, because we are married. We were told if we divorce, our kids can get medical care from the state! We won't do that, of course, but it makes us sad and frustrated that so much in on us, and we can't get help because we are married. Right now we are behind in every area possible...rent, about to lose our car, driving with no auto insurance, need winter coats, you name it, we need it. We're just an average family, with unusual problems. If you can help us we would appreciate it so much. We have been known to help others when times were better for us, and it never occurred to us that we would need someone else now. Thank you.

We are a family in crisis in so many ways it's hard to know where to begin. My husband was hurt on the job over ten years ago, and recieves no compensation or medical help. Our daughter was a passenger in a rollover wreck this summer and we now have over $50,000. in medical bills. Our other daughter was bitten by a deer tick and has second stage Lyme disease. The medical bills are mounting. We are uninsured, because we are married. We were told if we divorce, our kids can get medical care from the state! We won't do that, of course, but it makes us sad and frustrated that so much in on us, and we can't get help because we are married. Right now we are behind in every area possible...rent, about to lose our car, driving with no auto insurance, need winter coats, you name it, we need it. We're just an average family, with unusual problems. If you can help us we would appreciate it so much. We have been known to help others when times were better for us, and it never occurred to us that we would need someone else now. Thank you.

The true definition of hell is not a lake of fire where you get stuck by devils with pitch forks and get all burned up and such ! Its holding a sign that says {got wife @ 3 kids} in the very very rural N.GA mountains. This is the true original birth place of the word REDNECK. Try to imagine dodging beer bottles, old ladies giving you the finger, people screaming get a job with so much force and volume that you would think they would strangle to death on their own vocal cords. Not to mention the periodic deer rifle or pistol to the face and the death threats that goes along with the [if i ever see you here again] bullshit !!! I have been out of work since the 3rd week of march 2007 with a good wife and 3 really good kids {boy15-girl14-boy13}. I'm not gonna go into a bunch of pages of boring wants and whys, but we do need some financial help please ??? Thank you sincerily...

Updates: September 11, 2011 - I have been able to get a part-time job which is good news, but the rest is just about the same. Thank you for your help Malum Designs
and Pete B.
Since my previous posts have yielded only four donations over the last five months I thought I would try this approach. My financial problems are quite real. If you find my fable entertaining please send a small donation.
- Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur -

The Grasshopper and the Ant
A Classic retold by Joseph the Beggar King
Part One

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there were two friends, the Grasshopper and the Ant. Why these two became friends is a bit of a mystery. The Grasshopper was a dreamer and a drifter. The Ant was a believer and an achiever.

In school the Grasshopper would look out the window without thought and only learned the subjects he found interesting. Sometimes he would fall asleep in Math class, other times when a angry teacher would jump him with a pop question he would give the correct answer in way that would confound them.

The Ant was a teachers dream, he soaked up every subject the system taught him, gave the correct answers in the correct way and got straight A s. He would delight his Math teacher by doing compound interest in his head. The Ant believed that what they taught him would help him succeed and was very completive. After graduating High School the Ant got an Academic Scholarship and the Grasshopper got a Pell Grant.

Within four years the Ant got two BS degrees in Business Management and Engineering. The Grasshopper dropped out after the first year. He went to live with the Rainbow Tribe for a few years. On the way to the bus station he found an old fiddle in a trash pile along the road and when he got station he was able to panhandle his bus fare. That was the Grasshoppers first beg.

The Ant took the College like a fish to water. During open Rush some Greeks invite him to be a brother in their Fraternity. He earned his dues by being the Frat Houses Accountant and made beer money by writing term papers. One day while visiting the Tri Deltas he watches the girls play volleyball and is amazed that even though they are playing a vigorous game not one of them breaks a sweat. It is there he meets the girl of his dreams, Polly Fishbane.

While the Grasshopper was living with the Rainbow Tribe he never meets the girl of his dreams, but it does not really matter too much because they believe in Free Love. So free, in fact, that after what you might call the Honeymoon he found himself getting a little bored with it. From the Rainbow Tribe he learns to live off the fat of country and from his new friend, Buffalo with Runs, he learns to live off the land. Buffalo with Runs was an very old Indian that was adopted by the tribe. He taught the Grasshopper what wild plants were safe to eat or use for medicines. He showed him how to set traps and hunt small game. Then, during one winter Gathering four people froze to dead because they were too stoned to come in out of the cold. The Grasshopper became very sad and hopped away.

The Ant is recruited by a Aerospace firm even before he graduated college and goes to work on the Apollo Program. He and his new wife Polly loved the Florida sunshine and settle down to start the American Dream. They decide to have two and half children. Even though the third kid looked a bit odd the Ant loved him as only a father can. With easy money down and mortgage tax deductions compliments of Uncle Sam, they get a house with a two car garage. Next they get two cars and the Rat Race is on. The Ant loves it! Working on the Apollo Program is more than a job, it is being part of history. Polly loves it! Raising their kids and Keeping up of with the Jones. She starts selling Avon products on the side. The Ant buys the best bass boat in the neighborhood, but only uses it once a year because he too busy working. He sets up his retirement funds and a small stock portfolio. Life is Good!

After leaving the Rainbow Tribe the Grasshopper panhandles his way across the country. He sets up in parks and subways where he pretends to play his fiddle while selling jewelry made of deer anthers and beads. The noise he makes with his fiddle sounds like a cat being killed and people give him money just to make him stop. Before the Cops run him off, the Grasshopper usually made enough in one day of begging to cover his needs for the week. When he is hungry he goes to a Soup Kitchen and when he needs clothing there are the Sharing Centers. Every now and then he lets some good hearted woman try to save him. Life is Good and he hops away.

The Apollo Program ends and the new Shuttle program does not start for a couple of years. The Aerospace company were the Ant works at does not win any of the new bids. They offer him a job in California at 20% less of his salary. Polly and the kids are in a rage. Nobody wants to move and leave their friends. The Ant sells his house at a loss because the real estate market in flooded by the laid offs. The one car and the boat are reprocessed. He sells off his stock portfolio for the down payment on the new house in California and even though money is tight the Ant decides to take the family on a short vacation to Key West to uplift their spirits. He finds the Grasshopper selling deer antler jewelry at the Front Street Market. While Polly and the kids go shopping, he and Grasshopper catch up and have a couple of beers. The Ant tells his friend about the laid offs and the move. The Grasshopper asks him - Are you Happy - ? The Ant says - Yes -. His friend says, - Good - . They watch the sunset and see a green flash on the horizon.
To be continue.

I need about $500 to make my $650 goal to see a really good friend of mine graduate from basic training into the Air Force. The money would cover costs for gas and lodging.

Up until recently I had had the money saved up until I hit a deer on my way back to school one night, costing me $1700 in repairs. Now, I barely even have enough money to cover tuition for next semester, let alone even beginning to think about making the trek from South Dakota to Texas next month. It would really mean a lot to me to see him graduate and any help would be greatly appreciated!