Depressed with my situation, later 50s

..500metres to Foodland (IGA) which is bit pricey and bit limited , but can have good specials. ok 29k for coles/woolies will do that 3 x this week. monday exercise physio. wednesday psych, thurs physio again, so if still in mood try and fit shopping in around that. I do claim travel for all of those , so get $27 for each trip. in july it goes up to $42

I have a few dift routes depending on mood, traffic vs no traffic , but bit longer eg.

yes, done nullabor 20x return at least sometimes 4x /year also nsw/act

@tyme that is a tough start to life.
Your dad having varicella-zoster virus - that can really mess a person up.

Your poor mom must have beside herself with you having such a rough start.

@TAB

Ah yeah , well your pretty close then and you have the little one at least in town.

l could handle that sorta trips no prob.

We do have a baby iga 25k , but they're only good for milk and stuff pay double even for those.

The Nulla what 20x or 4 a yr whatever, were you a trucki mate?

But eh yeah, l went up 3x last wk, plus sat too.

also went 100k over somewhere to pick up windows last wk too.

This wk a lot more, goin down Geelong and a few other things.

So as l said earlier l guess, 55 ea way if that's all l did, prob wouldn't annoy me but well, two things. One, ya gotta think well how will l feel in 5-10yrs time.

But secondly, it detracts so much from all the other trips and just life l do everywhere else.

Sorry 🫤 @mrmista When I read about your sister and BIL, . . my brain 🧠 spat out “what a couple of _ _ _ _s.”

25 Houses - Guess they would never consider donating one, because family comes first.

Sorry - I’m going to stop before I get in trouble for running my mouth.

@Glisten

Yep , l shyt you not. Don;t you worry most people with money are just as bad, worst people of all, they wouldn't even give my daughter a rental.

Yet the people that have little usually tend to be the kindest of all.

Tis life l'm afraid. My families huge and there's plenty of others in there well into the millions too. You'd have more chance asking a dog on the street.

Apart from that they're actually pretty good, just don;t ask for anything- not that l do anyway know what l'd hear but some of the others have.

@mrmista it’s sad.

I know some relatives you wouldn’t choose to be friends with.

I don’t have any siblings and I only stay in contact with one cousin.

I told her when her husband dies, I’m moving in. He had lung cancer at the time. He doesn’t smoke. This is how my family deals with uncomfortable situations. We make jokes that get progressively worse.

I hope this little story made you smile.

Have a good night. I got to work in the rain tomorrow. Up at 5am. Landscaping my friend’s mom’s yard. Basically a 780mt sand dune with a 1960s original house.

not sure why kept coming back here,see parents or whatever. no thought of doing it in truck but never did.

first time in 92 magna wagon, then commodores @mrmista

that is a good point re getting older. have small hosp here (Wandin Valley) lol and medical practice. pretty big hosp 30ks away was crook a year ago , they admitted me here, wold talk to specialists online in adelaide and got sent by non-urgent ambulance to get scans in next town. so bit far fm city, but not bad all things considered . theres an ambulance here as well.

one of my siblings has shares in like 30 properties @Glisten @mrmista 50/50 in the top few, less in others. another one worth millions, got pensionplus getting $300k ontop of it

yes they wnated exact same share of inheritance as me who was broke when they didnt need it all . they took theirs in shares , had no need for cash.

@TAB

Ah , parents, that's v understandable mate have done the same for yrs , earlier. Not quite the Nulla ha ha but yaknow, they were 850k away for quite a few yrs but earlier at least 3 or 400k usually.

But shyt then you've got a bit were you are then , that's the thing. Makes a massive difference, even though as we were saying somewhere earlier, everyone knowing your business can be a thing to though if you do have small shops and PO and stuff.

Here no one knows shyt unless you use the PO or Pub. The PO's hopeless, but half the towns in there is you go too early, all seeing and hearing your stuff . They can actually even look and read everyones parcels, names, often what it is, while they're waiting too believe it or not bc the stupid b in there stacks them all in the tiny waiting area. Hate that bloody place.

Here , oh shyt yeah getting olders a worry, l dunno wth people do and how they even manage their shopping. B up the road l met reckons she only goes up to town once a fortnight, but eh she's only our age. There's quite a few in their 80s about, dunno how they manage. Doubt there's deliveries butttt, on the other hand eh, they might like it that way and be happy as a pig in mud sooo, who knows l guess.

B loves it and she's a pretty cool lady to so it means a bit coming from her to me bc we're very similar so if she likes it, might be hope yet for me.