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Gas Money for Car for Transplant Appointments

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $340
Views: 525
Wish Points: 316.35

We seem to spend a lot of time in cars. Lots of doctor stuff. But right now, we're also helping a friend get set up for a kidney transplant. He has appointments for testing, and interviews, and it's 110 miles to the closest place to get him on a list. He's on SS Disability, and his SO is awaiting disability (after 3 years) so they don't have much money. Their car was wrecked on a grey, rainy day on the way to his dialysis appointment, so we (SO retired, me on disability--Social Security only) provide all their transportation. Dialysis is 25 miles away, three times a week. Transplant appointments are ongoing, and going and going...

I figured out the mileage there and back (for the transplant only, we all work together to cover dialysis) and multiplied by the number of trips to complete the testing (and added two more, just on the chance that he'll require the 'possible extra tests' their schedule has), figured gas mileage and then multiplied by current (not future projected, just current) gas price. Prices will probably go up, or if our car goes out, we may have to borrow a less economical car to make the trip, but at present, the $340 is my best estimate for the out of pocket gas money to get him fully compliant with all the transplant list protocols.

Michael's a good guy. He's supported Denise on the next to nothing that SS pays him, as well as himself, since she's been turned down for disability twice. (Rehab won't even consider trying to get her back to work, as she needs somewhere between 8 and 11 orthopedic surgeries to start being functional--never get run down by a drunk lawyer.) If we could afford it, we would just pay for the gas. We can't afford it either. (My co-pay on my chemo-shot every month almost exceeds my yearly income, so my credit stinks, too.)

We promise to just buy gasoline with the money. Dan and I will cover oil and tranny fluid (the car is old, and uses both rather rapidly) but the gas is eating us up. Thanks for considering this wish. (more)

$$ for Gas (not intestinal, thanks) WITH JOKES!!

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $340
Views: 276
Wish Points: 321.06

OK, so the snipers don't like true, but sad, nice wishes...here's the funny version. Well, the smart-ass version. The funny smart-ass version?

Aging Hippie-minded Earth Mother type needs $$ to be able to drag even more aged long-bearded, balding ex-motorcycle freak to semi-distant medical facility to try to get him a new kidney. His old ones are useless, and dragging him to dialysis 3 times a week is difficult for him, and even more of a total pain in the butt for us! (120 miles, three times a week, unless he can get a crip-mobile reservation, but that's only 2 of the 3 days. Crip-mobile tickets are expensive, too.)

Motorcycle Freak Guy's GF is my homegirl since highschool. I lubs her berry mush (you know you can't say you love someone without the jerks getting all nasty), I tolerate him, but hey, he doesn't need to die just 'cause he's not a native Texas like me and my homechick! He's good to her, so I wanna continue to be good to him. (He breaks her heart--all bets are off. But he won't do that. He's not THAT dumb.)

Anyway, I did the math last time, and the cost of gas has gone up (DUH, it's summer in the US, and Exxon's profit margin is under 25% MORE this quarter, so of course it has) so the amount of need hasn't gone down. (And if we blow one more tire, it's gonna be the Beggin' and Pleadin' line for tire money.)

Not funny? Well, damn...I just don't see why we all can't have AMUSING illnesses and tragedies so the morons don't get BORED... COME ON FOLKS!! To amuse the morons, can't we try to be FUNNYSICK?? Maybe HYSTERICALLYHOMELESS??

Nah, I didn't think so, but hey, I tried.

Oh, a joke for you. Look at the first post below!! (more)

Job training for a fellow RHF Member

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $1
Views: 384
Wish Points: 239.51

One of our most "active" members needs job training. training. See, he TRIES to be...different. Interesting. SOMETHING. But, what he is...us an idiot, A putz. And most sadly, he's not even funny.

Neener, Neener is active, sadistically stupid, unable to understand much about human decency and just a general jerk. With some training, he might make a good village idiot, possibly somewhere with a very small, stupid population. His ability to be obnoxious, caustic, nasty and TOTALLY unamusing surely deserves some reward from the site's users. A lobotomy would be a waste (too much searching time for any functional braincells) so training seems to be the best alternative.

He's probably a sad, disgusting person that nobody wants to be around. Village idiot training might just socialize him! (more)

Rerun on the gas $$ wish, with NEW jokes!! and a cool video.

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $340
Views: 312
Wish Points: 467.97

Hi again.

Once again, I gotta get my homegirl's Old Man to transplant appointments. We're all short on money, but then Michael's gonna run short on being alive without a transplant. (I'm 54, my homegirl's 49, we're a bunch of aging and decrepit folks on disability, except for Dan, who retired to help take care of me rather than have me die where I was.)

Michael still has transplant appointments, we still can't get any help to get him there, and the gas money is really going to continue to be a problem. (This week's appointment was on my monthly chemotherapy day, so it's postponed.) Anyway, we're trying all avenues for transportation help, gas money help, etcetera, and so far, we got nuthin'. With Mom's van down for the count, we're also depending on one vehicle for everything and everybody.

Here's the link to the original wish.
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Here's the link to the last wish.
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A few bucks to go hear some blues music again.

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $165
Views: 229
Wish Points: 350.89

WATCH THE VIDEO!! This is the true definition of a naughty wish.

I want to go hang out in a crowded blues bar and listen to the music. I used to get to do that a lot when we lived in Houston, but we don't anymore. Need gas money, some food bucks and to be able to get a motel room somewhere. (Got friends to dog-sit my boy Spencer.)

I wanna go to The Big Easy in Houston. I'd like to be there when Earl Gilliam plays, or when Texas Johnny Brown plays.

[ link ] The white guy playin' the bass is my brother.

Anyway, I need some music that's not Country, Western or Country and Western. I need something to reach down in my soul and make me believe again. I need some BLUES!!

The video is THE COOLEST slide guitar player I have ever seen. sorta like an old Delta blues guy slide guitar, except he's in South Africa. It made me miss being around live music, and I want to go hear some again. (I REAAAALY want to go see Paul Thorn, but the tickets are too expensive, and he's gonna be here too soon for a wish to be granted.)
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Check out Paul's link. The artwork is as interesting as the music. (more)

Postage money--reimbursement to keep from owing Mom. Again..

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $50
Views: 256
Wish Points: 399.95

I'm sending out a lot of glasses to other people to try out.

(About the video: This guy does a pretty good job of discussing glasses frames and how they work with or against your face shape.)

I just looked at my bank account, and I had forgotten to deduct the postage I put on my debit card. BOOM, overdraft.

I bummed $50 from my Mom, but I will have to pay her back...eventually.

Please help save me from the Wrath of Mom. Thank you all. (more)

Repeat on the Transplant Appt/gas money... With JOKES!!

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $300
Views: 233
Wish Points: 327.26

OK, this is a rerun. You may notice that the amount has dropped. We did a trip and used money budgeted for other stuff (prescriptions and groceries) to cover the gas.

Short version. Michael needs a transplant kidney or he'll die while on dialysis. He's doing all the stuff to get on the transplant list in Houston. Where they used to live, they didn't have access to any place that even offered this, but we moved them 125 miles to be near us and closer to a place that would have the transplant option. Michael's on disability. (Has had a liver transplant. His liver's fine, but he needs a kidney.) Denise is waiting for the judge's disposition on her disability. (Orthopedic problems to the point she's unable to stand more than 6 or 7 minutes--scoliosis and spina bifida occulta are the simple things, but it gets worse.) We don't have anything either, but since their car was totaled on the way to his dialysis one day, we've been taking up the slack. (68 mile round trip to dialysis.)

We need gas money. Here's the link to the former wish, and it has links to the previous ones.
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Any questions? (more)

The Star System to be FULLY explained SOMEWHERE on the site.

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $1
Views: 246
Wish Points: 302.34

There are CONSTANTLY new voters that don't understand that a one or two star vote is a downvote on this system. It's NOT on the How This Works page, and not a lot of detail is.

It causes a lot of arguments, distrust and embarrassment for new members.

When it's edited into the "fully editable" How this Works, it is edited out. I don't see any reason to have a page be editable if the one thing that several people say they've edited in is constantly edited out. Is it other members?? Why would anyone try to sabotage the site that way?

I don't get this. Rather than have people start off with a chip on their shoulder because some other member has to explain this to them after they screw up, you would expect the site to give the bare minimum explanation about the system. That new people have to go back and check every wish (and hope they don't miss any) and re-vote due to lack of information is, honestly, pretty bad.

So, if there's some ulterior motive for being obscure about this, then I would love to know what it is. Otherwise, why not be upfront with the information, or put a FAQ where it's linked to the How It Works page? (more)

Postage reimbursement for Mom (Or somebody to adopt Mom.)

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $50
Views: 248
Wish Points: 392.44

I owe the Mom-person $50 because I OD'd my bank account with postage charges, and had to transfer funds from her account to mine. The Mom-person, owner of the Big Green Momvan, has just taken out a $1,300 loan to get the BGMv out of the transmission shop...the $1,300 is HALF the owed amount, and now she'll have to pay both the loan and the rest of the repair off. I GOTTA pay her back, since SHE doesn't drive the van, I do. (She's 81, and shouldn't be driving, and at least she knows it.)

Also, it's summer, and her piano students won't be having lessons this summer. That cuts her income by $120 a month. Since she's on Social Security only--no other retirement, her "investments" went into medical care for assorted children and grandchildren--money is tight.

I don't want to stop sending glasses (and other stuff) out, but I can't let Mom take the bite on this. I didn't write down the Post Office deductions--dumb me--and I WILL in the future, but as it is, the $50 is going to put another hole in my pocket for next month. (It's not the 3rd, and the money's almost gone already. Silly electric company wants paid!! Phone, too!)

So, help me pay back Mom, please.She loves me, but hey...money is money, especially when you don't have much!! (more)

$$$ for pay down of the balance due on transmission repairs.

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $1,351
Views: 221
Wish Points: 276.99

I'm asking for any amount possible to help pay off the transmission repair on my Mom's van. I stupidly believed that my brothers were taking care of "all the fluids" and things. That was the agreement. I would keep gas, oil and water in it, they'd do the major stuff. (Transmission fluid changes, oil filter changes, all that stuff you really can't do from a wheelchair.)

They weren't. So, the transmission went. And off we went to AAMCO.

Why is this naughty? Because if I go Total Bitch on the other members of the family that owe Mom money, then it won't be as big a problem, assuming they'd pay something toward their debts. I think I am too sick to do it. That sort of confrontation makes me physically ill for days on end. (Neuroendocrine cancers dump all kinds of nasty stuff in your system in response to anger or fright.) I'm just not able to face up to doing the pushing and demanding that needs to be done, and if Mom tries, she ends up moaning and wailing at me about it...same results.

Every penny I don't have to force out of my family is one less day of being ill for me. If I were "a GOOD daughter" I wouldn't have "let them" take advantage of her...AND if I were the Good Fairy, I'd have wings a magic wand and STILL no better luck at getting her to stop and think before she gives them whatever she has, then expects me to fix it.

I don't expect this to get near winning, I just wanted to be able to tell the family "I tried everything, even begging on the internet, so pay her what you owe her and DON'T spend $200 on new CD's this month, OK?" Maybe I need to just break their legs... (more)

This wish is moot, don't vote please

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $700
Views: 242
Wish Points: 323.00

UPDATE: Dan's Mom passed away this week. Her funeral is Monday the 4th, in Louisville KY.

Thank you all for your kindness.

Watch the video, the song is beautiful.

Dan was told 25 years ago that his mother was dead. (The step-mother that he was forced to live with when his Mom had TB was probably the source of the lie.) His Mom has been alive all this time, and he didn't know it until a few months ago. He went to see her, and the doctors advised that she was doing quite well, considering her age. He also saw his half-sister, who he had not seen for about 30 years.

We had planned to save up to try to go see them at Christmas. Kathy called tonight. His Mom has had a stroke, and it's not looking quite as--possible that she'll be around much longer. The hospice people aren't giving her much more than maybe a month.

This is a woman that overcame a difficult illness (the TB) shortly after her husband left her for The Wicked Witch. She supported her daughter by herself after her second husband was killed, and she thought for a very long time that her son had been killed while in the service. (Another reason that the Step was a Wicked Witch.)

We would like to go to Louisville so that I can meet her, and so that Dan can see her again. Kathy has a place we can stay, we just need travel money for gas.

Dan's a good guy, and doesn't ask for much. He takes care of me, with all my health problems, helps with my Mom, and is singlehandedly renovating this house--which is enough work for any 10 men. He also does a lot of the driving for Michael's appointments for dialysis and transplant (see my old wishes), and helps out Michael and Denise with things they can't do. He's the oldest of the four of us, but in the best health, and we depend on him a lot.

He 'knows' that we can't afford to go, but it's something that would mean so much to him that I have to try. (more)

Bail money for when I go whup my brother's backside**

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $10,000
Views: 279
Wish Points: 246.44

I'm gonna go whup the livin' pee-waddlin' outta my brother. He's askin' for it, he NEEDS it...and he's annoyin' Mom a WHOLE lot, so I think I'll just do it.

Moron boy hasn't been to see Mom in 13 months. He lives 48 miles away. He spent over an HOUR on the phone tellin' her to keep HER van at HER apartment. Problem?? Yes. She's 81. She has about as much business driving as she does flying a 747. The LAST time we went through this, she drove ONCE, ran 2 stop signs, made a corner so wide she went off into a ditch on the far side of the road, and scared a cop, who called me and told me to tell her he would pull her DL if he saw her driving on the highway.

So, she didn't go back out to the van for 18 days. BUT, she left the windows down, and it rained for 14 of those 18 days. I have $380 invested in the electrical system of that puppy...and a couple days of scrubbing out mold and crud.

Now, post-transmission repair (see old wish) [ link ] , HE tells her to keep the van at HER apartment. Again. She doesn't drive. I'm a mile and a half away, and I can't walk that far, and I can't one-hand wheel my manual wheelchair that far... If she has to go somewhere, I go get her, load her 'spare' manual chair, she comes out in her power chair, I take it back in then come out, drive, unload her wherever...yadda yadda...

Anyway, he's stompin' on my VERY last nerve, so I'm about to whip somebody's ass.

And I will need bail.

(On the outside chance this actually wins a red cent, it will go to pay on the van's transmission, because I'll make him drop the charges, or I'll whup him again when I get out!!)

**Note: I would not whup my brother's backside. He's over a foot taller than me. I would get my OTHER brother to do it. ; )

Youtube to go with the pic...
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An Oncology nurse that would READ the instructions!!

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $10
Views: 233
Wish Points: 397.82

I have a "new" location doing my chemo-shot. hemo-shot. they've done it 3 times now, and the nurse practitioner in charge of the clinic thinks he knows ALL about this very specific, very technical injection. It comes with specific instructions on WHAT TO DO and what NOT to do in the preparation. He's been less that good at following their rules, but the previous shots have at least worked part of the time.

He's been mixing and injecting this stuff COLD, when the instructions sad NOT to do that. So, this last time, he put it in HOT water. At temps over 105, it ceases to bind or to work. I had a multi-thousand dollar shot yesterday that DID NOT WORK. I have had NO pain relief, no symptom relief, nothing. The knot/lump of medicine that usually sets up in the IM gluteal injection? Not there.

The cost of this injection is enormous. The manufacturer will 'replace' a bad shot every once in a while, and the institution can figure out what to do to get it there. I won't be at home, so I will have to pay the cost of getting it to me, and then getting an RN to administer it. They'll not be happy, but then I am not happy either.

The ten bucks?? To buy this guy a pair of reading glasses at Wal-Mart, so that he CAN READ the instructions.

The video?? Well, Johnny's in the basement, mixin' up the medicine!! (more)

Massage money

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $300
Views: 143
Wish Points: 321.03

The massage therapist that I need to be seeing (neurofibromatosis, cancer, spina bifida, scoliosis, and a rare arthritis) has a special program for medical needs people who have insurance that will not pay for massage therapy, no matter what the doctors prescribe. (Like Medicare, who could save the $400 a shot PT bills if they'd pay for 2 massages within the same time period, but they'd rather wait until I can't turn my head or move my left side and then try to 'fix' that than keep it from happening.)

Thus, I would be "OK" with their plan--wait until there's damage, then try to fix it--but I would be MUCH better off if I could have a regular massage. I can prepay for a certain number of massages, and he will give me several appointments free. My neurologist wants me to have this, the orthopedist wants me to have this, my general physician wants me to have this, even my endocrinologist thinks it would help. And the physical therapy people would be thrilled, because the poor guy that has to "fix" stuff for me cries at how much he hurts me when he does the motion-freeing exercises.

Eventually, there will be too much damage to the connective tissues (and some of the bones that are already bone on bone) for the PT to work. At that time, I go all wheelchair all the time. I'm being naughty by 'disobeying' those that have adjudge themselves my 'betters' in regards my care, and really want to try just NOT hurting for a while. Massage might just do that for me. It has before! (more)

The money to have my Stage II clinical trial in January.

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $600
Views: 117
Wish Points: 249.80

I WANT TO BE RADIOACTIVE!! OK, just for a little while...

I have a rare cancer. It's not curable, you just cut it out or 'treatment' it away, and wait for it to come back. There are very few treatments for it, very few things other than a maintenance medication that treats "syndrome" only, and some experimental trial medications.

I am approved for a Stage II clinical trial that is available in Houston, and it is completely outpatient. I'll have a week of tests, then a long, slow infusion of a very strong radioactive medication that will stay in my body (we hope) long enough to take out the many small tumors in my liver and lymph nodes, and possibly start killing off the larger ones. At that point a decision can be made whether to repeat the infusion or to do another surgery. Most people having this treatment stay at a specific hotel near the doctor's clinic, but that's over $350 a week just for the lodgings.

For 6 days after the infusion, I am to stay at least 6 feet away from other people. The 'suggested' places have 2 rooms, and a private bathroom for the radioactive person. The clinic provides transportation in a specially divided vehicle that protects the driver from the patients, and there's a private entrance for us 'glow in the dark' folks. Yeah, well, I can't afford that. My foster son lives "in the Houston area". I'll be staying at his place, and the gasoline from his house to the clinic will be substantial. (Houston is BIG.)

There will also be food expenses, as well as the various other non-prescription things I'll need, and the parking at the "back-up clinic" (if I have a problem overnight) is expensive, too. This is a bargain, really. Medicare usually does NOT pay for clinical trials. THIS one actually works well enough that they will pay for it, and if THEY pay, my 'back-up' coverage will kick in, so that I won't have a $15,000 co-pay.

Anyway, I put pencil to paper, figured the "extras" (and the cost of the decontamination at the borrowed house) and it'll be a little over $900. I'm going to (somehow) put aside $50 a month until then, so I will need $600.

[ link ] My cancer. It's yucky. (more)

Sane adult humans to behave like sane adult humans

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $50
Views: 122
Wish Points: 229.69

This site wasn't designed to deal with scammers and cheats. Web 2.0 sites generally aren't anything that would really attract scammers and cheats, but this one does. So, the current "method" of what is called self policing is hysteria, meanness, whining, nastiness and huge portions af martyrdom and self-aggrandizement. Come on, people, The Community CAN do better.

I need $50 for this wish so that I can continue so send out things to people that need them. I'm not going to run into the forums and breathlessly tell everybody how I have sacrificed to send stuff out, I just want to send it. I've spent over $130 in unreimbursed postage for items sent. RHF has had a $50 donation for me for months, from which I will supposedly eventually get $45. That's nice. Doesn't pay my medical co-pays, but it's nice.

To those who have or will reimbursed shipping fees, thank you. To those that can't, I fully understand, and I didn't send the items expecting to be repaid.

And to those who have glasses frames that I sent for you to choose from who have NOT returned the excess, you're holding over $1,300 in retail cost stock that I cannot send out until you return in. PLEASE, take what you need and return the rest. It's not fair to others.

Let the nasty comments and downvoting begin! (more)

The site to work more consistently.

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $987,000
Views: 136
Wish Points: 210.30

If the old data didn't overload the server, then the site would work better and then it wouldn't go to a Gateway Timeout every time you post anything, and MAYBE people wouldn't get so frustrated, and it would lower the general anger/snarky/mean atwosphere that the forums have been vomiting everywhere the last few days, weeks, months, whatevers.

So, if EVERYBODY in the whole ENTIRE Universe would just PAYPAL!! a little bit, a farthing, a groat, a pfennig, a centavo, a shiny bead or trinket, whatever currency it takes---Cambrian House could have a new server!! Isn't that COOL!!

And then, when you go to post a survey, after CAREFULLY selecting EVERY correct option, finding all the images needed, filling in every blank, cautiously wording ALL TEN QUESTIONS...and click 'finish' to post it...and the site sits there like a dead, smelly lox at 3:45 in the afternoon on Yom Kippur...AND EATS THE WHOLE THING and then gives a Gateway timeout--IT REALLY WON"T. It'll WORK!!

So, for only $987,000 We Can Fix The WOOOOORLD.

This is called sarcasm. It's also an attewpt to get another wish posted to gen my participation up, because until the site will actually ACCEPT one of my attempts, there's no reason to waste a half day making and remaking surveys.

Let's see if it Time Outs on THIS, too! It did on the last one. (more)

Funds for my cancer clinical trial expenses

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $400
Views: 779
Wish Points: 1168.74

I have one of those lovely incurable cancers. Cut it out, back it comes again. There's only so much cutting you can do before it goes to your liver, and your lymph nodes. So, after almost 13 years, that's where we are. There are a few things that CAN be done to help.

There's a protocol being done in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It costs $80,000, plus the hospital stay (another $9,000-12,000) the trip there, and 4 to 6 weeks expenses to stay there while they see if it worked...average cost to people that have done it is around $110,000. There's another one in Berne, Switzerland. Same sort of deal, average cost to those that have done it, closer to $150,00. Obviously, FAR out of my reach.

There is a recently opened third alternative. It is in Houston. It's at an outpatient facility, because the therapeutic radioactive agent they use doesn't damage the liver (Basel) or kidneys (Rotterdam). It's a 3 week stay, no hospital involved. Most people stay in an extended stay motel nearby and the expenses are for lodgings and food, plus the considerable (testing $8,000, infusion $25,000) medical expense. Well, this Stage II clinical trial--something Medicare NEVER covers is clinical trials--works well enough that Medicare will cover it at 80%. I have Medicaid that will pay the other 20%.

I can 'borrow' a place to stay, either 30 miles away at my foster son's or possibly 10 miles away at a friend's "in town apartment" for when she's at the cancer hospital. I need funds for food, gasoline and to pay the radiation safety fees to 'clear' the place I stay once I get to go home. I'll be unsafe for others to be within 6 feet of for a few days, and unsafe around babies, small animals and pregnant women for about 10 days. It's a chance to 'buy' a few years, and it can be repeated, up to three infusions. It'll lessen my dependence on the injections I currently get. Medicare will save money on that and I will have some time where I feel better!

So, RHF, I am starting now so that by January, I can have some money saved, and since I won't win, I can at least say I tried to get some RHF help. It's also a way to get more wishes done, and that's good too! (Why naughty? I'll die with or without it, just not as soon.) (more)

i need more wishes to get participation points.

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $11
Views: 222
Wish Points: 332.83

If I win the $11 dollars, I will send it BACK to RHF so they can use it to cover the 10% that they say they will charge me it issue a check for the $100 I won. Pleas note that I made it for $11 to cover the 10% on this as well!!

TOTALLY unrelated and strange video added

Bekuz I may be dub, but I ain' stoopid!! (more)

An Artic blast of weather

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $932
Views: 189
Wish Points: 247.34

HOT!! hot hot hot hot hot Texas August HOT

Temps over 100 in my kitchen when I don't even cook.

Plenty of cold at the North Pole. Aid global warming, BIG trash bag, bring cold here.

Incoherent? You bet, but it'll get me participation points!!

Woo Hoo, Banana Shoes!! Pointless Video Attached!! (more)

NO DE-FEET!!

By: Dee Dee
Amount: $100
Views: 196
Wish Points: 507.13

I am jist a simple Southerner, so I ain't fer sure what all this here 'shoe-wearin' stuff is all about, but my friend (and your'n) Deb_vt needs to put shoes on her young'uns fer school. They is nice lookin young'uns, with the regulation number of fingers an toes, and from what I unnerstan' it gits mighty cold up thar, so in order to KEEP them toes, these girls need shoes.

Us folks down South only got to wear shoes to th' church house for marryin's and buryin's--and to th' County Seat to th' Courthouse to bail out Grammaw fer moonshinin'. (Again.) Bu I heered that up North they got this stuff called "SNOW" what is s'posed to be like that ice they use fer SnoCones, only even littelr, and it STAYS FROZE!! And that kin hurt yer FEETS somethin' turribul!! (I done walk't across the floor of th' frozen food locker down to th' deer plant once, and dang near lost a pinkie toe. Think on havin' that on th' ground fer MONTHS!!)

Now, if'n Deb's girls are to win this here wish, and if'n there happens to be sum money left after puttin shoes on 'em, they Mama has promised to spend th' rest of in on sum sox, er some underdrawers, er sumthin' vital for either eddycashun er HiGene purposes. You know how it is, when they become Young Ladies, it jist ain't fittin' that they go barefoot evverwhere alla time. You don't never know when there'll be sum foot fetishy kinda feller around, and she cain't have none of them followin' them girls home, becuz they's Northeners, and they most likely don't got no shotgun aside th' door in case of revenoors or other gub'mint offishuls comin' by, so getin' rid of a prevert might be difficult, too!!

Please, y'all, this here Mama needs to shoe them children, and they got some mighty powerful other expenses goin' on at the moment. It would be a downright shame if'n one of them got th' hot&cold runnin' epizootics from goin' to school barefoot, and even worse if they got some toes froze off (although my cousin Melvin got him 7 toes on one foot and he'd most likely share).

Remember, vote high and vote often. Support the right of feet to not be bare!! Th' picksher on here ain't her children, they be Melvin's wifes Mama's children. We chose sum with the normal amount of toes. It wuz hard.) (more)

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