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The next day she writes that she's having a hard time deciding which of the three new Xbox One games she should play that her boyfriend just bought her.  A week later posts a picture of a freshly done tattoo.

Unfriended...zero fucks given.  If my buddy asks me to give her a hand in his absence I'll ask that he explain where her priorities  are coming from.

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Ok, My flame suit is on....

Oh by the way, I went to school and worked it out to not lose my comrats.  I was 135lbs when I went to school and weighed 120 when I got home I'm 5'11".  Was not allowed to eat in the chow hall since I was on comrats unless I paid for it (could not afford it).  Glad I had my fishing gear and a camp stove.  Definitely have made up for that weight loss.

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Please excuse my stupidity, but what does FSA actually stand for?

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We play a game sometimes that we call "where's Obama".  Nearly every house we respond to has a framed picture of him or a comemerative plate on the wall or he's on their shirt.  Just look around and you're sure to find it.

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My only personal experience dealing with the FSA was in the '80s as a teenager working as a cashier in a grocery store.  The majority of people using food stamps (back then they were actual paper "coupons") always had cash to pay for the stuff not covered, and it was always stuff like alcohol and cigarettes.  There were also the people that would buy something small so they could get cash change back.  If the change was less than a dollar they got actual coin change, over a dollar and they got food stamps back in the appropriate denomination.  Seeing it all gave me a very jaded attitude early on.

My entire time there I can only recall this one woman (a regular customer) that seemed to actually care about using her food stamps and WIC cards responsibly.  She would always have a full cart and it was all staple foods that were covered, and she seemed to get the cheapest stuff to make it stretch further.

We one time had this guy come in with a bag of groceries and a story that his wife bought the stuff but they didn't need it and wanted to return it.  No receipt of course.  My manager starts going through the stuff in the bag and pulls out a few select items and tells him we can "refund" his money on those items but the rest of it did not come from our store.  Turns out the guy was a corner bum nearby that the manager recognized and he was just getting cash for food items people had given him.

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Plenty of FSA arfcommers in this thread.  Pathetic......

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1694960_PSA__Amazon_Massive_Clearance_on_Hunting_Optics_Update__With_Link_to_Loot_Thread.html

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Working as a paramedic in a fairly large city, I could tell FSA stories all day. I dealt with hardcore members of the FSA on an hourly basis and for that matter still do.

This isn't any real dramatic story but it shows the mindset of some people: even though I dealt with these people all the time I would try to tell myself that some of them are just down on their luck and I would attempt to help them and every single time I regretted it. One time I bought some food and we immediately got a call on a homeless guy. He smelled the food and made the comment that he hadn't eaten for a couple days. I felt bad for him and gave him the food. After he ate it he said that a cup of coffee would really hit the spot. So, I took him into the hospital. He didn't really have anything wrong with him so I sat him in the ER waiting room and then went in the ER to get him a cup of coffee. When I game back he yelled: What ? No cream and sugar ????? I turned around and walked away.

Another time I ran a call on a woman who lived in an apartment on the third floor and the building had no elevator. So we walked up three stories. The woman was pregnant and this is why she wanted to go to the hosptial: she wasn't in labor or anything. It's important to keep in mind that it is common to run calls on people and never really figure out why they think they need to go to the hospital, but you just take them because they want to go. Anyway, I say, OK, let's go and another woman sitting there says to her, make them carry you down the stairs, that is what they gettin paid to do. Keep in mind that there is nothing wrong with this woman, they just wanted us to carry her down the stairs because they are FSA. I tell them it's not happening, I will meet her down at the ambulance and if she doesn't walk down the stairs in a few minutes I will assume she doesn't want to go and I'm leaving.  

I ran a call on a woman who called 911 because she hadn't slept in three days. She asked me to drive her kids to her mothers house that was several miles the opposite way from the hospital.

I couldn't count the number of times I have responded to a 911 call, transported someone to the hospital and then they walked away: they just wanted a ride to that part of town. ;
I couldn't tell you how many times we would get a 911 call to a restraunt, from somebody who went there and ate and called 911 to leave without paying the check.  One I remember in particular, a woman said there was a roach in a piece of pie she ordered (don't ask me why this needs an ambulance). I said, I dont' see any roach in that pie. She said, she ate it. I said, so you saw the roach in the pie and you ate it anyway.......... ????  We put her on the gurney and wheeled it right up to the cash register and made her pay before we left.
I couldn't possibly tell you how many times I have been called for some very minor issue, often not even medical, It might just be an argument but we got called as a "Domestic dispute:". Then after these idiots called 911 to their house it's discovered that one or more of them have a warrant and they go to jail: THEY called 911 on themselves knowing they had a warrant.

One time, years ago when you could get away with stuff like this, I ran on a call on someone that had nothing wrong with them and they wanted to go to the hospital. Normally I would just tell them to get in and drive them there but in this case the people were real assholes. Total assholes. I told them I wasn't taking them to the hospital, end of story. If they want to go to the hospital they can drive there themselves in one of the three cars parked in the driveway.  So they say they want to talk to my supervisor. I say, OK and call him. He responds to the house and they tell him that they want to go to the hospital and as taxpayers they have the right to get transported to the hospital. He says, you are taxpayers ? Where do you work ? They said, well........we don['t work. He said, that's what I thought, we arn't taking you anywhere.


I ran calls like this a dozen a shift for close to 30 years. Stories like this take place hundreds of times a day in every city in the US.

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We were actually told at the office to go out and buy a car we could not afford then come back and re-apply.  There was no way we were going to go out and do that crap.  The FSA is encouraged to abuse the system.  

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44-year old guy, had been working for the state of CA.  Has been out on disability for > 6 months for high blood pressure.
Making money under the table doing Uber.  Uses food stamp program...wonders why he is single and can't get laid or why single moms want him.

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I've posted it numerous times. Stopped a woman in a Ford Expedition with Virginia plates. When she handed me her VA driver's license I saw she had a NY EBT card in her wallet. Wrote down the ID number on it and called up the welfare office. Gave the a fraud investigator all her VA license and vehicle info. He shut off her benefits. Did the same with a guy from CT a few weeks later.

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The most common abuse I see is couples with kids that don't get married so one can bring in a high income while the other works part time just enough hours to keep themself at poverty level to draw welfare.

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Lady with grocery cart full of stuff. Iphone, dressed nice, nails all done up nice ( caucasian lady BTW ).........paid for her stuff using LoneStar card ( ebt )..........then cash for rest.

Kinda followed her outside. Gets into a new 7 series BMW.


         

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Lady with grocery cart full of stuff. Iphone, dressed nice, nails all done up nice ( caucasian lady BTW ).........paid for her stuff using LoneStar card ( ebt )..........then cash for rest.

Kinda followed her outside. Gets into a new 7 series BMW.


         

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Plenty of FSA arfcommers in this thread.  Pathetic......

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1694960_PSA__Amazon_Massive_Clearance_on_Hunting_Optics_Update__With_Link_to_Loot_Thread.html

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I've posted it numerous times. Stopped a woman in a Ford Expedition with Virginia plates. When she handed me her VA driver's license I saw she had a NY EBT card in her wallet. Wrote down the ID number on it and called up the welfare office. Gave the a fraud investigator all her VA license and vehicle info. He shut off her benefits. Did the same with a guy from CT a few weeks later.

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Last year a gal showed up in my ER complaining of abdominal pain.  She said she missed her last period.

"Could you be pregnant?"

"Maybe"

"Have you taken a pregnancy test?"

"I can't afford that."

"They're only a buck at the dollar store."

"They're free here," referring to her Medicaid.

She was pregnant.