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I have the most deadbeat life on the planet.I share that life with my "the world should revolve around me" seven year-old. Who never ceases to remind me that I forgot to remind him of something he wanted to do/get.Or that he cant have the latest styles in Hickman County. He also complains that whatever I fix for supper he had for lunch at school, but in his defense he always says that mine is better.(I am still not sure if that's a real compliment.) I also share my meager existence with a cantankerous car. She has been good for most of her 200,000 miles but lately she wants a vacation. And some TLC She almost sounds like my son wanting the latest and greatest things. And of course my number one demon, currently still making me very upset. My son to be ex-husband of eight years. He decided it was OK to bring his, friend, and I use the term loosely, to my house and let her sleepover. witch brings me to my last shred of proof, that is, my financial situation. Its more like a bright star, you know its there but you cant get it. But I promise if I were to blessed with a fortune,( few hundred at this point),I Would find someway to use it to the best of my ability and start by not having the most deadbeat life on the planet.

I have the most dead-beaat life on the planet. On Friday and Saturday nights when you go out into the busy street of Columbia you always see the same people. When you go to the mall older people and sitting around, young people are walking around and everybody seems to be playing the games at the Fun Tunnel. All through the mall you can smell sugar cookies that why teens hang out at the mall. If you want to get into trouble just go out and stand on a parking lot for five minutes the police will find you and give you a ticket for loittering. This just proves there is nothing fun to do in Columbia.

My life is pretty much as deadbeat as you can get. It is bad when you turn thirty while still living in your dad’s house. Not that I have been there my whole life. I recently failed at making it in The Big Apple and was forced to come back home. We live in a small town so everyone knew that I was back and that I didn’t have what it took to be a big city girl. I also have no job, which my family reminds me of on a daily basis. It isn’t that I don’t want to work. My dad says that I have my standards too high. Forgive me for not wanting to flip burgers for a very weak paycheck. I also have a 15-month-old son, which is a constant reminder that I can’t take care of a small child and myself. The reasons for me returning to college are so I can change my poor, pathetic, deadbeat life. So maybe in four years, I will be writing about how my life is the greatest on the planet.

I have the most dead-beat life on the planet. It seems to go nowhere for no reason with no sense of time. College life feels like it never ends. Driving about thirty minutes every day but Friday, to arrive at school at 9:30 in the morning for classes that seem to last forever. Then, I must sit in dull, musty classrooms and listen to never-ending lectures that make me practically fall asleep, or at least drift into another zone. Another reason why I have such a dead-beat life is that right after school on three days out of the week, I go feed animals on a farm and shovel manure out of stalls. The horses, chickens, guineas, rabbits, dogs, and cats all have specific food that they eat and I must feed them. After a long day at school, I am somehow expected to remember which food goes with which animal. Then, on top of it all, shoveling manure is hard work and it gets very monotonous after a while. The last reason I have such a dead-beat life is that there is absolutely nothing to do in the small town I live in, Thompson Station. I sit around watching TV on the weekends, after school, and after working on the farm. I watch the same programs on TV over and over, including all of the reruns, all because I am too lazy to drive to Franklin or Cool Springs where some action really takes place. Therefore, the only reason why I have such a dead-beat life is because I am too lazy to spice up life and the ordinary, everyday activities that take place.

I have the most dead- beat life on the planet. For example I lost one of my best friends. I was only fourteen, but it impacted my life. You see she was my sister and she would do anything for me. She had blond hair and she looked just like me. I am also the last child to go off to college. My parents tell everyone that i am the baby that is all grown up. I am so sick in tried of hearing that. Last but not least i am having to work two jobs this weekend. i am working for my Mom while they are on vacation. then i have my own job at JC Penney. Well, actually I just started this job last Tuesday so I am still in training.

The reason I have the most dead-beat life on the planet is because I live in a small town where every knows everyone else. And if you do something wrong it winds up in the weekely paper. Just last week a guy hit the light pole it knocked the power out. He was in the paper. There are really no places to shop. If you want something you have to go to one of the bigger towns. Yes this means there is no Walmart.The town closes so early. And if you want ice cream at midnight you better be prepared to drive to another town. And don`t think of getting gas at 10pm on a week night they are all closed. And the people can`t drive. They pull out or cut you off. Three weeks ago some guy cut me off at the gas pump. They all always look so unhappy. You wave to them and they don`t wave back. I could understand if it was Dallas Texas. But I live in such a small town