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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
Seems your thread title was not well thought out.
Your friends really do not seem that bad. It is not that lame to offer someone gas money or fifty cents for a smoke. Trust me that gesture is a hell of a lot better than having your so called friends expect you to pay for everything and never even offer anything.
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Damn you bust my balls...
My point here is that I also have more affluent friends who really are not THAT affluent but they kept 'growing' and so they didn't get into a dead end job and give up on making more... I say it like that because that is what they ARE doing (the dead-enders)... They ask me for tips to working in the industry and express a desire to make the same kinda money. So not doing so is them being to lazy....
Now that I brought up lazy... I have always been one to think smarter and get shit done faster... Most of my friends always mistook this for laziness... I have a 'computer' job because I am 'lazy'... WTF? Which was also a point I wanted to make earlier but got off on a tangent. A lot of their resentment of me stems from telling me I am lazy and yet I make more than they do and offered to show them how... but they were to lazy to do the work.
So the affluent friends I have now... When we go out and say we go to a bar first, someone will order drinks for the entire group. Some play in a soccer league with my GF and we buy pitchers of beer up the ass... People just go in and buy 8 pitchers and don't ask for money... because later on someone else will... and so on...
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They want to play 10.00 poker, this apparently is not high risk enough for you so thus it is a waste of time. They still wish to hang out and do things on the weekend yet again it is not expensive enough for you to do so.
I really think in reality you need to evaluate what happened to you and not them. Somewhere along the lines it seems you let money become more important than friendship. For example playing poker with your friends is not about making money or how much your betting per hand. It is about hanging out with them while sitting around a table busting each others balls and having fun. It is not about how much you walk away with or loose that night.
It is your life of course do as you please.
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OK, your first (half made) point I agree with... I need to remember that it is all in good fun... I am from Chino by the way... Cowtown. The largest dairy preserve in the United States. Don't listen to Wisconsin or anybody else, your milk comes from Chino. So growing up half of us were dairymen and the other suburbians... I was from suburbia... point is that most of my friends got screwed out of their dairy profits or cashed them out and blew the money. So when I play poker with them, people start taking out ones and change to get money to pay for beer.. So I buy 2, 30 packs before I arrive... Kinda like bringing wine I guess... so no biggy...
But then someone will bust out after 2 games and ask me for $10 and be like, fuck, dude, you make that during your morning pee... I'll split it with ya if I win.. and I tell them no... Most of them say it is good to tell them no and 3 or 4 say, "What a chintzy asshole." They are the same ones who aquired anywhere from $50,000 - $1,000,000 for their share of grandpa's dairy when he died and blew the money and now rent a house on a dairy for $300 a month and complain about not making their bills.
Well, thanks all... I guess I had to vent... Out of about 30 people I still hang out with from past jobs, school, sports, etc, I really only get grief from 4 or 5 people and they are the ones that blew their money...