Why do people get so upset when I offer to buy their children? I mean really, they yell at their kids, threaten to hit them, go on and on about how much of a burden they are. So just sell them, right?
When I make a decent offer they get all offended and start holding their kid like they actually care. Suddenly this wiggling mass of high maintenance flesh with eyes that could crumple a burly biker’s resolve is the greatest thing to have ever happened to them. They stop yelling and making threats, and start being very decent and protective. Interesting yet confusing. It is almost like I have granted them a moment of clarity.
I am not some sort of dark angel that is setting people straight, just man with some money looking to take the unwanted off their hands.Yet, they call me the devil. Pheh. Parents are almost as boggling as the kids they ‘take care of’.
It’s not like I am going to take the child to a room and lock it in there for twelve years without human contact. (I can’t afford the automated robots to do that… yet.) Oh well, back to the drawing board.
@}}-;’—— English Bob.
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