The interesting and startling part is that he'd forgo somebody that he knows is reals friendship and guidance for continuing his invisible companion nonsense.
But you can force them to have phone sex with you every day and send you 6,000 dollars USD. It's almost as if Chris gravitates toward things that are bad for him. It's probably because nothing genuinely good or constructive has ever happened to him.
You forgot to add foregoing the use of a toilet in favor of a towel on the floor.
As much entertainment Chris brings me with his antics and his sagas, I'm really happy that people intervened. I don't think anyone can really say what would happen to Chris if this kept on. Some people just take the trolling too far.
Yeah, gosh darn that eBay for expecting payment for services rendered. eBay gets 10% of most sales, so $127 is nearly $1300 in sales for last month. How can he get so much money (for someone like him) and still always be broke on such a regular schedule? He needs someone to manage his money. Someone who is not his profligate mother.
These are the type of collectibles that say "collectible" on the box. They are designed to scam people out of their money. They were probably $20 or more per fake stamp when they came out. The stamps in the book go for $1 to a few dollars each now. He might get $30-100 for the set, depending on the specific stamps. They have no gold value at all. Unless you had every one ever made, it is not worth attempting recovery of the metal. There is so little gold on them.
He's been making that much in sales since April, if not twice that. Add in patreon for another $250 and $1300 in tugboat and that's nearly $3000 a month for the past 6 months. If he keeps that up for another 6 months he'll earn $36,000 a year, which is well above the national average.
The fact still remains it's six thousand dollars. What makes things even worse was as you said, it was over a period of time, and it was progressing to 500 dollars each incidence. I could maybe understand or grasp it a bit better if it were a one time thing, like blowing 6,000 dollars on a card game at a casino, but this was chronic in nature. Chris saw no red flags. Not even the phone sex was enough to make him go to the authorities. I know, I know, .....but imaginationland.
What's worse, part of him considers it money well spent. He's still openly grateful to Wise for fleecing him.
Actually for a household of two in Virginia that's barely more than half the State's average.
I'm not an expert in any of this but I think she gets a pension? Didn't she retire from like secretary work?
She's got her tugboat, social security for sure, I want to say it was 1,500 a month. Plus people working out of Washington and living in Virginia definitely pushes up the state average. But as a national average, Chris is doing pretty good at his current earning pace.
Barb would need around $2000/month from social security and any retirement income (pension, deferred comp, 401k, whatever) to bring them around median income for Greene County ($63k) if Chris is pulling in $36,000/year. Considering they have no real expenses other than the house (which should be free and clear), they have no excuse for being literally penniless all the time. Average social security for retired persons is $1400 per month. Even $1000 per month for BW-chan plus $2500 for Chris gets them to $42,000 per year, which is around entry level job for most people and more than enough to live on in their area. If you are not an idiot, or, in this case, if you are not two idiots.
40-60k is pretty decent for that area of Virginia. Ruckersville is not some fancy upscale town, its a tiny forgotten hickville in a corner of Virginia. The cost of living there is naturally pretty low compared to the rest of the state. Even taking into account Bobs death, Barb and Chris could have continued to live quite comfortably with the pension (hers and assuming she gets a part of Bobs?), social security, the autism tugboat, and whatever random income Chris managed to pull in from time to time. That sort of income would certainly be able to sustain an elderly widow and her disabled son if they were smart.
You could've left it at "won't be able to pay back". Barb demanding the money and taking it away from him so he can't spend it all is undoubtedly the only reason that the mortgage gets paid at all, and they still have had problems making the payments.
