lets see..

Listen to advice from a guy divorced 3 times.. and is single now.

Or..

We also just purchased plane tickets for my mother and my wifes mother to come see the baby. So we don't want to stretch it to thin.

We also just purchased plane tickets for my mother and my wifes mother to come see the baby. So we don't want to stretch it to thin.

My money is on the mother-in-law gave the poor thang the boot cause they
didn't buy her a business class ticket.

Of course if it were between the health of our baby or my wife we would have to make a decision

I might be a bit old fashioned, but the whole "Go Fund Me/Asking Strangers for Money" thing baffles me a bit. I guess I have mixed feelings. In times of dire need, such "funding" schemes seem to bring out the best in a community......but when the "ask" is anything short of catastrophically dire, I feel a strange sense of "hey, you have more of a responsibility to take care of this than we, total strangers, do." There is something humbling about asking for help that is good for all of us sometimes, but it often strikes me as irresponsible and selfish. I would personally never consider asking strangers to help out with vet bills, which are a total part of life....a normal expenditure that needs to be considered prior to owning a pet. This just doesn't seem "noble" enough to go out and raise financial support for in my opinion. I know that's terribly arbitrary, but its just what came to mind when I read this OP. Though I have no way to really justify that feeling. It just comes across as lazy or shortsighted/immature I suppose.

He got his leg caught in between the slats of a wooden patio chair at a friends house and lost his balance and fell of the side of the chair. The leg broke instantly and luckily there are not any fragments of bone.

The leg broke instantly and luckily there are not any fragments of bone.

Should I bump it up a notch???...

There's a slight possibility that this is an epic troll ! ! !

5 bucks is no skin off of my nose

My cars are all paid off, our roof replacement was done with cash, and I have planned out my the day of my retirement. I don't eat out, I ride my bike to work and the store, our house always looks a little shabby, I always look a little shabby, I switched to store brand IPA and 2-buck chuck, and I ratchet down every expense I can that will not impact our happiness significantly.

140 characters is kind of the limit of the web viewer attention span...

Sep 19, 2016 - 05:06pm PT
I won't weigh in on the ethics of asking for the help. But, I do take exception to the "oh so trendy" Dogs are our Family quote. No they're not. If you put your dog's life up against one of my kids, or wife, or mom or dad, or anyone's real family, I will probably slug you. And that's been known to hurt.

Carry on, but a dog, or a cat or a bird, snake, any pet is not your family. If you don't have any family, that's OK, but you don't get a dog and now you have a family. Sorry. No matter how much that dog means to you. I will never respect it as if I would your family. Not specifically this cute dog ( I think it is) but anybody's dog.

Arne

Do you know personally any of the people involved in the two situations?

Because I doubt it's as black and white as you note.

For my part, I only know that which has been posted on this site regarding the situations.

I'm curious about crowd-sourcing requests and how people react or respond to them.

How do you respond to a person on the street asking for money?

Do you dump on them about lousy life choices ?

To me, my dog IS family, and my human family agrees, and that's all that really matters to me.