Cha-Ching!

Riddle me this;

Why are there those people out in the world who are going to school, always whining about how they have no money to afford things but then they are able to go out and drop $100 a night several nights a week at a bar or they suddenly decide to get something pierced? I mean, really.

Granted, I can't really complein too much since I have bills that I should pay that my mother helps me with while I save money... or try to... but then again I've never really been one of those slutty girls who feels the need to go out every night of the week and drink until properly blacked-out drunk so that it leads to a phone, canera, wallet, and/or dignity being lost. Nor am I one to bask in the rush that one gets from being pierced or tattooed.

I have one tattoo on my back that I got one summer while in Montreal and it was something that I had thought about for years before I actually went and did it. And I' ve never been one who flourished in being pierced. I have two holes on each ear lobe. I do believe that is enough. Granted, there may come a time when I get another tattoo... but once again it will be years of deciding on the design and then psyching myself up to get it. Of course, the first one didn't hurt nor did I have a bad experience with it so the psyching part shouldn't take that long.

Still, I know when I have no money and I know when I have to save. I've cut down a lot on how much I spend on books and make-up and I've only just bought my first self-bought iTunes giftcard to get a few albums which were way too expensive in-store. I maybe spend too much money on food, but that's a necessity in my book so it's one thing that I can indulge in every once in a while. And I only ever go to the movies when it's cheap night and I never rent - I always stream. Bad me.

All in all, I could be worse.

It still gets to be though that there are the people out there that have the gall to complain about their money troubles and then brag about their spending.

I went to high school with one of those girls. I finally didn't have to listen to it anymore from her when we were on a trip in Italy - see what I mean, spending money on a European trip when she complained avery day about her money - anyways, in Italy when her spending was outrageous and I finally snapped. I gently said something along the lines that she might want to be careful about what she was buying (glass figurines on the airplane trip home generally break and are a waste of money) and then she bitched that it was her money and that I was not her mother. So I said that if that was how she was going to act than I didn't want to hear abything else from her about how she never has money for the rest of the school year. Let me also point out that this was her, and mine, second trip to Itlay, the same exact tour pretty much, and she had bought all the same crap the first time. Buying it a second time was really wasteful.

Then is this one girl who I am... friends? aquaintences? with at university when I'm actually there. She always is saying that she doesn't have money to go out with the girls but then will scuttle off with her best trailer-trash friend (I'm sorry but that's how she looks and dresses and generally acts, she doesn't live in a trailer and I have nothing against those who do) and the two of them whore it up at the bars and proceed to lose several phones, coats, cameras, wallets, and everything else inbetween while they drop hundreds of dollars.

I mean, if that's what you want to do then fine. Go for it. I am most definitely not your mother. But then I don't want to hear about it the next morning or week that this happened and how you have absolutely no money to even go to the dentist to get your several caveties filled in. And I feel for you really, if you then have to use the money that you save for the dentist on school books that you absolutely need - I certainly hope that you bought them used and made sure that there were no copies that friends might have had or that they weren't in the library - but then don't go on facebook the next week and state that you're getting a tattoo. Tattoo's generally start at $50 minimum. How much does a dentist appointment cost? A little more, I'm sure, but really? REALLY?

It seems to me that stupidity just runs rampant in this world with more stupid people than there ever should be. It almost warrants a course being made which would be mandatory for all stupid people to take that would, I don't know, teach them how to not be stupid? Where there would be a final exam that you had to ace in order to leave the course and you wouldn't be allowed to do anything else with your life until you passed this exam. Then every few years you would have to take a refresher course with a mini final. Then there would be a real-life trial where you would have to try and not be stupid for an entire year and if you didn't succeed then you would have to go into a Stupid-Institution until you were cured.

I supposed that would be my ideal world...