{"id":287,"date":"2006-07-12T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2006-07-12T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T23:00:41","slug":"is-everyone-a-self-centered-sob-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/12\/is-everyone-a-self-centered-sob-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Everyone a Self-centered S.O.B. these days?&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230;or am I just the only person who runs into them?&#8230;&#8230;  I sold a piece of property a few years back&#8230;&#8230;  The person I sold it to was a friend of a co-worker&#8230;&#8230;.  Seemed like a nice hard working person with limited resources, so I sold him the property on a payment plan spanning over a three and one-half year period&#8230;&#8230;  I didn&#8217;t charge him any interest&#8230;&#8230;  I had to defer 6 monthly payments over the life of the contract because he was unable to pay on occasion&#8230;&#8230;.  I even dropped off the last $1,800.00 to help him out&#8230;&#8230;  He now has the property up for sale&#8230;&#8230;  My brother&#8217;s property adjoins this property and he wants to buy 1.4 acres from this person to allow a bigger buffer zone between him and whatever new owners might buy and sub-divide the property&#8230;.  I thought, well, I&#8217;ll make the deal with him since I had helped him so much in acquiring the property (which he couldn&#8217;t have gotten otherwise) in the first place&#8230;..  It ended up that my brother is going to have to pay him <strong>three times<\/strong> what he paid me for the property and I had to agree to do all the revised survey maps, the deed for the 1.4 acre purchase, the revised deed for the remaining property, and the deed for the secondary property (the land I sold him was on two separate deeds) when and if he manages to sell the rest of the property&#8230;&#8230;  And he acts as if he is doing us a big favor&#8230;&#8230;  Have we really turned into a <strong>&#8220;I, Me, Mine&#8221;<\/strong> society?&#8230;..  I&#8217;m a lot put-out with Humanity right now&#8230;&#8230;  I hope somebody &#8220;just shoots me&#8221; the next time I consider helping someone, because I now have the feeling that if the time comes around when\/if I need help, all I&#8217;ll get is a &#8220;Boot to the Head&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;.  <strong>Auurgh!!&#8230;..<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230;or am I just the only person who runs into them?&#8230;&#8230; I sold a piece of property a few years back&#8230;&#8230; The person I sold it to was a friend of a co-worker&#8230;&#8230;. Seemed like a nice hard working person with limited resources, so I sold him the property on a payment plan spanning over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}