HDWGH – Story 46 – Crack Hoarder
-*From The How Did We Get Here Series*-
**Now**: It had been three long months but Jackie Turner had finally won. The hoarder style family home she grew up in was finally empty. Now, her children could finally visit Grandmas house.
**Before**: Jackie Turner’s mother was a hoarder. She had been a hoarder all of Jackie’s life. When Jackie grew up and moved away, she was thankful that her lifestyle choices didn’t mirror her mother’s. Jackie kept a clean home.
As the years went on, Jackie was constantly forced to make up excuses as to why the kids couldn’t go to grandmas’ house. She didn’t want her children to see what hoarding is. Her old family home was so packed with various items that you couldn’t move anywhere in the house without touching something. Literal tunnels of walkways led you through the house. It was almost like a maze.
While sitting at a local bar, Jackie overheard a conversation between two other women. They were discussing funny things they wished they could do to other people. Neither one would actually do anything but it was when they got to their idea of how to clean up a hoarders house that Jackie’s ears perked up.
Crack cocaine.
The idea was ridiculously simple but yet designed for results. Introduce the hoarder to crack and through natural progression, they’ll soon be selling off their household goods to pay for the crack habit. It was really brilliant when you thought about it.
So, a plan was born.
HDWGH Ideas
The ideas for my HDWGH series come from all kinds of places.
The next story is going to feature an idea that a co-worker had for cleaning up the home of someone who is considered a *hoarder*.
The idea is so outlandish that…after laughing, I thought was one of the funniest things I had heard in a long time. What makes this so funny is that it could actually work.
I look forward to writing and posting this one tomorrow.
Two Weeks of No HDWGH
It is the summer time after all and I am trying to get as much sun as is humanly possible before the fall gets here and robs me of the opportunity.
I am hoping to be able to write some stories over the weekend but I am also programming so I have a lot of projects going on.
As soon as the programming tasks are completed, I’ll get back to writing.
Promise.
Two Scam Attempts
I’ve had a couple of phishing attempts this week. One was absolutely hilarious and the other one was disturbingly well done.
The picture above didn’t remotely look like any email Amazon sends to anyone.
On the other end of the spectrum, I give you this one.
This one should get an award. They went so far as to register a domain that if you try to directly access the root, they send you to the legitimate site. The link in the email would still work but trying the address directly in your browser does a re-direct.
Very clever. My subscription isn’t remotely close to being due but anyone not paying attention would have clicked the link.
**Sidenote**: NEVER click an email link unless you are 100% certain about what it’s for. For example, some websites need to send you an email to verify your address. These are ok. You initiated the email request. All good.
In this case, I knew my subscription didn’t expire so I was immediately suspicious.
I logged into the account using the real log in just to confirm. I suggest you do this when you are unclear about any email. This only confirmed what I already knew. Nothing is expiring.
