No, jackass. People that can barely afford their pets often(not enough) realize they can’t afford kids. Getting rid of the pets doesn’t make having kids affordable. Its also a lot easier to figure out who gets the pets when relationships sour.

There’s just so many reasons almost no one is “choosing” pets over kids.

If you’re willing to exploit nearly everyone you meet for free food and shelter, yes, yes it is.

Came here to say this. It’s also remarkably easy to mooch off extended family, friends, even strangers. People usually feed their couch-surfer guests as well, who knew?

You never paid attention to the screens above the line for the self checkouts? You can see the system isolating faces and gait in real-time.

Through the warped lense of what modern security theater has sold their leaders on? Sure, why not?

Step one to being a Bounty Hunter: have no warrants or serious criminal charges/convictions of your own.

Step two: Avoid crossing jurisdictions at all costs.

Step three: survive a free person yourself long enough to realize that being a repo-man is far safer or at least less likely to get you extradited for all those times you broke rule two. Maybe you’ll even survive this long enough to graduate to Security Guard, Body Guard or an even more legitimate profession like literally anything else.

Side note: most of these people would still make better cops than most cops. The Dead in “Dead or Alive” is almost never profitable any more.

Wow, what morons. Never let them get you for criminal tresspass. Even your average Karen should have the sense to leave once the cops are about to be called.

I snuck a whole Arby’s French Dip into that movie. Carried the au jus cup in my hand and walked right by the staff.

Ask me to leave all you want, but call the police? wtf? That’ll be WHY I sneak food in the next time. This time I just needed actual dinner, and y’all don’t even sell real food here.

No. He and his (not much)older siblings are at an age where, like I said, we need to know if someone got hurt, got in trouble with the law, or broke something, but short of that, a blow-by blow of recent or not-so-recent shenanigans in front of a much younger sibling is doing no one any favors.

I should be glad he’s not tagging walls, or at least knows I would make him find any property owner and offer to re-paint or pay for such. Its the worst combination of he used to genuinely do and get in trouble for awful things, a lot, and now he’s like that one kid in the class who never does anything wrong beyond steal an extra french fry or ketchup packet, and won’t shut up about their condiment exploits(also still gets in fights and such, but doesn’t talk about that). When you have pregnant classmates, classmates in rehab, and/or pregnant classmates in rehab, everyone gets tired of this shit, not just parents.

Idk, any more, my one kid(15) is too often telling me stuff he and others did wrong together that his mother and I have to stop him mid-sentence to ask “in what world would we want you to tell us about this unless you or others got hurt or need an alibi? Why would you tell us this in front of your little sister?”

We should have been so much harsher with his earlier mistakes, like our parents were with us, I tell you.