[thelegges]

I find there are those who take on parental units, don't complain or look for the pat on the back for stepping up to take care of them. It's what you do for the love of your family, and never tell anyone I am taking care of Mom, Dad or Siblings. In the south you just have family visit, no matter how long the stay. It's how we were brought up.

[Topspinmo]

There are no rewards for doing good things, doing good job, or doing the right thing. Only for doing extraordinarily or the other side of the coin bad things. You've heard the term one bad apply spoils the bushel. Everybody expect good apples and condoned the bad ones. The poor has to survive horrors of life everyday. Anybody living in the villages is NOT poor.

[Nucky]

We have several tough cookies in our neighborhood who everyone has shunned because of past behavior or their record or the way they look. They don't scare me at all because they may be salvageable. Sometimes all they need is some good advice and a ear to listen to their tale of woe. Some once they find out that I won't be their banker, taxi, motel, you get the idea stop talking because they can't operate on you. Helping people is one of life's biggest rewards that many people never experience. I overdid it a few times in the beginning and got into some scary situations. I learned. I don't judge these people who live with their parents in TV because there is always more to the story than meets the eye and its non of my business. I hope they have happy productive sober lives.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Nucky

We have several tough cookies in our neighborhood who everyone has shunned because of past behavior or their record or the way they look. They don't scare me at all because they may be salvageable. Sometimes all they need is some good advice and a ear to listen to their tale of woe. Some once they find out that I won't be their banker, taxi, motel, you get the idea stop talking because they can't operate on you. Helping people is one of life's biggest rewards that many people never experience. I overdid it a few times in the beginning and got into some scary situations. I learned. I don't judge these people who live with their parents in TV because there is always more to the story than meets the eye and its non of my business. I hope they have happy productive sober lives.

What a great attitude.

But, I might add, is one that would result in a lot less threads...here on TOTV.

[mickey100]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

What a great attitude.

But, I might add, is one that would result in a lot less threads...here on TOTV.

[Greg Nelson]

When I was younger I was told that as I aged my kids would care for me.....what are they waiting for?

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by christieann

I personally want to say, as a younger TV resident:
I learned respect from my parents and I am happy I was given the chance to be here.
It is a shame that others my age are giving younger residents in TV a bad reputation.
(I was warned about men my age that live with their parents here and that warning was correct.
A person I thought was nice turned disgusting quickly. NOT someone I will ever choose to be in contact with again.)

My parents are gone now but I still want to make them proud every day.
I will be a respectful and law abiding resident who will uphold TV's good name.
I am glad to be living a quiet and happy life in TV.
Please know that not all young residents are out to do bad things.

It is a nice post, but I have to say to you as I said to all of my grandchildren; only 3% of actors find gainful employment.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Nucky

We have several tough cookies in our neighborhood who everyone has shunned because of past behavior or their record or the way they look. They don't scare me at all because they may be salvageable. Sometimes all they need is some good advice and a ear to listen to their tale of woe. Some once they find out that I won't be their banker, taxi, motel, you get the idea stop talking because they can't operate on you. Helping people is one of life's biggest rewards that many people never experience. I overdid it a few times in the beginning and got into some scary situations. I learned. I don't judge these people who live with their parents in TV because there is always more to the story than meets the eye and its non of my business. I hope they have happy productive sober lives.

I worry more about the people who have no support systems like their parents. I do not know what I would have done in my complicated situation if I did not have a loving albeit at times somewhat dysfunctional immediate and extended family. And they have allowed me to make quite a huge impact with my 26 year 224 613 Project unlike in the setting of a university or in most corporations I have been involved with where they do almost everything through committees and meetings. Does that light bulb in the foyer need changing? Let's set up a committee to find just the right light bulb and person to change it. I have been in a lot of meetings at Information Access Company, the U of Denver Penrose Library, Englewood Public Library (CO), the University of Minnesota Law Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners, Palm Harbor Library and East Lake Community Library (near Palm Harbor). But with the Reno, Nevada area partnership I was an Assistant Manager (most of the six years I was there) with Farwell and Mikkelson; Craig or Richard would just tell us- Do that!-- and we did it. Not the teen age girls that much though I "supervised" at Farwell and Mikkelson. I just tried to limit the trouble they might get into.

Craig Farwell later became the Warden at the Nevada State Prison in Lovelock, Nevada. Can see him doing that as he knew how to lay down the law except with the teenage daughters of women he had befriended in some way who worked under me at times. They kind of did what they wanted when Craig was not eyeing them.

I would bet that some of those people in the prison in Lovelock got into so much trouble because they had no reliable support system. Then there would have been others who were basically just not very nice people like with some of the prisoners I met at the Minnesota Correctional Facility--Stillwater when I worked with Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners.

[dpulchin]

If the Villages would screen a persons background for not only the resident but those living with them they might be unfit to live here. If he was arrested for the 4th time he should be put in prison.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

It is a nice post, but I have to say to you as I said to all of my grandchildren; only 3% of actors find gainful employment.

Is it that low? I have a lot of actor "friends" on Facebook. Some of them are involved in any number of activities including acting of some sort.

My girlfriend in Law School was the daughter of a Dallas theater actress; she obviously wanted to do something other than what her mother had done with her life. Her father supplied missile guidance systems to the US military. Odd combination. This girlfriend became a lawyer and is now working with a Midwest Court system managing their interpreters. Making the justice system there more accessible to people who do not speak English that well.

[OldManTime]

Hopefully mine won't come to live with me, they have been put on notice one week max.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by dpulchin

If the Villages would screen a persons background for not only the resident but those living with them they might be unfit to live here. If he was arrested for the 4th time he should be put in prison.

'Screen' residents before they buy a house here?


Really?


Who gets to do the screening?

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

'Screen' residents before they buy a house here?


Really?


Who gets to do the screening?

Hopefully Megan Boone!

[TheDude]

Originally Posted by the square

Kenneth Alan Krajewski
A Villager�s son with a history of criminal activity was arrested Sunday night in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart at Buffalo Ridge Plaza in The Villages. Kenneth Alan Krajewski, 45, who lives with his mother in the Village of Winifred, was spotted in a golf cart shortly before 9 p.m., according to an arrest [�]

And the beat goes on. A 45 year old dead beat arrested for 4th time. just Add this looser to the list.another mama's boy I guess..

I'm sorry, I didn't see the crime he did, maybe that wasn't posted because even if you are a criminal you are allowed to be outside at 9pm in a parking lot in a golf cart. Was he stealing? Skipped bail?

most people (I'm say at least 90%+ as a guess) in general suck and look only after themselves and not others in the world, it is how the world is. This is coming from the world I have seen. People scam to get their way, they attack others physical, with words or with group attacks and shout downs. Its how the world is.

If this guy did a crime, then arrest him. It is horrible he lives in The Villages though there are 100,000 people in The Villages. Consider yourselves who do live here very lucky. We get some red-necks, swamp boys, some drunk older people and some con-arrests. For most part we can see them coming. I think our police and fire do a great job, far better than the medical treatment we are getting in the villages.

So he lives in The Villages, you know what, he probably is out of his holding cell and currently living in the Village of Winifred right now. He can't be banned from a city. If so, how could that be policed since it has been pointed out many times we are not a gated community. He probably will be in that golf cart again. You will never know who he is. Even with a picture, life goes too fast.

Let's hope that his crime wasn't violence and was 'just' a property (still not great) crime.

Its always good to point out something bad, its the reason we have the news on TV. For some reason people like to talk about bad things. Maybe it justifies their own worth (not remembering their past)

Those who live in The Villages picked a very safe place. Go to the local pool in Chicago or The Bronx.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by dpulchin

If the Villages would screen a persons background for not only the resident but those living with them they might be unfit to live here.

No-one wants a criminal living next door, but that's a slippery slope you're proposing.