This Winter With Joe The Plumber
Every winter is a challenge for Joe the Plumber, because the work runs out, and Joe tends to make dumb decisions when he has too much time on his hands. This winter, though, was the worst.

The downhill slide actually started in the spring of 2012. He developed a crush on a prostitute, and saw a future for himself as a bodyguard for her and her colleagues. I pointed out that the motorcycle dudes who hung around with her were probably already her bodyguards: they certainly weren't clients, but he ignored my advice. Instead, he offered to give her his pickup truck. She accepted the gift, but became suspicious of his intentions, and soon rejected his calls. Then, in the autumn, Joe's van became disabled, and since he had no transportation at all apart from a bicycle, he lost all ability to keep an income. So, he spent the winter shivering in a disabled van in a motel parking lot, picking up odd jobs like fencing stolen goods, and the like. The prostitute lost the pickup truck too: it got impounded for no license, etc. Some people don't appreciate gifts.

Now that temperatures are warming up, Joe can get more work again, and finally move on. But the moral is, don't develop a crush on a prostitute. But I'm sure he'll come up with some equally-dumb idea for screwing himself over in 2013.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Sun 3 Mar 2013, 9:40, 4 replies)

Star Wars?

(Brigadier an old boot sitting on a man's face - forever, Sun 3 Mar 2013, 10:29, closed)

Is this really about you?
Who's Joe The Plumber, someone from /talk?
(gordonjcp, Sun 3 Mar 2013, 11:37, closed)

Joe the Plumber is a friend
His name is Joe, and he's a Plumber; hence the name. He is colorful, but frequently homeless, and he tends to make bad, immature decisions. This last winter, his desire was to set his van on fire, in order to make a statement of some sort, but we persuaded him not to do so. Good thing, since he lives in it these days.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 19:50, closed)

Is that how Facekicker Joe ended up then?
Wow.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sun 3 Mar 2013, 19:40, closed)