I've just come to an arrangement with a friend of mine.
He works, but can't afford to rent anywhere - not even the price of a room (to give you an idea, he makes minimum wage $8.75 - a one bed place is $1000+ and a room is typically $500+) so for a while now he's been living in his van. He's a very clean, tidy and 100% trustworthy person, so the nights I'm staying at my boyfriends, I let him crash at my apartment.

Instead of accepting payment, he cleans for me and changes and washes the bedsheets (I have two sets, so he puts one set on for me to sleep in and the nights he's there he changes out for the other set).

He washed my windows the other night because due to my little cleaning routine there was "nothing for him to clean".
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 27 Mar 2010, 18:16, 10 replies)

Wow
Trustworthy, hard worker, with good attention to detail... he sounds like he should be on more than minimum wage. :(
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sat 27 Mar 2010, 18:34, closed)

Yeah, I know.
It's the state of jobs out here though.....you get what you can. The new job I start next week will be just over half of what I was making on my previous salary and it's several steps down the professional ladder, but that's just the name of the game.

Plus, Saturday nights the guy works at my local bar so I get a couple free drinks each time!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 27 Mar 2010, 18:41, closed)

Broken Britain
Suddenly doesn't seem quite so broken after all.

So sorry. Hope it picks up soon.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sat 27 Mar 2010, 18:57, closed)

That's a nice thing to do
to give a friend a hand is always decent
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sat 27 Mar 2010, 19:05, closed)

is he snow white's brother?

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 27 Mar 2010, 21:08, closed)

Nah, he's a good kid.
He's 23, his parents died in a car crash 3 years ago and he has no surviving family.
He was living with his girlfriend (now ex) and they just had a baby. He's doing everything he can to get back on the right track (doesn't drink, smoke or do drugs, either) and pays almost everything he has towards his daughter - she's literally 6 weeks old.

The ex is totally nuts, and he's vying for visitation rights a couple times a week - if he wasn't homeless the judge would give custody in a heartbeat. I'm actually going to court with him next week to give permission for his daughter to stay at my place with him when he's here - this will involve social workers coming round to mine and that kind of thing.
And he is just geniunely one of those rare types of "fucking nice people". Known him (and his parents) since he was 16.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 27 Mar 2010, 23:59, closed)

nice to know
there are still a few good ones out there
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 28 Mar 2010, 0:55, closed)

Yeah. That's why I'm allowing
the home invasion and background checks.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sun 28 Mar 2010, 2:18, closed)

I'll
give you 200 quid for him, cash.
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 28 Mar 2010, 12:13, closed)

i see that
and raise you 200, plus a job
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Sun 28 Mar 2010, 17:43, closed)