Here's the scenario: You are unemployed and you need some money, and right now, most, if not all of your friends, are at work making it. You are not. While your days are filled with one thing, (trying to survive) their days are filled with, well, the same trying to survive bit, but they get paid at the end of the week, and you don't.
They've got jobs, and they're busy, and someone new has come in to take your place, and after an initial period of suspicion and distrust, he/she has now become an accepted member of the "family." Slowly, ever so slowly, the memory of you is fading.
To throw one more thing into the mix, even your friends that have jobs are worried that they won't have jobs. They watch the news too. They are fully cognizant of the fact that it's all very tenuous out there. And they watched you get let go, and muttered, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." So don't expect any "temporary loan" speech you've prepared is going to go down easy to anyone you approach.
Not everyone has forgotten you of course. You still have one or two real friends from your former place of employment, but all in all, that's about it. Just remember, many of the folks you have thought of as friends, aren't.
To illustrate this point, let's go back to when you had a job, and it's Saturday afternoon, and you're shopping for some food at the local A&P. In the cake mix aisle, you run into a "friend" from your place of employment and exchange hellos. After the small talk about how much you both hate this or that at work, and how you both admire Ample Breasted Human Resources Betty, there really isn't much more to talk about. Maybe there's some sports talk, but that's about it. You mumble something about seeing him/her on Monday, say your goodbyes because the milk in your cart is getting warm, and then you spend the rest of your shopping time trying not to run into your friend down any of the other store aisles.
Funny how that all works, isn't it. When you were at work, you probably talked to that person time and time again about a whole host of subjects, and truly enjoyed his or her company. If, when leaving for the day, you would see that your friend was having trouble in the parking lot with the car, you would stop and help with a jump for a dead battery or help with a call to Triple A. If it was getting dark, you would, of course, stay to keep your friend company. But it feels different at the A&P. Both of you feel a little uncomfortable. The conversation is a little halting and forced. It's awkward. It's just weird.
You're going to ask this person for a "loan?" Even though you know intellectually that this person is not a real, true friend? That in the end, this will cause you nothing but grief and humiliation? Yeah, you probably will.
Dumb ass.
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