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You might not have a Choice about being Poor, but you have a Choice about being Trash

Lawson Wallace
2 min readJun 16, 2020

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My wife and I live in a Low-Income apartment complex, we mind our business

and don’t go out at night and keep our door locked, but that doesn’t stop the

knuckleheads from bothering us.

I had to call the cops tonight, someone has been banging on our door and

running off, I complained to the management, via text message.

The cops are going to increase patrols, and the manager is going to check

the video. There’s no reason for it, it’s just a kid acting a fool. Why is a young

kid out at all hours of the night banging on doors? and what is his mom doing

about it? How hard is it to teach your children respect? I know the answer.

When I worked security, most of the problems I had were with teen-agers.

Kids today have no limits, when I was a kid, my friends and I were no angels,

but we had limits, today’s kids do not, and it’s scary. I know better than to go

outside and confront the kid, it’s not worth getting hurt over, and I have no

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Lawson Wallace
Lawson Wallace

Written by Lawson Wallace

65-year-old married guy, I have been writing stories for years, but never submitted or published anything. I write about my successes and failures, everything.

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