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Real answer: insurance salesman in the 90's.
This was a slightly exagerated, but rather typical upper-upper-middle class house.
A friend of a friend's dad had the same job, and a similar sized house. Guy had his own pinball room.
He also had a daughter that was in a secret relationship with my girlfriend (that they thought I didn't know about.)
Scissor-box it out with your "friend" all you want, free pinball is free pinball.
Pinball is life. Forrest Gump got it wrong. Life is not like a box of chocolates. It is like a pinball game. You're bouncing around like crazy and then suddenly it all ends when you go down the drain...
Know what else is like pinball?
Kidney stones. Definitely feels like you're getting your balls thrown into a lot of shit.
That sounds incredibly painful.
Good. That's what I was aiming for.
It is painful.
What was worse for me? I began suffering from a kidney stone when I was parked at a New Jersey turnpike rest area/service area.
In a semi truck.
Almost 1000 miles from home or anyone I know
With my dog in the truck.
Obligatory pic. Gina, the dog in the story, is no longer with us, but she is the golden/husky mix, while Zeus, the bigger black and white mutt still is.
https://tinypic.host/image/Snapchat-1486115008.3dlaJ4
A dog that had horrible separation anxiety and would chew her way out of said truck if I left her in it with the climate controls on, for more than a few minutes.
I wound up calling 911, since obviously I'm not getting a semi truck into a hospital parking lot, and explaining the situation to the dispatcher. By the time the ambulance got to me, I was doubled over, dry heaving in the parking lot, with my dog freaking out thinking I'm about to die.
In her defense, by then, so did I. I still didn't know it was a kidney stone, and my mind was going immediately to "burst appendix", and me dying a thousand miles from home, in the middle of the night, leaving a wife and a daughter behind....
Ambulance crew loaded up me AND my dog, and one of the EMTs called the hospital, and got that handled.
The hospital security team babysat her, while the nurses and doctors fussed over me.
When it was time to get back to the truck, I tried to call a cab. None would take me back because of the dog. She wasn't a big dog, but not a lapdog either.
Needless to say when the head ER nurse found out, she flipped her shit in perfect, foul-mouthed, Jersey attitude, and this southern boy loved her for it.
She said "I'll take you myself if this guy doesn't, and if he doesn't, his fuckin whole company will be banned from this whole muthafuckin hospital!"
As an aside, that's when it clicked that New Englanders ain't rude or unfriendly. They just express love differently. 😂
Damn. I rambled like hell, but. It all needed to be said anyway
Dude... fuck me that was something else. And yeah, sometimes we need to let loose and tell what the hell happened in as much detail as possible to get closure.
Used to work in a life insurance company and the president bragged about how the top sellers got more money that him.
Some other 90's TV shows and movies:
The Simpsons. Homer owns a 2 story house and supports a family of 5 (at least sometimes 6, with his father Abe) and two pets on a single income as a nuclear safety officer.
Christmas Vacation. Clark Griswold works as a chemical engineer at a food company working on such projects as a coating for cereal to keep it crunchy longer. There's no indication that his wife works. He supports a family of 4, owns a large house, takes frequent lengthy vacations and has enough disposable income to install an in-ground swimming pool...assuming his typical year-end bonus.
Married...With Children. Al Bundy is a retail shoe salesman, his wife does not work. He owns a 2-story house and supports a family of 4.
A single breadwinner owning a large house and supporting a family with disposable income didn't used to be hilariously unrealistic.
The post-WW2 greatest generation lifestyle was something else. Not to say that all WW2 veterans were well-off (WW2 veterans had a LOT of PTSD and many never recovered from wartime trauma), but increased housing development meant cheap houses for many people. A lot of houses of that time left a lot to be desired in modern terms (like some bathrooms had slots to put used safety razors in, but had no way of emptying them out...), but far more people than ever were actually able to afford homes.
My mother's house had one of these pleasant looking Razor Disposal Slots in a medicine cabinet. When we redid the bathroom there was just a pile of ancient rusty razor blades behind the wall.
Boomer era foresight. They probably dumped their used engine oil into holes in the back garden as well.
My own father takes a kind of "Oh well, I'm only gonna live another 10 or 20 years anyway" attitude toward....basically everything, from politics to the environment to roof repair.
It hasn't occurred to him that it's a pretty shitty thing to say to your son's face. But it's how they think.
I'll happily trade your razor blade slot for the crumbling linen-covered iron electrical wiring inside metal pipes in our 50's house. Don't worry, we are busy replacing it all. But if I'm suddenly permanently offline our house probably burned down. 😋
My elementary school childhood home, the fuse box was over the bathtub. And although they didn't completely make it a shower, it did have a removable shower head on a hose mounted down low so you could use it to rinse your hair etc. You had to be really careful where you sprayed it though.
The implausible part about Homer's job wasn't the salary, it was the fact that he was in charge of safety at a nuclear plant despite being completely unqualified. Lenny and Carl both have Masters' Degrees in Nuclear Science.
But Al Bundy was constantly out of money and he did not own the house. His paycheck went straight to Peg who wasted it on fashion, on herself and useless stuff. The children had to steal food because Peg or Al never cooked at home. At some point Al made a joke that life won't get worse if anyone sues them for money, because he already has 2 mortgages on the house, his car is junk and he has no valuables and no savings to take away.
So he could be in a good financial place if his wife didn't deliberately sabotage him.
A nuclear safety officer and a chemical engineer are both quite high paying jobs, it's not that far fetched even today that someone could support a family with that job.
If Al Bundy owns his business, it's also not very far fetched that a retail store could support a family.
Chemical engineering is among the highest paying engineering fields.
Al Bundy did not own the shoe store. It was owned by a woman called Gary if i remember correctly.
Heard he was great friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
And whoever said all those children were actually his kids.
TBH that would explain the Trump Cameo. It's all about who you know.
It's not just Home Alone for me. Almost every show I watch, I look at the places where the characters live with immense envy.
Lord of the Rings: Man, I'd love to live in that hobbit house. That looks incredibly cozy.
Daredevil: That is such a nice loft, and it has such great light. It's unfair that a guy who's blind doesn't truly appreciate his great apartment because he can't see.
Futurama: Fry's a delivery boy and he lives in a robot's closet, and it's still better than where I live.
Only Murders in the Building: NYC and these guys have those kinds of amazing places? (To be fair, this is a major plot element of the 4th season)
Futurama was wicked funny how they introduced that. It seemed like it was gonna suck big time for fry to live in a closet sized 'apartment' but that 'apartment' had a closet that was bigger than most big ass apartments!
Pretty much any Artist Loft in the 90s.
Bitch, you have enough room to have a softball tournament in your front room, quit complaining about how 'rough ' the neighborhood is.
It was a pretty nice closet, to be fair.
I've noticed this too. In movies and TV, its not just the people that are beautiful, often times, its their material wealth too.
Yeah, and it sometimes makes sense just from an acting PoV, so you can forgive it. It's hard to fit all the characters and cameras in a scene if someone lives in a typical cramped apartment. So, like in the Friends TV show, none of them has jobs that should indicate they're rich. But, the sets they use for the apartments suggest they have huge apartments. In that show, Joey's apartment isn't beautifully furnished, it looks fairly cheap. But, it's really spacious for NYC. But, it seems like it's all about giving the director the freedom to frame shots to get everybody involved, and to allow characters to move around.
OTOH, A recent movie, "Black Bag" was terrible for this. I hated the movie because it was just impossible to believe. This guy, who's supposed to be a British intelligence officer (i.e. living on government wages). His wife is also an intelligence officer. Yet, somehow, they live in this condo that looks like it would be about £5m to buy, or about £5000/month. Since the plot revolves around whether one of them is a traitor and is selling state secrets, it seems pretty obvious it's this guy or his wife because no civil servant is living in a place like that on just a government salary.
well daredevil's place would suck for anyone who can see because of the giant led billboard shining right into the place
Giedi Prime looks like a great place to raise a family.
If you're a Baron, maybe.
You assume they were his children. I mean he might have just been doing an Epstein.
From what I remember, only a few of the kids on the trip were his, the rest were cousins. His wealthy(er) brother was the one flying them to Paris at his expense. Also he was the one sitting on a ridiculously 3 story brownstone in Manhattan. I don't believe we meet the brother in the films. Kevin's mom was supposed to have been the substantial breadwinner in the house as a fashion designer.
It's hard to fit a camera crew in a realistically sized house
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