Wed 11 Jun 2008
I wrote this series exactly a year ago and I continue to observe people still use these excuses although I must say that with Barak Obama becoming the Democratic Presidential nominee and Hillary Clinton coming close, I’m not hearing excuse #6 that often these days.Â
I’ve counted down the top 10 excuses I’ve heard over the last ten years from friends, family, peers, and others as to why they’re not getting rich; I’m recapping them today as tomorrow I’ll be writing about the #1 excuse I’ve heard for not getting rich.
10. I don’t have a college degree.
9. I don’t have well connected friends to get a high paying job.
8. I wasn’t born rich.
7. I didn’t have great parents.
6. I wasn’t born the right gender or color.
5. I didn’t graduate from Ivy League School.
4. It’s too complicated to run a business.
3. The government taxes me and interferes with me too much.
2. I don’t have the time or money to do x.
1. I’m Afraid
Has anyone ever heard the story of Carmen Winstead? someone posted about it on MySpace a while ago and it was posted again on americanidol.com. I found this when I looked up Carmen Winstead on Yahoo:
About 6 years ago in Indiana, Carmen Winstead was pushed down a sewer opening by 5 girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a fire drill. When she didn’t submerge the police were called. They went down and brought up 17 year old Carmen Winstead’s body, her neck broken from hitting the ladder, and then the side concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone she fell… They believed them. FACT: 2 months ago, 16 year old David Gregory read this post and didn’t repost it. When he went to take a shower he heard laughter from his shower, he started freaking out and ran to his computer to repost it. He said goodnight to his mom and went to sleep. 5 hours later his mom woke up in the middle of the night cause of a loud noise. David was gone. That morning a few hours later the police found him in the sewer, his neck broken and his face skin peeled off. If you don’t repost this saying “she was pushed” Then Carmen will get you, either from a sewer, the toilet, the shower, or when you go to sleep you’ll wake up in the sewer, in the dark, then Carmen will come and kill you
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I got CLICKIFIED in ’05.