Jobless aspiring pro pickleball player takes lunch from minimum wage worker

For context, this is one half of a fundamentalist Christian influencer couple. Wife stays at home with their children while dad “trains” every day in hopes of becoming a professional pickle ball player. Spoiler: he actually sucks at pickleball. They live off of what little money they make on social media because Paul refuses to give up his delusional pickle ball dream to get a real job. You couldn’t waterboard this story out of me.

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DistributionLife67503 months ago90

Regardless of how you look at it, dudes like this in evangelical circles are a dime a dozen.

They think they’re talented, they’re not.

They think they’re deep thinkers, they’re not.

However, they look the part and usually speak cringe Christianese well so they’re often given some kind of position of influence and/or authority, despite not having any qualifications whatsoever.

EmperorGrinnar3 months ago69

The entitlement is so weird.

Efficient_Cost_74363 months ago65

He made it seem like he took (basically stole) her employee sandwich despite being able to afford it

Dangerous_Metal34363 months ago31

Oh great, shaming and guilt tripping ppl to spend what little they have on you. There's a special place in the basement of hell for ppl like him.

KoreanChess3 months ago19

I'm upvoting this because it fits the flair

GrosslyBroke3 months ago17

Lmao fuck this man child Paul

InsertRadnamehere3 months ago11

Professional Pickleball?!!? WTF is the world coming to?!!?

Mortuus-Sum3 months ago9

Why not pray for the food to fall in your lap. I mean, the "lord provides" amirite?

Historical_Stay_8083 months ago7

I take things that never happened for 1 million Bob

Exciting-Argument-673 months ago7

... yes, but it was her choice to do so. She has eyes. She knows he's not hurting for food. She knows he's probably privileged on some level. But she wanted to do it.

Don't tell people who they can and can't be kind to. Don't take that away from them. Minimum wage workers also like to feel like they did someone a kindness, even if it's only with a sandwich voucher they weren't going to use anyway. Random acts of kindness make everybody feel good. Don't turn this into a "he took advantage of you!" situation and make that woman feel like she doesn't have a right to give something of hers away; don't make her feel that she's too dumb to know the difference between a white guy on a budget and someone in actual need. That's condescending. Let her have her little act of kindness.

Seriously, listen to the way this could sound to her: "He took advantage of this dumb, helpless poor person! He tricked her into giving him her allotted sandwich!" Do you really think she wasn't totally aware of what she was doing and what his need level actually was?