Reply #10: More drama in the trailer park I see.

[Cleita]

Mom passed out drunk because her life sucks and her kids are psychopaths. My DH and I used to live in a trailer because we traveled and it was a more comfortable way to go camping, something we could afford.

We saw a lot of human misery among those people, called permanents, like whole families, forced to live in tin cans on wheels because it's all the rent they could afford. Many were unemployed and on welfare or SSI. Others were too uneducated to get anything more than the basest bottom-rung-on-the-ladder jobs.

It starts with the hopelessness that things are never going to get any better, then comes the substance abuse and then abuse of each other and their kids. The kids grow up tough and without much supervision. Many are home schooled by parents that have no business doing so because they can't afford decent clothes for the kids to go to school. It's really an American tragedy.

Usually, the tensions come to a head with someone getting shot or knifed. Oedipus style incestuous rape is unheard of even in the trailer park dramas that play out. That is one sick kid.