What wrong with you?

Latinx

Written in response to: "Write about someone getting a second chance." as part of Love is in the Air.

you’re grateful for what? Usted es loco à la coco. No one in their right mind would be grateful for that. What be wrong with you? You be crazy. Who in their right mind would want a tax audit? Nobody but you my friend. Nobody but you.

Ok but suppose you fail again, then what? You think it be false positive. You full of shit. Yes, there be some evidence that lack of sleep give you false positive, but . . . You no listen no nothing I say. listen a negative is a negative a positive it’s a positive sleep. Don’t got nothing to do with it. Suppose you are audited. I suppose you do pass then you’ll be homeless then you’ll be hungry. You know I have no more healthcare. You got no more food. What do you do then you want to sue the government and suppose you lose that then what the people in the EU are local you know how many people that other countries will kill for what you have.? all of them anybody would want what you have all you gotta do is sit on your butt all day and collect benefits. You don’t have to go to work. Everybody else wishes. They didn’t have to work for you. You are local. Yes I know you can’t get married. You cannot have friends you cannot have email. Did you get food? You got a roof over your head your clothes on your back and you still wanna be ordered Americans are such stupid people. why no you just be happy? Yes, I know you know on your own home. I know you don’t have no car you can drive anywhere but people drive you to the supermarket every other week then you gotta plan ahead so you have things that can pull and soap if you have money for champ point of you pass this test you ain’t got no money for nothing anyway you ain’t been audited yet you’re just filed. You just had your legal guardian file taxes for you what they do every year there’s no happened last year. Why were you think it happened this year? You are loco à la coco y mui stupido. You try winning the lotto you no win the lotto. you try entering the public clearance house. Do you know when that either you try every card that’s out there you know when nothing. you try the Food Network you try HGTV you try TLC you try everything and you even listen to the radio for the $1000 giveaway with 1 billion people call you know what you got from it? It’s a bunch of wasted time. Thank God, you can scam the government so that these people can work their asses off so you can sit on your butt all day and do nothing. You don’t even appreciate it. you are crazy man look the chances of that happening or one in 1 billion you’re probably more likely to win the publishers clearance house or any of these other stupid counts or even the lottery anyway if you want to appeal, you can and you know you can and we consequence for that just like they’ll be consequences for the audit but you don’t have any control over the audit. Remember the serenity prayer you do remember the serenity prayer right? Or did you forget that too? You’re American is so stupid. You have everything in the world that you would need but you’re still not happy with us. Why can’t you just learn to be happy anyway you think rich people happy you think you’d be happy with you’re free. that’ll be something else that you want before you could be before you want to get married you wanna have kids whenever have a house you wanna have a car you want of this one have that would make you happy be happy for like two minutes then you would be like well if I just had this I’d be happy so why not stop and just be happy now, man?

You’ll be happy when you’ll be happy when then you know happy when you get what you want you’re not happy when you don’t get what you want why don’t you just be happy right now man remember the song don’t worry be happy? You Americans be loco à la coco. What do you really want man do you think people who are a wife and kids be happy man they worry about how they’re gonna pay their bills every month and you remember man condoms are cheaper than diapers man. You gotta save up for college you gotta save up for clothes. You got Food diapers all that stuff, man you think people like having to buy all that stuff and haircuts and all that stuff you don’t have to worry about none of that. heck you don’t even have to worry about the credit card bill coming in the mail because your legal guardian take care of that. And then you’re angry with them because they’re telling you not to do stuff man you know how many people wish they could have your life and then you complaining. why are you complaining? Just take a chill pill man and relax. I know they don’t allow you to have alcohol where you live because I think it’ll hurt your brain or hurt your balance or something and I understand that that’s not fair. I agree man that is not fair but just for my brother serenity prayer and anything could happen. You could be audited, but that’s probably not gonna happen and it probably won’t solve anything if you were. but you be saying go get the mail OK I get the mail. Yeah there’ll be something for you from the IRS. Probably say that you owe back taxes man it’s you got it. You’re getting audited. You are gonna get the test. I don’t know what to tell you, man I don’t know if you wanna win wanna pass this test or not Americans be so stupid people anyway but we fail again. How do I get caffeine again and fail again you be stupid.

Posted Feb 15, 2026
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