Florida Parents Acquire Vending Machine to Feed Children
The Freeman family resides in a 30 foot motorhome in Country Springs Trailer Park, just outside of Jacksonville, Florida. I visited them after hearing rumors of their unique approaches to parenting.
David “Boog” Freeman answered the door. He immediately introduced his wife, Diane, as a wonderful, beautiful woman, who never should have worked a day in her life.
He admitted, however, that a series of misfortunes have guided her fate negatively. He explained: Throughout her formative years, her parents were intonation juice addicts. So, even as a young child, she fended for herself while they swam around in substance-induced bliss. Then, in 2005-2007, once she had finally moved out from her parents’ shambled home and into a budget apartment of her own, she fell victim to a barrage of thefts and vandalism. Eventually, the city of Jacksonville condemned her house on grounds of disrepair. And then, as she worked to improve her financial situation, she was falsely convicted of racketeering in 2009. This conviction piled enormous debt upon her.
Boog happily married into debt out of love for this woman.
The debt gives Boog and Diane no choice but to work multiple jobs simultaneously. Paycheck to paycheck, they haven’t the funds to hire babysitters, so the two of them often lament in leaving the kids home alone.
“They donno how to feed themselves, though,” said Diane Freeman. “We needed to work, but we couldn’t just not feed our kids.”
“So we eventually decided to put our minds to good use!”
“We got ourselves an old snack machine from the dump. Fixed her up. And we asked our neighbor to help us carry it into the trailer. Now we have it inside, so the kids won’t go hungry when we are busy working.”
“We give each of the rascals five or six dollars a day. They use it to buy whatever food they want, whenever they want it.”
“It’s, what do you call it…, a win-win!”
“A win-win—win, I’d say, because what the kids donno is that we have this key here which lets us retrieve all our dollars from the machine at the end of the day. So, we never actually spend anything. Free food forever, ay!”
“It’s free food! Not paying for food is gonna help us get our debt paid off a whole heck of a lot sooner, I expect. It’s just perfect.”
“It lets us focus on work, and it even let’s us spend a night at the pool hall once in a while, when we feel like it. ‘Mechanical Mom’, that’s what the kids call it.”
The Freeman family told me it had been a month since they acquired the vending machine. I was surprised to hear that even the kids were happy with the resulting lifestyle change.
One of the rascals remarked, “I love mechanical mom because she doesn’t yell at us, she is colorful, and she never makes us eat crusty garbage food like mommy does.”
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