DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend’s 36-year-old son refuses to work. He has every excuse in the book. No job is just right for him. Without any education or training, he expects to make $20 per hour. Even then, he either quits or gets fired. He has lived off family for all of the five years I have known him. He couldn’t find a job even part time last year, and never paid rent. We were forced to move.
Now we are in a 55-plus community that does NOT allow “children,” and her son is hiding in the living room and porch. He has created a cell for himself. If discovered, the community can evict us. How do we get him out? -- PRISON FOR ALL IN FLORIDA
DEAR PRISON FOR ALL: The son is 36 and “hiding” in a cell he has created for himself? Is he mentally disabled? Taking drugs? After five years, it’s time you and your girlfriend formed a united front and gave her son a deadline by which to find a job and move. After that deadline, he can couch surf with friends if necessary. Then cross your fingers and pray the management of the community in which you live doesn’t catch on to what’s been going on, or you and your girlfriend may be looking for another home as well.
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