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A Betoota Grove father-of-four says that his adult children, three of which still live at home, are all nice people but at the end of the day, they’re pretty fucking hopeless.
Speaking candidly to our reporter at the Lake Betoota Golf Club front bar, John Cale explained that he has nobody to blame but himself for his current situation.
“I’m going to have to give them all a house deposit,” he said.
“Otherwise, they’ll never move out of my fucking house. I say it’s my house, well, in the eyes of the law it belongs to both Maria, my wife, and I. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s still in her name.”
John took a punt on himself in his early 20s and started his own property development and real estate business, which turned him into one of Betoota’s wealthiest men by the time he turned 60.
The son of a labourer and a domestic cleaner, John said things were pretty grim at times when he was a child and he swore that if he ever had children himself, he’d give them everything they ever wanted.
“That turned out to be the wrong thing to do,” he said.
“My youngest is almost 25 and he’s never paid a bill in his life. Never paid rent, never done anything, really. I’ve let that happen. It’s on me,”
“You know the other day, they were all playing in the pool with their friends and everything. Music on, they’re into my grog, I don’t mind that. But just looking at the pool, the house, the European cars in the driveway. I pay for all of it. It’s not that I care. Well, I do care,”
“It’s just that they wouldn’t survive in the wild at all. I look out at the pool deck and see soft putty. They have absolutely no idea of the struggles and human misery that comes with just being able to survive. I dunno, I just wish they understood what it took to give them everything.”
More to come.
