text: [Themes: modern]
  
  "Aw hell Tina, I don't need no regular job! There's plenty o' jobs I can do for people around the trailer park an' hell there's always metal shit lying around that I could collect an' take to scrapyard!"
  "Way to reach for those stars Mel. NO! You can't make a living doing that shit!"
  "The hell I can't! Sides' it's still bringing in money."
  "Yeah, enough to buy more beer! (Sigh) Why do I even fuckin' bother? Oh fuck it; at least you're doing something, but you better at least bring in enough money for this months rent!"
  "Yeah, yeah." You say and leave.
  
  As you scratch your ass and look out at the trailer park wasteland that you live in you ponder your next move. You wonder whether you should help any of these motherfuckers here at all. None of them have ever helped you, let alone even like you. Not to mention you'll have to put up with their bullshit. At least collecting scrap metal doesn't require you to deal with anyone else, but the question whether or not you'll even collect enough shit to make more than a few bucks, plus there's gas money you're actually spending in order to drive your truck around looking for scrap.
  
  And you can't do both, its far too late in the day now for that, even if you were so inclined to do so.
  
  > pick up scrap for cash
  Reach for those stars...
  
  You start out looking for metal in the trailer park. You don't find much. Apparently the other jobless bums who live here got a head start on you. You put what little you've found in the back of your truck and decide where to go next.
  
  You could try driving to the abandoned warehouse district of the town. Lots of derelict buildings there, you probably could find enough metal to get by. Of course it's a known haven for that kind of scavenger hunt sort of thing. You better be prepared for trouble.
  
  There's also driving around on the dirt roads in the nearby wilderness, people often dump stuff out there, but it's more of a risk of finding enough to make money.
  
  > go to the abandoned warehouse district
  Not a place for the weak, but you're prepared for it. Of course you need to gather some things. First of all you grab your pistol, shot gun and lots of ammo. You know this isn't going to be a cake walk, you need someone to keep an eye out, while you look for stuff. You go to your "friend" Dan's trailer. You knock on the door and he answers it almost immediately.
  
  "Oh hey Mel! What's going on? You want some blow?"
  "What the fuck? You gone faggot on me?"
  "What? No! No! I mean coke!"
  
  He's hyper from doing too much coke already, good he'll be perfect.
  
  "No man, look we got some work to do, so come on I'll tell you what to do on the way there."
  "Work? Um I dunno Mel, I'm kinda busy you know..."
  "Dan, you ain't doin' shit except getting' high and probably fucking some fat bitch. Get yer ass in the truck! You'll be getting a cut of the money to go get wasted some more don't worry."
  
  Dan jumps at your command and quickly gets in the truck. You get in the truck and start driving. You turn on the radio and appropriately AC/DC comes on to get you in that "warrior mode", of course Dan's chatter ruins it for you.
  
  "So um, what's with all the guns, Mel?"
  "Goddammit, you couldn't have saved your questions for after this song? We're going to the abandoned warehouse district, to pick up scrap."
  "WHAT!? I didn't know that! If I had..."
  "If you had, you still woulda been coming with me, kicking and screaming. Now stop being a bitch and fuckin' be a man! I need someone to look out while I'm searching for the good stuff, an' being as hyper as you are, I know you'll at least be good at that. If someone fucks with you, well that's why I brought the shot gun."
  "But I don't wanna kill anyone!"
  "For fucks sake, its not gonna come to that probably. You just need it to at least appear threatening. Only use it as a last resort. Knowing you, you'll probably shot your goddamn foot off with it."
  
  You finally get to the abandoned warehouse district. It's pretty quiet actually, normally there's scrap collectors battling it out in the streets. Of course maybe they're all fighting in the buildings. You're about to go inside one of them, when a miracle happens, Dan gets an idea.
  
  "Hey Mel, why the fuck do we gotta look for anything? Why not just wait around for some other idiots and jump them for their stuff?"
  
  Ah now THERE'S the criminal mentality that Dan's suddenly unleashed! He might be cowardly junkie, but the fool makes a good point.
  
  > look for your own scrap
  "Fuck that, I'm not sitting around waiting for one the other dickheads around here to come waltzing by in the hopes they have something worth stealing. I know what to look for, aluminum, brass, stuff like that, not that normal iron shit. And I know this building has got it! I can sense it!" you point to the building nearby.
  "How do you know?"
  "Cause I got fuckin' instinct! That's why! Besides it used to hold plumbing supplies, now come on!"
  
  You enter the building, looks like its been gutted of everything long ago, but of course most of these dumb asses never think to look past the first floor, let alone the basement. Which is where you're heading.
  
  You head down the stairs, with Dan following close behind, you start looking around, and you see some regular iron piping lying on the ground. You tell Dan to start gathering all of those up and find a box to shove them in for easier movement. You explore some more as Dan goes about doing that, and it appears you were correct to search here. You find some boxes of brass valves and piping. You put those aside with the iron you found. You and Dan figure you've found a good enough haul and start loading the stuff into the back of your pick up truck. Nobody around, good. You certainly found a lot of stuff down in the basement and you didn't even explore all of it.
  
  > Leave
  You decide to get out while you're ahead. You and Dan go to the scrap yard where you make a decent amount of money, of course you have to split it with Dan, but you manage to intimidate him into not taking as much.
  
  You both then go your separate ways; he spends his money on crack, while you spend it on beer. He stays up all night using a cheese grater trying to get the "bugs" off of him, while you end up passing out and sleeping for the remainder of it on the floor. The whore who he's fucking this week ends up stealing what little money he has left to go out and buy crack for herself and blow the dealer while she's at it, while your lovely Tina gently relieves you of what money you have left while you're asleep to put towards bills, so you don't waste it on more foolishness.
  
  Meh, different strokes...