Thanks to a little vanity surfing, I found this comment to one of my posts from one of our most prominent trolls:

You louse, can picking drinking idiot obviously the energy you used in collecting cans for cash- "peanuts"- could have been used to make a lot more money, so why did you choose can picking?

I didn't want to COMPLETELY hijack LW's thread on this obviously completely misinformed post. The situations that led to our crisis were something I discussed in my blogs. My wife went into labor 2 weeks early and my boss laid me off 2 weeks after my son was born because of the time I took off to take care of my wife's medical needs. Because my boss was a woman of considerable influence in the community, she saw to it that nobody, not even McDonald's, would hire me in the community! I spent much of the time not spent job hunting collecting cans to pay for gas and other expenses.

Flash forward 8 months: I STILL can't get a "regular" job, and gave up looking. Now I have concentrated my efforts on my paper route, various odd jobs, and, yes, can collecting. My thought is, those cans represent money free for the hauling, so why not take them and do something good for the environment in the meantime?

But what really pissed me off was the "drinking idiot" part. I will not go into a lengthy discussion of my IQ; suffice it to say it is high enough that I am reasonably certain it exceeds that of the individual who called me an "idiot"; and more to the point, I am NOT a drinker! While I may have the occasional beer, that is one vice our budget currently does not allow.

If the comments from this troll continue, I will begin reevaluating whether to confine comments to registered users. After all,registration costs nothing!