Rob a mcdonalds, only take $40. Explain myself after and pay it back.
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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Tell my family they have a new problem to deal with.
Maybe walk down to the pier and play a guitar with an open case. I could probably get more than $40 from scrap copper. I could maybe talk a used car lot into letting me clear some headlights for twice that much. Hawking some expensive junk on Craig's list might also work. Pawn some tools.
Easy. Sell a gun on FB Marketplace for a ridiculously low asking price. It would sell faster than I would be banned.
Sell Pokemon stupid cheap
Run to the neighbours and try to sell some DVDs
Grab all the canned stuff I made at home, and either just ask my mother to buy all them for 40 (a family member can pay me, right?) or convince the family friend who loves the candied jalapeños to buy them.
I work one hour and jerk off for the remaining two.
I would go to work at my job and earn more than $40 just like I do every day.
Get a loan from the local loan shark.
Go to the roulette table at the casino. Bet it all on 32.
Lose my bet.
Go back to the local loan shark for $40.
Bet the $40 at the roulette table.
Lose.
Repeat until either I get the money to pay the loan shark and save my family. Or I gues it's RIP for my family and my kneecaps.
Define family first
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- Parents - nothing
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- Siblings - nothing
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- Uncle's/aunts - nothing
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- Cousins - nothing
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- Grandparents - Uber
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- GFs - Uber
Sell some stocks I guess.
Unless you mean my net worth has to go up $40? In which case, I'll probably look for someone who would be willing to pay me $40 ahead of time to teach them some machine learning over some negotiable span of time. Or to build a website or something. There are lots of businesses in the area that could use it, and $40 is insanely cheap for something like that.
Get laid, make money. I just need one.
That's possible at most jobs here, so family is safe. If you mean outside of work, I'm a lady so could probably find & turn a trick in that amount of time, sure husband would even set it up rather than exploding, he has a friend who works with rich guys. Could make that with plenty to spare, I'd guess.