Lazy dude demands his friend let him sleep at his house after he quit his part-time job and got evicted: 'Until he can prove he can be responsible and show some work ethic, I cannot help him.'

You can't help people who don't help themselves.

If you are a kind-hearted individual, it can be easy to find yourself getting taken advantage of by family members and friends who will walk over anyone to get what they want. You might see the best in everyone, and never think that someone you've known and loved for decades upon decades would betray you by trashing the house you let them live in for free when they're going through a difficult period of their life. Unfortunately, you can't always predict when somebody will take advantage of you, so you have to be the one to protect yourself first.

If you've been burned once, you're much less likely to be burned again. If someone lets a drifter friend of theirs sleep on their couch for 6 months and discovers that they've been stealing money from them the entire duration of their stay, there's a good chance they won't let anyone else stay over at their house for a prolonged period of time like that ever again. They might trust their college-student sister or their chronically employed cousin more than they trust their "friend," but they know that if they make the same mistake twice, it will be unequivocally their fault this time.

Even if you know that someone cannot be trusted to live rent-free in your home without trashing it and making the residents' lives miserable, it can be challenging to say no to someone who is desperately begging for help you aren't going to give. Luckily, the guy in this story was able to stand his ground against his manipulative, lazy friend.

via Sandra Seitamaa (Unsplash+)

_{A model represents the lazy man who has the opportunity to get full-time work but doesn't take it, and ends up getting evicted.}
Am I the bad guy for telling my buddy he cannot stay with me to get back on his feet, after he just got an eviction notice?

via u/Abouttokeepit100
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via Getty Images (Unsplash+)

_{A picture of a waiter, who can afford to pay his bills because he works full-time, unlike the lazy guy in this story}
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via Sarang LEE

_{A guest room, which could be used to house a friend who is responsible enough to keep a part-time job, especially when they're struggling with money.}
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via u/Abouttokeepit100
via u/Greedy_Principle_342
via u/RonaldMcFirbank
via u/AdamantChorus
via u/AdamantChorus
via u/AccomplishedChart873
via u/DearMolasses5134
via u/Abouttokeepit100