Chapter 38: Frank's Economic Crisis
Veronica's bridesmaid is Fiona.
Debbie and Carl served as flower girls.
The Gallagher family, at Veronica and Kevin's wedding, can be said to be fully on the line.
The wedding went well.
It's just that here with Jimmy, something went wrong.
Fiona had asked him to help with the wedding cake, but Jimmy delayed until the wedding was about to end.
Tony has set his sights on Jimmy because Fiona and Jimmy have reconciled, and has some evidence of Jimmy's crimes, but he hasn't caught it yet.
However, if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet?
As long as Jimmy's car theft continues, sooner or later he will be caught by Tony again.
Jimmy's life and death, Lip has no time to care, not to mention that he is already an adult, the current path is his own choice, and he is just Fiona's boyfriend, can only be regarded as Lip's brother-in-law, but in the United States, the relationship between brother-in-law and brother-in-law is far less close than in China.
Therefore, Lip did not have a position to care.
Even if he wanted Fiona to suffer less damage, Fiona had to listen to him!
And throughout the nine seasons of "Shameless", Fiona can only be said to be self-inflicted and self-inflicted in dealing with emotional problems!
Fiona's previous boyfriends in the series, the one who is the most entangled and the most devoted to love is Jimmy.
When the two of them first started, they were quite compatible, but under the manipulation of the screenwriter, they finally broke up unhappily, and then they were entangled several times until the sixth season, which was completely over.
After Jimmy, Fiona has successively dated a business tycoon, a small owner of a cup company with obsessive-compulsive disorder, a bassist in a rock band, an addict owner in a fast food restaurant, and a carpenter who sows seeds all over the world.
Among them, he married the bassist of the rock band, but because of Jimmy's inconvenience, the marriage had just begun and fell into crisis.
and the addict boss of the fast food restaurant, who is also engaged, is about to enter the marriage hall, but because the addict boss relapses, the relationship ends without a problem.
Among the previous boyfriends, Fiona should have only two really in love, one is Jimmy - the car thief, and the other is Sean - the addict.
It can't be said that Fiona has the physique to attract scumbags, because she has also had relatively normal boyfriends, such as the small boss of the cup company with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the bassist of the rock band.
The reason why she couldn't go far with these two men who could steer her life in different directions was all due to Fiona herself!
Because with such a man, Fiona will not be confident, thinking that she is not worthy of such a good man from a poor family in the South Side of Chicago!
She herself thinks that she is more compatible with car thieves and addicts, so when she is in a relationship with Jimmy and Sean, she will give 100% sincerity.
This cannot be said entirely to be Fiona's own fault, this mistake comes from her upbringing, family background, and a strong sense of responsibility to her younger siblings.
In the nine seasons of the series, Fiona actually has many turning points in her life, and if she only grasps it once, her life will be completely different.
But for one reason or another, she failed to grasp it, or said that she gave up.
One of the most important reasons is the sense of responsibility for several younger siblings.
Because she single-handedly brought up several younger siblings, Fiona has been a little unable to distinguish her role later, and is no longer the eldest sister of Lip and Ian, but has simply become their mother, especially for the younger Debbie, Carl and Liam, her discipline style is almost no different from that of a strict mother.
This directly led to the very tense relationship between Debbie and Carl after they entered the rebellious period of youth!
Debbie later became an underage mother, and Carl entered a juvenile school for selling @ drugs, which has a lot to do with Fiona's discipline of them.
In this respect, Fiona is less like an American, but more like a Chinese parent, disciplining her children in a way that she thinks is "good for him", but instead forcing her children down the path she least wants them to take.
In China, where the parent-child relationship is close, incorrect discipline will still lead to such consequences, which is more suitable in the United States, which advocates democracy, freedom, and independence!
For Fiona, who has formed a complete outlook on life and values, Lip can't think of too good a way to influence it for the time being, so he can only take one step at a time to see one step at a time.
The biggest reason why Veronica and Kevin want to hold this wedding is to deceive her father who died early from Veronica's mother and leave her a sum of money - according to her father's will, that money must wait until Veronica gets married before it can be handed over to her!
As a result, the money was only five hundred dollars!
Veronica had planned to use that money to buy a house, but now they can only buy a toy house for their future child.
The lives of the Gallagher siblings get back on track after Frank runs away from home, but Frank gets into trouble.
Frank finds himself in a financial crisis after Lip finds out in advance that he has stolen credit cards in the names of his siblings, commits credit fraud, and is stolen from some of the disability funds he has defrauded from the government.
Frank needs at least seven or eight hundred dollars a month for drinks, plus other miscellaneous expenses, and without more than a thousand dollars a month, he can't survive at all.
Originally, the monthly disability assistance funds were almost enough for his wine money, the social security money of Aunt Jinji that he had fraudulently obtained, and enough for his other expenses, and the credit cards in the names of Lip, Ian, Debbie, and Carl were just an emergency when the money was not available temporarily.
Now that the credit card scam has been spotted by Lip and Lip has taken some of his monthly disability funds, Frank has not had enough money to spend.
What if you don't have enough to spend? You can only find a way to make money.
Of course, Frank, who likes to work hard, will not look for a serious job, even if he has a serious job for him, he still thinks that he is tired and has little money!
He also has no way to make quick money, so he can only engage in some crooked ways.
But this time, he messed up - it was normal for him!
The day after Veronica and Kevin's wedding, a debt collector comes to the door to collect the $6,000 Frank owes!
6,000 US dollars, which is almost the daily living expenses of the Gallagher brothers and sisters for a year, which is an astronomical amount for the Gallagher family!
Frank, of course, didn't have the money!
Lip can actually come up with the money now, but he doesn't want to take it out so easily and give Frank a bill, he plans to make a deal with Frank.