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Time to be responsible. First step? Watching this video.

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00:00

Being responsible a la shmoop. Meet happy Hipperson this guy doesn't

00:08

have a care in the world, his daily routine consists of eating sleeping and [Happy eating Fritos]

00:12

partying the rest of the time. Okay so his definition of partying is pretty [Happy asleep with a hat on]

00:16

much just lounging around on the couch and eating Fritos but different strokes

00:20

you know. He scoffs at his older brother Jared who has to put on a suit and tie [His brother looking angry and walking away in a suit]

00:25

every day and go to one of those those job things he shakes his head and his

00:29

sister Candice who always feels the need to follow the rules checking in with [Candice talking to her parents]

00:33

mammy and Pappy Hipperson anytime she's gonna be home late. Always getting her [Cadince working on her homework]

00:37

homework done on time eating right exercising could she be any more boring [Candice doing exercises]

00:42

nope for happy this is the life. No responsibilities no bills to pay no

00:47

supervisor to report to no restrictions on his partying / lounging time... [Happy dreaming of eating Fritos and lounging around]

00:52

Uh oh, Mammy and Pappy have that look in their eyes again, oops looks like Happy's being [Happy being kicked out the house]

00:56

given the old heave-ho not to be confused with the new heave-ho which is [Scientists working on the Heave Ho 2.0]

01:00

still being beta tested.. Happy's parents have had it up to here [Fingers point to the parent's shoulders]

01:04

higher, yeah right about there, with their freeloading irresponsible offspring his [The fingers move up to their heads]

01:09

aunt Maude refuses to take him in and after about three days on the streets [Happy looking for a place to stay]

01:12

with nothing to eat and nowhere to go happy finally find sufficient motivation

01:16

to get his butt in gear. Suddenly happy has to actually find a way to survive in [Happy finds an angel]

01:21

the real world but he finds out real fast that in the real world the [Sign for Abe's Demolition looking for workers]

01:25

responsibility is kind of a big deal and not having any schooling or training to

01:30

point to and it's gonna hurt because he was never responsible about his school [Happy's bad report card]

01:34

work happy didn't exactly get the best grades so going to a top-notch college

01:38

or getting a high paying job are pretty much out of the question instead he has [Office with lots of money on the floor]

01:42

to apply for a minimum wage gig which he gets because well why not give the young [Happy in a fast food restaurant]

01:47

kid a shot but which he then loses because he shows up late his first day

01:51

on the job he learns his lesson the second time around and shows up every [Happy holding a bucket and brush]

01:55

day at 8 a.m. on the dot for his new job as a car wash squeegee guy but he has

02:00

dreams of moving up to assistant squeegee guy one day [Happy dreaming of becoming an assistant]

02:05

and someday maybe for the TSA he could well nevermind. He starts renting a small

02:10

studio apartment that he shares with a handful of cockroaches none of whom [Happy in bed with cockroaches crawling all over]

02:13

unfortunately chip in on the rent. Of course the apartment doesn't last

02:16

long either because after missing his first two rent payments happy is back on [Happy looks shocked the roaches didn't pay their rent and is kicked out by the landlord]

02:20

the streets he tries and fails to get a car

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he has no co-signers and no one will give him a loan so he has to walk in his

02:28

worn down sneakers every day between his job and his cardboard box du jour, oh [Happy walking in ruined shoes]

02:34

people don't let this happen to you... Eventually his boss tires of his

02:37

appearance and his smell in cuts happy loose, wow too unkempt to work as a

02:41

squeegee guy ouch that hurts so happy does the only thing he can do he goes

02:45

crawling begging and pleading back to mammy and Pappy. Well the parents they [Happy crawling into his parents house covered in dirt]

02:50

take him back in as they can see he's learned his lesson and they sort of love [Happy's mom looks grossed out by the smell]

02:54

him anyway but it's with the understanding that his unresponsibility

02:57

is ancient history which it is happy cleans himself up it's [Happy working in a library]

03:00

a halfway decent job and starts taking night school classes. He moves out and [Happy gets an A on his essay]

03:04

into an apartment sans the cockroaches there. As soon as he's able and pays all [The cockroaches saying they miss Happy]

03:09

his rent and bills on time from that day forward he takes responsibility for his [Landlord looking happy as his money is handed to him]

03:13

health too, starts eating better ie not a hundred percent pop-tarts and ramen [Corn and pomegranates fall down]

03:17

noodles and gets up off the couch on a regular basis when all said and done [Happy exercising]

03:21

taking responsibility didn't just lift happy up in the eyes of his parents it [Happy with his arm in the air rising]

03:26

vastly improved the quality of his life which made happy, happy too heck he even

03:32

gets along with Jarrod and Candice nowadays maybe one day he'll even pick [Happy out to lunch with his brother and sister]

03:36

up the check. Uh, maybe not...

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