To play Lou's Advocate: I'm sure his mom, and his mom's friends/cronies, have discussed this at length. Given Lou aspires to one day be legally disabled, he would have paid attention.
This is true--I've been continually surprised how little Lou knows about what happens to noncompliant diabetics, and about the specifics of the man dying slowly of ESRD under his roof. Then again look at the Plural Arc. Lou clearly paid (a dumbass version of) attention to other plural furries, in order to deploy it himself. Disability is the Gagliardi family business and Lou clearly never planned to work; obviously his mom hasn't coached him hard enough to develop "back pain," but he'd learn some things just by growing around adults who were all in the same line of work.
Here, the tweakers buy cases of water and sit outside the grocery store, pouring them out one-by-one so they can take them to the bottle return.
I was going to respond to this incredulous that tweakers could be so dumb but then I did the math:
I expect if there ever is a come to Jesus moment, his body is failing massively and he has weeks to live from his poor eating habits. If Lou is to be humbled, it will be when he is all out of options.
How many actual women would forget what they wore to go out with friends the day before?
May be neither but still is more of a bitch than a bitch.
