After Bob & Barb are dead and with Rocky gone (not dead. Just not involved with Chris anymore), who's left? Chris will have run out of adults.
Well, with Rocky, it's a race between Rocky's retirement and Barb's death.
But regardless, he's got other people to go to.
And this will be worse than the house fire since in Chris' mind, he knew he'd be going back there once the insurance paid off the contractors and the house was rebuilt. For him, the rental house was like a lakeside timeshare vacation for him. In this case, the house at Branchland Court would belong to the bank or Discover Card, and Chris will be told to GTFO, this time for good into an almost-to-be-certain shitty future.
There'd still be a lot of equity in the house for Chris, despite Barb's debts.
The real question is why are you and Marvin on seemingly good terms with this colossal asshole even while he treats everybody around him like shit, including towards you two. I'm grateful for all the resultant content, but that is not worth it if I were you.
Heh, I'm not on good terms with fatty.
They got along, in the sense that they interacted day by day. The put up with each others bullshit in a way that worked, at least for them. We don't hear of Barb loosing her shit in nuclear type ways, nor do we hear about Chris stressing and going ape shit about crap she does.
No, Barb is fucking bonkers. When Chris resisted moving down to sleeping in her room, she flipped her shit and wrecked his room. She flipped furniture over, just wrecked everything.
The only reason I hesitate calling her "violent", is that she hasn't directly struck Chris, as far as I know.
Barb rules with threats and emotional manipulation. She threatens suicide, while at the same time she tells Chris it's his fault (yer killin ur momma!). They get along, day by day, just because Barb enforces that sort of setup.
Even without that, I doubt he'll be responsible enough to pay for necessities like electricity, internet, heating, phone bills, insurance, property taxes, home association fees and so on after Barb dies.
I think you're reading the cwcki too literally.
Look, bills are easy to pay. They come in the mail (or via email nowadays). They say how much you need to pay and they give you a little field where you can fill in your credit card and mail it in. (Or pay it online.) It's not hard. People who think Chris can't do this probably also believe Chris can't scratch his ass without us knowing about it.
People who read the cwcki think they have a good handle on Chris' daily life, and that simply isn't true.
Chris pays bills now. It's not just theoretical. Not because he's a paragon of adult responsibility, but because paying bills is not hard in the first place.
Edit: In retrospect, this seems like I'm focusing too much on merely the mechanical aspect of paying bills, and not enough on the budgeting aspect. Chris pretty trivially has the budgeting part down. It might not be obvious to everyone, but Chris has been getting the same tugboat for a long time. He's been paying about the same bills for a long time. It's not a difficult concept to understand "I have X dollars and Y dollars worth of obligations", even for Chris. Chris pretty easily manages to handle that. Chris begs for money because suckers fall for it, not because he's having actual problems.
The biggest risk is that he might forget about a particular bill. But as noted above, that's not really that likely, considering bill notices and emails and whatnot.
He'll be in for a shock once he becomes the one to pay for all his bills. His bills will eat away at his tugboat.
Oh yeah, he's going to be poor as shit.
