I’ve been meaning to get to this for a couple days and since there’s nothing else going on, here we are. This is a real feel good story. Oh, unless you’re one of millions of other foreclosed Americans who have no random lady to buy your house. Then, not so much.

A Texas woman went to a housing auction distraught about the prospect of watching strangers bid on her foreclosed home.

Then one of those strangers bought it back for her.

Now Tracy Orr can return to her Pottsboro home, making payments to the woman who unexpectedly and impulsively bought it for her.

“It means so much to all of us,” Orr told Dallas television station WFAA. “It’s not just a house.”

Marilyn Mock said she was acting on instinct on Saturday when she decided to buy a house she had never seen for a woman she had never met. Mock was at the foreclosure auction to help her 27-year-old son bid on a house when she struck up a conversation with Orr, who was crying about losing her home.

Orr had bought the house for $80,000 in 2004 but fell behind on the payments. She lost her job a month after taking out the loan, and earlier this year she lost the house. On the spot, Mock decided to buy it, eventually bidding $30,000.

“She didn’t even know if I had a job or was a nut case,” Orr said in a story for Wednesday’s online edition of The Dallas Morning News. “She didn’t even see a picture of the house.”

Mock told a crying Orr she could stay in the house, making payments to her instead of a bank.

“She needed help. That was it,” Mock told the newspaper. “I just happened to be there and anybody else would have done the same thing.”

That’s touching and sweet and whatever but where the f are these people giving shit away when I need them? I need money too, Marilyn Mock. Granted, it wouldn’t go to a noble cause like saving my home, but I’d absolutely be willing to jerk off for you. I’d even wear a Native American costume if that’s what it takes. Hit the bargaining table with me, dammit.

Also, this money is being thrown around by people but meanwhile my debut CD “Chris Covers Chumbawunga’s Greatest Hits with the Pan Flute” is still looking for funding. Where’s the justice, America?

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