Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

It's not a stretch we're happy with. But we've been in one of those stretches where it seems a lot of bad things happen, when they all come back to bite you in the butt — hard.

This is 2005. It should not be like this for no catastrophe. This is pathetic.

It's not only insulting; it's pathetic.

nothing more than a pathetic lie.