I had an uncle Paul. When I was in high school my grandmother kept telling me to ask him for a summer job, so I did but he didn't hire me. I assumed he just didn't need help. But then I was at my grandmother's house and he dropped by. The three of us were sitting there and he told her that I had asked for a job but that he didn't hire me because he didn't think I really wanted to work. It was a good lesson really to see a person with a character like that who can't just simply say it to your face but will say it to someone else using them as a buffer.