Sounds a lot like some of Shane's old family history to me. They emigrated from Ireland back in the 1800's sometime, and it's just been one long tale of disaster from then till now...unless you count Shane's incredible success with women and Don's even slightly (well, considerably) more incredible success with women...and fixing old trucks and cars. Don has parlayed the latter into actually earning a living! This is rare for a McBride. They normally have supported themselves mostly by theft, begging, and going on the dole. Shane follows nobly in the family tradition. Don is a bit of a maverick.