Nucking Futs

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Odd happenings at my job this week:

  • I was walking through the break room and I saw these two 20 something guys staring intently at stacks of cards, one of them on the phone. From the seriousness of the situation, it looked like a poker game or something...upon closer inspection, I saw Yu Gi Oh cards. As I walked slowly by, trying not to completely lose my shit, I gathered that one of the guys was using some kind of card combination to beat the other guy's Grand Master Wizard of the Breakdancing Dwarfs or something...and that guy was on the phone with some other guy, trying to find out if this was a "legal" move. Grown men play Yu Gi Oh...and worse, in PUBLIC? What. The. Fuck. I'm finding out more and more about the secret lives of adult males this month, and I'm not sure I really want to know.
  • This girl I work with was looking through some files, came across a police report, and began laughing hysterically...I walked over to see what was going on, and between gasps for breath, she pointed out the narrative of the incident: apparently, 2 "domestic partners" had a bit of a domestic dispute, and one of the guys grabbed the giant double ended dildo (the "18 inch pocket rocket" per the investigating officer), went outside and starting whaling on his boyfriend's Mini Cooper. He did about $8,000 in damage. All I could think of was that scene from Me, Myself & Irene with Jim Carey waving the thing around making it talk like a puppet.

Charlie: "Well look who joined the party !!!! DId you have fun ? Huh ? [waves giant phallus around] '*ooohh yess I did yeah*' so I guess old Hanky-Panky wasn't enough for you huh?"

Irene: "It wasn't for me ."

Classic.

  • This same girl's boyfriend works in another department, and he was telling us this story about when he'd just gotten back from Kosovo and was out partying with his army buddies. This dude doesn't drink (because he gets "a little crazy" by his own description) so his pals spiked his drink with Everclear. They ended up at a Victoria's Secret at the mall across the way, where this guy was arrested for sexually assaulting the mannequins, putting merchandise on his head, and harassing the sales girls. As the female officer tried to get him into the car, he in turn tried to bend her over the hood and hump her, which led to an "assault on a police officer" charge. He woke up in jail with no recollection of the night's events. The security tape was played in court, and his drink-spiking buddies were made to fess up, so the judge had a good laugh and let him off with community service. This same guy's wife cheated on him while he was away, and he found a video of her getting tag teamed by three guys...which he copied and labeled as "Joey's Birthday Party" (his wife's son's name) and mailed it off to her entire family. He's got some good stories.
  • I found out that there are 2 supervisors who are having some kind of grand love affair, which isn't strange unless you know that they are both married to other people who don't work for the company. On top of that, they use the Breastfeeding Room to get it on. Ew. I had to go in there for a flu shot recently, and I literally tiptoed around and tried not to touch anything. The nurse looked at me like I was completely out of my mind.

These people make me feel normal. Me. Normal. Sad, no?

Lemme tell ya a story...

Monday, December 18, 2006

So there's this family...married couple, both with grown children from prior relationships. The woman (we'll call her S) has this daughter (A) who got knocked up by a convicted felon (D) when she was 18; the guy also has been known to smack her around, and is none to popular in the family. The husband (E) has a big mouth, and is known to shit talk S's daughter in the presence of others, telling them how stupid she is, etc. This does not generally sit well with S, and it's been going on for about 2 years now. The marriage is definitely suffering, as every time D decides to use A as a punching bag, she comes home and it starts shit.

Anyway, S & E were having company over last weekend, and A pulled up with the baby. D had roughed her up, and she wanted to stay the night; of course S took her in, while E rolled his eyes and shit talked. The situation escalated later that evening, when D showed up and started screaming and yelling in the front yard that he was going to kill A...all this with the guests still inside. S calls the police, and D gets hauled away for making threats and for having assaulted A earlier that evening. The guests leave, and E decides to open his mouth about A and tell her mother what a loser she is. S tells him to cut the shit, and locks herself in the bedroom to get away from him. E breaks down the door, chokes S, and punches her in the mouth. S calls the police, they show up and haul E away for assault.

E shows up at the jailhouse and they give him some prison skivvies...apparently in this particular jail you are color-coded according to your offense; murderers, for example, get red, which is the worst. Assaults and batteries generally get you blue and green type colors. E was given a blue outfit and tossed into a cell...directly across from none other than D, freshly decked out in a green suit of his own. Blue is indicative of a worse offense than Green, so D immediately started pointing and laughing at E, who at this point was ripshit. They spent the weekend in cells opposite each other, verbal assaults flying, reaching through bars trying to rip each others' throats out. They each posted bail Monday morning and respectively had to find new places to call home for the next 30 days until the restraining orders are up.

Outside of the horror of domestic violence...a rather ironic and almost comical situation, right?

Grandma certainly thought so, and laughed her way through this entire story. "Your aunt never did know how to pick a decent man!" My jaw hung agape. "S is sooooooo embarrassed, don't tell anybody I told you. I just hope it doesn't hit the papers!"

A quick google revealed the inevitable:




Merry Christmas to everyone else in the world that has a fucked up family. I'll be getting drunk repeatedly this holiday season, and toasting every last one of you while I do.

Random Childhood Memories, Vol. 3

Friday, December 15, 2006

1st grade:

My mom made me wear a truly horrendous plaid dress with a balloony skirt for the first day of school, and I was instantly mocked. I came home and told her that I wanted to wear plainer clothes to school, so what does she send me off in the next day? This white rabbit fur jacket my grandmother gave me with a matching muffler. A fucking rabbit fur coat. Thus began the eternal struggle of me trying to fly under the radar and my mom purposely sabotaging me.


2nd grade:

I tackled Ghengis and tried to kiss him. I don't think he looked in my direction for a solid 2 years after that. Funny thing is, he has no recollection of this event today. These days, that shit would get you suspended for a week and go on your "permanent record" as sexual assault. Hot damn, was I a bad ass or what? In retrospect, this was the first, and not the last, time that a male thought me too aggressive.

I got a bad grade on a math paper...I was so convinced that I was going to get my ass kicked that I attempted to forge my mom's signature with my newly-acquired fancy cursive handwriting. My mom called my dad to inform him of this horrible juvenile delinquence, and he started laughing hysterically. She hung up on him. Mom stopped calling Dad to inform him of my antics.

I ended up with a C in cursive, too. Ain't that a bitch. Clearly, they didn't appreciate the skillz.


3rd grade:

I skipped home with my school pictures only to get completely reamed out by my mom. Not only was I smiling like a serial killer, but I had this giant piece of hair hanging right between my eyes that neither I nor the photographer noticed. She ranted and raved and told me I'd better get my shit together for the retakes or else. I ended up missing retakes because I got pneumonia, and it was my fault I got pneumonia because I must have let some sick kid breathe on me. Clearly, I was purposely coughing & wheezing to deprive her of my 3rd grade school picture.

4th grade:

I sprouted boobs. Man did that suck. I was so jealous of the boys, why didn't anything bad ever have to happen to THEM??? Fuckers.

5th grade:

We had a class mascot that year; a bear that sat in a swivel chair at the front of the room. The resident kiss ass, Jasmine, brought the teacher a girl bear so the boy bear could get his groove on...the teacher, batshit crazy as she was, decided it wouldn't be appropriate for them to be together unless they were married. We had a whole ceremony, the kiss ass kid acted as minister, and we wheeled their chair into the closet afterwards so they could have their "honeymoon."

One day a few weeks later, we came into class to find girl bear ass up and boy bear slumped over her in their chair. This kid Steve got bagged for it, and suspended. That same year, he got in trouble for attempting to smuggle a starfish out of the aquarium in the back pocket of his jeans.

6th grade:

This was the year that testerosterone was suddenly floating in the air and the boys started getting into more trouble. We had this one hoodlum that was constantly getting suspended...I think his name was Angel, if you can fucking believe that. Anyway, one day Angel got fed up with the resident fat kid and started chasing him around the classroom. Our poor elderly English teacher, Mrs. Nelson, attempted to intervene and got her ass thrown into a barrel for her efforts. Angel was never seen again. Back then, bad kids could disappear and nobody would think anything of it.

This was also the year that we had the "tower project." Some bunch of tree hugging yahoos brought us a buttload of recycled IBM punch cards and had us build these giant structures out of them.
We were also supposed to get the towers to implode. Hell, I'm an adult now, and I sure as hell couldn't get SHIT to implode now, how the hell are a bunch of 11 year olds to accomplish such a task??? Nobody managed to do it, and the winning team only won because they built their tower against a wall and instead of falling over, it hit the wall and dropped straight down. This controversial fact was revealed when we all sat down as a class to watch the video of the day's events a few weeks later. Everyone was pissed, as the winning team had gotten an ice cream party or something. When you're 11, not getting ice cream is a big fucking deal. I would stab those cheating bastards in the eye if I ran into them today, believe you me.

For your consideration

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Middle Child is being considered to be the 2007 sponsored child for a very well known local charity event. This is the write up I sent in to the committee. It has been narrowed down to three children, any prayers you can spare are appreciated.

Writing this was very therapeutic, and seeing as therapy is what this blog has been for me, I thought it appropriate to share his story with you.

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To Whom It May Concern,

I am writing to tell you a little bit about my son, A, who is 6 years old and diagnosed with autism.

When he was born, A weighed in at just under 8 pounds. By all accounts, he was a beautiful baby. Perfectly round head, chubby cheeks, rosy skin, and a pleasant disposition that drew in everyone around him. He was quite the little porker, too; he started gaining weight before we even left the hospital, and by 8 months of age had outgrown his infant car seat…a seat that should have lasted him at least a year.

“You need to cut back on his formula,” the doctor would say. “He’s never going to sit up or crawl if he keeps gaining weight like this.” Granted, he did bear a striking resemblance to a bowling ball, but he had reflux and it was very difficult to determine exactly how much he was digesting, so we couldn’t worry about it. In fact, he sat up and crawled right on schedule, which we took great pleasure rubbing in the good doctor’s face. He continued to hit the milestones just like all the other babies…walking, talking, pointing, laughing…and then one day it just stopped.

A’s regression started with his speech. By the time he was 18 months old, the few words he had picked up disappeared. He stopped looking us in the eye, and started obsessively lining up his toys. He would run in circles, always counter-clockwise, for a half hour at a time. The happy and social baby boy that we loved more than anything else in the world was slipping away before our very eyes, and nothing we did seemed to make a difference. It was terrifying.

We looked to our pediatrician. We asked if we should be worried, and what we should do. He was of the opinion that it was “second child syndrome,” and that second children are often speech delayed when they have a chatty older sibling. He assured us that A would develop at his own pace, and that we shouldn’t worry. We believed him, and precious months were squandered while we waited for A to “snap out of it.” That wondrous “snap” never came.

By the time he was 2, we were adamant that something was wrong, and requested a referral for an early intervention evaluation. He was deemed eligible for services, and started speech therapy when he was 27 months old. Several months went by, during which time we researched speech delay and its causes. One word kept popping up in the course of this research: autism.

Autism scared us to death. Like many people, all we knew of autism was Rain Man. No, no, that couldn’t be what was wrong. Not our child. No.

A’s therapists danced around the subject. We’re not doctors, we don’t diagnose. We were on a waiting list to see the only pediatric neurologist in the immediate area, and our appointment was months off. Finally, his caseworker gave us her professional opinion of what was wrong with A.

“It could be mild autism. Something called Pervasive Developmental Disorder.”

Hearing those words associated with our A was devastating, but we felt better to be able to put a label on it. Armed with this information, we pored over medical journals and bought books. All of A’s therapists said that he was on the milder end of the spectrum, and with therapy, he could be in a normal kindergarten class and could live a normal life. We were so relieved! It wasn’t Rain Man, it was mild, and we felt like we could fix it. He wouldn’t be picked on, he would speak eventually, and he would go to college and get married and be on his own some day. We thanked God. We thought it would be okay.

A has been fortunate. He’s had wonderful teachers and has come a long way with his therapy. His tantrums decreased, and he learned to use pictures to communicate. His progress has been slow…slower than we expected…but it’s been steady, and he continues to surprise us every day.
Sadly, he is still largely non-verbal, and cries with frustration when we can’t understand what he’s trying to say. He gets very upset when he sees his younger brother talking in sentences. He is so intelligent, yet can’t express it effectively. We try to imagine what it would be like to not be able to talk, and our hearts just ache for him. How awful it must be for him to be so misunderstood.

Overall, A is healthy and happy in his own little world, but our biggest concerns for him thus far have been safety-related. He’s managed to circumvent almost every bit of childproofing that we have in the house. He knows how to work all of the locks, and has managed to escape more times than we care to admit. We live on a very busy street, and he’s even been known to climb out the window if he can’t get out the door (thank heavens we live in a ranch!). On one particularly disturbing occasion, he walked out of the house early on a Sunday morning (in his diaper no less) to play in the puddles in the middle of the street, only to have people drive around him rather than stop to make sure he was ok.

Recently I have come across more and more news stories about autistic children wandering off and being abused, injured, exploited, and even killed. As our son grows older, the danger actually increases because his desire for independence has started to quickly surpass his own abilities to control his actions and impulses. Finding a way for him to explore a little more independence while remaining safe has become a #1 priority for our family.

We find it sad that our culture has changed so much that nobody watches out for anybody else anymore. We recognize our own weaknesses as humans, and know that we can’t sleep with one eye open for the rest of our lives. We realize that A needs more supervision and protection than we’ve been able to provide, and have come upon a solution of sorts.

In recent years, several organizations have taken to training service dogs specifically for children with autism. Generally, autistic children have problems recognizing danger, and will walk right into hazardous situations if left to their own devices. A service dog would not only help us to keep tabs on A, but would also help him in his social and emotional development. It would enable him to become more independent, secure, and confident in his daily activities. Such an animal generally costs upwards of $13,000, a sum of money that is simply too much of a burden for your average working family. For our son, we are determined to find a way.

We’ve recently come to the painful realization that A will probably never be completely mainstreamed in his schooling, as was the original hope. He may never go to college and get married and have a family of his own; in fact, he may never leave home. We’ve had to let go of all the normal expectations that parents have of their children, and learned to live in the moment. Most parents of 1st graders celebrate grades on a report card, a Little League home run, a performance in a school play…we celebrate when he puts his shoes on the right feet and buttons up his own coat. We rejoice when he calls us Mommy & Daddy, something he was unable to do until just this year. We marvel at his bubble-blowing talents. To us, he is perfect just the way he is.

A fund-raising effort would not only help A to get a service dog to call his own, but would also enable our family to explore the possibilities of additional therapy and high-tech equipment that would make it easier for him to communicate. We look to your organization to partner with us in making it possible for our child to live a fuller and more productive life.

Despite his disability, A is bright, loving, creative, and sensitive, and he teaches us every day that it’s best to not to concentrate on why you can’t, but on finding ways that you can.

Thank you for your time. Please let us know if any further information is needed. No matter who you choose to sponsor with your fundraising efforts this coming year, we wish you the best of luck and commend your organization for all the good that it does. You truly do make a difference.

Sincerely,


K & Family

Lady

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Lately I've been hanging around with Yvonne's group of friends more often. We are all about the same age (roughly 27-33), but almost none of these chicks have jumped on the "marriage and children" bandwagon just yet. Hazel has 2 kids and is going through a divorce, but lives at home and has her mom watch her kids so she can go out 4 nights a week, so she fits in far better than me...then there's this other chick who has one kid from a previous marriage and leaves him home with her fiancee so she can go out 4 nights a week as well [except for that one night where she actually brought the poor child to Beerfest]. Other than that, they are all single and rapidly approaching the "cougar" years.

They maintain themselves much as a golf course superintendent maintains the green...there is hairspray, layers of makeup, glitter [yes, apparently women in their 30's still wear glitter], giant handbags full of supplies, spike heels and tiny little tops worn with just the right push-up bra to attract maximum attention...yet they roll their eyes at the "dirty old men" who check them out, as if they'd done nothing to attract such attention. They tease the younger boys, mock and ridicule those who are too old and/or poor, and scheme against each other to attract the gainfully employed men with six pack abs and the right designer jeans.

Then there's me. 29, chubby, married mother to three and a former school teacher with a cynical streak a mile wide. These are the bitches I roll with.

Yvonne is currently dating a guy that is a cousin by marriage to another one of these chicks, who has a crush on the cousin-by-marriage's younger brother [she insists that 'by marriage' isn't real family anyway]. One of the other chicks has a crush on the cousin-by-marriage, but blew him off to make out with another guy at the bar a couple of months back, and got pissed that he started talking to Yvonne, so she started plotting behind Yvonne's back to find out what was going on between them. Then, she made out with this other guy who's had a crush on Yvonne forever...sadly, he's older and chubby, so he's out of the running for any "serious" dating, but this other girl teased him for a night anyway just to get Yvonne's ass. Now he's all obsessed with her, and this chick is like, "What EV, I was drunk, he can just get OVER it. [insert eye roll here]"

I've never seen such a corrupt group of "friends." They take smiling self-portraits for their myspace pages and caption it, "ME AND MY BESTEST FRIEND! BFF!!!" yet they'll talk shit behind your back and steal your boyfriend. It's survival of the bitchest, and you'd best watch your back, yet they continue to hang out together as if nothing is going on.

Is this normal? Do all women have these weirdly incestuous friend-circles where everyone is shit-talking and fucking behind everyone else's back?

The worst part of the whole thing, to me anyway, is the fact that they all refer to each other as "lady."

"Hey lady, you going to the bar tonight?"
"LADY! Where you been, bitch?"
"I'm hanging with my ladies tonight."

And the myspace comments...sweet Jesus...the following are from ONE FUCKING PROFILE. Don't these chicks feel REDUNDANT yet?

"Happy weekend lady!!"
"Nice background lady! How was your night?"
"Happy Turkey Day Lady!!"
"Happy Gobble Gobble day Lady."
"Hey lady?!?!?! You heading out tomorrow night?"
"Hey lady whats up? give me a ring and let me know..."

I seriously want to strangle them with their designer purse straps whenever I hear the word "lady" roll off of their sticky painted lips. I got my first "lady" comment on myspace this morning and I felt dirty.

So here I am, talking shit behind their backs, but at least it's anonymous and won't be causing drama amongst the fembots. None of them really consider me part of "the group" anyway because I can't go out 4 nights a week. I just hate that they're turning Yvonne, my best friend for 10 years, into one of them. A fembot. Dear God. I have to get that girl married off before it's too late.

I'm starting to think something is wrong with me, as I can never find a place to fit in. In high school, I was more comfortable with guys...you know, the ones who tell you all their relationship issues but never want to date you...and could never deal with that clique shit that girls inevitably fall into during high school. As an adult, I could never bond with the other "mom" types at my kids' schools because they honestly freak me out...they're the PTA soccer mom types who bake for school functions and sing in the choir at the church. They all live in the same neighborhood, they all went to high school together, and it's like their little clique from high school simply carried over into adulthood. In college, I was pregnant my senior year, and most of my friends got freaked out and stopped calling. Since then, I've been on mom duty, forgoing most outside relationships to focus on my family. Yvonne is one of a few that I've remained friends with, and now I feel like we have less and less in common.

One of the chicks got drunk a few weeks back and started running her mouth..."Do you think any of this is REAL? It's all a front. Do you really think any of us are FRIENDS?" She was promptly dragged off and put into a cab so everyone else could continue taking myspace self-portraits and downing shots, but I think it really rattled everyone because deep down, everyone knows she's right.

If you can't look at your friends and know they'll be there for you when shit really goes wrong...not "wardrobe malfunction" wrong, but "life and death" kind of wrong...then can you truly call them friends?

Seems like it's the norm to have a bunch of acquaintances that you call your friends rather than cultivating real relationships with real people. Maybe we're all too busy for that shit these days, or maybe I'm just old fashioned, but it seems a bit too contrived for me.

Crazy bitches

Friday, December 08, 2006

The new job is going well, besides my incident with that asshole from Finance, nothing else has gone too horribly wrong. I'm finally coming to the end of my training period, and should start doing some real work next week. The only real downside to the place is the crazy fucks that work in the department next to mine. Every company has 'em, but sadly they are in direct proximity to my little corner of the world.

The office as a whole has a speaker system that is tied into some horrible radio station...most days when I walk into the bathroom, where it is at the loudest volume, my ears are assaulted by the musical stylings of Culture Club or Seal. Do you know what it's like trying to pee when Boy George is telling you that he'll tumble for ya? It's fucking difficult, and the fact that nobody likes to turn the heat on makes the toileting experience that much worse. One day, I swear that my ass will stick to the seat in a Christmas Story-esque kind of freak accident, and I'll be trapped in a stall with bad music.

Anyway, I digress...back to the bitches. These particular "ladies" prefer to work in absolute silence...hell, I hate the lousy music as much as the next person, but the background noise is preferable to nothing at all...these chicks will actually scale the walls of the cube farms and teeter on top to reach up to the ceiling and manually turn the volume all the way down. I found this to be slightly peculiar, but didn't think anything of it until our weekly staff meeting, when our boss told us that H.R. had received a complaint about our department.

Apparently, the bitches next door find our department "distracting" and feel that we need to keep our voices down.

The funny part is that the very nature of our respective jobs is to be on the phone, be involved in conference calls, interact with each other for various purposes...now, we're not rowdy by any means, we're all professionals and have not behaved in any way that would attract any kind of normal attention. We speak in a normal tone of voice to each other, but apparently that's just not good enough; these assholes actually want us to whisper. And no, they're not kidding.

My point of view is that if you don't have enough of an attention span to do your job with normal human interaction going on in the background, maybe you need some Ritalin, or perhaps earplugs and blinders.

Anyway, I'm told that these people had put in complaints long before I ever showed up...the support person actually got dragged into H.R. a few months ago for "foul language" because the crazy bitches heard her mutter "Oh SHIT" when her computer crashed. Another person was on the phone with a client when one of them stomped up to his cube wall and actually SHUSHED him.

Are there nuts like this in every office? I'm dreading the day one of them has the nerve to shush me, because I'm not sure I could restrain myself from hurling a Swingline.

Black Shit

Monday, December 04, 2006

Middle Child has been coming home with this black, tar-like substance under his fingernails on and off for about 5 months. At first, we thought it was something on the bus...ruled that out when the bus driver swore that his fingers were already black when he got on the bus. Finally, we figured out that he was picking at the sealant around the windows while he was waiting in the hallway for his bus. His teacher swore they'd keep a better eye on him...but it kept happening. Every now and then, my poor kid would come off the bus with black fingers and black lips from trying to get it out from under his fingers.

I'd call...and call...and call again. I find it to be a quite reasonable request for a teacher to watch a special needs child closely enough that he isn't sticking window sealant into his mouth. Every time, she swears she'll direct her aides to watch him more closely...well the other day, it fucking happened again. So I called...again.

K: "Hi Miss [SPED], this is [K].
MS: "Oh hello Mrs. [K].
K: "Listen, [Middle Child] came home with that black stuff all over his fingers again.
MS: "Oh yes...he gets into the windows while we're waiting for the bus."
K: "Yeah, I know how it's happening."
MS: "Well his bus always comes last...we keep complaining to the bus company..."
K: "I understand. But what I need is for him not to get into the windows anymore."
MS: "But he's really sneaky about it..."
K: [starting to cop attitude] "Yeah, well he doesn't know any better."
MS: "Oh I know...but it's so difficult..."
K: "I appreciate any effort you can give. I don't think that stuff is good for him."
MS: "We'll do what we can. But he's sneaky."
K: [hangs up before telling Miss Sped to fuck off]


Am I nuts? What the fuck? So if he gets into the janitor's closet and starts drinking bleach, it's his fault because he's SNEAKY? Isn't public school grand?

I think Ghengis is mad at me...

Friday, December 01, 2006

I was at work the other day, talking to a coworker of mine who has dealings with Ghengis in our other office (as you may recall, Ghengis was the one who set me up with the interview and such. I owe him, like, a bundt cake or something). We were discussing the new PS3, and the conversation wandered off to the Nintendo Wii and shit like that...when he suddenly started selling Ghengis and his video game habits right down the river. Apparently, Ghengis is the proud owner of "Guitar Hero," which is a Playstation game that comes with a toy guitar so you can pretend to rock out to fabulous hits such as More Than a Feeling and Sharp Dressed Man.

The mental picture was almost too much. I was actually considering this game for Oldest Child, who is 8...never did the thought of grown men owning such things cross my mind. Clearly, I could not let this go unacknowledged, so I sent him a short email this morning entitled "What's up, Guitar Hero?" Anyone who knows me well knows that this is a standard, and harmless, K ribbing. If you're on the receiving end, consider yourself loved.

He tersely replied that it was a great game, and that the coworker-guy likes to run his mouth. I then proceeded to rib him about buying a Nintendo Wii, and he got even more defensive.

Finally, I playfully accused him of owning Dance Dance Revolution. He stopped replying.

I kinda felt bad at that point...perhaps this is a "guy" thing that I was not supposed to know about. Do men have secret "Guitar Hero" duels on the weekends, between bar-hopping and football? Fucked if I know, but I started over-thinking the whole thing and became sincerely concerned that I bruised his ego. If he wants to prance around his living room, wailing on a 3/4 scale Gibson with no strings, who am I to mock? It's really no different than the hairbrush that we have all used as a microphone, the steering wheel that serves as a drum, and the shower that makes you feel like you actually can warble those Celine Dion high notes without completely embarrassing yourself. Man, am I a bitch or what. I am not one to piss in anyone's cheerios, but I felt as though I'd throughly soaked his.

So Ghengis...I don't even know if you read this anymore, but I'm sorry I picked on you. I pledge to never question your gaming habits ever again, and to be supportive and nonjudgmental of whatever it is that you do in your spare time, even if it is a little "different." Cuz that's how GREAT of a friend I am. In fact, let's duel motherfucker...Fly to the Angels shall we?

 
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