T R U T H

As an homage to the Portland guy who advised that "great writers write about other people, not themselves" here's a take on "Unforgettable Characters":

His name was Burnsie (changed to protect...) wink-wink - not a bad looking guy and was buds with a Zeke G-without-the-beard funny kinda guy, but man was he cursed. He had 3 young kids, couldn't stand his wife and drank to a point where he once passed out standing up in a shower stall in a 38 foot clipper moored in the Chesapeake. Unbeknownst to me, he was courting my protege of whom I once egoistically said at a happy hour within his hearing range, "I could eff her if I wanted to" and he TOLD her!!! I confronted him with denial and a qualitative apology which he rejected and he ended up getting a divorce with a huge child support settlement attached, married this career-driven sweetheart and when the credits rolled, he lost her, too with distant memories of his once substantial paycheck. What makes him unforgettable to me? He always took the young girl side of the argument of which is better - an older woman or jailbait? He was like the guy who admitted he gets horny from looking at a chair and he goes the opposite direction in real life. I wonder where he is today, happy somewhere, I hope 'cause he was a good guy (shitty dad, tho') and worthy of a place here among all the rest of this flotsam and jizzwah.

Straight 8s again, baby - maybe I'm more than just lucky. I liked telling this.