“Shit, are you nuts,” he screamed. “You should’t put that on the Internet! What if her father’s reading it?”
“Whose father?”
“And listen, I’m getting tired of the way you write about me, too. I don’t say half of those things.”
“Then what makes you think it is you?”
“Because I say the other half.”
His consternation was real, but I wasn’t in the mood to listen to him carp. His going on about what I should and shouldn’t do had pissed me off.
“Well, if it is you, then, you are a fiction and if you aren’t careful, I’ll just quit writing you and you won’t even exist.” I could tell he didn’t want me to quit writing about him.
“Are you going out with that girl?” He wanted to ignore what I had just said.
“What girl?”
“The girl from the café?”
“No.”
“Well that’s good,” he said, relieved.
I noticed his zipper wasn’t pulled all the way up.
“You’re old enough to be her. . .”
“Shut the fuck up,” I snapped. “Zip your fly.”
People love to give advice, especially when it is not sought. It makes them feel better, I guess. It is their good deed for the day, a way of improving the world without tremendous effort.
The hours intervened. I was waiting for Thursday afternoon.
"People love to give advice, especially when it is not sought. It makes them feel better, I guess. It is their good deed for the day, a way of making the world a better place without tremendous effort."
ReplyDeleteDr. Effing Phil, for sure. Feller makes his living doing shit that would get his nose broken in any respectable drinking establishment.
Can't wait to read about lunch on Thursday.
I like this entry very much -- very PoMo.
Obla Dee, Derrida, life goes on Bra.
Some people expect the rest of the world to be like them.
ReplyDeleteIt's a pity really.
"I’m getting tired of the way you write about me, too. I don’t say half of those things.”
But he does say the other half.
I bet he'll think twice about his choice of words to you now.
Hey CC
ReplyDeleteI tried to leave a comment on you blog but the way you've got your comments box set up, only allows either people with blogger accounts or bloggers with accounts with other well known blogging systems using their servers.
I am neither and I don't want to sign up with blogger.