I have a friend from high school that's one of those people who has made the complete transition to adult-looking-guy. He's pudgy and bald and barely recognizable as the spastic comedic hyper dude from my youth. The unfortunate thing is, he is also quite insane. He was always sort of on the verge and then a series of unforunate choices and events conspired to actually push him over that line into incoherence and insanity. He went into the navy. Saw combat in Haiti (Erk!). And then got a job at Intel making crap loads of money. This has made him able to buy a house and hire detectives to track down all his old friends from high school. Lucky me. He's married and probably has a kid by now. His wife is, as far as I can tell, developmentally diabled. She can really speak and shifts around and quotes Beavis and Butthead compulsively. It's very very very weird.
So I'm pretty sure that hell is being any of us in that situation for eternity. Either him - the man with the broken soul, his wife - disabled, no hope of help, babies here and on the way, or me - the completely appalled and horrified houseguest.
Posted by jlp716 at October 11, 2004 02:53 PM