A Sighting from the FUTURES

He's a skewed baseball cap topped all white faux basketball sports clothes wearing hip hop white guy out for the day with his girlfriend and mother. When he looks at an antique, he looks with disdain, sniffs loudly, and taps each thing as though he's putting quick curses on them. He walks like he actually thinks he has this power.

He's the guy who gets real drunk on keg beer. If you KNOW him, he slaps your back too much and tells you he "loves you man!", and, if you DON'T know him, he hates you. He's a real piece of work. And he's real common.

We've all known this guy. It was probably for a very short time, but he was in our proximity long enough to become a pain in the ass, or at least an embarrassment.

He was the guy who stayed afloat in his drunken delusion because when Monday came and he was back at school, The School wanted him to run somewhere in their uniform with a ball...... so they looked the other way when it came to grades, personal habits, and date rapes. For all HE knew, his latest victim was complimented by his weekend attention and thrilled to rise in social status by becoming his short term fluids depository.

Equally sad, we all knew a gal who believed this to be true. She was normally somewhere up in the hierarchy of "cool", but deep down she still doubted herself and spread herself thin grabbing any extra confirmation she could concoct and swallow.

After a week or two, the truth would come out, and her supportive girl friends would step in to sop up her mess of beliefs. NOT that they would offer a better solution. They could only help her feel less alone, and in doing so, they all had to hold the same beliefs.

Meanwhile, the guy, just as screwed up, went to HIS people and got HIS reconfirmation. "Yeh man, the Four F's...it's the only thing they understand, and anyhow, you know they wannit!" His friends had to hold the same beliefs too.

"SCORE! Hey, ...uh ...You done with 'er? When ya are, lemme know, awright?"

(What? You didn't think these people had ethics?~)