senior, old age, second childhood, sickness and death, ain't we got fun.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

179TH AND VYSE, BRONX, NY (PART LXIV): LIFE BEFORE DEATH IN (ugh) NEW JERSEY

generic college girl
one night while still on winter break on or after new year's eve artie took me along to accompany his girl friend's friend who attended cornell. i decided it would be interesting to pretend to be a machinist instead of the unemployed, snobbish, useless college student that i really was. how was i to know that a girl going to cornell preferred a deadbeat, uppity college brat to a hard working american guy. being stubborn and enjoying it i stuck with my story. at the end of the evening, artie told her the truth that i was a (useless) college guy. she apologized to me for her attitude but the damage was done, the evening was over.

let this be a lesson to you.  as, kurt vonnegut, said, "you are what you pretend to be".

nevermind, i know that most of you have delusions of grandeur, so this will never happen to you.

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