So, remember how the mister bailed his friend M out of jail a couple of months ago? Well, M died thursday night.
He was a major alcoholic (the mister bailed him out of jail for a DUI in July, actually). Apparently he was out Thursday drinking and made it home. No call, no show, at work on Friday. His girlfriend went over and broke into his house and found him in his car in the garage with the garage door closed. So it looks like carbon monoxide is the likely culprit. But we're unclear whether he was drunk and made it home and passed out in the car and forgot to turn off the engine or if he did it deliberately. Really, it could be either situation. He was 29. Incredible.
So that's where we are at the moment. I had major issues with him but it's just very sad to me. And makes me think a lot about my naivete about other people. My cluelessness about how messed up people are, what they can and can't handle, and the assumptions I make about them. And about being a parent and trying to take care of your children so that they live beyond 30.
I keep not believing that it's real. Doubting.
People just can't seem to grasp that I don't watch tv. We haven't had cable for 12 years now. We don't miss it. I watch the daily show on the interwebs, the mister scans all of his news blogs too, and the only one who watches anything are the two boys and they only watch pbs and dvds. We have netflix and watch all kinds of obscure weird shit that no one else I know cares about or would be interested in watching.
Nonetheless, even people I know kind of pretty well insist on talking to me about stupid shit they watch on tv. Look, I'm not judging you, really. You can watch it, go ahead. But I don't. And I don't want to. And I don't give a shit about the latest reality tv show nonsense or some other sensational scandalous garbage of nothingness. So, when you make a cultural reference and I don't get it, you can just stop there. I don't need to know it. Really.
I remember that this used to happen a lot to me when Seinfeld was big and I was a grad student. People would say, Did you see that Seinfeld episode, and I would say, No, I don't watch tv, and then they would go on and on explaining it to me. I don't watch it because I am not interested in it and you don't need to waste your breath talking to me about it. (I have seen a bunch of Seinfeld reruns, actually.)
I don't make people engage with me about the books I'm reading or the other articles I've read. Sure, I send people links to stuff, but it's always stuff that is about them, not me. And I don't tell them about the French flick we watched or the documentary we watched last week about Helvetica (which was fascinating btw).
Okay, I feel better now. Thanks.
If everything is going right then Monkey should get his cast off next Wednesday. We'll see. I hope so. It'll be 6 weeks in the cast and almost 7 since he broke it. It's been both fast and slow but we're ready to move on. I want to see his little body in the bathtub again!
