
Enough already, we get it–click the fuckin picture.
I think this must be the third or fourth time I’ve used this bum character in a comic strip. Besides the obvious shock value of a cum stained jacket and him blowing men–I really use this character to point out how shitty and self absorbed we all can be. I’m guilty of complaining about all sorts of mundane bullshit that really doesn’t affect my life at all, just because I can. But when you stop to think about things, there’s so much other shit going on that all our bullshit about our phones, work, school, herpes doesn’t really matter cause there’s always someone you know that’s in a way shittier situation than you.
I don’t know if I’ve wrote about this on here before, because honestly I don’t even read this retarded blog. But one day I was sitting outside of my crappy job downing vicodin with vodka and cursing my crummy life for working at such a hell hole and not staying in school when I saw a guy walking toward me. He’d been scouring the parking lot for the past 20 mins or so and I really hadn’t noticed it until he neared me, but he was walking all over the parking lot collecting cans, bottles and all the other things we litter parking lots with. Not only had he been walking all over the parking lot collecting cans but he also had a bad leg and walked with a limp, slightly dragging his leg behind him with each step. He wasn’t homeless by the look of his clothes or the by the fact that he hopped out of a car that was nice by most peoples standard. Just an average middle aged white guy who could be anyone’s dad, brother or uncle.
So when he walked up towards me he asked if I needed the can that was sitting next to my tire. The same can I had thrown on the ground that day before because I was to lazy to walk an extra 30 feet to toss in the trash can. I told him I didn’t need it and it was all his as I picked it up and handed it to him along with several others that were sitting on the floorboard of my car. He piled the cans into his folded arms and as he walked away he thanked me in the most genuine way that I’ve heard in a really long fucking time. I was floored. I just gave him shit I was gonna toss out and he was really thanking me and MEANING it for this pile of cans I could car less about?! Fuck my life.
So in my fantastical mind I started wondering why this guy who seemed like a normal dude would be rolling around in a newer model Toyota with his wife in tow scavenging for cans throughout a parking lot. Why would he be so thankful for my pile of shit? Was the economy that bad? I have no clue, but if that old guy was thankful for something so trivial, what in the fuck do I have to complain about?
I ran out of Valtrex?
I can’t find my keys?
Who gives a fuck—there’s people worse off than I am and they’re not bitching about dragging a dead leg around a parking lot for hours on end for a couple of bucks.
I’m not saying that I’m not hypocritical when it comes to complaining about shit, but I take things with a grain of salt because every episode of Hoarders and Intervention shows, I’m better off than a lot of people in this world and I’ve never had to suck a strangers dick for drugs. Chalk a win up for me.
Everything’s Amazing, & Nobody’s Happy- Louis C.K.
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