people need to stop dying.

Sep 08, 2008 21:03

so scott, the 45 year old heroine addicted, overweight diabetic i work with for half the year.  yeah, he died saturday.  i just found out today.  you know, no matter how inevitable someone's death is, i still find it sad.  i found myself thinking today, "i wonder if he was ever happy?".  although i've only known him for 5 years or so, i'm pretty sure the answer to that is no.

i will always remember the stories he used to tell.  he had a number of them.  my favorite, which those who read this have most likely heard me repeat at one time or another, is when he was working with this asshole who used to work with us.  he was working out of the basement of a firehall, raising money for the fire company above.  this guy was being an asshole, so when he went on break, scott got fed up with him and took the reciever of this guy's phone and wiped his ass with it.  yes, wiped his ass with it, under the underwear, shit in the little speaker holes, the whole 9 yards.  so this guy comes back, starts calling and catches a wiff of his phone.  he was pissed, understandably.  scott pleaded innocence which lead to this guy going upstares and quizzing the firemen about who wiped their ass with his phone.  now, to read this, most people would just think, jesus christ that's disgusting, which it is, but scott had a gift with storytelling.  the first time i heard that story i laughed for a good ten minutes straight.  so that's what i'll miss about scott.  shit stories.  real nice.
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