The United States of America of Friends
Did you ever feel like the United States of America of friends? You're the first one out there with support when somebody else just had the equivalent of an earthquake. You're not perfect, but you really do try to be decent. (Okay, you're gauche as hell, you dress badly, and you talk and laugh too loudly, but your heart is generally in the right place.) You take friends in when they need taking in. You help them move, no matter how bad your back is. And the rest of the world, minus a few steadfast allies, can't stand you.
Yeah, I'm there today.
I lost a friend today. Someone I'd already given a second chance to, the first time he burned his bridges on the Rude Mechanicals. Back then, I was the one who wanted to give him a second chance, to find out why he was so pissed off at us, to apologize for anything I'd done to make him feel like that. And I brought him back into the Rudes, and everybody looked at me like I was crazy. Well, today, he managed to do the same thing, using a lot of the same lines he'd used in that original burn-his-bridges email. He gets zero points for originality. In fact, he gets zero points. Of the plays he's signed on to do with us, he stayed with not one of them until the end. He managed to quit everything he ever said he was going to do with us, and say really vicious things about me on the way out. (Both times, but I'm afraid I only have it in me to forgive that once.) Hurt me once, shame on you; hurt me twice, shame on me for being such an idiot. I probably should have 'known he was a snake before I picked him up,' to quote the old Aesop fable. Everyone around me did. Alan, Josh, they had no idea why I bothered giving Lou a second chance. Because everybody deserves a second chance, right? Yeah. Like I said, I'm an idiot.
Live and learn, I guess.
Yeah, I'm there today.
I lost a friend today. Someone I'd already given a second chance to, the first time he burned his bridges on the Rude Mechanicals. Back then, I was the one who wanted to give him a second chance, to find out why he was so pissed off at us, to apologize for anything I'd done to make him feel like that. And I brought him back into the Rudes, and everybody looked at me like I was crazy. Well, today, he managed to do the same thing, using a lot of the same lines he'd used in that original burn-his-bridges email. He gets zero points for originality. In fact, he gets zero points. Of the plays he's signed on to do with us, he stayed with not one of them until the end. He managed to quit everything he ever said he was going to do with us, and say really vicious things about me on the way out. (Both times, but I'm afraid I only have it in me to forgive that once.) Hurt me once, shame on you; hurt me twice, shame on me for being such an idiot. I probably should have 'known he was a snake before I picked him up,' to quote the old Aesop fable. Everyone around me did. Alan, Josh, they had no idea why I bothered giving Lou a second chance. Because everybody deserves a second chance, right? Yeah. Like I said, I'm an idiot.
Live and learn, I guess.