Buddies,
So Im walkin t werk this mornin an Im runnin a littl late. When Im about a block an a haff from my apartment I looks up about a block aheada me an I sees these two guys stannin on th sidewalk talkin t each othr. When they sees me, they splits up inta, like, a advance gard an a rear gard.
When I walk up t Advance Gard, guy says t me, "Y got a quartr I can have?" "No," says I plitely, but witout breakin stride. Dat was da trufe too, I mite add. Rite bfore I lef th apartment I put alla my change on th dressr, cause my plan was t do lawndry aftr I come home from werk. An I was runnin late, sos I coont very well stop an lissn t th guys hardluck story now, coud I?
So anyhowski, I walk rite past Advance Gard an inta th zone o Rear Gard, an he adops this real indignant tone an says t me, "HEY! DONT ignore my FREND!"
Now my firs instinck, ocourse, was t poin out t this guy that I DINT ignore his frend. His frend ast me if I had a quartr for him an I tol him I dint. I was also temptd t tell him how I was runnin kinda late an that I had t be t werk early tday, cause theres sompm REAL importnt I hadta do bfore I coud evn get down t werkin. I couda tol him alla this, dspite havin neithr th crayons nor th hanpuppits thatd normly be needed t esplain evn a bloney samwich to a haffatard like this guy was.
But any impulse to esplain things t th Rear Gard quickly evaperatd when I heard th righteous indignation in th guys voice. He was cnvincd that Id ignord his frend an he was gonna make sure I was well rebukd fer that. But he was rong. How coud I tell him that? Fer me t tell him that, then hed be th one rebuked, th one havin t pologize.
An I gess deep down inside I felt a kinda kinship wit dis fello. I coud sense that he, like me, coud nevr bear to see such a quality dsplay o righteous indignation so cmpletely wastd like that. An so I did th only thing I coud thinka, t try an keep th cosmick scales o righteousness from fallin inta serios imbalance.
Yep. I ignord th fuckr.