This guy, Lenny…

 

You’d never believe the kind of people you meet in Alcoholics Anonymous…

          This guy, Lenny, I met him at my St. John’s Saturday night meeting.  He had a grim view of the future.  He gave me a ride home once, and it took him a few minutes to clean out the passenger seat, which happened to be full of some pretty good metal CDs.  Instead of buying a 1000-watt system with subs, he bought a $90 set of soundproof headphones and just blocked out reality efficiently.

          He’d get this crazy look in his eye, with at all times holding a cigarette in the middle of his clenched lips, plugged into a constant cloud of nicotine-enriched smoke, and he drove like a bat out of hell. 

          A couple times after that, while walking I would see him coming up fast and swerving through traffic, blowing by at 70 or 80mph.  The look in his eye said pure madness.

~ by motokokusanagi on November 1, 2007.