I really was just a quiet guy who kept to himself. Nothing more. Yet everyone feared I was some rage filled maniac waiting to explode. When I walked down the street, mothers would pull their kids aside, "Careful Timmy, that's the quiet guy who keeps to himself." Police would pull up to my house, "So you're the quiet guy who keeps to himself? We've got a warrant to search your house for stashes of ilegal automatic weapons."
So I decided to change myself. I became agressive and overbearing. I would tell the boss where to stuff his unbalanced ledger. Sure everyone said, "what an asshole," but suddenly, I was getting new found respect. I got promoted to manager of delinquent accounts. I'd ram my car into neighbor's cars and curse them and I found myself being invited over to argue football. Women suddenly were anxious to go out me.
However, after a while I became disgusted with myself. Dates would coax me to get into fights with other assholes. I was becoming part of the violent culture in America, and wanted no more part of it.
So I changed myself again. I became a loving, giving, caring person. I volunteered for menial tasks nobody else wanted to do. I would lend money to the needy and not expect to be payed back. So where did that get me? People laughed at me. Wimp, sap, sucker -- and those were some of those were some of the nicer terms.
You know -- I really feel like I could kill somebody....
