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Old 09-08-2003, 05:38 AM   #12
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Join Date: February 18, 2002
Location: Vienna
Age: 43
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jorath Calar:
Wow, that guy has a ego!
Anyway I used to smoke it, some years ago, it was just a way to get out of everydays life boredom... I stopped when one of my friend was caught with it, the law for it here is similar to the one in Austria, but the fine is much bigger and then his employer found out about it and he lost his job which in turn led to his girlfriend breaking up with him (b****), I watched my good friend simply go from a pretty good guy to a complete bum and thought, "This isn't worth it..." and have never done it since...
Similar with me and the guy I called A in my stories. Except I never smoked. He only talked me into trying it once. I'm however rather glad I tried it back then. It didn't really knock me off my feet and felt like being drunk at BAC 0.15. So I thought: "Ok, tried that, Check. Not so great, so skip it" Never done it again but have watched my friend go down hard. He now lives on welfare smokes up to 5g/day and is a junior high school dropout (didn't finish 3rd grade and is 20 by now). He has gotten so lazy that although he just sits around doing nothing but [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img] the whole day he misses his appointments at the social services and expects them to just give him welfare for 3 months if he turns up two months late. An so on...

Concerning X:

We all recently realised that he has always been like this. But he has only decided to act SO openly on his ego since last year. Before that we didn't take his "I don't like democracy because I want to be my own boss" talk so seriously. We have been avoiding him more lately but he has been one of my closest friends for long time and it is not easy for me to give that up (as it wasn't easy with A) because friendship means more to me than just go to the pub every other day.
His causes for smoking are also semi-understandable as he started using it to "medicate" his extreme neurosis (e.g. he didn't dare to touch doorknobs in public places because he was afraid of bacteria) and his high blood pressure which derives from a genetical heart condition (which is not as bad as it sounds). First instead of the prescribed heart medication the mixing it with. Rather stupid IMHO but "semi-undertandable"
Giving the situation thought I figured he has ONE point and that isn't a very good one. He has screwed himself quite nicely with lying in a written testimony and could get a probation sentence for that. If Y lies for him not written but only in speech he'd be slightly less screwed than Y is already. However I still disagree since I think he should grow up and accept responsibilities.

P.S.: Oh and Link...Being boss of his own island has been the dream of his dream since he was 8 years old and he's still convinced that he'll be rich enough one day to afford that.
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