Looping, and Blooping.

I know a man, though I loathe to call him that. He hasn't done anything in his life that would gain him the title of a "man". Nothing is ever his fault, someone else always gets the blame. He tells so many stories, to so many different people, that he forgets who he told what to, and ends up mixing up everything.

He was married once, and had a single child.

Back then he was, the way he is now. But had a mean streak that was coated with physical abuse as well. The marriage did not last, and he wanted nothing to do with the child. Never so much as tried to get visitation or anything. There was no child support paid, the mother didn't want anything from him.

Today Terry and I were hanging out with several of our friends, we all work for the same man, and had come to get our paychecks around the same time. When this "man" happens to show up to the store. We all knew who he was, and when he started his sob stories all over again, we knew it was going to be another ride on the b.s. train.

He simply amazed us all today, ecspecially the grown adult, that was once the child.

During his sobbing, depression, and usual mick-muck he said...

" I never had a chance to get married, or have any children. I always wanted to be a family man. Being a father is probally the one thing I could have gotten right in life. "

None of us said anything, but all of our eyes went shifting over to the one who was offended most by this statement. They just stood there, gritting their teeth, before looking down at the pavement and saying nothing.

All at once, as if we had rehearsed it. We all started dropping excuses for having to go. And the parking lot cleared out quite quickly. Later on I called my friend, as to be expected there was a lot of feelings there. Though mostly anger. Apparently, this isn't the first time the "Man" has said such a thing, in front of the one he had neglected to try and have some sort of father relationship with.

He cries to so many different people, sometimes we think he just forgets who it is he's talking to, and doesn't even realize that they're standing right there. Right in physical reach, but mentally and emotionally so far gone, and withdrawn.