6.07.2004

He wakes up around 5:30 in the morning. He doesn't shower or use the bathroom for any extended period, unless it's to take a shit. I know this because he sprays enough air freshener that it wafts into my room and enters my dreams. I'm not sure exactly what else he does before leaving, but he leaves just about every morning around six, when I usually arise. I believe he goes to his storage facility to view/diddle with his pride and joy--his bike. Or he goes to the VA, for whatever reason. Maybe they give injured vets free breakfast. By nine he's back home and he retires to his room. The television is always on, like a cable modem, when he's home. Sometimes you can hear him laughing out loud, a grizzly cackle, at the T.V. From nine to about 8 p.m. he does these seven thigs and absolutely nothing else, in order of most frequent to least:
1) watches T.V.
2) naps
3) cooks food
4) eats food
5) smokes Marlboros on the back steps
6) takes another crap.
7) talks to me, or John (the other housemate) every so often, the topics:
-sports
-his bike, where he rode it, wants to ride it
-the grill
-the occasion bill question or irregularity
-where my dad is, when he'll be around to collect rent

He talks louder than just about everyone else, says "fuckin" often, but not maliciously, like someone would say "um". Every once in a while will talk about girls in the barroom chauvinistic manner. Mostly he just talks about sports, his bike and food.
He's got a pot belly and his gait shows it. He has a particular gorilla-like squat when he reaches for food in the bottom of the fridge. He's 55 years old and was injured in Vietnam--he supposedly is blind in one eye and I also noticed a surgery scar on his finger. He wears shorts and a tee shirt with the sleeves cut off exclusively around the house. Even in cold months. This occasioned me to realize the reason behind the ever burgeoning popularity among Americans of shirts with the sleeves cut off. It's a great way for out-of-shape people to show off their guns (the humongous twinkie-like fat-filled arms) while effectively hiding their belly and love-handles. Tank tops look rather ridiculous on barrel-bellied guys.

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