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The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch * 32
    #19262034 - 12/11/13 07:04 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch




1. Joe Shmo
        By societies standards, Mr. Shmo is an indistinguishably normal ally of the couch shaman crew. He’s your grocer, your uncle, or perhaps your mailman. Joe can be found smoking pot on a Thursday, hammered that Friday, and reluctantly attending church on Sunday. He’s a pretty low maintenance guy, mostly because he doesn't take risks.
      As a kid, he was on a school athletic team, but only because his parents wouldn’t talk to him if he wasn’t. Joe never really excelled at anything, except for not standing out in any strange or recognizable way, which is almost an accomplishment in itself. Joe started smoking weed sometime in high school, his friends were doing it at a party and he jumped in. He didn’t think too much of it, and he never has, but he always partook if it was around. If Joe is in college he’s majoring in business, and likely dating a blonde haired chick with a cute dog. She either has no idea he gets loaded on the weekends, or pretends to have no idea he gets loaded on the weekends.
      Joe is a novelty tripper; he has always wanted to try psychedelics because they seem like a neat way to pass the time.  He doesn't know much about them, but he also doesn't fear diving in. He’ll probably cite inspiration from his older cousin’s stories of experimentation in college, or something, either way it’s nothing you haven’t heard before.
        When you trip with Joe, it’s important to keep either comedy central or a psychedelic visualizer on, because that’s probably what he’ll find himself wanting to watch. He’ll say things like “I’m tripping balls”, despite the fact that he’s clearly just fine. Having Joe trip with you is the same as tripping alone, except now you have someone to spit your drug-induced ramblings at. Unlike any other environment, Joe is a rare breed among the twelve people you meet on the couch. You keep him around because he orders pizza for everyone with his dad’s credit card, and you never have to pay him back.

2. Mr. Couch
      True to his name, Mr. Couch seems to have a magnet connecting his ass to the sofa. Mr. Couch doesn’t get out much, which is painfully evident by his serpentine complexion and the fact that he sweats when he walks. He has never weighed more than 150 pounds, and he’s never spent more than $5 on a meal. You can always find a leftover bag of McDonalds within his vicinity. He’s 6 ft. something and has about as much motivation as he does teeth.
        He doesn’t talk about his past much, and he talks even less about his future. He always has a few ten dollar bills in his wallet despite the fact that you’ll never catch him at an ATM. Mr. Couch goes to job interviews in a polo and khaki shorts, and lands the job because he has a friend on the inside. He wears a flat-brimmed hat with no visible brand of any sort on it, you're pretty sure he sleeps with it on. He drives the car his dad has been fixing since well before the birth of Christ, and there’s always a half-smoked joint in the ashtray.
      Mr. Couch smokes enough weed that he doesn’t need to talk about it all the time. It’s hard to imagine a time before he smoked, and he doesn't like to try. He carries a lighter everywhere, and sometimes lights his furniture on fire for a split second just for shits and giggles. Surprisingly, he tells amazing stories, even though you never see him out doing anything. You get the strange impression that his alternative hobby to smoking weed is bullshitting with whoever happens to be sitting next to him. Mr. Couch spends the night without asking (sometimes for multiple days in a row), which is fine by you because by the time he leaves in the morning your apartment is mildly hotboxed.
        Mr. Couch tends to get quiet when he trips. You can tell that he takes psychedelics with a strange seriousness, unlike his hairdo which is some mix between a year-old discount haircut and that time he accidentally lit his beard on fire. He get's philosophical, but only speaks about it when prompted by an uncomfortable silence. When shit heads south in the room, Mr. Couch is the first man everyone turns to. He is the MacGyver of bad trip solutions, despite never having had one himelf.

3. The Martyr
      The Martyr walks into the gas station and buy’s a scratch off hoping he’ll lose. His car is in pieces in the driveway, his Grandma just got diagnosed with cancer, and he doesn’t have money for next month’s rent. Those who don’t know The Martyr feel sad for him, but those who are acquainted with him know that his position in life is attributed mostly to his shitty attitude and self-esteem issues.
      The Martyr is a modern day minesweeper; he makes all the mistakes before you do so you don’t have to. He was raised religious, believes in evolution, and practices masturbation. The Martyr comes off as an optimistic pushover at best and a depressed two-face at worst. He makes poor decisions under the influence of drugs, and despite his doctor claiming otherwise, he believes he’s physically dependent on marijuana. He studies something, but not with very much attention or passion. He sees school and work as a lunch break from the daily grind of getting stoned.

      You don’t really remember how you met The Martyr, but he’s always been on pretty good terms with all of the other couch shamans. He never asks for money when he smokes you up, and he always has the best shit. The Martyr frequently confides in Mr. Couch for advice and counseling, with mixed results. He’s a reliable guy between 11 am and 3 pm, which is the brief period of time when he’s shuffling between classes or daydreaming, but at night he’s generally unreachable. He goes out on the weekends and hits on women who are out of his league, using pickup lines he found on the internet.
      The Martyr is not great to trip with; he mostly focuses on material things and trivial gossip. If he attempts to self-reflect or look inward it is typically met with bad vibes that are then projected around the couch and onto everyone else. The truth is, The Martyr has gotten the message but refuses to hang up the phone. While he should really avoid tripping and focus on getting his shit together, he has never given the plan serious consideration. The most redeemable quality about the Martyr is that he is strangely likeable once you get to know him. However, you’ll probably find yourself regretting the decision to include him in the group trip.

4. Susan Greene
      Did somebody say Starbucks? With all the warmth and energy of a cup of chai tea, Susan Greene is a welcomed addition to the order of The Couch. She’s elegant, irresistibly charming, and has a sweet tooth for drugs that only her closest friends know about.  Susan finds herself caught in a constant balancing act between being a health-conscious liberal, and exploring the fuck out of her body with drugs.
        Susan is the kind of girl you met through a friend, and immediately believed to be some sort of trick. Such a well-mannered, health-conscious woman surely doesn’t get stoned off her ass in her free time, does she? After about a day or two of smoking with her, you’ll feel bad you ever had your doubts. Simply put, Susan is good at being what she needs to be when she needs to be it.  When she smokes, she watches old stand-up acts of Cheech and Chong or Dave Chappelle while laughing like a child. Catch her sober, however, and she’s likely to be studying for a biochem exam while simultaneously talking to her mother on the phone and cooking a nice salmon and chives dish.
      Despite never going to the gym, Susan maintains a slim and healthy physique. You attribute this to genetics, but it’s probably tied to her field-mouse diet of leafy greens, string beans, and everything in between.  She always has money but never brags about it, and never overspends. Miss Greene doesn’t buy drugs; they fall into her lap. She keeps a cozy home, and everyone who comes over knows that they’re trading drugs for a warm meal and a soft chair. Naturally, all of the other couch shamans happily gravitate towards Susan’s hospitality.
      While she is great at being elegant and adaptable, there’s more to her than meets the eye. When she consumes alcohol, for instance, Susan engages in heavy gossip about anyone and everyone that comes to mind.  When tripping, she rapidly fluctuates between a tranquil soul and a harsh critic of all but herself. After some time of getting to know her, it becomes evident that Susan doesn’t really do drugs, the drugs do Susan. Regardless, she never means harm, and that banana bread now sitting on your plate more than makes up for the fact that she unknowingly insulted everyone in the room ten minutes prior.

5. Away Boy
    Away Boy sits down on the couch. He’s left a strange and unnecessarily large gap between himself and you. He takes out his phone and begins to pluck away at the screen out of instinct, as if he’s home in his room on a quiet Monday night. The only problem is that it’s not a quiet Monday night; it’s Friday and the rest of the room is engaged in happy, clumsy, conversation while Away Boy continues to distance himself from the situation.
    Trying to make conversation with this man is a challenge, and squeezing multiple sentences out of him is a feat worthy of a trophy. He listens to music that no one else understands, he’s dating a girl who doesn’t know his middle name, and people constantly forget he’s in the room. His mom stopped asking how his day was on his fifth birthday, and his dad had resigned before he was born. Alarmingly, none of this fazes Away Boy, for he maintains a perpetually stoned headspace; a soft cushion to rest against at the end of a long and empty day.
    The problem with Away Boy is that he can’t put himself in the moment, for he is too focused on his insecurities and potential problems of the future. He constantly finds himself on the outskirts of a social landscape, and you’ve been trying to bring him inside for months. After all, he is a modest and honest person, despite his social shortcomings.  You get a suspicion that he could really benefit from some MDMA, but have never voiced it. You know as well as he does that drugs are just a temporary patch to Away Boy’s problems, and what he needs is something more sustaining.
    Away Boy stands to profit from a life-changing trip, but he knows that will never happen. He simply can’t let it all go, so to speak. Instead of doing drugs with Away Boy, you should talk to him in a sober setting, get lunch with him, and get him to open up to you.  Who knows? Maybe one day someone will make it over that moat he has been digging around himself since he was born.

6. The Man Who Lost His Name
There he is on State street
Some half block ahead of your present position, or lack thereof
He’s relatively Mexican
In that he’s got more Mexican in him than other folks you see around

Standing there
Being poor
Smoking some manor of a rolled cigarette
Which contains more than a legal buzz

The ol’ 60/40 blend
PCP and pipe tobacco
Sloppily rolled together
In haste yet tired routine

The tobacco tells the real story here
the real punchline to the joke
PCP is the metaphor, old and misunderstood
But having more use than credited for

His outfit accommodates for several types of weather
While being positively suitable for none
He’s wearing a shirt that says “Bring your own acid”
You laugh at the thought and continue walking

Your parents taught you better than to talk to this figure
A million books without an ending sit in his library
Going somewhere with his feet and nowhere in his head
He’s on a mission to remember his name

Seemed to have escape him in that one acid trip
Back in '97
When the girls were still around
Lost along with everything else he used to posses

You won’t get to trip with him
But you’d like to
Perhaps behind a piece of bulletproof glass
And a dozen armed guards

You hope you see him on the way back
A perverse thought
Like hoping to drive past a car accident
Oh well

7. The Father
    He arrives. Mingles through the door with the Werewolves of London prancing behind him in some rendition of a single file line.  His hair is an asymmetric result of grease, time, and gravity; a strange yet familiar product of several years of drug use and calculated abandonment. A beard of sorts wraps around his chin, gray as they come. Much of his appearance, like his personality, comes as a thick haze. Almost as if all of the smoke he’s been flirting with for so many years has finally decided it’d like to spend the night. Being naturally interested in the odd and boisterous, you sense the spark here immediately, and walk over for a chat.
    It’s made clear halfway through your greeting: this man’s the real deal. Talking with him is something like putting your shoes on:  with almost zero precision (or sobriety) required you can achieve desired results quite promptly. He speaks fondly of the old days: the weed, the acid, that legendary line of cocaine off the dashboard of his old VW Microbus. This conversation is some sort of ritualistic baton pass that seems to take place whenever an elder and a young gun cross paths, and you’re eating it up. After all, The Father has done everything you could think of. It’s not even a matter of bragging, his demeanor tells as much of his story as that “professional enough” tattoo sloppily perched on the back of his neck next to the Dancing Bears.
    Turns out he’s an engineer of sorts, a real brain, who works for a government contractor across town. He can fix most problems you’ll encounter with whatever happens to be in his left pocket at the time, a handy dude to have around when the going gets tough and the tough get lost. He’s relatively responsible, in that his job demands it. It’s clear that this man can’t really afford to smoke weed and kick back regularly anymore, but he just can’t let go of the lifestyle. If you linger around long enough, you may be able to smell his last blunt on the fringe of his leather jacket. Pungent, but not off-putting. If The Father had a biography that would be it’s tagline.
    After discussing with him the revolution of recent technology and it’s effects on society, you decide it’s getting late. You down that last drink and he follows suit. He throws a solitary bill on the table for the bartender...

A two.

    The cocktease of tips. Enough to silence any possible complaints but certainly not a generosity by any stretch of the imagination.  As you make your way to the door, he shouts goodbye to somebody named “Big Ed” who returns the gesture from some unseen location. You start your goodbye and aim for your car when you’re met with the old “nah, follow me” nod. Expecting a joint and Pink Floyd, you hop into his car for a burn. You make yourself comfortable and get out your lighter upon realizing that without hesitation, he has pulled out a bag of crystal the size of your fist from underneath the drivers seat.

Meth. Fuck.

    You attempt to throw a curveball: “So how old did you say your kid was?”. A small distraction, you pray he doesn’t see this for what it is. You’ve never done meth, and that cherry isn’t one you planned on popping. “18 months… precious girl… wife’s watching her tonight”, he says as he crushes up a small shard. Your pitch fails and before you know it you’re feeling the come up of a quick and dirty stimulant. You stay for a story and a half about the 80’s and his small time touring with “The Dead”, and then hastily exchange a farewell as you tweak-walk your way to your car and shove home.
    The Father has impressed you, gotten you to try a drug you’d never have considered, and told you some kickass stories all in a short night’s encounter. “If only I could see what his day-to-day is like”, you ponder.
    Truly, what a fun little glimpse you would receive. Oh the interest you’d derive from seeing a strung out wife cleaning a baby’s diaper in the unkempt den that man calls home. The bags of garbage strewn across the front lawn. Those overdraft statements from two years ago sitting under a pile of newspapers on the kitchen table, the foreclosure notice on the front door. Water damage on the ceilings, empties in the shower, and that garbage bag full of take-out next to the child’s crib… All products of an addiction that has gone too far. Men like The Father are perhaps best met during that last call at the local watering hole. In this environment you can glimpse a piece of a beautiful picture before discovering the rest of it has faded into a murky blur.
    You conclude that two hours was enough; the healthy limit of engagement with a fellow like this. Just as your astonishment at The Father’s charisma has an expiration date, so too does his ability to dance that line between a managed habit and a reckless addiction. It’s only a matter of time now before the bill comes for that mortgage payment that’s now perched somewhere in his central nervous system.

8. Candice
      Once upon a time, in a nice suburban home there lived a sweet and beautiful girl. She liked horses, boys, and Sunday brunches after church. She was a daddy’s girl, and her mom’s pride and joy. You knew her quite well back then and even had a small thing with her for some time. Those were the golden days for beautiful, thin, charming Candice.
      Two years later she now sits, on the couch directly opposite you, wearing a tight tie-dye t-shirt and pajama pants. She’s doing a line and a half of coke off a dirty “TIME” magazine. Candice then follows the line with a quick torch-puff of her bowl and then offers it to the guy next to her. You realize that it only takes a small smoking session with Candice to get the gist of what she’s been up to.  If only you had known that.
      Nope. You caught up with Candice the hard way: A spontaneous hook-up that you will now spend years of hard drug use trying to forget. You went to her house expecting that trim and intelligent girl from two years prior and got handed something entirely different, like getting someone else’s meal at the drive through. Simply put: that heart tattoo on her left leg which used to be tiny and charming looked as if it were suddenly caught in the middle of a serious game of Tug of War.  There was no going back though, once you touch the cookie, it’s yours. If only you had kept your hand out of the jar.
      It turns out, Candice went through some sort of reverse metamorphosis. Through some combination of onset-schizophrenia and substance abuse, she was removed from her nursing program and had to leave college. She now works at Taco Bell (if you consider selling pot in the parking lot “work”), and spends most of her paycheck on gas and Robitussin. The poor woman is stuck under a rain-cloud: her last boyfriend ditched her when the scales tipped 170, her savings account recently bottomed out, and her mom sold her prized horses. Candice is now locked in a concerted effort to blunt her sad reality with hard liquor and synthetic pot on a nightly basis.  While Candice used to be a prude tease to many-a-boy, you realize things have changed in that department. She’s almost always down for sex, and usually gets a taker, but never finds that repeat customer she’s searching for. She’s the used car with a few-thousand too many miles on it.
      You pity the poor girl. So much promise, yet no hint of a delivery. Candice’s ship is sinking quickly, and you don’t know if she can really turn it around. The title “Damaged good’s” doesn't begin to do this story justice.

9. The Geek
      Coming in as the ninth member of this crooked group of couch dwellers is The Geek. With his quick wit, unimposing nature, and general reliability it’s hard not to like this fellow. You stumbled into meeting The Geek at some awkward place and time, and over the course of a few months became really good friends with him.  You now find yourself stop-light-stoned in his room, talking at length about space, more often than you’d care to admit.
      Despite The Geek’s sweet tooth for weed and booze, he maintains a respectable academic resume. He’s currently studying Neuro-something, and has a real passion for it. He once got baked and tried to talk to you about the concepts, while you happily pretended to understand.
      The Geek is an all-or-nothing sort of dude.  The man doesn’t simply do drugs, he fucking minors in them. If Alexander Shulgin had twelve disciples, this guy would be the first on the list. He’s part of that 1 percent of the population that knows LSD is the acronym for “lysergic acid diethylamide” and perhaps the only percent that cares.  In listening to him closely, you discover that his immense knowledge of all things psychoactive is simply the by-product of a serious internet addiction. Although his overly-scientific approach to drugs frightens the average pothead, you’ve come to appreciate it. After all, Reddit needs folks like this; Brave heroes, unafraid of engaging in that all too important discussion on the bio-availability of insufflated Methoxetamine HCL in humans.
      When he’s not doing drugs or in class, The Geek is engaging in one of his many other passions. He could be locked in his room tinkering with that audio/video system to get the setup just right. Perhaps he’s programming an AI for an old modified copy of DOOM, or tactically text-messaging that cute girl he met in clumsy haste the day prior. The Geek is just the right amount of awkward to get away with these sorts of endeavors without seeming any stranger than everyone already believes he is. He uses this “patently-odd” reputation to his advantage, and plays up his own quirky demeanor just for kicks.
      Despite what folks may say about him, The Geek is usually having a better time than the others. He, The Geek, is content in his self-constructed world of numbers and science and big ideas, and nothing can change that.

10. Paco

    Paco and you met at Electric Forest '12. You had the shits from the dozens of half assed campfire hotdogs you ate and he happened to be crack-walking through the bathrooms. Mid stim daze and desperate, Paco was in the market for free wallets and your back pocket was looking fat. As you turned to enter the overflowing Port-O-John, he snapped away from your pocket and into your face. To cover up being caught mid-lifted, Paco then proceeded to do what Paco knows best: shouting insults and then trying to sell overpriced cocaine.
    Now normally you would've waltzed on into the John without paying Paco a second cent worth of time, but a "normal" day it was not. At the time, you were still experiencing the nasal drip of a "killer dose" of molly carefully weighed out by some farsighted punk who'd lost his glasses. During this overdosed MDMA come-up, Paco was the perfect man for the job. After insulting you in broken English, he embarked on a speed-rant regarding some beef with his cousins boyfriend. Sounds appealling? It wasnt, but on MDMA you willingly transformed into a sort of temporary psychologist for the guy. You felt that it was a transcending moment of charity; to spend the following four hours talking to Paco about "family values" at his van/camp site and doing coke.
    By the end of the ordeal, when your serotonin receptors started running noticeably low on juice, you offered to buy some of the " great-fishcale-fire-china" coke he was selling as a way of parting from the situation. He then, offering the following words of wisdom, swiftly packed his van to drive away:
"Aye did I say coke meng? Thats ice, my goof. Hahahahahahahah!"
    Following that festival, you never ran into ol' Paco again. That number he gave you (to call about your stimmed-out "business plan")  turned out to be for some Citgo in Kansas. Chalking the encounter down as a "freak mistake", you realize you learned two things about life that day. That your heart can only beat so fast before something breaks, and that beaners sell meth as coke.

11. Ross

    Right about now this man is sitting in his garage smoking a sizeable blunt, and attempting to hammer out the chords of an obscure Zeppelin song.
His place is trashed, in all the right ways; old duplicate vinals of some of the best are nailed haphazardly to the wall, there's an array of well-used drums off to the side, and what appears to be Chewbacca's distant cousin sitting on a blown-out couch ripping a grav bong. The hairy fellow exhales the plume of smoke and shouts:
"Hey what do you think about the 8th of May?"

"That's Jess' birthday man, you know that. We are going out of town that weekend. We've gone over this, we gotta tell them no Howie"                                     

At this point, the wooly fellow, "Howie" gets up, walks over to the amp, and turns a few knobs.

"Listen to me for a second Ross."

"I'm listening howe, I've been listen..."

"Do you remember all that momentum we had last summer? The crowds, the busy weekends, Bernie's Cove..."

"I remember the Cove"

"Good times right?"

"Righ, they were great times Howe but..."

"BUT Sid hopped off, and we lost our touch for a little while. So what? It happens, Ross. We have Marco now, Marco is a kickass drummer man you know that..."                     

    Ross and Howie continue talking, but the picture is clear. Those times when Ross was playing with his friends Howie and Sid felt electric. Even in the smallest of venue's, the feeling that he was doing what he loved with his two best friends is hard to beat. Somewhere along the line, Sid lost sight of the plan and left the group for his girl. Now Ross can't seem to play like he once did, and he's not even sure he wants to. Ironically, he routinely finds himself in the position Sid once did. His relationship with Jess is routinely on the rocks as he struggles daily between the band and his woman of 6 years.

    Ross never went to college, and his JCPenney sales experience isnt exactly a hot resume seller. He never had a real plan, and instead relied on his musical momentum almost entirely. He had played the "parents garage/apartment" card for several years, and it was getting old. At the age of 26, he began to see his peers and friends take up the reigns of responsibility, while he remained stagnant. All he had to show for his years of jamming away in the garage was a band that was, at one point in time, full of potential. You cannot make a living on potential alone, though. He has to do something to get his life back on track, and he knows this.

    What Ross doesn't know, is that there are millions just like him. Chock full of good potential without the certainty or confidence to act on it. All sitting somewhere pondering if they themselves will ever "make it". Stuck somewhere between 1st gear and Neutral.
                                                               
After him and Howie are done talking, he picks up his guitar, and turns his amp back up.                                     
             
"Howe, are you feelin sharp?"

"Sharp enough" he mumbles as he ignites the bong once more.

"Good. Give Marco a call, lets try to get something going tonight. I'm going to talk to Jess... We'll sign on for the 8th. This conversation is going to suck ass. You fuckin owe me, man."

Howie grins a bit and then nods and springs up. Tobacco Bong Rip may soon make their return.

12. The Gambler

He may sell drugs, but seeing the transaction take place is about as likely as catching herpes from a nun. He's fast but cautious. With his ducks in a row, and all his chips in the pot, he's got a full house and a loaded gun. The only time he wakes up with bed head is when his lady stays the night, and he never seems to be asleep if someone needs to get a hold of him.

There's a pair of sunglasses seemingly stitched to his head, as you'll seldom see his eyes. You'd assume he's simply coked up, but there's never a crash nor coke to be found. His speed and confident decisiveness are derived from nothing more than the desire to live in the moment. He'll take a single puff of that blunt he rolled for everyone and then later stroll around the bay, casually making conversation with passerby. Anxiety extinguished and inhibitions long revoked, The Gambler is at ease in crowds, and always looking to meet others. It's in his blood, the drive to make as many connections as fate allows. These friendships and connections are only as good as the people behind them, and The Gambler knows this. You will only catch him hanging out with the right crowd at the right time; he spares no time for the fake. These seemingly natural gifts of charisma and good judgement got him in the game, and it's why he'll remain in it long after the others are barred.

The various drugs he occasionally ingests appear to be of more utility than necessity, and you've never seen him addicted to anything except for those damn Marb Reds he's always got hanging out of his mouth. He knows as well as you that drugs will push you off your high horse just as soon as they'll let you on it.

The Gambler is frequently on the move, but you're certain you'll keep in touch with him. Not because he sells you and your buddies good shit but because he's a real soul, someone to hold meaningful conversation with. Member of a dying breed - those with as much substance as they have style are in short supply and always have been.

Perhaps it's all luck, and his apparently overwhelming fortune and happiness in life has just emerged out of some statistical anomaly, or maybe, just maybe, he's no different than the rest of us who live for the day.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse] * 1
    #19262064 - 12/11/13 07:08 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Introspection...nice.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse] * 8
    #19262078 - 12/11/13 07:10 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

This is fun.

I started one called "Silent Susan" and was going to create a persona of subexcellence, modest beauty and a difficult family upbringing.  She would turn into a chameleon, masking the habits and stylings of the man she's attached herself to at the moment.




I started writing it, but in order to create a truly convincing and quality narrative, i picked bits and pieces of various friend's lives and stitched them together into a quilt of mediocrity and shame.  then i felt bad about it so i deleted it and typed this instead. 

good thread :thumbup:


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    #19262086 - 12/11/13 07:12 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

:highfive:

By all means go for it. I'm going to try to write one of these every night until I have all 12 spots filled. I have a rough idea of the personalities but feel free to give it your own shot!

@Sham, You're partially correct. Actually I can relate to all of the characters I will write about, otherwise I wouldn't be able to attempt ti dissect them.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19262090 - 12/11/13 07:12 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

2?
edit: ah.. I see :popcorn:


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19262097 - 12/11/13 07:14 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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By all means go for it. I'm going to try to write one of these every night until I have all 12 spots filled. I have a rough idea of the personalities but feel free to give it your own shot!



lol none of that was implied in your original post.  i expected all 12 right there at first.  then saw it was something you were diong yourself, so if igured you were just starting a game like the "add a word to make a story" thread.  :smile:

i dont want to write one up.  i alreayd did.  it depressed me.  i look forward to your remaining 11!


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: memes]
    #19262104 - 12/11/13 07:15 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I wanted to lead off in a blunt fashion.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Dr. P. Silocybin]
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    #19262127 - 12/11/13 07:20 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Very cool idea man.  As I read this thread title I tried thinking of the different types of people I have met on couches late at night these past few months. 

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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19262154 - 12/11/13 07:26 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

This'll be a fun read.

Nice idea. :thumbup:


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    #19262183 - 12/11/13 07:31 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I feel like there should probably be a "Sketchy Dealer" amongst the 12 apostles, but I'm not good at writing:thumbdown:


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: lsms]
    #19262205 - 12/11/13 07:35 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread. :smile:


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Hellogoodbyedeath]
    #19262224 - 12/11/13 07:37 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

You guys inspired me to write up my second one (Mr. Couch). But I promise, the next one won't be posted until tomorrow.


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    #19262353 - 12/11/13 07:52 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Well recently we had an official couch reunion in Europe. We all flew in from Egypt & were going to sit o na couch for 30 hours. We sat on the couch for a long time & then got up and went to a new couch. We were deciding to move to a couch at the far end ofthe room. We knew this couch used to serve as a prized piece of furniture inside the opening parts of a museum. People have taken pictures of this couch & framed it on their doors so people can later on brag & say that they have sat on this couch before, as if there very sitting on the couch was in itself an accomplishment that had to be acknowledged. As if this couch was actually produced in China but you secretly thought it could have been made in Japan. You wanted it to be made in Japan but it was made in China, you couldn't acknowledge the fact that you bought it three years earlier did you old boy?


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: drkkenny] * 2
    #19266467 - 12/12/13 03:41 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

3. The Martyr
      The Martyr walks into the gas station and buy’s a scratch off hoping he’ll lose. His car is in pieces in the driveway, his Grandma just got diagnosed with cancer, and he doesn’t have money for next month’s rent. Those who don’t know The Martyr feel sad for him, but those who are acquainted with him know that his position in life is attributed mostly to his shitty attitude and self-esteem issues.
      The Martyr is a modern day minesweeper; he makes all the mistakes before you do so you don’t have to. He was raised religious, believes in evolution, and practices masturbation. The Martyr comes off as an optimistic pushover at best and a depressed two-face at worst. He makes poor decisions under the influence of drugs, and despite his doctor claiming otherwise, he believes he’s physically dependent on marijuana. He studies something, but not with very much attention or passion. He sees school and work as a lunch break from the daily grind of getting stoned.
      You don’t really remember how you met The Martyr, but he’s always been on pretty good terms with all of the other couch shamans. He never asks for money when he smokes you up, and he always has the best shit. The Martyr frequently confides in Mr. Couch for advice and counseling, with mixed results. He’s a reliable guy between 11 am and 3 pm, which is the brief period of time when he’s shuffling between classes or daydreaming, but at night he’s generally unreachable. He goes out on the weekends and hits on women who are out of his league, using pickup lines he found on the internet.
      The Martyr is not great to trip with; he mostly focuses on material things and trivial gossip. If he attempts to self-reflect or look inward it is typically met with bad vibes that are then projected around the couch and onto everyone else. The truth is, The Martyr has gotten the message but refuses to hang up the phone. While he should really avoid tripping and focus on getting his shit together, he has never given the plan serious consideration. The most redeemable quality about the Martyr is that he is strangely likeable once you get to know him. However, you’ll probably find yourself regretting the decision to include him in the group trip.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19266509 - 12/12/13 03:51 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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    #19266532 - 12/12/13 03:59 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

:highfive:
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    #19266573 - 12/12/13 04:07 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

having fun, keep it up :thumbup:


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    #19266857 - 12/12/13 05:20 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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    #19267001 - 12/12/13 05:55 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Let the fun continue:canthelpbutlaugh:


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This. is. awesome.

Keep going man, I can picture these people so well.


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    #19267494 - 12/12/13 07:29 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

so far i know someone to fit each of these descriptions, as well as this possibly rumored "silent susan" im excited to see how the rest of this pans out :thumbup:


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    #19267563 - 12/12/13 07:40 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Excellently written my man. well done :thumbup:


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    #19267793 - 12/12/13 08:18 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I think I have a few of these as my friends...


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    #19267801 - 12/12/13 08:19 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I'm digging this, but a little confused....

Maybe I'm dumb, but why is it people from the couch?
(just a random thing to say? Pop culture reference I missed?)


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: shLong]
    #19269196 - 12/13/13 02:43 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

:datass:
So many positive reactions, very glad my little creative outlet is being enjoyed.

As for "the couch" meaning, it's sort of a metaphor for drug culture in general... there wasn't really a pop-culture reference or slang there, I just drew a parallel between drug users and the fact that they tend to gather around/on couches.
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    #19269217 - 12/13/13 02:54 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

:lol: I have been enjoying it


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    #19269363 - 12/13/13 04:46 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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:hellyeah:

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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: the mad machinest] * 4
    #19270764 - 12/13/13 01:30 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

4. Susan Greene
      Did somebody say Starbucks? With all the warmth and energy of a cup of chai tea, Susan Greene is a welcomed addition to the order of The Couch. She’s elegant, irresistibly charming, and has a sweet tooth for drugs that only her closest friends know about.  Susan finds herself caught in a constant balancing act between being a health-conscious liberal, and exploring the fuck out of her body with drugs.
      Susan is the kind of girl you met through a friend, and immediately believed to be some sort of trick. Such a well-mannered, health-conscious woman surely doesn’t get stoned off her ass in her free time, does she? After about a day or two of smoking with her, you’ll feel bad you ever had your doubts. Simply put, Susan is good at being what she needs to be when she needs to be it.  When she smokes, she watches old stand-up acts of Cheech and Chong or Dave Chappelle while laughing like a child. Catch her sober, however, and she’s likely to be studying for a biochem exam while simultaneously talking to her mother on the phone and cooking a nice salmon and chives dish.
      Despite never going to the gym, Susan maintains a slim and healthy physique. You attribute this to genetics, but it’s probably tied to her field-mouse diet of leafy greens, string beans, and everything in between.  She always has money but never brags about it, and never overspends. Miss Greene doesn’t buy drugs; they fall into her lap. She keeps a cozy home, and everyone who comes over knows that they’re trading drugs for a warm meal and a soft chair. Naturally, all of the other couch shamans happily gravitate towards Susan’s hospitality.
      While she is great at being elegant and adaptable, there’s more to her than meets the eye. When she consumes alcohol, for instance, Susan engages in heavy gossip about anyone and everyone that comes to mind.  When tripping, she rapidly fluctuates between a tranquil soul and a harsh critic of all but herself. After some time of getting to know her, it becomes evident that Susan doesn’t really do drugs, the drugs do Susan. Regardless, she never means harm, and that banana bread now sitting on your plate more than makes up for the fact that she unknowingly insulted everyone in the room ten minutes prior.



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    #19271249 - 12/13/13 03:20 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

:africaface:  :superscream:  :sagan:


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    #19271445 - 12/13/13 04:07 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I don't have a clue on earth what you mean but I dig the vibe :shrug:


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    #19271507 - 12/13/13 04:24 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

After reading all of them, I think the one that my friends see me most is as Susan Greene, #4.


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    #19271578 - 12/13/13 04:41 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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    #19274584 - 12/14/13 12:31 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I'm not feeling the spark today.
I was going to write the profile for Pedro: the transient illegal immigrant who drives you around in his van, but it just wasn't flowing... not to mention it's a personality that's been beat to death by modern media.

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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse] * 3
    #19474339 - 01/25/14 10:34 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

5. Away Boy
    Away Boy sits down on the couch. He’s left a strange and unnecessarily large gap between himself and you. He takes out his phone and begins to pluck away at the screen out of instinct, as if he’s home in his room on a quiet Monday night. The only problem is that it’s not a quiet Monday night; it’s Friday and the rest of the room is engaged in happy, clumsy, conversation while Away Boy continues to distance himself from the situation.
    Trying to make conversation with this man is a challenge, and squeezing multiple sentences out of him is a feat worthy of a trophy. He listens to music that no one else understands, he’s dating a girl who doesn’t know his middle name, and people constantly forget he’s in the room. His mom stopped asking how his day was on his fifth birthday, and his dad had resigned before he was born. Alarmingly, none of this fazes Away Boy, for he maintains a perpetually stoned headspace; a soft cushion to rest against at the end of a long and empty day.
    The problem with Away Boy is that he can’t put himself in the moment, for he is too focused on his insecurities and potential problems of the future. He constantly finds himself on the outskirts of a social landscape, and you’ve been trying to bring him inside for months. After all, he is a modest and honest person, despite his social shortcomings.  You get a suspicion that he could really benefit from some MDMA, but have never voiced it. You know as well as he does that drugs are just a temporary patch to Away Boy’s problems, and what he needs is something more sustaining.
    Away Boy stands to profit from a life-changing trip, but he knows that will never happen. He simply can’t let it all go, so to speak. Instead of doing drugs with Away Boy, you should talk to him in a sober setting, get lunch with him, and get him to open up to you.  Who knows? Maybe one day someone will make it over that moat he has been digging around himself since he was born.



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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19474363 - 01/25/14 10:39 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

Awesome thread OP, but it made me sad because your description of "The Martyr" practically describes me to the t. :wtfsonic:


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    #19474376 - 01/25/14 10:42 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

Thanks!

It's ok if you can relate, I can too. A lot of people have several of these characters inside of them, that's why I thought it'd be interesting to put words to them.

I actually had a trip last night where I specifically remember going "I'm becoming more and more like The Martyr". Set me in the right direction and now i'm moving towards a more healthy day-to-day.

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    #19474399 - 01/25/14 10:48 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

These kinda fit my circle... kinda but little things are too specific on them?

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    #19474412 - 01/25/14 10:52 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

I'm basically deconstructing every acquaintance & friend i've ever done drugs with, finding similar traits, and grouping them into exaggerated forms. It's working well so far, but some of them will inherently come across as more shallow or lower quality than others.

I like how it's going, but it is hard to dig these generalizations out. It gets easier every time I get high or trip with my friends though  :thumbup:

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    #19474421 - 01/25/14 10:55 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

Mouse you forgot the mean sarcastic ass/Dickhead that tells the others to shut the fuck up or just plain punches them dead in the face.
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    #19474424 - 01/25/14 10:55 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

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Mouse you forgot the mean sarcastic ass/Dickhead that tells the others to shut the fuck up or just plain punches them dead in the face.
He's my favorite.




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    #19474442 - 01/25/14 10:59 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

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Mouse you forgot the mean sarcastic ass/Dickhead that tells the others to shut the fuck up or just plain punches them dead in the face.
He's my favorite.




He's coming.



YAY I gotta hear this. This thread is great so far.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19474475 - 01/25/14 11:06 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

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I'm basically deconstructing every acquaintance & friend i've ever done drugs with, finding similar traits, and grouping them into exaggerated forms. It's working well so far, but some of them will inherently come across as more shallow or lower quality than others.

I like how it's going, but it is hard to dig these generalizations out. It gets easier every time I get high or trip with my friends though  :thumbup:

I'm an analyzer, and this is me attempting to sharpen my craft.



:thatsinteresting:

You got ones comeing for the, Dr. Jekly/Mr. Hyde drunk that is overly nice and self concious when he is sober to "make up" for the times he fucks up while drunk or high.

Or Mr. never fucked up could always use another beer/bump/cap/tab/roll/pill/whippet/sip/hit and never appears to be more than mildly intoxicated.

Also the unapologetic fuck up.

Those are 3 big ones I see in my friend group. But don't listen to me this is your list and your thread not trying to high jack, I just really like where your going with this.  :kingtard:


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: r00tuuu123] * 1
    #19474482 - 01/25/14 11:08 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

That Op is awesome.It would be a good movie intro :lol: You seem to have what it takes to be a writer MM :popcorn:


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    #19474513 - 01/25/14 11:14 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

Away Boy hit me hard. Too much to relate to in him. :frown:

Wonderful work, Modest Mouse. I thoroughly enjoy everything that you have written. Please, please keep this up. :thumbup:


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I feel these characters should be involved in a game of clue at the end.


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    #19474622 - 01/25/14 11:39 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

this thread gets deeper and deeper with every character added, keep it up modest mouse it is really rather eye opening


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    #19476913 - 01/26/14 01:41 PM (10 years, 4 days ago)

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Love it! Keep it up. Very well written, I feel like I can relate to a lot of these people in my own life.


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    #19482228 - 01/27/14 04:32 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

6.

Wiggles...

He's in his forties or fifties, you're not sure... you see him around town at casinos and pawn shops about as often as you see him at your dealers house.  Which was where you met him.  He was wigging out so bad that out of concern for a near perfect stranger's well being, you offered him a Xanax bar to help him settle down.

"No thanks buddy, I just shot a quarter gram, I want to be able to feel it."

Okay buddy, as long as you know what you're doing.

It's hard to tell what wiggles deal is.  Some days he seems ate up out of his mind, other days he's on the ball and you think he must have just been tired last time.  He's always willing to take a look at your gear and comment on it without wanting to bum any.  One time you and your friend were leaving the casino after winning 5,000 dollars and he jumped out from behind a car and scared the shit out of you two.  And needed a ride a couple blocks over.  Sometimes you see him looking strangley confident and content with his lot in life, like he has figured out a secret to life that everyone else in the game has overlooked.


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    #19482294 - 01/27/14 04:45 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

7.

The foreigner who deals in stolen property...

This guys is a trip, he's obviously immigrated to the united states from Africa on a student visa and then just went on the run.  He's smart as shit, and is new to stimulants and African-American gansta culture.  So he has a funny nickname, something like a cross between a stripper name and a rapper name.

Sometimes shit's dry and as a last resort you call him up but you never spend more than 40 dollars as a rule.  Half the time you get ripped off, but you never know if he did it on purpose or was oblivious.

So you go to his hotel room and grit your teeth and get thru his sales pitches.  "I give u cash and shit for a freshly stolen credit card."

"It's good shit too, oh shit, I had five bags of shit and four pills, I loose two pils and a bag, you help me find it."

You let out a groan because he does this shit every time.  And you know that as soon as you start looking around the hotel room, he's going to realize that you're keeping any crystal or oxy that you find, and commands you to freeze and stop looking.  But if you don't help him look he's going to get offended.

He's pretty butthurt that you only have thirty dollars to your name even though your spending all of it on his shit, so after you buy your drugs, the stolen property auction begins.

"Right now, how much you give me for this car amp."

"Look congo, I don't have any money."

"No, right now, how much will you give me for this, plus a dvd player."

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    #19482417 - 01/27/14 05:16 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

8.

The teenaged lesbian oxy hookup.

So anybody who's been in the pill game in any major city in the united states has often wondered out loud, pondered and puzzled over, and discussed with their friends, why, why is it that if you want to buy oxy pills you have to go through a teenaged lesbian. 

You realize it's because their mom and dad are both pain patients, but you often wonder why people broken backs who are dying of cancer struggle to get more than 45 tylenol 3's a month, but Momma lesbian, who you saw on Jerry Springer last month, get's 1500 roxy 30's, 270 OP 80's, 580 methadone 10's, and 240 xanax 2 mg pills a month for body pains associated with crack use.

Everything about these lesbians sketches you the fuck out, they grew up in chaos to drug addicted parents, and to them that's the norm.  Everytime you deal with them is a fifty fifty shot of getting hemmed up.  Last two times you met them, they were being tailed by jumpout vans.  But you're addicted to pills so you put up with their shit.

Also though, despite the fact that they make over 6 figures a year selling their prescriptions and are collecting social security, disability, and are living off a settlement from their last prison stint, they are always hard up for cash, and for some reason can't find marijuana.  So they are always offering you these crazy deals...

"Look, if you lend us 100 dollars so we can go to the doctor tomorrow, we'll give you 20 roxies and toss you a couple dones tomorrow, and we'll leave our newborn daughter as collateral."

"Hey I'll give you 10 roxy 30's for a half ounce of brick weed, RIGHT NOW!"

You really hate your addiction to pain pills because you have to deal with these lesbians.  The feds have been building a case against them and you now have an FBI number and surveilance file.


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    #19482505 - 01/27/14 05:39 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

9.  The scrapper

This guy either lives in a shack behind his mom's house, or lives in a condemned house that he is not legally allowed to be in until he pays his tax and utility bills.  You know for a fact it's not fit for occupancy because you have seen people arrested for trespassing when the cops caught them leaving the house.

But he's a genius mechanic, a jack of all trades, and above all, a scrapper.  Offer him any type of honest work and he'll turn down your proposal.  But tell him you'll give him five bucks and a quarter gram, and he'll drive 60 miles round trip and do 300 hundred dollars of mechanic labor on your broke down car.  And amazingly fix your car on the fly no matter what is wrong with it. 

Offer him twenty dollars and he'll gladly drive you to any drug deal of any size at any time of the day.

You're impressed, he blows his own meth pipes out of test tubes you found in the trash.  He makes pretty good money cashing in pallets, cans, and scrap metal by the ton. 

It blows your mind how many catallitic converters, copper gutters, radiators, refigerators, and copper pipes that he finds in the trash while he dumpster dives for scrap metal.  Last week he found a set of rims in the trash that he sold on craigslist for 300 dollars. 

You go over their one night for a half gram, and when you go to leave, you turn your car on and it starts running 10 times as loud, like there is a hole in your exhaust...


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19482527 - 01/27/14 05:45 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

I like The Scrapper. These obviously don't fit into my plot but i'm digging the creativity.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19482552 - 01/27/14 05:48 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

yeah you definately inspired me...i realized i was straying from the template of people you smoke pot and trip with into the uglier (although funnier and more exciting, with more tragic and severe consequences) world of hard drugs and narcotics.

Technically, they are still people you will meet on the couch, whether your living on theirs or them on yours, but I must say, there was no real creativity on my part, just straight reporting lol.

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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19482570 - 01/27/14 05:52 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

Yeah I don't see a problem with it, it's actually unfortunate that I don't encounter your "crowd" more often, because I'd love to be able to write up a convincing meth or heroin character. As of now, I can't. Which may or may not be why my entries are becoming more spaced out over time. Maybe I will take the best of what you've written and combine it into a character that I find something interesting in. Although writing a character I have never met will be tough. hmm...


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    #19482598 - 01/27/14 05:58 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

let me write up some more stories, every convincing heroin addicted girl prostitues themselves on backpage for example...not sure if you knew that lol.


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    #19482650 - 01/27/14 06:14 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

10.  The guy with an anger problem and ten to spend in the pen...


You meet this guy and realize that he's og.  He likes to pull his shotgun out of the couch during arguments with customers over chump change.

You'd tell the guy in front of you to shut up and quit holding up the line, but you can tell that the dealer is enjoying the altercation too much.

He's obviously done steroids and hard time, you can tell by the muscles, tattoos, and the stories he tells you about dealing heroin and steroids in state prison.  He's in his forties, lives with mom, skipped bail in new mexico on his second to latest meth distribution case, and everything he says and does gives the indication that he's "family."

"Look man, every hundred dollars in business you bring me, I'll give you a half gram..."

"Look, I'm going to reup right now, give me 80 bucks for a gram right now, and I'll give you a quarter gram when I get back and a half gram next time I reup, if I get that extra twenty bucks from you I can get two zips RIGHT NOW..."

Against your better judgement, you continue dealing with him, because he lives down the street from you and his meth feels like ecstasy and opiates combined, you've never seen heisenburg shit like this accept for that blue stuff on the television show Breaking Bad...

So it comes time to collect your free half gram and you go over there.  He's breaking apart a 7 gram rock and drops half of it on his desk and little shards go flying all over the floor...

"Well my bag just got smaller, check this out."

He then starts yelling at the top of his lungs for his step dad to get down there, he's got a job for him.  It takes a minute, because his step dad is in his sixties and has a spinal condition and needs a walker.

"Hey if you get on your hands and knees and crawl under my desk there's a bunch of crumbs in the carpet, you might be able to get yourself a free quarter gram."

The stepdad objects, explaining his physical condition and how sometimes the meds work better than other days, but a verbal altercation keeps escalating between the two.  You are expecting a fight until your dealer turns around and gives you the I'm just fucking with this guy look.  HILARIOUS



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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19482728 - 01/27/14 06:30 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

actually, after reading my entries today, here is the best advice I can give you for a convincing meth or heroin junky...

make sure you describe and include their SENSE OF URGENCY...

they need stuff RIGHT NOW...

everybody who does business with them capitalizes on this by being instock with cash to front, lighters, packs of cigarrettes, a running car, etc, etc.


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    #19482803 - 01/27/14 06:43 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

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Mouse you forgot the mean sarcastic ass/Dickhead that tells the others to shut the fuck up or just plain punches them dead in the face.
He's my favorite.



Mouse WTF do I have to write myself? I wanna see how close ya get. I'll get ya started picture a death Lemmy with a piss poor attitude.


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    #19482847 - 01/27/14 06:53 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

11.  Uncle Reemus

Uncle Reemus in the black uncle you never had.  It's not his place to preach or instill, he just tells you what he he has observed over his 45 years in the hood and the game, the game of life.  He's the black version of your dad and you actually listen to what he says because it's wise, makes sense, he doesn't push the issue, and he casts his pearls while you roll bowls of meth, and  you never really have to match him, just give him rides and help him sell pills and occasionally hook his babies momma up with weed.

The only down side of Uncle Reemus is that he throws gasoline on the fire that is his exprostitute drama queen wife.  She belittles him for being black and a crack head, and he makes fun of her for being a whore and occasionally he accuses you of stealing his wifes pussy, renting out your bedroom to his wife so she can escort, and he has accused you and all of your friends of having threesomes with his wife.

Just like everyone else in your life, they are too much to handle, but you make so much money dealing with them that you put up with their shit.  Plus some of the things Uncle Reemus and his wife say to each other is the funniest stuff you have ever heard.

"Where's your brillo pad at chore boy?  Fuckin Crackhead, negro family, SpecialEd, did you know that Reemus's family used to deal crack out of a hole in the fence???"

"Look at Uncle Reemus sucking the glass dick, did you know he assrapes me?" etc etc etc.



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    #19482987 - 01/27/14 07:13 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

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    #19483333 - 01/27/14 08:10 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

12.  The guy that's trying too hard...

So this guy is new to town, but not new to the scene.  Give him any opportunity and he'll tell you he invented drug dealing and the game.  He's eager to meet new people and burst onto the scene, so he's a good person to deal with at the moment.

He finds out you can get roxies and wants three of them...you're looking for shit which he just so happens to have.  He'll sell you a half gram for forty bucks but he wants three roxy thirties at twenty bucks a piece.

You meet up with him ten minutes later at chucky cheese's...

He starts lecturing you about how real he is and how he hopes you are as real as you say you are.  Then shrugs it off, "I feel like I have to say that to people."

So he shows you the half gram shard, and it looks fire, you say, well I owe you forty and you owe me sixty, let's just exchange and you give me a twenty...

"ABSOLUTELY NOT!"

"Whatsup now?"

"I have rules that I keep to keep my money right.  I don't do trades like that, it fucks the money up."

"I see," you say while you think what a fucking jackass this guy is.  But you need the money and drugs and you still got plenty of oxy's at home.  You realize you're going to have to treat him like a woman or a kid... "Well then, can I sell you your oxy's for sixty bucks first, and then use forty dollars of the money you give me to buy the half gram."

"Yeah that's cool."

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    #19483365 - 01/27/14 08:19 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

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lol you've met some fucked up people!





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    #19483469 - 01/27/14 08:39 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

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    #19483547 - 01/27/14 08:57 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

The Jack Boy.

So you've been posted up at the same hotel for about a week too long, and to make matters worse, you're friend had mexicans over twice the night before to re up while you were asleep.

These mexicans are heavy on the weight and fucking crazy, you're friend wasn't really trying to get anything on front street, because he knows that should anything happen and he can't pay them back the next day, bad shit is going to happen.

Well these cholos pushed more weight on him than he wanted or could safely deal with, but the debt was paid down to where 40 dollars was left but you guys still had over a 7 to work with.

Until your hotel door gets kicked in at midnight and mexicans have seized control in what is a hostile takeover.

The spokesperson of the group explains that your buddy owes them A BILL RIGHT NOW, and that he doesn't give a fuck about going to prison, that your buddy has put you and everyone in the room in a fucked up situation and if you can't save your friend by paying off his now inflated 100 dollar debt, bad shit is going to happen.

Guns are out, these guys look too professional and bone chilling to even think about fucking with, and the way they control the room, gather up everyone's cell phones and threaten you while at the same time being level headed and respectful is just two much.  You give them 250 dollars in dope because that's all you have and hope that they are satisfied and leave you alone.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19483552 - 01/27/14 08:58 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

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    #19483560 - 01/27/14 09:00 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

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    #19483617 - 01/27/14 09:10 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

lol, true in many ways. Good Read


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    #19483702 - 01/27/14 09:28 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

Jung would be proud OP!

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    #19483730 - 01/27/14 09:33 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

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    #19483895 - 01/27/14 10:14 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

13.  The wishaniggawould (aka uncle reemus's wife aka momma lesbian)

So here's the deal, uncle reemus's wife maybe into distribution, but she's not in it for the money or the drugs, she's in it for the drama.  She's usually spun out of her mind and loaded, but you're afraid to rob her...until you realize that she wishes a nigga would.

Why?  Why else would she fall asleep in your apartment and drop a teener baggy of shit on your floor.  Why else does she pass out in the back seat of your car and "accidentally" drop 3000 dollars in cash all over the back seat of your car?  Because she wants you to steal it so she has something to bitch about and hold over your head.

Not on my watch momma lesbian, don't you ever sleep on Barry O.  You don't fall for that shit, it's not worth the easy come up.  But eventually she insults your intelligence too much so you do things like steal 20 methadone right out of her bottle right in front of her and she ain't even know it.

Or the time she has you hook her up with a forty bag.  You park at the spot and tell her to wait while you wind through the apartment buildings to meet your dood in his staircase.  You get back in your car with her shit, and she wakes up, reaches into her bra and pulls out half a dozen bags of dope, randomly selects one and holds it in your face and says...

"What the fuck, is this what I get for forty bucks."

You're offended, because you haven't even had a chance to hand her her shit, but also because she's holding a teener in your face and bitching about it like you ripped her off, even though you would have lost atleast sixty dollars to hook that up for forty...

"WOULD THAT BE A PROBLEM WITH YOU IF THAT WAS WHAT I GAVE YOU FOR FORTY BUCKS."

Not knowing that you never gave her a damn thing, she calls you an asshole under her breathe and drops the issue, you get a free half gram of good shit lol.

you try and put them on the game but they ain't want no knowledge



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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19484017 - 01/27/14 10:45 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

14.  Ain't trying to do no more serves in the tennis court.


Alright so this homeboy is a total pos, but he has entertainment value because he's a smooth talker, excellent only at one liners and kissing his own ass.

You've dealt with him twice and been burned both times, but it has been explained to you that it was on you.  Because he's only safe to deal with when he's fresh out of county, where he ate and slept everyday for 30 days straight.  You have a 72 hour window to buy and sell shit to him after his sentence has been served and the court commitment is up.  After those 72 hours are up, he has effectively been up for 72+ hours and is on some scandelous shit.

The last time you saw him he asked you why you hadn't been fucking with him no more, and in your head you first thought of saying...

"Because you are the worst piece of shit to deal with, you've ripped me off twice."

...but instead you think about all the cool assed shit he's said over the course of a few months like.

"WHHHHOOOOWEEEEE, next time WARNA BROTHA!"

"Ain't trying to do no more serves in the tennis court, they got a ci overlooking that motherfucker."

"That first serve, that first serve gonna be so good, and then, and then after that, IT AIN"T GONNA STOP."

In your head you think he means that first serve when he gets out of jail.  But eventually you realize he's bragging about hooking a new person up proper, and then just robbing the shit out of them each and every return deal.



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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19486091 - 01/28/14 12:46 PM (10 years, 3 days ago)

15.  The needle enthusiast

the needle enthusiast is an intravenous drug usuer usually suffering from denial and actively engaging in rationalization.  They will constantly tell you that using a needle is the cleanest, safest, and most efficient way to do drugs.

They explain to you that you can't get meth mouth from an iv methamphetamine habit.  You remind them of your mutual friend who died in the hospital last week of a bacterial heart infection caused from needles.  They get mad and say that was an asshole thing to bring up..."Why don't you just make fun of my hepatitis C while you're at it..."

They explain to you that it's the most efficient way to stretch your dose because you get 100 percent of it.  You say yeah but your tolerance has skyrocketed and a gram that lasts me a week lasts you 4 doses.  They then get mad and say they're blind in their left eye from shooting coke.


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    #19499481 - 01/31/14 12:59 AM (10 years, 12 hours ago)

I wouldn't call this one high quality but I think Mouse will get a kick out of it.

Thing One and Thing Two

Cheech and Chong. Snoop and Wiz. Harold and Kumar. Stoners seem to pair up as if they're in line for the Ark. Thing One and Thing Two are at first impression sharp foils to one another, a testament to cannabis's ability to bring people together.

One appears as hardcore as they come. First impressions are naught but shock and awe. There's more ink than pink under his clothes and he can only explain half of it. The inside of his lower lip is adorned with the worst of obscenities and when his friends ask him to show new people his expression is a paradox of pride and embarrassment. You're not sure if his facial hair is matted deliberately or if it just grows that way. You'd compare it to the mop on top if only he would remove his hat sometime. His vocabulary is modest but not uneducated, however his boisterous flamboyance grants him an air of arrogance and ignorance. One will openly admit to dabbling in everything from bud to crystal but claims he's terrified of dope.

Then we have Two. His beanie, thick-framed square glasses, tight-fitting khakis, and converse sneakers make it easy to pigeonhole him as one of the hipsters of olde. When One is about, he takes a backseat to his partner's antics and resumes a mild-mannered and permissive observation post at the opposite end of the same couch, laughing on cue and occasionally tossing in a vanilla comment on one of One's tirades. You know there's more to him but he's just not a sharer, except when it comes to weed. He's of equal stature to his pal but he just seems to take up less space on the couch, possibly due to his tight clothes and the way he crosses his ankles in front of him when he sits down.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: DocBrown]
    #19500332 - 01/31/14 08:44 AM (10 years, 4 hours ago)

I love that one Doc, what a strange duo those folks were. The writing is quality too :thumbup:


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    #19502272 - 01/31/14 05:02 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

The grimey pos opiate thief

In japan, they have many words for many things.  In the world of professional opiate addicts, they have millions of grimey hustles, cons, and tricks. 

Most stimulant users steal your lighters, electronics left around the house, and electronics from walmart to sell at pawn shops.

The opiate user steals your wallet, calls the number on the back of your debit card, and uses the info on your drivers license to get your debit card changed.  He hates pawn shops with a passion, he would never fence stolen property to those greedy jewish bastards.  In fact, they make him sick, he wouldn't waste the gas in his stolen car to drive over there so he could sell a gift card for 50 percent of the value.  But he will steal anything left outside afterhours that his angle grinder and bolt cutters can unchain.

He wants your cash receipts and your mother's maiden name.  He wants to know if you can still do recieptless walmart returns, or if you are maxed out for the next six months.

Sometimes he calls you and asks if you need any roxies and if you can get any roxies.  Jokingly, you suggest that he do the roxies he has.  Which causes him to loose his cool.  Because he's spent the last two years of his life on the math that makes the plan he's executing work.

Ever seen those people on the news that can tell you what day of the week any date fell on in the last twenty years?  This guy is like that with retail stores return policies.  He knows what gas stations you can buy scratcher tickets with debit/credit...he knows what gas stations do receipless cash returns no questions asked on 10 dollar and under amounts, he knows how to steal quarters out of laundry and vending machines, he has collaborated extensively with the scrapper and sold all kinds of batteries, metal, and copper from phone and utility junction boxes to the scrapyard.

He's like the macguyver smoker of theft.  He's also collaborated extensively with the needle enthusiast and learned how to rationalize and be in denial.  He thinks he is a good guy because he doesn't go after women or children, just their belongings, which reminds him, he has some gold jewelry he'd like for you to sell at the we buy gold place down the road.  His favorite catch phrase is "I'm like robinhood, I steal from the rich and give to the poor."



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    #19502367 - 01/31/14 05:24 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

^^^ also noteworthy that the opiate thief often goes ten to fifteen years without getting hemmed up, but when he does, he gets a mix of ten to fifteen misdemeanors and nonperson felonies all in one life crushing blow.  trespassing with unknown circumstances is ALWAYS one of the misdemeanor charges and it is usually dismissed by the prosecutor as part of the plea deal or amended to disorderly conduct.


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    #19502986 - 01/31/14 07:32 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

The wikipedia

The wikipedia has been touched on here and there in folklore and popular culture, but a comprehensive view of this good ole boy has never been offered in such a succinct manner until now.

The wikipedia is named such because he is an diehard amateur know it all.  He may not be a book smart man, but he knows what street intelligence is, jenny.  Like wikipedia, all of the knowledge that he drops on you is user submitted and should always be treated as potentially erroneous, and ALWAYS be verified.

He's not unlike the You should have been there smoker, and he has a lot in common with the jailhouse lawyers you will meet in county.  He loves to talk about r and b dope, strychnine in acid, urban legends, how strong marijuana of today is, and he has all sorts of false legal advice.  One time he got busted with two pounds of weed, but the cops didn't read him his rights, so he walked.

"Did you know if a cop is following you and you make three turns he has to back off, and if he doesn't, it's harrassment."

"That's not true that if you ask someone if they're a cop that they have to tell you if they are.  But if they lie to you they can't bust you for anything..."

Suprisingly, these guys hate oneupmanship just as much as you do.  But, beware, these guys are butthurt and have chips on their shoulders.  They tend to be fugitives from other states, where they are wanted for the most trumped up retarded felony charges you have ever heard.  Once they get a few hundred miles away from their homestate, they are safe, because nobody is extraditing them back to georgia for felony grand theft of farm equipment.

They are just basically good ole boys, never meanin' no harm, beats all you ever saw been in trouble with the law since the day they were born.

If you ever buy drugs from them, you have to put the twenty dollars down on their computer desk, and then they will point to your 0.2 grams of meth under the mouse pad that you have to pick up yourself (very important).  This offers them legal protection even though they sent you a picture message of the bag on their digital scales with the led readout indicating 0.6 grams.  The text read "The baggy weighs 0.4 grams, here's what I got for twenty bucks, RIGHT NOW."


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    #19503319 - 01/31/14 08:36 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

The Gemini rising...

The Gemini rising is a meth baby that is disguised as a casual meth user who is currently pretending that he is a meth dealer.

Don't get me wrong he sells drugs on a very small scale, and he does drugs constantly, but he a very small tolerance, which is in sharp contrast to his tall tales and vivid imagination.

He's kind of looking for a friend, but mainly just needs a good listener so he can tell you all of his cool assed stories.  He is linked to all 7 billion people in the world by a maximum TWO degrees of separation.  Sorry assed motherfuckers like you and me would need six degrees to achieve this.  He has been to every city in the United States and his family is friends with every millionaire in the tri-state area.

He has a fifty five gallon barrel drum of black iodine buried in the woods, two gallons of safrole in his basement, and he spent a good part of his childhood cutting the red tips off of matches.  Sometimes, you feel like pointing out that the red phosphorus is actually in the strips that you strike the match heads on, but the point is moot as the story is complete bullshit anyways.

He is scared to death of dodge chargers, and sometimes you wonder why he continues drugs as a hobby, you can see the fear in him as he is the first to hear imaginary sirens, helicopters, and he has accused everyone and their brother of being undercover in the 6 months that you have known him.

He is younger than everyone in the group, and he makes all his moves like a high school athlete does, obviously following the instructions of an older, more experienced coach.  9 times out of ten, this guy will have immediate family members that are cops which makes you wonder if he is undercover, or selling drugs for the police.  Either way would be cool with you if he would just shut the fuck up about knowing the guy that invented the one pot method.


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    #19503622 - 01/31/14 09:55 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

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    #19503674 - 01/31/14 10:07 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

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    #19503937 - 01/31/14 11:07 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

The people that treat you like God because you can get weed.

These people are always funny and annoying at the same time.  They are your neighbors, coworkers, bosses, younger brothers, uncles, and cousins.  Statistics show that 3 out of 10 times they are asian.

They are in the honeymoon phase of their drug use.  Weed is such a strong narcotic and hallucinogenic to them, they think that anyone who does anything besides that and or a 5 milligram vicodin has a death wish and serious drug problem.

Your at that phase where you ended your love affair with marijuana two years ago when it turned on you after being stoned every day from ages 12 to 25, but a good portion of your supplemental income comes from selling marijuana to the people that think you are pablo escobar for doing so.

These guys are a mixture of cute and annoying.  They're cute because their green behind the ears and naieve, but you still make a killing hooking them up proper.  You can overcharge them 10 dollars and short them a gram, and your still hooking them up twice as fat their other hookup, Rodney.

You're used to selling x pills by the hundred, coke by the ball, shit by the quarter ounce, and oxy by the milligram, for a dollar every milligram.  Which is why your perception has warped to the point that you forget it's even a felony to sell these guys weed.  It definately doesn't sketch you out or give you feelings of guilt ever.  Which is why you're always caught off guard when they start kissing your ass out of the blue, or you catch them telling lies or talking black in an attempt to impress you.

Eventually their admiration turns to resentment, and they start talking shit on you. 

"Wow, that was sure fast hooking up that ounce of reg, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you're a dealer and not a middleman."

Blah blah hate the player just don't hate the game.  You ignore comments like that, but eventually they get bold enough to try and burn you on a ten dollar front, which finally annoys you to the point that you cut them off.

After they haven't smoked weed for three months, they come crawling back to you with your ten bucks and their tail between their legs and the process repeats itself.





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    #19504067 - 01/31/14 11:31 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

The legitimately cool story teller.

This guy is pretty much the most interesting man in the world from the dos equis beer commercials.  You're used to rolling your eyes and saying cool story bro, tell it again, but when this guys tells a story, you say cool story sir, got any others?

When he gets off on technicalities on the cases he catches or diffuses confrontations originating from random chance encounters with law enforcement, he does so by magic synchronicities, coincidences, and developments that have far fetched odds of ever happening.  Basically, he is lucky, not full of shit, and that's how you can tell the difference between him and a bullshitter.

The cops actually find his drugs, they just don't recognize them as such.  That index card the cops pulled out of his wallet was actually a half sheet of acid with them being none the wiser.  Back in the 80's the cops actually found twenty ecstasy pills during a search of his vehicle, but he told them they were vitamins, and the cops gave them back.  The bullshitter has ounces stuffed in his sock, and when he gets cuffed and put in the back of the cop car, he slips his cuffed hands over the hump of his ass, all the way down his legs and removes the zips from his socks and stuffed them down the crack between the seat and backrest, where they've been for the last 5 years.

This guy got 30,000 dollars fronted to him to hook up a friend of a friend with 4 pounds of meth.  But something told him not to do it, so he went to the casinos with the money, lost half of it, and then went on the run, only to be caught one state over a few months down the road.  The way you know he's telling the truth is he still did 24 months in club fed for his part in the conspiracy and he's actually shown you the paper work.  The bullshitter usually throws the marked money on the ground seconds before the swat team cuffs him, effectively destroying the case they had against him, and he gets off scott free.



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    #19531144 - 02/06/14 03:19 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

6. The Man Who Lost His Name

There he is on State street
Some half block ahead of your present position, or lack thereof
He’s relatively Mexican
In that he’s got more Mexican in him than other folks you see around

Standing there
Being poor
Smoking some manor of a rolled cigarette
Which contains more than a legal buzz

The ol’ 60/40 blend
PCP and pipe tobacco
Sloppily rolled together
In haste yet tired routine

The tobacco tells the real story here
The real punchline to the joke
PCP is just the metaphor - old and misunderstood
But having more use than credited for

His outfit accommodates for several types of weather
While being positively suitable for none
He’s wearing a shirt that says “Bring your own acid”
You laugh at the thought and continue walking

Your parents taught you better than to talk to this figure
A million books without an ending sit in his library
Going somewhere with his feet and nowhere in his head
He’s on a mission to remember his name

Seemed to have escape him in that one acid trip
Back in '97
When the girls were still around
Lost along with everything else he used to posses

You won’t get to trip with him
But you’d like to
Perhaps behind a piece of bulletproof glass
And a dozen armed guards

You hope you see him on the way back
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    #19531196 - 02/06/14 03:28 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

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    #19531540 - 02/06/14 04:26 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

Ginger and Hollywood

Jeremiah was a bullfrog, Ginger was Hollywood's two for one special partner, and Hollywood was a back page escort.  Call it a two for one all you want, this is a three dog night.  Consequences will Never be the same.

You gotta steal a page out of uncle reemus's book on this one,  It's not your place to judge and instill, you're getting paid to drive.  Fifty bucks to drive to the mark, go hang out for an hour or so, then swoop Ginger and Hollywood.  Definitely enough money to take the moral low road, just take a spiritual shower when you get home, you're soul will just seem dirty.

You do the math in your head, they're splitting 250 after taxes, keep in mind tho, there are costs associating with escorting.  It costs about 25 dollars to post an ad.  You gotta buy those pastels of eye shadow and tights.  Even though it didn't apply to tonight's outcall, sometimes you gotta rent a room for incalls.  And pay somebody 40 bucks to put the room in their name...this shit really adds up.  Plus dope too.

You do these things a couple times, and after earning several hundred dollars driving and renting rooms, you realize how far ahead you're coming out.  Ginger and Hollywood are soulless and dead inside.

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    #19531706 - 02/06/14 05:05 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

The Much Older Guru Who Secretly Wants To Fuck You

This guy has your best interests at heart...really. You're a young impressionable girl who's just started out on her spiritual quest and you really need some guidance. He's usually rather fit although old as fuck and has a few ready quotes from other gurus who got a lot more pussy than he did. (He's still perfecting his technique.) He talks a lot about expansion, especially when he's expanding inside of you...but we can talk about that later. For now, he'll divide his time between sucking up to you and also making little comments that poke at your self esteem...taking a bit *too* many drugs are we? A few unhealthy lifestyle choices? He can show you the way, enlighten you...Trip with him and he offers the door to God..and maybe even a threesome when he gets really good at it. It's so simple to drive a young girl's car...straight into HELL!!! :crazy2:


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19531709 - 02/06/14 05:06 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

I'm lost on that one Ed


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19531748 - 02/06/14 05:16 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

it's the last game of the season, cant hold anything back now.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19531888 - 02/06/14 05:42 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

I really dig the poetic format of no. 6.

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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Legend]
    #19531977 - 02/06/14 05:58 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

:manofapproval:

Thanks. I really wanted to do some free verse and this one practically wrote itself. I see this character and his derivatives very often on my daily commute.


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    #19577469 - 02/16/14 10:46 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

7. The Father

    He arrives. Mingles through the door with the Werewolves of London prancing behind him in some rendition of a single file line.  His hair is an asymmetric result of grease, time, and gravity; a strange yet familiar product of several years of drug use and calculated abandonment. A beard of sorts wraps around his chin, gray as they come. Much of his appearance, like his personality, comes as a thick haze. Almost as if all of the smoke he’s been flirting with for so many years has finally decided it’d like to spend the night. Being naturally interested in the odd and boisterous, you sense the spark here immediately, and walk over for a chat.
    It’s made clear halfway through your greeting: this man’s the real deal. Talking with him is something like putting your shoes on:  with almost zero precision (or sobriety) required you can achieve desired results quite promptly. He speaks fondly of the old days: the weed, the acid, that legendary line of cocaine off the dashboard of his old VW Microbus. This conversation is some sort of ritualistic baton pass that seems to take place whenever an elder and a young gun cross paths, and you’re eating it up. After all, The Father has done everything you could think of. It’s not even a matter of bragging, his demeanor tells as much of his story as that “professional enough” tattoo sloppily perched on the back of his neck next to the Dancing Bears.
    Turns out he’s an engineer of sorts, a real brain, who works for a government contractor across town. He can fix most problems you’ll encounter with whatever happens to be in his left pocket at the time, a handy dude to have around when the going gets tough and the tough get lost. He’s relatively responsible, in that his job demands it. It’s clear that this man can’t really afford to smoke weed and kick back regularly anymore, but he just can’t let go of the lifestyle. If you linger around long enough, you may be able to smell his last blunt on the fringe of his leather jacket. Pungent, but not off-putting. If The Father had a biography that would be it’s tagline.
    After discussing with him the revolution of recent technology and it’s effects on society, you decide it’s getting late. You down that last drink and he follows suit. He throws a solitary bill on the table for the bartender...

A two.

    The cocktease of tips. Enough to silence any possible complaints but certainly not a generosity by any stretch of the imagination.  As you make your way to the door, he shouts goodbye to somebody named “Big Ed” who returns the gesture from some unseen location. You start your goodbye and aim for your car when you’re met with the old “nah, follow me” nod. Expecting a joint and Pink Floyd, you hop into his car for a burn. You make yourself comfortable and get out your lighter upon realizing that without hesitation, he has pulled out a bag of crystal the size of your fist from underneath the drivers seat.

Meth. Fuck.

    You attempt to throw a curveball: “So how old did you say your kid was?”. A small distraction, you pray he doesn’t see this for what it is. You’ve never done meth, and that cherry isn’t one you planned on popping. “18 months… precious girl… wife’s watching her tonight”, he says as he crushes up a small shard. Your pitch fails and before you know it you’re feeling the come up of a quick and dirty stimulant. You stay for a story and a half about the 80’s and his small time touring with “The Dead”, and then hastily exchange a farewell as you tweak-walk your way to your car and shove home.
    The Father has impressed you, gotten you to try a drug you’d never have considered, and told you some kickass stories all in a short night’s encounter. “If only I could see what his day-to-day is like”, you ponder.
    Truly, what a fun little glimpse you would receive. Oh the interest you’d derive from seeing a strung out wife cleaning a baby’s diaper in the unkempt den that man calls home. The bags of garbage strewn across the front lawn. Those overdraft statements from two years ago sitting under a pile of newspapers on the kitchen table, the foreclosure notice on the front door. Water damage on the ceilings, empties in the shower, and that garbage bag full of take-out next to the child’s crib… All products of an addiction that has gone too far. Men like The "Father" are perhaps best met during that last call at the local watering hole. In this environment you can glimpse a piece of a beautiful picture before discovering the rest of it has faded into a murky blur.
    You conclude that two hours was enough; the healthy limit of engagement with a fellow like this. Just as your astonishment at The Father’s charisma has an expiration date, so too does his ability to dance that line between a managed habit and a reckless addiction. It’s only a matter of time now before the bill comes for that mortgage payment that’s now perched somewhere in his central nervous system.


*very long, but a necessary character*


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19577487 - 02/16/14 10:53 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

is this the story of how you tried speed the other day?


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19577630 - 02/16/14 11:37 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

I would love to turn this into a movie!


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Legend]
    #19577658 - 02/16/14 11:45 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

6 was my favorite too. Nice job MM, thanks for sharing. This place can be so interesting sometimes.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19577683 - 02/16/14 11:51 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

I dig your writing man. You've got style. 6 had Hunter S. Thompson's voice in my head the whole time. Awesome!


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: larry.fisherman]
    #19578045 - 02/17/14 02:26 AM (9 years, 11 months ago)

I actually met the Father on the ferry to England last autumn, almost exactly as you described it!
You're a keen observer, MM, and a good writer. This should be a film or something!

This Father guy and I met very late in the bar on the ferry, and he did have a lot of cool stories. We smoked his weed outside (It had to be gone before he had to go through customs), watching the moonlight on the water... what a great guy.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Turtletotem] * 2
    #19578633 - 02/17/14 07:59 AM (9 years, 11 months ago)

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I actually met the Father on the ferry to England last autumn, almost exactly as you described it!
You're a keen observer, MM, and a good writer. This should be a film or something!.




I'd love that. Perhaps one day in the distant future i'll have the talent to write the plot for some movie, that'd be ridiculously awesome.

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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse] * 3
    #19609308 - 02/23/14 05:25 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

8. Candice
    Once upon a time, in a nice suburban home there lived a sweet and beautiful girl. She liked horses, boys, and Sunday brunches after church. She was a daddy’s girl, and her mom’s pride and joy. You knew her quite well back then and even had a small thing with her for some time. Those were the golden days for beautiful, thin, charming Candice.
    Two years later she now sits, on the couch directly opposite you, wearing a tight tie-dye t-shirt and pajama pants. She’s doing a line and a half of coke off a dirty “TIME” magazine. Candice then follows the line with a quick torch-puff of her bowl and then offers it to the guy next to her. You realize that it only takes a small smoking session with Candice to get the gist of what she’s been up to.  If only you had known that.
    Nope. You caught up with Candice the hard way: A spontaneous hook-up that you will now spend years of hard drug use trying to forget. You went to her house expecting that trim and intelligent girl from two years prior and got handed something entirely different, like getting someone else’s meal at the drive through. Simply put: that heart tattoo on her left leg which used to be tiny and charming looked as if it were suddenly caught in the middle of a serious game of Tug of War.  There was no going back though, once you touch the cookie, it’s yours. If only you had kept your hand out of the jar.
    It turns out, Candice went through some sort of reverse metamorphosis. Through some combination of onset-schizophrenia and substance abuse, she was removed from her nursing program and had to leave college. She now works at Taco Bell (if you consider selling pot in the parking lot “work”), and spends most of her paycheck on gas and Robitussin. The poor woman is stuck under a rain-cloud: her last boyfriend ditched her when the scales tipped 170, her savings account recently bottomed out, and her mom sold her prized horses. Candice is now locked in a concerted effort to blunt her sad reality with hard liquor and synthetic pot on a nightly basis.  While Candice used to be a prude tease to many-a-boy, you realize things have changed in that department. She’s almost always down for sex, and usually gets a taker, but never finds that repeat customer she’s searching for. She’s the used car with a few-thousand too many miles on it.
    You pity the poor girl. So much promise, yet no hint of a delivery. Candice’s ship is sinking quickly, and you don’t know if she can really turn it around. The title “Damaged good’s” doesn't begin to do this story justice.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19619477 - 02/26/14 03:36 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

Damn MM, that's depressingly close to many a young woman I used to know.
It takes a while to learn women like that can't be helped.

Great writing, again. You got some more positive couch shamans in there, or is it all downhill from now?


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Turtletotem]
    #19619581 - 02/26/14 05:06 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

I have nothing to add, I just wanna see this on my threads


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    #19619627 - 02/26/14 05:42 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

You have become a shroomery super star! Something will be thrown at you everday now. Not money, something more important and equally sought after. Love. Take all my love damnit!


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Turtletotem]
    #19619790 - 02/26/14 07:34 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

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Great writing, again. You got some more positive couch shamans in there, or is it all downhill from now?



The next two i'm planning on writing are neutral/positive
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    #19620269 - 02/26/14 10:11 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

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I have nothing to add, I just wanna see this on my threads




I do you one bit blame you I've been loving modest mouses great tale of the couch and it's inhabitants


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: nksfo5]
    #19622169 - 02/26/14 04:48 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

there's this key and peele skit with a dead ringer for the guy I was talking about as the foreigner who deals in stolen property.  He's the crazy one in this clip...



The foreigner who deals in stolen property...

This guys is a trip, he's obviously immigrated to the united states from Africa on a student visa and then just went on the run.  He's smart as shit, and is new to stimulants and African-American gansta culture.  So he has a funny nickname, something like a cross between a stripper name and a rapper name.

Sometimes shit's dry and as a last resort you call him up but you never spend more than 40 dollars as a rule.  Half the time you get ripped off, but you never know if he did it on purpose or was oblivious.

So you go to his hotel room and grit your teeth and get thru his sales pitches.  "I give u cash and shit for a freshly stolen credit card."

"It's good shit too, oh shit, I had five bags of shit and four pills, I loose two pils and a bag, you help me find it."

You let out a groan because he does this shit every time.  And you know that as soon as you start looking around the hotel room, he's going to realize that you're keeping any crystal or oxy that you find, and commands you to freeze and stop looking.  But if you don't help him look he's going to get offended.

He's pretty butthurt that you only have thirty dollars to your name even though your spending all of it on his shit, so after you buy your drugs, the stolen property auction begins.

"Right now, how much you give me for this car amp."

"Look congo, I don't have any money."

"No, right now, how much will you give me for this, plus a dvd player."

"Oh, right now?  I've got three hundred dollars in my sock, hold on..."

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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19622790 - 02/26/14 06:46 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

hahahahaahhaha


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Does]
    #19622875 - 02/26/14 07:05 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

The Father Describes my work partner

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    #19623146 - 02/26/14 07:59 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

Holy shit. This is fuckin' great. I've met so many of these people.

My ex's Dad is the father for sure. Motorcycles, Metallica, and crank. Cool fucking dude though.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Andyy]
    #19653342 - 03/05/14 04:57 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

Reading through this again, a horrible realisation dawned upon me: so far the character describing me best is the Susan Greene.

I keep a nice cosy apartment for the other shamans to chill and use, make good meals for them and rarely have to pay for my drugs.
Shit, nearly that entire story ticks every box, except for being a woman and being a gossip.

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    #19664000 - 03/07/14 03:32 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

Reminding me


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    #19664039 - 03/07/14 03:44 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

Mr. Couch describes me to a T.


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    #19664578 - 03/07/14 06:20 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

Let's brighten up the mood a bit.

9. The Geek
      Coming in as the ninth member of this crooked group of couch dwellers is The Geek. With his quick wit, unimposing nature, and general reliability it’s hard not to like this fellow. You stumbled into meeting The Geek at some awkward place and time, and over the course of a few months became really good friends with him.  You now find yourself stop-light-stoned in his room, talking at length about space, more often than you’d care to admit.
      Despite The Geek’s sweet tooth for weed and booze, he maintains a respectable academic resume. He’s currently studying Neuro-something, and has a real passion for it. He once got baked and tried to talk to you about the concepts, while you happily pretended to understand.
      The Geek is an all-or-nothing sort of dude.  The man doesn’t simply do drugs, he fucking minors in them. If Alexander Shulgin had twelve disciples, this guy would be the first on the list. He’s part of that 1 percent of the population that knows LSD is the acronym for “lysergic acid diethylamide” and perhaps the only percent that cares.  In listening to him closely, you discover that his immense knowledge of all things psychoactive is simply the by-product of a serious internet addiction. Although his overly-scientific approach to drugs frightens the average pothead, you’ve come to appreciate it. After all, Reddit needs folks like this; Brave heroes, unafraid of engaging in that all too important discussion on the bio-availability of insufflated Methoxetamine HCL in humans.
      When he’s not doing drugs or in class, The Geek is engaging in one of his many other passions. He could be locked in his room tinkering with that audio/video system to get the setup just right. Perhaps he’s programming an AI for an old modified copy of DOOM, or tactically text-messaging that cute girl he met in clumsy haste the day prior. The Geek is just the right amount of awkward to get away with these sorts of endeavors without seeming any stranger than everyone already believes he is. He uses this “patently-odd” reputation to his advantage, and plays up his own quirky demeanor just for kicks.
      Despite what folks may say about him, The Geek is usually having a better time than the others. He, The Geek, is content in his self-constructed world of numbers and science and big ideas, and nothing can change that.


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    #19664597 - 03/07/14 06:26 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

:lol:

I'm totally #9.  Good thread BTW.


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    #19664603 - 03/07/14 06:28 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

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I'm totally #9.  Good thread BTW.



:thumbup: Thanks!

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My life sounds like the martyr...  Damnit.


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    #20015569 - 05/20/14 03:37 PM (9 years, 8 months ago)

This is amazing! I hope youve worked out the last 3 characters over the past couple of months :smile:

I feel like one that I could most relate to isnt there yet.


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    #20016040 - 05/20/14 04:59 PM (9 years, 8 months ago)

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    #20017383 - 05/20/14 09:21 PM (9 years, 8 months ago)

I have the next one fleshed out in my head, I just gotta put it into words. We'll see when that happens :shrug:

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    #20391409 - 08/08/14 11:05 AM (9 years, 5 months ago)

I'll be writing member 10 in tonight
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #20391494 - 08/08/14 11:38 AM (9 years, 5 months ago)

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    #20391537 - 08/08/14 11:49 AM (9 years, 5 months ago)

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    #20391885 - 08/08/14 01:28 PM (9 years, 5 months ago)

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    #20392323 - 08/08/14 03:42 PM (9 years, 5 months ago)

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I'm totally #9.  Good thread BTW.







I think that's the one I related to most also but not entirely, I'm hoping there's one that describes me exactly but there probably won't be.. I just get bits and pieces from each.  Then there are other parts of me that haven't been defined yet in any of them.  The part about the bioavailability of insufflated MXE made me :lol:

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    #20551356 - 09/11/14 12:11 AM (9 years, 4 months ago)

Folks, im pleased to introduce to you all
10. Paco

    Paco and you met at Electric Forest '12. You had the shits from the dozens of half assed campfire hotdogs you ate and he happened to be crack-walking through the bathrooms. Mid stim daze and desperate, Paco was in the market for free wallets and your back pocket was looking fat. As you turned to enter the overflowing Port-O-John, he snapped away from your pocket and into your face. To cover up being caught mid-lifted, Paco then proceeded to do what Paco knows best: shouting insults and then trying to sell overpriced cocaine.

    Now normally you would've waltzed on into the John without paying Paco a second cent worth of time, but a "normal" day it was not. At the time, you were still experiencing the nasal drip of a "killer dose" of molly carefully weighed out by some farsighted punk who'd lost his glasses. During this overdosed MDMA come-up, Paco was the perfect man for the job. After insulting you in broken English, he embarked on a speed-rant regarding some beef with his cousins boyfriend. Sounds appealling? It wasnt, but on MDMA you willingly transformed into a sort of temporary psychologist for the guy. You felt that it was a transcending moment of charity; to spend the following four hours talking to Paco about "family values" at his van/camp site and doing coke.

    By the end of the ordeal, when your serotonin receptors started running noticeably low on juice, you offered to buy some of the " great-fishcale-fire-china" coke he was selling as a way of parting from the situation. He then, offering the following words of wisdom, swiftly packed his van to drive away:
"Aye did I say coke meng? Thats ice, my goof. Hahahahahahahah!"

    Following that festival, you never ran into ol' Paco again. That number he gave you (to call about your stimmed-out "business plan")  turned out to be for some Citgo in Kansas. Chalking the encounter down as a "freak mistake", you realize you learned two things about life that day. That your heart can only beat so fast before something breaks, and that beaners sell meth as coke.


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    #20552040 - 09/11/14 08:11 AM (9 years, 4 months ago)

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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse] * 1
    #20555922 - 09/12/14 12:42 AM (9 years, 4 months ago)

Hahahahahaha oh my god!!!! I have followed this thread since the beginning close to 9 months ago and each and every character is unique genuine and hysterical!!! Keep on keepin on modest mouse! I thoroughly hope you'll continue these characters all the way through and maybe even throw a story line up after words (as mentioned in some post somewhere in this thread(I think(hahahaha)))

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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: nksfo5]
    #20556576 - 09/12/14 07:05 AM (9 years, 4 months ago)

Appreciate the feedback, and i'm glad you enjoy it as much as I do!!
I wrote Paco a few different times and scrapped him, thinking he was too obvious or stereotypical. Then I just sort of went with it. His profile is about Festivals as much as it is sketchy drug dealers :thumbup:

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    #20557289 - 09/12/14 11:01 AM (9 years, 4 months ago)

lol paco, i can not relate to xD


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    #20557776 - 09/12/14 12:54 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

How funny, I met "Paco" last night.

Me and my dad were gonna go get some bud from this Mexican fellow he knows. When we get there, he's wavin' a meth-pipe around "Hey, man, wanna get tweaked?"

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First time I'd ever heard of a Mexican doin' meth.

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    #20558469 - 09/12/14 03:24 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

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    #20560888 - 09/13/14 03:38 AM (9 years, 4 months ago)

Haha, nice one Modest Mouse!
I've met Paco a couple of times, only in my country he is Polish instead of Hispanic :p


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    #20560917 - 09/13/14 04:02 AM (9 years, 4 months ago)

I really dig this thread, I'm not sure I'm one of the first 10, but I may be a combination of parts of two or three of them. But can't wait to read the last two and see if I'm one of the twelve people you meet on the couch.

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    #20922625 - 12/03/14 01:18 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

When do we get to meet number eleven ??


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    #20923080 - 12/03/14 02:58 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

Between now and January I'm hoping.
Usually its when I encounter "them"
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    #21007330 - 12/21/14 12:26 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

11. Ross

    Right about now this man is sitting in his garage smoking a sizeable blunt, and attempting to hammer out the chords of an obscure Zeppelin song.
    His place is trashed, in all the right ways; old duplicate vinals of some of the best are nailed haphazardly to the wall, there's an array of well-used drums off to the side, and what appears to be Chewbacca's distant cousin sitting on a blown-out couch ripping a grav bong. The hairy fellow exhales the plume of smoke and shouts:
"Hey what do you think about the 8th of May?"

"That's Jess' birthday man, you know that. We are going out of town that weekend. We've gone over this, we gotta tell them no Howie"                                     

At this point, the wooly fellow, "Howie" gets up, walks over to the amp, and turns a few knobs.

"Listen to me for a second Ross."

"I'm listening howe, I've been listen..."

"Do you remember all that momentum we had last summer? The crowds, the busy weekends, Bernie's Cove..."

"I remember the Cove"

"Good times right?"

"Righ, they were great times Howe but..."

"BUT Sid hopped off, and we lost our touch for a little while. So what? It happens, Ross. We have Marco now, Marco is a kickass drummer man you know that..."                     

    Ross and Howie continue talking, but the picture is clear. Those times when Ross was playing with his friends Howie and Sid felt electric. Even in the smallest of venue's, the feeling that he was doing what he loved with his two best friends is hard to beat. Somewhere along the line, Sid lost sight of the plan and left the group for his girl. Now Ross can't seem to play like he once did, and he's not even sure he wants to. Ironically, he routinely finds himself in the position Sid once did. His relationship with Jess is routinely on the rocks as he struggles daily between the band and his woman of 6 years.

    Ross never went to college, and his JCPenney sales experience isnt exactly a hot resume seller. He never had a real plan, and instead relied on his musical momentum almost entirely. He had played the "parents garage/apartment" card for several years, and it was getting old. At the age of 26, he began to see his peers and friends take up the reigns of responsibility, while he remained stagnant. All he had to show for his years of jamming away in the garage was a band that was, at one point in time, full of potential. You cannot make a living on potential alone, though. He has to do something to get his life back on track, and he knows this.

    What Ross doesn't know, is that there are millions just like him. Chock full of good potential without the certainty or confidence to act on it. All sitting somewhere pondering if they themselves will ever "make it". Stuck somewhere between 1st gear and Neutral.
                                                               
After him and Howie are done talking, he picks up his guitar, and turns his amp back up.                                     
             
"Howe, are you feelin sharp?"

"Sharp enough" he mumbles as he ignites the bong once more.

"Good. Give Marco a call, lets try to get something going tonight. I'm going to talk to Jess... We'll sign on for the 8th. This conversation is going to suck ass. You fuckin owe me, man."

Howie grins a bit and then nods and springs up. Tobacco Bong Rip may soon make their return.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch *DELETED* [Re: ModestMouse]
    #21007397 - 12/21/14 12:40 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

Glad to see you back at it.

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    #21007593 - 12/21/14 01:24 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks!

I really love writing these.
Nearing the end of the saga, and my writing style changed up throughout it, but there's still strong coherence to the original plan.


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    #22061429 - 08/08/15 02:36 AM (8 years, 5 months ago)

12. The Gambler

He may sell drugs, but seeing the transaction take place is about as likely as catching herpes from a nun. He's fast but cautious. With his ducks in a row, and all his chips in the pot, he's got a full house and a loaded gun. The only time he wakes up with bed head is when his lady stays the night, and he never seems to be asleep if someone needs to get a hold of him.

There's a pair of sunglasses seemingly stitched to his head, as you'll seldom see his eyes. You'd assume he's simply coked up, but there's never a crash nor coke to be found. His speed and confident decisiveness are derived from nothing more than the desire to live in the moment. He'll take a single puff of that blunt he rolled for everyone and then later stroll around the bay, casually making conversation with passerby. Anxiety extinguished and inhibitions long revoked, The Gambler is at ease in crowds, and always looking to meet others. It's in his blood, the drive to make as many connections as fate allows. These friendships and connections are only as good as the people behind them, and The Gambler knows this. You will only catch him hanging out with the right crowd at the right time; he spares no time for the fake. These seemingly natural gifts of charisma and good judgement got him in the game, and it's why he'll remain in it long after the others are barred.

The various drugs he occasionally ingests appear to be of more utility than necessity, and you've never seen him addicted to anything except for those damn Marb Reds he's always got hanging out of his mouth. He knows as well as you that drugs will push you off your high horse just as soon as they'll let you on it.

The Gambler is frequently on the move, but you're certain you'll keep in touch with him. Not because he sells you and your buddies good shit but because he's a real soul, someone to hold meaningful conversation with. Member of a dying breed - those with as much substance as they have style are in short supply and always have been.

Perhaps it's all luck, and his apparently overwhelming fortune and happiness in life has just emerged out of some statistical anomaly, or maybe, just maybe, he's no different than the rest of us who live for the day.


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    #22061443 - 08/08/15 02:54 AM (8 years, 5 months ago)

#12!

I've loved reading all of these MM.  You're a small inspiration (lol) to me.  All of your stories to this have been small and personal, while still universally understandable.  Bravo!


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    #22064294 - 08/08/15 07:56 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

Glad it inspired you man!
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    #22065398 - 08/09/15 12:39 AM (8 years, 5 months ago)

Wow! What a helluva way to wrap it up.

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    #22069975 - 08/09/15 10:54 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

Thanks man, like a few of the others, this one practically wrote itself. This thread is like a vessel with which I can take myself back to a specific person, time, and place. Like my drug addled diary that others can enjoy and relate to. Beyond that, most of these characters seem to have a lesson of some sort behind their description, some of which was originally unintentional.

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    #22069984 - 08/09/15 10:57 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

I fucking love it, bro. Please keep writing. I assume, since this is the twelfth person on the couch, that this series is over, but it would be awesome if you started something else.


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    #22070013 - 08/09/15 11:07 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

damn, you finshed this thread already? ive checked it out multiple times the past year or so... but never expected it to end so soon.

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I fucking love it, bro. Please keep writing. I assume, since this is the twelfth person on the couch, that this series is over, but it would be awesome if you started something else.



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damn, you finshed this thread already? ive checked it out multiple times the past year or so... but never expected it to end so soon.

i feel like there are more people on the couch to meet!





Yeah I agree, I love it and the way you wrote it couldn't have been any better. Since a lot of these characters wrote themselves... if you happen to have anymore write themselves, please share. But if this is truly the end, I would definitely be interested in another thread of yours.

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    #22071000 - 08/10/15 09:31 AM (8 years, 5 months ago)

:happyclaps: This is great OP. What's next?


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    #22072213 - 08/10/15 03:22 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

This definitely won't be the last bit of creative writing I do on the Shroomery.

As for what's next, I don't yet know. I've got some ideas but inspiration comes in waves, so there's no telling when it will surface.


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    #22090734 - 08/14/15 11:12 AM (8 years, 5 months ago)

It could always go from the 12 people you meet on the couch to the ?? people you meet in the room if you want to continue

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    #22098775 - 08/16/15 01:16 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

I was thinking about this the other day, a good extension would possibly be writing about the house that this couch resides in. You know, your buddies' place from back when you were a teenager. The house where you had bonfire, threw parties, and experimented with different drugs for the first time in a comfortable, safe setting. The place where people come and go as they please and all kinds of debauchery took place. Just an idea :shrug:


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    #22098988 - 08/16/15 02:33 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

You're a good writer, man. Just read those last few and was very impressed. Gonna check out the rest of em now.


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    #22099109 - 08/16/15 03:10 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

Sweet thread MM. I've definitely met Candice. You ever think about writing a book. I think this thread could make a bad ass comic book too. I've seen this thread around, but never read it. I'm glad I did today. I resonate most with The Geek.


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    #22099520 - 08/16/15 05:00 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

That's a solid idea, I'll give it some thought.
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    #22478827 - 11/04/15 10:53 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Prologue
I think sound pollution drives me mad. Scratch that - I know damn well it does.

The honks, tire screeches, motorcycle combustion, barks-whoops-shouts from the lower class, screams of children who, with young ears, merely tumble about in the high tide of a restless city. A visibly homeless man shouts "AY SIR!" to the closest Rolex-donning suit: the sound of poor and rich colliding. Every day, like clockwork, the city's cries pollute my thoughts.
Yes chief, I know you're trying to get somewhere fast, but did you need to crank that siren so loud? Why can't it produce something less awful? Perhaps have it echo some Lou Reed instead, then we'd be in business! Until then get off our roads and out of my ears. We pay for those speakers on your cute little jet-black hog, and we can just as easily stop.

This societal excrement collects and compounds in my head. There it breeds, gnawing at each and every synapse - Sonic cancer. Left unchecked this affliction will leave me a husk of the man I was when I arrived, like the state street vagrants I pass daily. The city is no place for a mountain man, or a man who isn't mad to begin with. You bet your ass that by the time I attain means to live out an honest life in silent nowhere i'll already be halfway gone.



I wrote this today. It's about the constant noise bombardment in the city I reside. Being that this is where ive called home for the duration of my 12PYMOTC journey, I found it fitting to share. Sadly it does not pertain much to drug culture.


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    #22478871 - 11/04/15 11:08 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Away boy :lol:


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    #22479746 - 11/05/15 07:20 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Just read thru all of these again since I saw the thread was bumped. Really good stuff, you can fuckin' write MM, far better than myself anyway. Found a lot of these to be very relatable.


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Connoisseur said:
oh ive cried on drugs

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Tragic.  I told the cop not to do it but he didn't listen.


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    #22480904 - 11/05/15 12:11 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I'm so glad that I wandered into this thread. I couldn't agree more with the sounds of the city. That's why I reside in a small mountain town.


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    #24051907 - 01/30/17 02:28 PM (6 years, 11 months ago)

Bump for exposure :smile:


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    #24063972 - 02/03/17 11:11 PM (6 years, 11 months ago)

Still my favorite thread on the Shroomery. In super happy that you are clean MM. You are one of my favorite posters to be honest.
I do hope you still write while sober (although I know the difficulty in doing so when drugs are a muse) If you aren't writing, that's okay too. Love you MM for this memorable series of writings that I'm sure we have all loved and lived.


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    #24088338 - 02/13/17 09:06 PM (6 years, 11 months ago)

Thanks so much man. God you made my day to read that just now. Im glad you consider this as good of a piece as I hoped it would be and while its nowhere near the THUMBPRINT thread I think it has its place amongst the Shroomery's best threads.

I still write!
Im working on publishing a poetry compilation book with my friend that captures the coming of age into manhood in a city that insists on bringing everyone down. We're shooting for 50 poems. We have about 100 to choose from. We're in the process of critique, so we each pick 3 of the others poems and discuss the feeling it evokes and how to make it more poignant. We're like half way through the critique phase.
Then comes some prologue writing, amd discussions with a publisher.

There are good things ahead my friend :love:
Thanks for the love, this thread was a springboard into my writing as a career-hobby :sun:


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    #24841088 - 12/12/17 12:19 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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I was thinking about this the other day, a good extension would possibly be writing about the house that this couch resides in. You know, your buddies' place from back when you were a teenager. The house where you had bonfire, threw parties, and experimented with different drugs for the first time in a comfortable, safe setting. The place where people come and go as they please and all kinds of debauchery took place. Just an idea :shrug:




I might run with this idea and see how it plays.

I am considering writing a script for a pilot and reworking it until I feel comfortable pitching it. There's lots to do though.

I know this thread is old but I sometimes revisit it for nostalgia and I hope it resonates in you all as well. I received so much love throughout this adventure and I just wanted to express my gratitude again.


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    #24845725 - 12/14/17 01:25 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

appreciate the bump i loved these lil vignettes


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oh ive cried on drugs

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    #24846391 - 12/14/17 06:47 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Man, I don't frequent this site much more but I do remember these short snippets being very enjoyable.


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    #24846722 - 12/14/17 09:52 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Maybe I missed it, but none of the twelve people on the couch play instruments or are pursuing a potential career in music!
I'm the guy who has a good professional job, but is secretly going for the gold in music success and loves to party.
I tried having my friend play my new EDM song at his show this past weekend, but he was too slow in setting up his equipment and his timeslot was over before we knew it and he didn't have time to play my track.  I had it on USB and everything ready, even sent the track through RekordBox.
Maybe next time...


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    #24847100 - 12/15/17 04:28 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Ross is!
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