"You know Bong, man, He's cool!!!!"

One of the few nice things about being a middle age bastard is, that you get to pick your friends. You can shuck their ass too, if you choose. I was thinking the other day about how when your a teenager, or even into your twenties or so, you get new friends tossed at you by your other friends. Do you remember that shit? You would leave for a while, like to go stay with your other parent, or go on a long trip or boot camp or anywhere outside of your normal friend circle (jail?). Then, when you came back, you would be all excited and call your boys to come get your ass. They would show up with your replacement. Some asshole from out of nowhere that you never met or even saw in your town. And every mothafukr you knew would know this new prick and act like he was from way back. He would give himself some stupid nick name like "Bong" or "Doober" or some other drug related shit. You (I) would sideline my friends and be like "who is this douche bag?" and they would be like "Dude!, its Bonger man! "You know Bonger, he's cool as shit man!, he's a fucking madman!" After a while, Bonger would peter out and head back to Colorado, or Oregon or wherever clowns come from. I just hope that when THEY got home, their buddies came over to introduce them to their new homeboy, Doobsky