The Aloof Goof

“Why do you say your in-laws belong in the circus?” I asked.

Mikey said, “My wife and her brother are the youngest of seven kids.  The other five and their parents are all drama queens and hypochondriacs.  They all drink way too much, except her oldest sister who drinks way, way too much and gambles.  Her oldest brother spent $15k on a home theatre where he watches hardcore porn. Their mom uses suicide threats as a bargaining chip.

“The youngest brother isn’t like the rest?”

“They call him ‘The Aloof Goof.’  He laughs at their antics, he refuses to get caught up in their arguments, and he never takes their insults seriously.  Her brother jokes that he ran off and didn’t join the circus. My wife does just the opposite. She tries to play referee, she tries to reason with unreasonable people.  She wants everyone to get along.  She comes crying to me, and I tell her she should be more like her brother.  Hell, we should all be more like her brother.  There’d be a lot less drama if we had more Aloof Goofs.

Today I will be a bit of an aloof goof.

Life on Life’s Terms II © 2015 by Ken Montrose