Outside one of the bars I saw a couple of guys from school. They were older than me and were both jocks. I nodded and said “Hey,” and they called me over. “You got a cigarette?” one, Tony, asked me. I said no. “Hey, you want a beer?” the other one asked, Roger his name was. They had both dropped out of school so I hadn’t seen them in a while. Neither had gone to college. I don’t know if they had jobs or not. Frankly I didn’t know them very well at all and that felt just right. Since I didn’t particularly want to be clumsy old me right then, why not be someone else, right? Wrong.
I took the beer. And another. And after that things really started rolling downhill fast. I got scared when they asked me for money so they could buy more beer. Then someone they knew showed up and they bought som
