INTRODUCTION NO. 3 00.00 My friends want to be taken seriously. They are very sensitive about how people speak to them and about what, and how people look at them, they try to understand what others are thinking about them while talking, they are always causing scandals, it’s hard to have a conversation with them, they get nervous among strangers, from time from time they are thrown out of somewhere, if one of them were to fly in a plane he’d be thrown out of that too, no doubt about it. I used to find all this okay but lately I’ve started to get upset too. I don’t like it, for example, when someone forgets my name, let’s say we are talking away and suddenly it becomes clear that no one knows what my name is, there are so many jack-asses around; and another thing I can’t stand is when so

