The thing about Billy, Mark, and Dale that you have to know is they were basically sleazy under-achievers who were going to end up working for minimum wage their entire lives, marrying girls who put out like Marcia, and getting fat in front of the television watching football and porn. That sounds cynical maybe, but even at my age I'd already seen the men that they'd grow into. If they got real ambitious they might end up with a half-way decent life, like Mr. Moore who had no real business hooking up with an attractive woman like my mom, but she was f****d up anyway, so... I really hated my life. The boys were all drunk and loud and a real collection of least likely to succeed candidates. One of them was f*****g Marcia as she lay on the floor beneath the television. She'd lost her clothe

