anything I do to help my fellow man I do because I think it's the right thing to do...sure sometimes on the bus / train I'll give my seat up for elderly or disabled people...but I do it because it's morally right...and of course it's incidental. Now sometimes this comes back to bite me in the ass. Let me tell you a story about a guy named...let's call him "Joe"
Joe was someone who wound up in Los Angeles and wound up on skid row...now later I learned this was because he moved around from place to place taking advantage of friends hospitality...now when I saw Joe I wanted to help him get back on his feet. Rather than be grateful it turned into a (what zero refers to as) "if you give a mouse a cookie" scenario.
I feel for Lewis Dodgson..i really do. Short of being a very small but necessary character (had it not been for him nothing on isla nublar would have happened...ok I mean the storm still would have come that's not his fault....possibly). Lewis Dodgson hires Dennis Nedry to steal crucial embryos...now Dodgson pays nedry a considerable sum up front with an insurance of more on delivery...yet in this one scene he is whipped into submission by Nedry who takes advantage of him and triumphantly totes his superiority over him in a verbal exchange which is aking to a fight over male dominance not too dissimilar to bull frogs fighting to be alpha males in a group.
No menthol?
Don't get cheap on me
Dodson...we got Dodgson here! See nobody cares
"Nobody cares" a statement made by one Dennis Nedry in a final statement of his perceived superiority over one Lewis Dodgson...a individual who's existence only served to benefit Nedry.
As Joe left my place he exclaimed it was his belief I was kicking him out because " I didn't get what I wanted" because apparently he was choice meat and my issue with him was me not being able to get into his knickers instead of his inability to look for a job or leave the house much for five months. We steal people of their integrity at our most primal because it takes away any accountability.
I'll always be Lewis Dodgson. Someone will always have someone who takes advantage of my good graces to the point of charging me for a piece of pie they had no intent on consuming in the first place. The karmic smack though...the part you don't see...if the grin across Lewis Dodgson's face when he finds out Nedry had become Dino chow....i mean ok he's out whatever amount he paid Nedry up front...but he works for some sort of evil corporation so I'm sure they can recoup with some other GMO sweatshop or something...so Dodgson grinned knowing he was going to be alive and all right...anniversaries, birthdays, new designer shades...all still an option for him.
As Joe left my house I asked him for my key...he yelled out some choice insults and walked away.
"Do you want your keyboard power cord?" I yelled.
Joe came back...upset I was smart enough to have a contingency plan. Key and power cord exchanged he left..and as he yelled out insults as he walked down my pathway I smiled realizing his demeanor was really just posturing because he knew he was beneath me.
here's to the Lewis Dodgson's of the world.
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