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Dear Doctor Schrödinger,

 

Has anybody ever told you that your initials spell out "ASS"?  Get it?  ASS?  As in buttocks!  Hee Hee, that is so funny.  I wish my initials spelled out something interesting.

 

- Mother

 

 

 

First, I told you not to call me here, mom. I'm at work. I can't spend my whole day talking to you.

 

Second, how blasted on acid were you and dad when you picked my fucking name?  I mean I know it was the sixties and all but shit, no one in either of your families is even named Al let alone fucking Allistair.  You didn’t even spell it right. There’s only supposed to be one L in Alistair.

 

And wasn't Steven the name of the guy you dated before dad? How'd you talk the old man into that one? And where the fuck do you get off making a fucking joke out of my name.  Ooh, I know, let’s make the earliest basis for his individuality and self worth an ass joke. Was I a fucking experiment to see if you could create a serial killer? Why didn't you just name me KickMyAss BitchBoy Schroedinger.

 

You know, I was fine with the emotional isolation, total absence of parent-child bonding, the not even pretending that you had kids for any other reason than the free manual labor, and the ritualized beatings.  I took that shit out on some small animals. But this whole name thing is just fucked up. 

 

I mean if you beat the shit out of me everyday for twelve years, eventually the county would have taken me away and stuck me in a pedophilic foster home, but creating a situation where every kid in the neighborhood does it and you get people telling you "What an original name". At least the pedophiles would have pretended to like me.

 

This is why you shouldn't talk to me at work. This kind of shit always breaks down into me whining about how abused I was. Boo-frickety-hoo, woe the fuck is me. Suburban white boy had such a tough life. I despise self pity, and I don't need any other reasons to hate myself, thank you very much. Go sell crazy someplace else; we're all stocked up here. So from now on just don't fucking talk to me at work. 

 

See you for Easter.

 

P.S.

I had repressed the time you yelled down the street to me as I was going to a sleep over at the chief tormentor’s house. I know you had that drug-swing thing going with the Schultz’s but how’d you not notice that that kid hated me?  Just for future reference, in case you have kids in your next life or something, yelling “Stevie-Wevie you forgot your plastic underwear. You don’t want to pee the bed do you?”  at the top of your lungs wasn’t the most tactful way to handle that.

 

P.P.S

I was the one that set the Schultz’s house on fire.

P.P.P.S.

Am I supposed to pick up the ham for Sunday or what?

 

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