#533 Bewildered Decisions In Times of Mercantile Terror-Jim
Gavin
Nora and Bobby have been friends since before college. She
went to a junior college, is an over achiever and now makes six figures in a job
she can't stand. Bobby went to Cal-Berkley, dropped out ten years ago, is a
classic underachiever that floats through life and relies on other people being
friendly.
Their friendship is complicated, partly because of their life
choices. When Bobby ends up broke and needy, he not only asks Nora for help but
he expects it. For her part, she straddles the line between being really good at
corporate life and wanting to live happier.
“He envied Nora’s ability to turn herself on and off, to
indulge in vial misanthropy one minute and false pleasantry the next.”
Bobby comes from a working class family but doesn’t really
keep to working class ideals. He now has a big idea for a product that he hopes
to get rich with via infomercials. “He
was broke and the walls were closing in, but in this moment of darkness he had
found inspiration.”
It’s called the Man-Handle. It’s a contraption that helps
make executives hands stronger so they don’t feel un-manly when they shake the
hand of a plumber. Yeah…I’m sure he’ll make a ton of money with that one. It’s
unclear where their friendship is going but it seems that as she cuts the cord
of her job, she tries to get Bobby to clean himself up a bit, so maybe they’ll
meet each other somewhere in the middle.
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