[bigheadfred]

that was me right to the judges face

[higgmeister]

I actually worked on a construction crew as a young man of 19 with a man who said that same thing in cold blooded earnestness. The boss wouldn't hire ex-thieves but murders that had done their time was not a problem. The man had killed a guy in a bar fight. Someone asked why and he said, "some people needed dying."

It was pretty much the moment when I realized that I had grown up in a loving sheltered white bread world and didn't have any idea about reality to the rest of the planet. I will not mention in such polite company anything about the former pimp and the stories he told.

The boss always had a cold case of long-necked Stroh's beer on the loading dock when the trucks got back from the job site every evening.