Friday, March 25, 2005

More on Comic book super hero teams

I want to see a super team with a loser. A genuine loser, not a loveable loser, not someone waiting for their opportunity. In the work world, there's always that person who really sucks; makes bad decisions, annoys everyone, yet for some reason or other, avoids getting fired.

On the playground, sometimes this is the kid who brought the ball, or who has the nice house. Maybe he's cousins with one of the cool kids.

I saw this lots of times in the Army. One guy was passed around from tank crew to tank crew as people got exhausted with trying to bring him up to standards. Everyone thought they could fix him. No one ever did, and eventually he received a hardship discharge because of issues back home. (Goddamnit, Bohm!)

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