“Well you meet these victims all the time and I do not,” I told the soldier in bathtub.  “I meet them too but I get away from them as soon as I can.  Because for one thing, I know if they are going to be the victim, they’ll make me the perp.”

“How do they do that?”

“Easy. Simple. I am talking about people who think nothing is their fault, ever.  They hang all the negative stuff on people like me and you, easy as pie.  Like you’ve told me a million times, you can’t get accused of anything because as soon as you do, you’re guilty. You’ve got tattoos!  You’re an ex SF guy. You know how those men come home from war and kill their wives or their girlfriends?  Every now and then one of them does and it makes the news.”

“I think just as many civilian men kill their women as do men in the military.”

“Probably right but here’s the thing.  We hear about these men, crazy from the war who come home and kill their women so let’s say a soldier is married and his wife wants out and needs to swing the vote or the public opinion.  All she has got to do is say this guy is a shithead and that’s it.  The whole world is going to believe her. They are going to think, that poor woman.  That brute came home and blah, blah, blah, no matter what he did.  Mental cruelty! I just can’t see how the man could win in that circumstance, it’s very simple. Piss off your wife and you’re history.  So you would be this kind of figure.”

“That’s true.”

“Right.  So these people who like to be everyone’s victim, I steer clear of them because I don’t feel like standing in as their perp but there is an even bigger reason I avoid them like the plague.”

“What’s that?”

“They’re boring! They are the most boring people in world.  A couple days ago I put a John Prine song on my blog. He sings, how the hell can a person go to work in the morning; come home in the evening and have nothing to say? Now that is a bore!  And these victim types are just as bad. Apparently they have none their whole life and never done anything wrong. How about that? They are 40 years old and they have never had a dark thought. Give – me – a – break!” I said, rolling my eyes. “They’ve done nothing themselves but all their lives people have done things to them, so yeah.  As far as I am concerned, victims are among the most boring people on earth and I avoid them all costs.”