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So, the first thing you should know about me is when I drink whiskey I become an unrepentant sociopath with a sense of entitlement a mile across. HOWEVER, I appear to have a conscience once sober, because I feel bad about having picked your pocket the other night at a show. I just wanted you to know that whatever you felt when you found out your cigarettes, cash, and cell phone were missing from the front right pocket of your cargo pants was totally justified (note: wear tighter pants). You will be tickled to find out that the powers that be have rained dermatological retribution down upon me. I have what I will term a “karmic rash” on both forearms and my chest that itches horribly. I also burned the living fuck out of my finger when the cherry of a cigarette I stole from you became affixed to my cuticle. I thought of you as I cringed and squeezed pus out of my burn blister this morning, and again when I bought cortisone cream from Walgreens. I am a vile, perfidious cunt, and I am sorry.—Anonymous 

12 replies on “I, Anonymous”

  1. Sorry dude, but you are an alcoholic. You may not realize this for a few more years, but anyone who has this type of personality shift, identifies the behavior, and continues to drink anyway, is either actually the sociopath with a self-rationalized invention instead of a conscience, or a big old sot.
    AA in Portland: 223-8569

  2. Since when does a misplaced “sense of entitlement” mean you can steal from people? That’s the kind of behavior that get’s your ass stabbed in the wrong crowd.

    Get some help douchy drunk guy, before someone ends you.

  3. You are the type of person who reaches into another person’s pocket and steals from them. No, I don’t mean that you are that type of person “when you drink whiskey”. I mean that you are that type of person. Now do you want to be?

  4. i think having “sense of entitlement” means exactly that. the idea “i can steal from whoever because i’m entitled” (for whatever rationalized reason). i don’t believe the person said it necessarily caused them to steal, its just a given-and they know very well what they are doing.

    btw, you sorry loser, everyone has a conscience-regardless if its good or bad, idiot. there is no justification for your pathetic muses. being a drunk is no excuse. and i’m NOT sorry, but anyone who steals from another is a cunt.

  5. ok having “a sense of entitlement” means exactly that-the idea “its ok to steal because i’m drunk and entitled”(for whatever rationalized reason). i don’t believe the person actually said the stealing was caused by anything. its just a given-they know what they are doing.

    and btw you stupid sorry loser, people have a conscience regardless if you are drunk or sober, or if its good or evil, idiot! if you want something like a cigarette, just ask. there is no justification for your pathetic muses and being “drunk” does not qualify. you’re a bonafide thief and you should be excommunicated.

  6. I don’t care if you drink or not, but if you steal from people, you are a fucking criminal. Blaming the alcohol, as if it climbed out of the bottle, pushed your hand into the pocket of an innocent stranger and made your fingers extract that person’s possessions is unfortunately a common form of self-serving fiction designed to allow people who do awful things to pretend there’s a line between their imaginary “pure” self and their bad behavior. The addiction scenario has now expanded so that even if your criminal acts are done without having had a drop of liquor that day, it’s still because you haven’t “admitted” to yourself that you have this so-called disease. In the above story, notice the narrator wasn’t drunk enough to lack the coordination to be sneaky enough to succeed stealing a wallet, nor so oblivious as to try to steal from someone who looks like a Hell’s Angel. This person not only remembers the crime, but also the justification. That isn’t very drunk, just mildly buzzed. In such a condition, one is responsible for one’s acts, and one’s self-serving, selfish, antisocial justifications

    Blathering about imaginary retribution from the universe like Mr Sensitive doesn’t make you any less of a criminal. Quit stealing.

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