JonBo

The force of the shrug was unbearable.

Back in the day of elementaryhood, there was a kid, JonBo, who was a bit odd.  I tried to be nice to him, being the new kid and all, but he shrugged me off.

So, that ended our potential new best- friendship.  He went on to do his own thing for a while.  He wasn't liked too much, but he had a couple good friends.  But one day he kind of ruined it for himself.



Now, 4th grade isn't necessarily a time of great knowledge and wisdom in children unless you are Mozart or something.  But there is usually some common sense, and well, JonBo didn't exactly have much of it.

His statement that ruined a good bit of at least 4th grade if not for rest of his elementary career was this:

"Girls shouldn't be allowed to vote."

Upon questioning by some furious children as to why girls shouldn't vote, JonBo responded,

"Because too many people vote, and there aren't enough people to count the votes."

Well, um, you'd think that he would know.  Maybe it's bad parenting, but most would say that there are not enough people voting.


The girls were appalled, and shortly after he made his statements, the news spread and the hate circle of juvenile feminist death soon surrounded JonBo.

Sad to say, but he didn't have too many friends after that.  It didn't help either when he showed up with his version of a wheelie bag in 7th grade.

You know those bags, the ones usually with Dora the Explorer or Transformers on them you have in small childhood, but once you got to middle school you generally moved up to a Jansport.  They were cool for about a week, if that.

But JonBo, well he got lost in the memo track and showed up with this:

Yes, that's right.

That is an egg crate/milk crate/thing you store stuff in crate that is strapped with bungie cords to a miniature collapsable dolly with his backpack inside.

Ok?

Um... well... that wasn't the best thing for JonBo, to say the least.  Most people weren't too kind to him when that happened.  I have to say that I didn't participate in the mocking, but I did find it hilarious.

So, sadly, JonBo left our 7th grade school just after a semester--because he got caught looking at porn in the computer lab during typing class.

Yeah.  I know.

I'm not sure where he went, but I did see him some years later working at a coffee shop.  He had really long, kind of greasy hair.

This almost looks like John Lennon, but not.

I don't think he recognized me.

-K