“Where you off to in such a hurry?”
“They just kicked me out of school,” said Mahdakis, stopping to acknowledge Floyd. “I guess I got to start looking for some sort of a job, or something.”
“Well that wasn’t very nice of them. What did you do?”
“Nothing.”
“Ya had to do something. They don’t just kick you out of school for doing nothing.”
Mahdakis took a puff of his cigar. “Apparently they do.”
“Hmm…who knew?”
“Hey dudes! What’s up?” Nicki said, coming out of the school, slapping them both on the ass. “Shouldn’t you guys be in class, or something?”
“Us? I thought you graduated a few months ago. What the hell are you doing here?”
“I just wanted to say hi to a couple of teachers. Ask how their summer was, you know?”
“Did you have sex with them?”
“What? No! What’s the matter with you?”
“Then why are you talking to teachers when you don’t have to?”
“Never mind.”
“Mahdakis just got kicked out of school.”
“For how long?”
“Forever long. Mr. Fuss said if I quit on my own, it will look better on my record, so I did.”
“Shit man, what did you do?”
“Nothin’ Hee-hee-hee-hee. He did nothing!”
“And it seems that’s not an acceptable practice.”
“Well, duh,” Nicki said, getting in his face. “You’re supposed to do something, anything…but you can’t just do nothing.”
“Ahh….and nothing is not something, is it?”
“No, it’s not.”
“But anything is something.”
“And something can be anything.”
“Most definitely.”
“But you can make something out of nothing, people do it all the time.”
“And you can make nothing out of something, although it’s not recommended.”
“So where did I go wrong?”
“It sounds like you were trying to make anything out of nothing, buddy, that’s the problem here.”
“Okay, but can’t you make nothing out of anything?”
“Sure. Politicians do it on a daily basis.”
“Now I see.”
“Alright, enough of you assholes. Anyone seen Tony?”
“He went to pick up his car this morning, and then go to work. They offered him new full-time hours. If it works out, he’s hoping his birth-givers will let him quit school.”
“Quit school?”
“Well at least he can say he was doing something.”
“He can’t quit school! And where the hell is he? That asshole! He told me to meet him here because he didn’t have a ride!”
“I don’t know, Nick, but he left a while ago, and what do you mean, quit school? Why not? Thousands of people do it every day.”
“That doesn’t make it right.”
“Or wrong.”
“But it does make it trendy.”
“I’m thinking about doing it!”
“When?”
“How about right now? Hee-hee-hee-hee,” Floyd laughed, slapped him on the back and started walking away from the school with him. “Want some company?”
“Sure. The more the merrier.”
“Yeah, let’s see how fuckin’ merry you guys are standing in the unemployment line. What the fuck? What are you idiots gonna do with yourselves?”
“I don’t know,” Mahdakis confessed. “I guess whatever teenage dropouts do.”
“Wanna get high?”
“Sure.”
“Listen to yourselves. What a bunch of fuckin’ B.U.R.N.O.U.T.S.”
“Okay Mrs. Smarty pants, what would you do?”
“I don’t know,” said Nicki, swinging a set of keys around. “But I have my birth-giver’s car all day, nowhere to go, and a bag of purple microdot.”
“Where’s the car?”
“The Jeep’s over there, right in front.”
“I thought you couldn’t park there.’
“Student’s can’t park there but I’m not a student anymore, remember?”
“See? You get all kinds of special privileges and access to the school once you don’t go here anymore, or have any real use for it.”
“But while you’re here, you’re treated like an animal. This makes sense to you guys?”
“It’s incentive.’
“Incentive would be getting a blowjob from your teacher after a good grade.”
“That’d be a lot of blowjobs.”
“Not if she taught you idiots. Besides, what if it was a guy teacher, you assholes? You want some old dude slobberin’ all over your cocks?”
“I don’t know, that wouldn’t be so bad, I guess.”
“She says it like it’s a bad thing.”
“You know I read somewhere that Japanese female-birth-givers do just that for their male offspring, when they bring home a good grade for the semester.”
“That’s just sick, you know that. What kind of a normal person would want their female-birth-giver giving them head?”
“Have you ever met Floyd’s female-birth-giver?”
“Shut up, dude.” Floyd looked over at Nicki and said, “Normal is all how you are raised. If you’re taught that this is normal, you don’t think of it as odd.”
“Meaning, the female-birth-givers go down on their offspring when they’re young? What are you, an asshole?”
“It’s true. In that same report, they explained how they masturbate their male offspring when they’re very young so as to stop them from crying, and continue this practice well into puberty.”
“Makes sense.”
“What??? Mahdakis, where do you come up with this shit?”
“I read a lot.”
“Maybe if you read more of your assignments instead of whacking off to National Geographic, or whatever, you wouldn’t be repeating your senior year again.”
“Aren’t you paying attention? I’m not.”
© 2011, 2014 Mark Rogers
Driftwood
(Book I)
In Case You Were Too Stoned
(A Retrospective)
The B.U.R.N.O.U.T.S. Chronicles 
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