So me and Joe and Bobby and a couple other unemployed losers are sitting at the bar on one of those rainy, Florida summer afternoons that makes you question how the state's original settlers managed to get through the summers without air conditioning, septic tanks or even automobiles, when in walks old Dean who ain't all that old but whom none of us have seen in almost ten years and old Dean starts screaming about God and about Jesus and about how he found the light, the path and the way and how there's no one in his life but Jesus, and as he's screaming, Joe and Bobby get up and decide to go outside for a smoke or a toke or maybe both and I'm just sitting at the bar with two strangers listening to and watching old Deano as he babbles on about his journey through life, about cocaine and heroin abuse and about all the things he feels we need to do to find Jesus because he says he found Jesus in a park in Washington, DC after waking up alone with no money and no place to call home, and how Jesus, in all his glory, had presented himself as the savior for all the suffering junkies and flunkies in that old park and how there was nothing that Dean could do to lose that spark, and how, after meeting his lord and savior and after feeling him heal him and hearing him save him and watching him help others that Dean can now feel the love of God soaring through his veins and how he can see God in every little piece of dirt and clay and in the smiles of children and old folks alike and even in man made objects like a jack in the box or a toy bike and I'm just nodding and smiling and sipping my beer and waiting for old Dean to tell us what he's doing here, when at that instant, a cop runs in and pulls his gun on Dean who's just standing there looking stunned as he raises his arms in the air and says, “I'm sorry officer, but I had to come in here to save some of my friends' souls” and I hope you know I was about three beers from shitfaced so I was a little shocked to see Deano walk over to the cop with his arms out in front of him, just waiting to be cuffed, and, just about the time Joe and Bobby walk back in to the bar, old Deano turns to us and says, “Don't worry guys, I won't be far?they even got Jesus behind bars” and we raise our glasses to him and wish him the best as he's led away in cuffs with a smile on his face, and then Rob the bartender grabs a remote control and looks at me and says, “Dude, I wonder what's on TV.”
Click.