What to do, what to do

He needed to know what to do with his life, at the moment it felt like his life was pointless. His father told him this often, often while his pointless father was watching an old rerun of a old and out dated sitcom. There was certainly a lot of jokes that would not be allowed on modern TV. That was probably why John, Mike's father, liked the old reruns. Mike did not want to watch TV and he still felt bad for breaking his Sisters old toy teapot. Also, the breaking of the tea pot occurred two whole days ago, Mike also started noticing how his mom talked different.

That night, two days ago, John had been yelled at because of the teapot incident and it was during that episode that Mike was told that he needed to find out what he was going to do with his life. He was also told that he was on his way to being a lazy no good that relayed solely on the work of others to get through life. Seemed a bit harsh, and still did, but it did get Mike thinking about what he wanted to do with his life.

Normally, Mike would not think about something that his drunk of a father said a few days ago, particularly when he was four beers deep and slurring his words. This is instance, however, was different. There was probably nothing different about his father , that night, in fact, his father was probably more irritated about Sarah yelling then intent on teaching Mike a lesson. Sarah was been screaming for what seemed like an eternity. However, his friend, also named John, told him the next day about what his older sister had said about the voice Mike's mom used when speaking to John, the father. The part that was made Mike remember was the part about the voice being liked by weak men. Did that mean that Mike's father was a weak man? He certainly should not asked his father that, that would certainly be a way to get a good whipping.

That night, the night Sarah was stilling screaming and Mike was being yelled at by his father, his father had asked Mike if he wanted to do anything with life and become a good man, a man with a 50 hour work week and a lovely house, or his wanted to be a loser and live on the streets. Mike certainly did not want to be a loser, but he also did not want to a weak man. How could Mike's father be a weak man? He benched a lot a lot of weight when ever he went to the gym, his favorite place besides the bar.

That was what Mike and told John, the friend John, after being told that about weak men. John said that physically strength was not what was meant by the weak men cartegory.

"Well then," Mike asked, "what did your sister mean?"

"I don't know"

The bus arrived then.