my friend joe

[John Wilkes Booth]

when i was 18 or so i used to work at the deli in this grocery stored called winn dixie in florida. i worked at the deli and my friend joe worked in produce. he's 40-something years old. he's the only friend i have in this age group. i made this thread to talk about my friend joe because basically i think he's probably the most interesting human being i've ever come across personally.

joe is in his 40's yet he lives with his mom. probably sounds like a loser right? well actually it's more like his mom lives with him cause she has nobody else and he won't put her in a home, so to me joe's a stand up guy for that.

that said, their relationship is a bit strange. it's like they never grew out of that mother-son dynamic that you would have with your mom when you're a kid. like he's still basically subservient to her even though he makes the money and holds all the real power. like whenever we would be out at night she would call him asking where he was. it was crazy to me.

and they lived in this house that had all the windows boarded up cause they were paranoid about 'hurricanes.' i honestly think that was a lie and it was about something else, cause joe believes in some crazy ****.

i know i've mentioned a few times on here that i have a friend that believes in a bunch of conspiracy ****. that's joe. i won't even get into details cause honestly the amount of crazy **** joe has told me could fill a book. and if ever questioned about how he could possibly be privy to such information it usually ties back to some vague 'friend in the CIA that he used to know.' but yea, from chernobyl zombies to ancient aliens to atlantis to reptilian illuminati, if it's crazy and has a ton of ****ty books/youtube videos dedicated to it, joe believes in it.

by now you're probably thinking joe is some no-pussy-getting loser, right? wrong. joe got women, man. so many it was crazy. he even had one who ended up stalking him. i honestly don't know how he did it.

the last time i spoke to him was when i went down to florida to clear up some court/traffic ****. i hunted him down through a mutual friend who i also met at winn dixie. it turns out in the time i had been absent joe had moved up to brookyln by himself while his mom stayed in florida so he could fix up this house they owned up there. he lived in a tent in the backyard of his brooklyn house for a year while fixing it up, and then sold it for somewhere around a million dollars.

with this money joe went back to florida and sold their boarded up house down there, then him and his mom moved out to a more secluded area next to a wildlife preservation. basically he's trying to get off the grid. he has well water, and an empty airplane hangar. who knows what he'll do with that. he told me that after civilization collapses, the new source of fuel is going to be pig ****.

anyway, he's currently working on getting some animals so he can have his property classed as a 'farm' so he can get a break on property taxes. i haven't spoken to him since i was down there cause he turns his phone off whenever he's not using it. making it virtually impossible to contact him without physically visiting his psycho farm.

anyway, that's my dedication to joe. and to cap this thread off, here's a ****ty film-school grade movie starring joe.