That’s sketchy
It is Spring Break and I’ve been in dire need of some cash, so I decided to work a little bit extra this week. Needless to say, this is a difficult pill to swallow, given the present work environment and all the other whatnot. Anyway, I get this brilliant idea: I could call my brother. School has been cancelled all of this week thanks to snow, so he’s probably bored. Besides, I’m his brother. Brothers do these things. They call up their little brother. Talk. Shoot the shit. Give sagely advice. Have a profound impact on their younger siblings, leaking valuable knowledge from every orifice as the young one seeps it up with their sponge-like minds. I am benevolent and generous. I am calling my brother.
He’s playing video games, apparently uninterested in tapping into this timeless cask of knowledge and wit and genius. So we bullshit for awhile about the video game. He tells me about the latest and greatest equipment that he just got for his hammer-din (a Paladin that uses Holy Hammer and something else, I learned later.) This conversation is going nowhere. I am cannot be a dispenser of knowledge right now, for he is not being a cooperative receptacle. I give up trying to enlighten him on his snow day and hope to glean something from him to write about—I was coming up dry. This is what I get. It’s fucking sketchy.
“What’s a slang word that kids your age use?”
“What?
(the screams of defeated monsters emanate from the receiver)
“You know…a slang word that you guys use.”
“Hmmm….shit bro…”
“Oh come on, dude.”
“Bro, I don’t know.”
(more dead monsters–that Holy Hammer must be kicking some ass)
“Come on, man, you’re popular and cool and—”
“I know.”
“Well you have to have something then.”
“…”
(quiet)
“…”
(dead monsters)
“‘That’s sketchy’…does that work?”
“What does it mean?”
“Something isn’t solid or secure, you know.”
“That word has been around forever, dude.”
“I know, but we just started using it again.”
…
I leave him with a short adieu and hang up the phone. Talk about a sketchy fucking venture.
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