Spike’s Story of an Unhappy Child

Spike tells us what it’s like to be abnormal.

The following is a series of five interviews conducted with Spike by a professor at the local college. He wanted to interview Spike to get his opinions on what it is like to be an unhappy child for a book he was writing. Spike agreed but only because the guy promised to pay him. Spike doesn’t do anything for free.

The remarks have been edited for brevity and readability

“They think I’m terrible. ‘Course, they’re right. I am. They haven’t a clue why, though. Probably never will. I do anything I please whenever I want. They’re just a bunch of phonies. They say they care, but, if I wait 30 seconds, they are back to the same old thing. They yell a lot. Everything I do is wrong. Then there is all the blame. And nag, nag, nag. I need them to go away…just leave me alone.”

“I know how to be good. It isn’t a mystery. I haven’t been good for a while, but I could get back into it if I wanted. But I don’t really want to. They don’t like the kids I hang withÉthat’s why I hang with them. Just to piss them off. It works too. These other kids aren’t so bad. Not really. Well, some of them are. They come from worse places than I do. They hate their parents, too. Mostly for good reason.”

“Anyway, we do what we want ’cause nobody can make us do different. The more they try, the more we laugh in their face. Why not? So where were my folks when I needed them? Who knows. Sure weren’t in my corner. Parents come first all the time. Know how many times we’ve moved in the last five years? Six times. You know what it is like to move, make a friend, move again? It sucks. You never know where you are going to wake up.”

“My parents don’t get along. Mom is always pissed at my Dad.”

“Why don’t you do something?” she yells.

“Just what exactly did you have in mind?” he yells back.

“Anything. I don’t care. If you just weren’t so selfish” she says.

Spike’s Story of an Unhappy Child