down all the days

the phone was ringing early saturday morning...well actually it was early saturday afternoon but i was sound asleep...the lads were back in town from the western lands..."we will be there in ten minutes" they said...i said, "alright i will put my pants on"...it was clear that this rainy saturday was going to degenerate into a pub crawl...little did i know that it would finish with us outside the house of a police officer at four in the morning (our friends little brother) driving back and forth, honking the horn wildly...so much for the boys being back in town...they always take me to places i would never venture to on my own...i am not the bar hopping type, nor do i enjoy strip clubs, or tootes...people are not my cup of tea...but when the salt of the earth show up, mind you when the salt of the earth with responsible employment show up, i go where the wind takes me...do not misunderstand, my saturday night degeneration is not their fault...i have only myself to blame...after all, they are my friends, i enjoy their company, and would not have it any other way...it is simply a departure from my usual existence...and whenever i accompany them on their journeys to these hole-in-the-wall type establishments there are always weirdos that cling to me...they follow me around all night asking for the meaning of life, or think i understand their hardships...which is strange because i do not see myself projecting this type of aura, and i do not have any insight into any of this shit...but i guess when one is inebriated and looking for a sucker to listen, i am your mark...not because i know any more than said drunk or care so much about them, but simply because i was taught manners and have the ability to listen, which most human beings lack...the more they rambled, the more i asked myself this question...first, if i did have this so called meaning of life would i even be here in this dive drinking cheap beer and listening to this incessant rambling, and second, would i even divulge the meaning of life if i did in fact know it...the answer to both is of course yes...