Boron - Chapter 20

I have found that to be true. I have made quite a few bad
ego decisions with women, many, many bad ones with money and
quite a few that put me in some sort of physical danger.

I am trying to avoid such a mistake right now and I am
hoping that maybe writing to you about it will help. What
happened is that yesterday I was playing my radio through my
headphones and I was playing it so loud that all that KMET
rock and roll was irritating my roommates. In all truth, I
was wrong in doing this and I have done it once before and
one of my roommates (the first time) had to politely ask me
to turn it down.

This time I was laying there completely lost in all this
rock and roll I became aware of someone screaming my name
and when I cut the radio off I could hear one of my other
roommates screaming at me and telling me to show some
consideration for everybody else and not to give him any
"back" talk or he would break the damn thing (my radio).

Well, how about that? It got very quiet in the room and he
turned away from me and I remained silent.

It shook me up some. Not an enormous amount but some. All
kinds of things ran through my head. I wanted to explain to
him that I was sorry and didn't realize I was disturbing
everybody and, also I wanted to run a "macho trip" on him
and tell him if he kept running his mouth I was going to rip
off his head.

And, I also thought of simply explaining to him that a
better way to handle a situation like this would have been
to simply tell me the volume was too loud and then I would
have voluntarily turned it down.

But I didn't do any of those things. What I did instead, as
I said, is I remained silent eating a little humble pie.

Well, Bondy, I think I made a good decision. But I'll tell
you, it's hard for me to live with. Unfortunately, however,
that sort of thing sometimes is a part of being in prison
and, in this case, the matter was a little complicated by
the fact that the guy who did the yelling usually conducts
himself in a way as to have very little friction with other
people. He does his time quietly doing a lot of exercising
and studying an accounting course.