I'll call him Ed the All State Ins salesman, a real life Al Bundy.
My track /football team buddies would often stop by and talk to him when I was in high school.
Ed was a damn good HS athlete but was beat down by life in his late 30's.
He had 3 kids, a ranch style home ( and mortgage) in the a decent neighborhood and drank like a fish.
His wife had aged poorly and smoked like a chimney as she constantly bitched at Ed whenever we saw them together.
Ed was only in his late 30's, but had the deep receding hairline and portly body of an old man.
He had those dead, kinda yellowish fish eyes , and looked like he was sleep walking thru life.
Ed had an All State Insurance kiosk in a hardware store n a strip mall in the NH town I grew up in.
After going to get a burger, we would stop in and talk to Ed when he wasn't busy.
He was a funny bastard with a dry sarcastic wit and very self deprecating about his own life.
Ed would often say to us ; " Enjoy life now boys. After the wife, kids and mortgage, you'll be locked into a lousy, job and drink yourself to death."
He had this really funny Sam Kinnison/ Lewis Black, angry sense of humor and cracked us up.
In turn Ed loved hearing our youthful tales of adventure and sexual exploits
