The Story of Some Guy (day 4)

Pat Oates
3 min readMar 28, 2021

Ricked sat in his car for a couple minutes. Deep in thought. But, for the first time in a long time, Rick wasn’t thinking about what Lady or other people thought about them. He wasn’t worried about that. He wasn’t worried about anything. And that feeling made him smile. He was thinking about what to do. What did Rick WANT to do. That was never a question he asked himself. He always just did what others told him. Because he thought pleasing others made him happy. But those people didn’t deserve to be pleased. They never returned the gesture. It was time for Rick to please himself. Rick then laughed out…

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Pat Oates

Author of How Not to Suck at Comedy. Comedian, podcaster, radio personality, pretended his mom was dead on tv once