After a while he just stopped trying to get another job and instead took up watching daytime talk shows and drinking—a lot!
Before John, Johnny to his friends, lost his job he used to do stuff with me all the time. He’s the one that taught me how to surf even before I was out of diapers. Nearly every morning of my life before work and school, he would wake me up early so that we could catch some waves together. We would hit the water just as the sun was coming over the horizon and by the time we had paddled out we would have just enough light to see as we surfed back in. That ended the day he hocked our boards and gear so that he could get drunk again.