The Inspiration for this
wonderful tale
The bastard Dean Jeeter was inspired by a real guy. I had just bought one of those straps that has a lever on one end. While I waited for my wife to come out of the store, I decided to figure out how the strap worked. I was standing there in the parking lot leaning into the back of my truck trying to work the damn thing when one of those know-it-all bastards that we all know and despise came walking up. He said something like "Strap it up! Tie it down!" and gave a soft chuckle as he walked by. Right next to my truck was parked a motorcycle. At that moment, the owner of the bike came out and got ready to get on his bike.
Mr. Know-it-fucking-all actually said to the guy "That's some toy you have there." And he said most of the other things that Dean Jeeter says to the biker in the story. He was really a condescending bastard, saying "I'll bet this baby torques out at 5K at 50." Insinuating that the bike starts winding out at 50 MPH." I kept thinking if I was the guy with the bike that I'd want to tell the guy to piss off. Then Know-it-all finally left to head back to the store, passed a girl and put on a sensitive and caring type of smile and said hello. It's my personal opinion that guys like this should not be allowed to live, and if they are allowed to live should not be allowed to reproduce. Anyway, I came home and made up Dean Jeeter to represent every guy like that I've ever met, especially in Silicon Valley where they flourish.
It's probably pretty obvious that Carlo Paisano came from the Godfather. Urine was kind of like Cletis the Slack-Jawed Yokel from the Simpsons. And the hatred of Kenny G and Michael Bolton is deep seated. The yuppies were many of the people I used to work with at Hewlett-Packard. It was fun having Dean Jeeter and the Yuppies kill each other. This story also introduces a new character, Wiseheart. Wiseheart was created, really, so that Warmheart can do some real cold-blooded stuff in a naive, warmhearted way.