Mr.Richkas Still Pissed About Dumb Crap That Happened Over 10 Years Ago
Local Man Still Pissed About Dumb Crap That Happened Over 10 Years Ago
East St.Louis, IL - As the Christmas season approaches, local man Anthony Richkas, 45 has begun to attend holiday parties thrown and attended by old friends. He has started to see, as he does every year, old high school buddies with whom he will relive cherished moments from his youth. Among these moments is one that stands out in particular. It is not a happy memory, yet it is one that Richkas cannot forget. Nor does he seem capable of letting anyone else forget it.
Nicky Santuro also 45, grew up down the street from Richkas in the suburbs on the west side of East St.Louis, IL. They attended the same elementary, middle and high school and were close, though not best, friends. Santuro has since moved away to Montreal, Canada but returns to East St.Louis, IL. area every winter to spend the holidays with his family. Santuro recalls that for the last 12 years, Richkas has not once failed to recount, in great detail, how in the tenth grade, Ms. Ackers gave Richkas a “C” in Geometry, despite his “totally deserving a B.”
“Every year it’s the same thing,” says Santuro. "Anthony will be totally fun and awesome, but man, around beer number six or seven, he’ll get this look on his face and you just know you’re in for it.” The “it” that Santuro speaks of consists of a 45 minute average rant about what a bitch Ms. Ackers is and how she “totally had it out for him from day one.” Richkas will recount how he consistently received B’s on all his tests and turned in “most of his homework on time.” Yet, despite this evidence of obviously deserving a “B” in Geometry, Ackers gave Richkas a “C.”
Another long time friend of Richkas, Hank Webber concurs with Santuro “He does it every year at Billy C’s Christmas Party. He’ll start drinking and we’ll all be talking about high school and the stupid stuff we used to do and then Chuckie will say ‘Hey, who remembers Ackers?’ or something like that. Then he won’t shut up for like a hour about this teacher and how she screwed him over. It was funny the first few years but man, it’s been like ten years now, you think he could just drop it already.” Hank Webber is considering not attending the local holiday parties this year and says his decision is greatly influenced by Richkas.
Richkas left East St.Louis directly after high school and attended Cannabis School for four years, recieving his Bachelor’s Degree in "grass growing" He then moved back to East St.Louis, IL into an apartment he made out of a cardboard box that he put above his parent’s trailer and has lived there ever since. He works at a local crack dealer know as "Crack king Curtis" as a collector and has a nice 1975 Pinto and a 57 year old hooker/girlfriend of two years. When asked how the notorious “Crack king Curtis” has impacted his life, Richkas shakes his head, pops open another Budweiser and says, “I got a B on every goddamn test! How do like 10 B’s equal a C? It doesn’t make sense!”
East St.Louis, IL - As the Christmas season approaches, local man Anthony Richkas, 45 has begun to attend holiday parties thrown and attended by old friends. He has started to see, as he does every year, old high school buddies with whom he will relive cherished moments from his youth. Among these moments is one that stands out in particular. It is not a happy memory, yet it is one that Richkas cannot forget. Nor does he seem capable of letting anyone else forget it.
Nicky Santuro also 45, grew up down the street from Richkas in the suburbs on the west side of East St.Louis, IL. They attended the same elementary, middle and high school and were close, though not best, friends. Santuro has since moved away to Montreal, Canada but returns to East St.Louis, IL. area every winter to spend the holidays with his family. Santuro recalls that for the last 12 years, Richkas has not once failed to recount, in great detail, how in the tenth grade, Ms. Ackers gave Richkas a “C” in Geometry, despite his “totally deserving a B.”
“Every year it’s the same thing,” says Santuro. "Anthony will be totally fun and awesome, but man, around beer number six or seven, he’ll get this look on his face and you just know you’re in for it.” The “it” that Santuro speaks of consists of a 45 minute average rant about what a bitch Ms. Ackers is and how she “totally had it out for him from day one.” Richkas will recount how he consistently received B’s on all his tests and turned in “most of his homework on time.” Yet, despite this evidence of obviously deserving a “B” in Geometry, Ackers gave Richkas a “C.”
Another long time friend of Richkas, Hank Webber concurs with Santuro “He does it every year at Billy C’s Christmas Party. He’ll start drinking and we’ll all be talking about high school and the stupid stuff we used to do and then Chuckie will say ‘Hey, who remembers Ackers?’ or something like that. Then he won’t shut up for like a hour about this teacher and how she screwed him over. It was funny the first few years but man, it’s been like ten years now, you think he could just drop it already.” Hank Webber is considering not attending the local holiday parties this year and says his decision is greatly influenced by Richkas.
Richkas left East St.Louis directly after high school and attended Cannabis School for four years, recieving his Bachelor’s Degree in "grass growing" He then moved back to East St.Louis, IL into an apartment he made out of a cardboard box that he put above his parent’s trailer and has lived there ever since. He works at a local crack dealer know as "Crack king Curtis" as a collector and has a nice 1975 Pinto and a 57 year old hooker/girlfriend of two years. When asked how the notorious “Crack king Curtis” has impacted his life, Richkas shakes his head, pops open another Budweiser and says, “I got a B on every goddamn test! How do like 10 B’s equal a C? It doesn’t make sense!”
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