Have you ever been sitting outside and the mailman shows up with a package for you? It’s awesome because you weren’t expecting it, and you feel special. You feel awesome. You feel excited as the mailman delivers it, all pretty with a bow. And he sets it down right in front of you with a smile and a tip of his hat.
You pull the bow, but here’s what’s inside:
One of those little black bombs with a burning fuse at the end, like the kind you see in cartoons. You’re stunned. You run up to the mailman and say, “Dude, I don’t want this!” You try to give it back, but he just pushes it back to you, and so on and so forth, and during all that time the fuse is getting shorter and shorter. Finally he just drives away, and you’re standing there, holding this little bomb in your hand, just waiting for the boom.
That was me.
Andy Cooper was the boom.