Fiery Tempers Erupt!

My almost forty year-old, gay Puerto Rican roommate and his almost forty year-old friend (the basement-dwelling son of my Puerto-Rican landlord) got into a physical confrontation over some cardboard decorations for their PSP's!

Now these two have known each other for a while, my roommate has been a long-time renter and is considered part of the landlord's family. The mother is always preparing nightly plates of beans and rice or whatever it is she cooks for him. The son and him are very competitive about who has the best this or that. If one has a new doo-dad or pollywog, the other has to immediately go to Circuit City and get an even better updated version of that doo-dad or pollywog.

I was in the kitchen making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when I heard the commotion - louder than the usual daily commotion! From what I heard later on from my roommate (yep, I'm now a stinking, dirty gossip), the friend wanted to borrow some dinky application for the cover of his PSP to impress his lady-date for the night, but my roommate didn't want to lend it to him. So one hits the other, then someone gets hit in the noggin with a laptop computer and then finally a suckerpunch is thrown and my roommate now has the shiner the size of a piece of my mother's meatloaf - wow! It's all hush-hush because the landlord's son is on parole and they don't want him to go back to jail! (Shhhhhhh!!!!!)

Drama in the house!