doodledee

I had an interesting conversation the other day on the merits of having your own personal posse. I can't honestly say that I've ever even considered the idea of having a posse, but I also can't say that I necessarily object to it outright. After all, it's gotta be kinda fun "roll with" a bunch of your buddies when you're "kicking it" at "da club" or maybe at "Target" or "Byerly's". The downside would of course be that having a group of hanger-ons mooching stuff off you and generally basking in your greatness probably gets old after a while. Especially when you don't really like people. Ok, that's not totally fair, I just don't like the dumb ones, but seriously, who wants a smart posse?

And then there's the difference between a 'posse' and an 'entourage', something so subtle as to be nearly impossible to define, but I know it when I see it. In my opinion the key to maintaining posse status is that the group must be able to ride around in a single vehicle, whereas an entourage requires at least two. That pretty much mandates that a posse can't exceed 3 other people, because even posse members don't like riding three-up in the back seat. (Sure it's cozy, but come on, you're in a posse.) And while I suppose you could get a minivan or something, who wants to cruise around town with their posse in a minivan? Talk about a stupid posse. And don't even get me started on a SOOV posse. Double stupes.

So an entourage is like a multi-car posse, only a lot less fun. The way I see it, once you upgrade to an entourage, everything gets more complicated. More names to remember, more backstabbing entourage politics, more putting up with dumb people. And remember those easy going dinners for 4 you used to have with your posse? Well, now it's dinner for 12, and you just know that none of the good ethnic places have seating for 12, so plan on spending a lot of time downing salad and breadsticks over at the Olive Garden. Have fun with that, then.