At the very beginning of the video, he mentions that he broke 'her rule' by being violent. Most couples don't have a 'rule' to not be violent towards one or another as it is an unspoken agreement that you shouldn't be violent to each other. The fact that there was a rule implies there were prior incidents of violence.
This. SO much this.
And that's always the area that I personally would have wanted to know the background behind, especially because when we saw those older videos, the ones I'd never seen before that were posted a few months back, their interactions seem to be very jovial and light-hearted, and they really seemed to share the same sense of humor.
Of course every couple has their ups and downs, but I wonder what provoked the incidents of violence that made Suzanne stipulate such a rule.
Were they women-related? Had the creeping tendrils of this terrible idea about romanticizing young women started to wend their way into Lucas's brain, even before the glass throwing incident at the bar?
We don't really know too much, I don't think, about Lucas's capacity for violence related to other subjects.
He certainly doesn't like to be disagreed with, and if subjects are brought up which he can't counter, it seems his immediate strategy is either to claim it was all a joke, or loudly protest that the world needs to overlook his transgressions and forgive them, ubiquitously immortalized in the bellows of "MOVE ON!!!" which you were yourself privy to, innit?
As regards his claims that the glass-throwing could be laid at the feet of some alleged over-caffeinization, I had always read his version of events as blaming the SUGAR in the pop, not the caffeine... which is even stupider, if you think about it, suggesting that 400+ pound Lucas is akin to some mischievous kid with a propeller-beanie, high on pixie stix and terrorizing his sister with his slingshot.
Most emphatically no. And no to the caffeine-blame as well, obviously.
When thinking about why Suzanne gave Lucas the door, I usually transition to immediately pondering why his family made him persona non grata.
I think there are events in Lucas's past that are so horrible that they completely drowned out a mother's love and a father's sense of Duty, leading to the estrangement that is the current state of affairs. For some reason, other than this salacious wondering, I've imagined these to be sexual, perhaps even incestuous in nature? Didn't we get some information suggesting that Lucas was suddenly forbidden from babysitting his nieces? Or am I imagining things, and filling in the gaps?
Of course Lucas is always an everyday annoyance; there's just something about the way he expresses himself and the way he moves that combines extreme obnoxiousness with an arrogance of implied superiority, and it seems that most people are so struck by the contrast between this supercilious attitude and the reality of his nutter vagrancy that they're almost knocked off of their feet by an immediate desire to get away from him, or to point and laugh at the sheer concentrated insanity required to make a crazy bum act as if he's God's Gift.
Lucas is so consistently, relentlessly obnoxious, so thoroughly, violently aggravating, that any feelings of empathy or sympathy are immediately trampled by a wave of innate, almost primal revulsion.
Luckily, he's hilarious to us.
But I imagine his family has
seen some shit. I've often wondered, if one of his brothers were to come spill the deets on the farms, what stories he could tell...
