The above poster is glamorizing the profession a bit. The life of a hitman is marked by lonliness; the travel can be hectic and wearisome; there's always the problem of establishing trusted contacts.
It's not about rigging car bombs or sniping the mark from 1000 ft out. You're more likely to stab the target to death and make it look like a robbery gone wrong. If the cops are looking for an "assassin" or the papers mention a "professional hit," there's usually a good chance that your flashiness will get you caught. You're in trouble if major police departments decide to begin mobilizing their superior resources.
What's the best thing about being a hitman? That's easy. *Telling people you're a hitman* (especially in the States). In America more than anywhere else others are more likely to ask "what you do for living" near the beginning of a conversation. I look such a person straight in the eye and, with a puckish grin slowly creeping across my face, answer: "Contract Killer." They ALWAYS laugh(!), sometimes slapping my shoulder. This only causes me to laugh, and not in a normal way. It's a sort of caricature -- a mischevious, affected, Conan O'Brien type laugh.
In fact, heh, reminicising, I recall how I once had this girlfriend who would joke about it from time to time. "Where were you?" She would ask. "Out knocking off witnessness for some South American drug-lord? I trust you'll be back in time for dinner." She thought I worked for the government as an intelligence agent or law enforcement or something; but we would always joke and laugh about my secrecy. Hah! I can certainly tell you that in her last living moments she didn't find it the least bit funny! LOL
Now when girlfriends ask about past relationships I say, "Oh, you don't want to know!" And it's just like telling someone I'm a hitman. They laugh, and then I laugh. Man-O-man.
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qofreason
16 years ago
Wow. I'd fix some of the sentences, but I'm struck by how true it is today.
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