We all like to think our respective pledge classes are made up entirely of extremely cool, outrageously good looking brothers. However, you have to admit, that simply is not a possibility. No matter how much effort you put into recruiting new members, there will always be that one kid that slips through the cracks.
He could be a legacy whose father continuously bombarded your rush chair with calls, emails, text messages, etc. until you were guilt-tripped into handing his son a bid card. Or, he could just be a total freak who managed to make a really incredible first impression during the whirlwind that is fraternity recruitment.
Either way, you are stuck with the kid. You have little to no actual connection with him, but you feel forced to be his friend simply because you wear the same letters. He is the epitome of a conversation killer, and his social ineptitude makes him a burden to take out in public. However, for some odd reason, you feel obligated to invite him to hang out with you no matter what you do.
You and the rest of your pledge brothers put him through hell, but he still assumes you guys are all the best of friends. He has been kicked out of your pledge class group chat more times than you can count (assuming you guys are not so heartless as to kick him out permanently).
It makes you extremely angry when he is successful, and he just so happens to be one of those kids who is extremely successful at whatever he does.
Every time he manages to hook up with an attractive girl, you and your pledge brothers are in absolute disbelief. That girl will never be the same in your eyes. She drops a solid 3 points on a 1-10 scale.
You can hear his voice as he walks down the hall, and you consider locking your door to keep him away. After a week of knowing him, you have had enough of his terrible jokes and incessant bragging about meaningless things. He made sure everyone in the house knew his high score on Flappy Bird. You were pissed off his score was so much higher than yours.
He runs for an executive position, but receives no votes because he has no supporters in the house. Months later as your house is spiraling into turmoil, you wish you could go back and elect him because he clearly would have been the best person for the job. Immediately after you make that wish, you hit yourself for admitting a kid that sucks that much would be good at anything.
The worst part about that kid in your pledge class everyone hates is realizing that you are that kid in your pledge class everyone hates. After writing this, I have realized that kid and I are uncomfortably similar. If any of my pledge brothers are reading this, please put me back in the group chat.
