A goofus often dedicates every minute of every
day to being a gangster or
something similar (and usually thinks other
people live the same way as them, or wants to be the same thing as them).
He/she spent his/her entire life trying to
pull the strings of other
people who were were too uptight to be in that life only gangsters knew. He/she was good enough at it, you wouldn't even
think he/she was ever a goofus.