As I’ve gotten older, I find myself hanging out with friends from work less and less. This is partly because I’ve been able to develop social networks outside of work, and partly because I just don’t know as many folks at work as I used to. Last night, however, I went out with a bunch of old work friends (well, three were old friends and one was someone just along for the ride) for drinks and dinner after work. Of course, all of these friends were women, so I got to look like the total player walking into the dining room flanked by four hot chicks. Sure, they are like my sisters, but nobody there knew that. I felt the eyes of all the men in the room looking at me, thinking to themselves "Wow, he's either a total stud or those are escorts. Still, with those devilishly good looks it must be the former...". To a certain extent, I now understand what Hef feels like when he walks into the Grotto, only I wasn’t wearing a bathrobe and only two out of the four were blonde.
Dinner was so much fun, one of my friends (T.Ro) and the newbie (F.Da) are from Southern California so I hadn’t seen T.Ro in years. We used to work together in Cleveland and became complete BMB’s (bad movie buddies). There was not a single crappy movie that was too bad for us not to at least check out a matinee – including timeless classics like She’s All That and Simply Irresistible*. Also along were P.De and M.Co who are locals that I hang out with on occasion when I want to feel like a grown-up**.
Needless to say, once we were seated we immediately became the rowdy table. Sure, our waitress (bless her soul) told us we weren’t the rowdy table when I asked, but we all knew that we were. Particularly as we drank more and the stories became louder and louder and more frequently involved high school boys and not remembering entire weekends. Myself, not having any stories involving the former and only two stories involving the latter, contented myself with listening in stunned amazement and provoking T.Ro into fits of giggling. And we wrapped up about 10:00, so I still managed to get a decent amount of sleep!
So much fun! Thanks ladies, even though you probably don’t read this!
*Which is actually quite easy to resist, in retrospect.
** P.De is good at finding cool new restaurants and makes wickedly good homemade desserts which she usually brings to dinner parties.
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