Archive for November 28th, 2007

2007.11.28

No Time for Scott

Scott and I made plans to hang out tonight. Drink a bottle of wine, maybe watch a movie, shoot the shit, and simply relax. I was a bit worried about getting home on time tonight as I got a little carried away practicing ping pong. Since I won my match in the first round at our work tournament I decided to get a little better for the second round. The thing is that I get carried away when practicing and I didn’t notice the time.

Still, I got to my place before Scott, parked the motorcycle in the garage (I have to come up with a name for the motorcycle!) and settled in. Scott showed up, we cracked open a bottle of red wine (2005 Bogle old vine Zin), started talking about the weirdness of management and…

*ring*

His phone rings. It’s his girlfriend. She has managed to run out of gas driving home. Who runs out of gas? Doesn’t the little light come on saying, “Yo, you need to feed me juicy petrol or I go on strike.” I think the French know something about strikes. Her engine must be French. Anyways, I went on about how I’d never run out of gas but then I remembered I had. About 17 years ago.

I told Scott he should go rescue his damsel in distress. As he is my friend then I will forgive him leaving. It means more wine for me, after all. If he hadn’t gone,though, then his girlfriend would not have been very forgiving. Hey, I’m just trying to save his relationship!

No time for Scott. An entire evening of red wine. Oh hey look, my sister just got on IM. Someone to tease…