After last night People are not my favorite people.

[Bennyboy]

What a weird freaking night.

Went to my fvorite watering hole. Sat at my usual spot at the bar. Friends next to me on both sides. A few margaritas, some chips, good times.

My friends to my left leave.

Some guy, about 5 foot nothing, comes in the bar. I try to vibe him away from me, he is wearing a toupee, a sport coat (it's 90), has chains and jewelry on (READ:REPUBLICAN), and I can tell he is someone I don't want to have to talk too.

He sits right next to me. Orders a Tall Dos XX and then he pulls out his cell phone. Then proceeds to have the single most inane phone conversation in the history of phone conversations. He talks about his fake hair, how he had the grey died out of his real (and assuming) sparse factory intalled hair. He talks about how he goes to anger management and how he is always getting into fights. he talks about being dumped by some chick, someone else owes him 22 thousand dollars et. STUPID STUFF.
I cannot get awy from the guys conversation, it is like plugged right into my brain, he is so close it dominates my world.

And yes you coudl say "Why don't I just move"/ Well FUCK THAT. My bar, my stool, my corner etc. I am not the rude one here (at least not yet).

While he is going on my dinner comes. I still have my friend on the right buy the dude on the phone is dominating the area. Blah blah blah. On and on. I sit there, eat my multi item combo meal and the entire time the guy is on teh phone. "I have a date from match.com" and "I can't keep a woman" etc. Ad naseum.

I tired to make a motion to him to put the phone away, but the guy is ignoring me. I make the throat slitting motion. I give him THE LOOK. NOTHING. Finally, I am like 'Dude take it you office", again he ignores me. 40 minutes. He finishes his beer and, without hanging up, orders another one.

By now, I am just slightly pissed off. This guy has ruined my evening (or so I thought)and certainly my mood. Not to mention the entire time I was dining,I was seething and all I could think about was shoving that cell phone up his ass.

I can't stand it anymore. So I let the guy have it. I tell him how rude he is being etc. "Got that toupee where? "How is Shannon" (the girl that dumped him), "how are those lifts working out for you" "Can't wait to gon Match.com and see how your date worked out". The guy, to his credit, just keeps talking. like nothing else is happening.

I pay up, so I can get the hell away from this guy (I would have stayed but for the guy) and went to my friends house.(where the story will continue)

[Bennyboy]

1. So I get to my friends house (6:30 PM)

And knock on the door. His roomate/ex girlfriend answers. She looks horrible. booze breath, like she has been on a multi day run of powdered drugs. "is Dave here?" I ask. She says yeah he is here and goes and knocks on his door. Out he comes and he looks worse than she does. "I was about to crash, I have been drinking whisky since 8 in the morning" he tells me. I am like "It's okay, see ya later"....The truth is this kind of scared me. I have never had a drink at 8AM in my lifetime.

Dave used to be cool, but since he moved this woman in his house, he has been getting as crazy as she is. She sent him to prison for two years a few years ago too, the last time he helped her. Now she is in the house, has taken over the house and Dave's soul. He never used to be like this but around her, she just dominates him. She steals his money, steals everything. For the last couple of months, Dave has moved everything of value out of the living room, dining room and now ensconses himself in his bedroom with a big lock on it to keep her out. Sad really. he can't stand her, but can't get rid of her either.

So as I was leaving the bare living room (no stereo, no TV, computer) I was thinking to myself that this would be the last time I see my friend for a long time (or perhaps ever). All of his friends see the disaster train smoking down the tracks and there ain't a thing any of us can do about it.

So after all this I go to my favorite music bar to see the blues (and the blues is exactly right)

[Bennyboy]

2. I get to the bar and....

Order a beer (Fat Tire, all they got) and sit at the bar. I know a ton of people here so everything is going great. This guy whom I have met before, but not talked to much, jumps in our conversation. the convo slowly turns to marijuana legalization. Everyone in the conversation agrees, it should be legalized. This big guy, the one from above, tells me he's dying to get loaded. I tell him I don't have any stash, but I offfer him a cookie. (if find that eating it is better for me, cuts down on use,and is MUCH less expensive). He thanks me and buys me a beer. We are now the best of friends.

After the music starts, I go outside to hang with the smokers and all, and this guy is out there. He is calling Obama Nigger, is telling evryone about Obama being a socialist, and how Obama is taking torture away as a tool of war etc. I correct him by saying that actually Obama is kind of pissing us off on the left due his capitualting to the Bush regime on torture. Again with the Nigger comment.

Now this is a guy that twenty minutes before, I found out is a HUGE Dylan freak. knows all the word to every song, even the newest release. He digs the Dead, Dylan,CSNY etc... and all these lefty bands. To say that I was surprised to hear him drop the N word and have this type of opinion was mindblowing really.

After I correct him on the torture thing he is pretty sweet, Buys me another beer and we are all good. I go back to listen to the music, a guy named Daniel Castro (used to be Danny but....). He is out of SF and is one hot ass player on the guitar. great band too, keys...lots of fun.

Towards the end of his set, he says "Now we are going to play like the Grateful Dead' then goes into a kind of spacey jam. Not much really. Then he goes on to diss the Dead and then tells THE Grateful Dead joke (What does a deadhead say when the drugs wear off....The music sucks).
Well ths kind of pisses me off. For one competition is not cool in music. I am a dead head and I am listeneing to someone that has obvious disdain for the Dead, but also has no jokes newer than 20 years old. I have seen one hell of a lot of music, but this is the first time I ever heard one band diss on another band from the stage. I thought music was so NOT THIS myself that I was offended.

This is also why you very seldom hear the phrase "Musician slash comedian".

I decided to leave and remebered that last week I saw The Dead sell out Shoreline ampitheater two nights and this guy is in a bar playing for 43 people. Not much room to talk I think. Not to mention how much money the dead have given blues artists in the Bay Area over the years.

So I am walking out to my car and here comes this big 4 wheeld drive truck. Screaming straight at me. He is gunning right for me. I jump out of the way and the big guy starts screaming at me 'Here's you liberal Shit man, fuck you nigger lover" and all this vile shit and he throws a half eaten cookie at me and burns rubber leaving the lot. I was terrified. 1/2 hour before, he is my best bud and now he is flipping out and trying to run me over. And that cookie could not have been that strong if he only ate half of it. my Mom ate one the other day and she did not even know they were ganja style.

\So that is my Friday night.


Party like it's 1999!

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. All I did was bake some bread, a rhubarb crisp, and play World of Warcraft.

But then, I'm pretty boring.

Hell of a night you had!

Toupee guy - should have just punched him. Probably just a car salesman, anyway.

[old mark]

4. Bb: I was you, .....

I'd fucking stay home and lock the doors.


Now that I think of it, that's what I do anyway....


Better days ahead.
:shrug:

mark

[Bennyboy]

7. Nah....

Fuck em if they can't take a joke.

[cwydro]

6. I had a glass of wine at home.

And was in bed by 9:30. Sounds like too much excitement for one night!

[UndertheOcean]

5. dude .... that is why I hate hanging out in bars , and prefer nonfranchise coffeeshops

they serve alcohol too , no need to have to deal with the riff-raff

[Bennyboy]

8. I am still pissed off!!!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

[Tobin S.]

9. Let it go, Benny

There's nothing you could do about it Friday and there's nothing you can do about it now.

[worstexever]

15. A suggestion....

Don't hang out in Folsom and you won't run into so many a$$hole Republicans.

[Skittles]

10. you want I should kick your ass, Bennyboy

to teach you how to kick inane toupeed repuke ass?

[LostinVA]

11. What did the Condo Association say?

[Captain Hilts]

12. This is why you ALWAYS carry a newspaper to a bar with you. nt

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. Poor honey .............

You obviously wandered into the Asshole Convention. Didn't you know it was this weekend?

Your friend Dave needs help. That's an awful situation. Why can't he get her out of his house?

I feel so bad for you, running into such pigs.

This is why I try never to go outside. They're out there ..........................

[regnaD kciN]

14. In the words of Linus from "Peanuts"...

..."I love mankind. It's people I can't stand!" ;-)