How Many Adults Can You Fit In A Cab?
Unlike in Vancouver where drinkers chai-mui or play dice game, it seems that the drinking game of choice here is either beer pong or flip cup. Everywhere I go, that’s what they play. I went to my manager’s party this weekend and they had two long tables to play and 3 full-size beer kegs to ensure that we never ever have a dry cup. Someone brought 2 cases of Bud Light too. There were probably only about 40 people in attendance so it was going to be quite a challenge to get to the second keg. I felt that I was doing my part though because I was trying my damnedest to get through as many beers as possible. We carried on for about 5 hours when we decided to head out to Adams Morgan. I think getting there was absolutely nuts. My manager had a ‘regular’ cabbie that he called, and including the driver, we had 10 people in the car. I think I was the 9th person to get in, and I wasn’t even in the front. I was in the back with 5 other people. There was such a big pile of legs and bodies that I never caught a glimpse of the driver. The man was nuts.
Anyway, Adams Morgan is quite the party place. I had never been there at night, but the place was hoppin’. There were tonnes of people out and about. The street is lined with bars and jumbo slice joints. Our late night eatery of choice was the Amsterdam Falafelshop. It was hot and tasty and I suppose that the beer in my system may have enhanced my fondness for the food, but it sure hit the spot. We ended our night and we headed towards the Metro which was a good 10-15 min walk. Somewhere along the way, I realized I needed to go to the restroom. By the time I got to my Metro stop, the trolley had stopped running so I had to walk home, which was another 15 minutes. To put things into perspective, it was 9 hours since I started drinking and about an hour since I had last drained my bladder. So I had to go really badly and I refused to be one of those guys that peed against a wall/bush in the darkness of some quiet street. I don’t think I had ever been so close to peeing myself though. I made it though, barely.
Last weekend, I was at a friend’s place playing poker and we were in the middle of a break when we noticed a bug on the patio window. I volunteered to kill it so I took a piece of paper towel and caught it. I was ready to give it the squeeze of death and then the paper towel started to glow a neon green/yellow colour. If kinda freaked me out at first. Was I holding kryptonite or something? haha. Nope. It was a firefly. I figured out if I applied a little pressure to it, it would start to glow. Pretty cool. We decided not to kill it right away. We placed it in a zip lock bag and tormented it a little more. We couldn’t get it to glow much afterwards. I’m not sure what happened to it, but I’m sure Jon or Christine killed it after we left.
It was a little while ago when I was at Mackey’s when I noticed that Hazel Mae was on the tube. Hazel Mae used to be a sportscaster on Sportsnet and I hated her. She looked like some kind of thai hooker on TV and she was terrible at her job. I was surprised to see her still in the sports new business. Apparently she landed some job in New England as their lead anchor. Those suckers. Anyway, I thought I’d mention this for the guys since I know that the Sportsnet guys still make fun of her from time to time. I guess they didn’t like her either. What happend to Jody Vance? She was easy on the eyes AND good as a sportscaster.
Did anybody watch Fantastic Four this weekend? Did I make it on screen? hehe. Anyway, I don’t want to run this too long, so I’m signing off for now. Until next time.
