So as some readers may or may not have notcied (depending on who gives a shit about my rants), I took the weekend off…I’d like to say it was because I was living it up on some tropical island or partying on a cruise or even working to make some extra dough…But no, I was celebrating the deaths of our war heroes like most hot fat Americans: eating way too many burgers, chicken and steak tips and drinking myself into a stooper that lasted from friday though tuesday morning…And ofcourse, some interesting stuff occured
Friday I went to a local bar…The kind of bar where everybody knows my name…Whether they were glad I came or not, I don’t know and I don’t care…Cheap booze + bad kareoke + crazy-ass drunks = a big smile on the Angry Fat Guy’s fat face…I know pretty much everyone in this bar either by name or face or even what they drink (I call one gal peppermint shnapps Patty), but friday there was a weirdo who I had never seen before…He was sitting by himself at on end of the bar with his face buried deep into a kareoke selection catalog…It was an empty part of the bar and very bartender-accesible…I was at the bar with my girlfriend and a friend of hers and normally I’d send one of them up to get the drinks (they fly I buy, a rule ALL hot fat guys should live by), but I didn’t want them to have to talk to this nut bag…Good call on my part as this guy turned out to be seven shades of crazy
I order the drinks, and he never even looked up out of the catalog but mumbled “Hey guy, you play poker?” …I do, and I told him that…”I play poker six nights a week, and I’m great at skeeball, I bet you are too” my new shady friend said…Random, but the fact is, I am very good at skeeball…So now, I’m thinking I might somehow know this guy when finally he looks, tells me his name and says “What do you drink Jack and diets?”.. I DO! But I had ordered three vodka and cranberrys because it was easier to say and I’ll drink anything, but Jack and diets are infact my drink of choice.
“Do I know you dude?” I finally asked…He said not unless I used to live in Jersey because he’s lived there his whole life and is only in the Boston area for a wedding…Now is a good time to tell you that he was wearing a Nomar Garciaparra Red Sox jersey…Nomah hasn’t played here since the middle of the ‘04 season…Now, enough time has passed that if a Sox fan wore that shirt to a bar it possibly could be considered funny, but mostly any Sox fan who still owns that shirt would probably only wear it out if he lost a bet…Plus, keep in mind this dude says he’s from New Jersey (no accent by the way, he sounded more southern, but whatever…Also, he never looked me in the eye at all when he spoke to me…He had that crazy look to the side of me thing going on)
So when the bartender comes back, she asks where my girlfriend is…I was just about to point her out when crazy Jersey guy blurts out “Blonde girl with pink streaks wearing the hoodie at the table by the door”…Whoa! I had walked in with her, scoped out the scene, asked her what she wanted to drink and went straight to the bar…Crazy Nomar fan never looked up until way after that and it would have been very balsy for him to assume she was my girlfriend with no pryor knowledge of it…Now I was a little nervous…The bartender, who knows my girlfriend pretty good, shot me a look as if to say “this guy’s nuttier than a three-balled squirel” and I shot a look back that said “I think this guy might be stalking me, he’s creeping me out” and then I actually said “Dude, you’re creeping me the fuck out” to which he responded “what’s up with your girl’s friend, she’s kinda cute”
Luckily, cuckoo for cocoa puffs sang a bad version of Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive,” was promptly shut off and walked out by some of the regulars who also happen to beat people up for a fun…He walked around the parking lot like a zombie walking on broken glass until his cab showed up…Hopefully, I will never see him again
Saturday was a quiet day…Went to a BBQ, played some bad backyard games and watched my buddy fight with his wife…Oh, I raced and beat a girl in a chug contest…We chugged hard iced tea, so it was hardly fair…Basically it was like me hydrating after drinking a bunch of beers…And the fact that I beat a girl is irrelevant beacuse she challenged me…You don’t ask to ride the bull if you’re gonna cry when you get thrown off, honey…The highlight of my weekend though was that I ate about 2 lbs of boneless buffalo chicken from Windy City Pizza in Dorchester, MA…If you’re in the neighborhood, try them! www.windypizza.com
Sunday I took it easy…I had to buy another AC because mine happened to break saturday night and hot fat guys cannot, I repeat cannot live with air conditioners in our bedrooms…I watched a few movies and my girlfriend brought me home some Indian food for dinner…I found out something about myself sunday and it’s that I love Indian food…It is awesome…I don’t know where she got it from or I’d give that website too.
Monday was by far the pinnacle of my weekend for eating…I went to a cookout that had literally a ton of food…I mean like tables upon tables of meat…Plus I knew the dude grilling, so I got to taste whatever I wanted before he put it out…But before I got there, I got stuck behind an absolutle moron on a rotary…This douche was literally stopped in a rotary…Anybody who has ever driven in a rotary knows that you don’t just stop…If you’re not sure what exit you want to take to leave the rotary, then you simply keep circling the rotary until you figure it out…Don’t believe me? Just watch National Lampoon’s European vacation…Clark Griswold will show you how it’s done.
Anyway, this dope is completely stopped in the middle of the rotary…She’s also blocking an entrance to the rotary and more importantly, she’s blocking ME from going to where I need to be and that’s a place that has free food and booze…So I honked at her…And I never honk…I usually scream at my windshield until I get dizzy or until the person I’m screaming at turns to me, and then I dlip them off and punch the roof of my car…BUT, being that I needed this waste of oxygen to move her car, I honked…She responded by shrugging her shoulders at me…WTF? She single handedly has caused a traffic jam, and already stolen three minutes from my life and she shrugs as if to say “hmm, look at the mess I’ve caused” like it’s a friggin sit-com…Cue the wacky music and credits because this situation will have to wait until next week to be resloved…Wacka, wacka
When I finally got enough room to squeeze by her, she was still not moving at all and on her cell phone laughing…Silly me, I didn’t realize it was comedy hour on this rotary, I thought it was don’t be an asshole in the middle of the rotary hour…I hate people who either don’t know the rules of driving, or who know the rules but choose not to abide by them because they think they are more important than anyone else on the road…Like stopping in the middle of traffic is perfectly acceptable if you’re lost…Seriously people, if you can’t handle the priveledge (it’s not a right) of driving then stay home…Or talk public transportation…Or kill yourself…just leave the driving to the people who won’t cause other people to pull their hair out
I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day and accompanying weekend
Thanks,
The Angry Fat Guy