"Do Not Touch Her!"

Oh Man, what a weekend. I had some people in town. One of which I've known for 12 years, the others were his college pals. Friday night started off pretty routinely, went to Kenmore and had some local beers. After that, the fun began. Normal T ride back here to the BHP. One of the greatest places on the Hill. My friend and I were ahead of the others and decided we would challenge two guys at a game of Foosball. We got destroyed. It was mostly my fault due to terrible defense and goal tending. So that was fifty cents down the drain. In fact it was only twenty five cents because I asked some girl on her phone if she had a quarter and she gave me one. Great gal. I didn't attempt to serve up any macaroni because she was on the phone and I was mentally preparing myself to dominate the Foosball table. (Serving macaroni is a phrase I like to use in place of macking on chicks.) So we lost as the rest of the crew showed up. Great timing. Nice guys we lost to. We shook hands and congratulated them on their triumphant victory. Some guy tried to console us by telling us that the team who had dominated us was pretty good. Thanks pal, I didn't realize that when they scored five goals in two minutes.
On to the next sport. I mentioned that we could play basketball in the back so we went. It was a big hit. We spent somewhere near twenty dollars on this game. It's fifty cents a person to play one game. We played a lot. There was this one guy who noticed the Cubs hat and it turns out he was from a place near home. He was phenomenal at this basketball game. I think we saw him miss once, maybe twice. I don't think his shot frequency could be matched by many. A ball would leave his hand before the last ball hit the net. Yes the net, I don't think this guy ever touched the rim. He was good. There were some other mentionable match ups. Two tie games were played. One by me, I went on to lose the tie breaker. Darn. My pal played against some girl who had a decent jump shot, but a good jump shot does not usually equal wins in this game. She was able to win however. She did this by playing defense. This is not a game for defense but she did and won. And that goes to show that defense wins championships. That pretty much was the culmination of the night. I also saw some of the biggest ass holes Conn has ever seen but I did not speak to them in college so why do it at a bar after college? Ah...bed time.
Saturday started in the afternoon. Took the guys on a stroll around town seeing most of the sights. We ended up at the local pub which is awesome. Had plenty of drinks there. We came back to my place to watch the beginning of the basketball games and drink some bears.
Here comes the funny. We had previously decided that Hong Kong was the destination of the night due to six dollar pitchers and TVs. We got there and the TVs were not on. The bartender was a woman who said they were trying something new. That was stupid so a couple people asked different bouncers. They said they lost their entertainment license for a few days. Wondering how you lose your license to have a TV on they asked how they managed that. The response was that they were selling chicken on the street. I assume it was to people in line. Stupid so we left after getting free shot glasses for being the only people to try some new coffee vodka.
On to An Tain. For more cheap beer and basketball. There is also dancing there on the main floor which is a huge plus in my book. So we get there and I ask the bouncer if they have the $1 Miller light deal and he says he doesn't know. I thought to myself that is a lie. It was. For some reason he would not tell us the price of a cup of miller light. Someone asked "Well how much is a beer. The dude said $4 bud lights. Not the answer we wanted. Then he asked if we would not pay the cover charge and turn around and walk away. We said yes and he still didn't give us a straight answer. We went in anyway and sure enough they had lots of Miller Light and it was cheap. Also, they had the games on. Too bad they were not great games. So after talking to some guy about the basketball, I went to the bathroom and decided I would try my hand at a little dancing. A danced a little and stopped and on my way back to my pals I started talking to some random girl about how good of a dancer I was. I told her "I can beat every guy in here in a dance contest except for him." I pointed to my friend who is a good dancer. She didn't believe me and I didn't care. I stopped talking to her, took a little break and started to dance again. Now I wasn't dancing all over girls and I certainly wasn't being a creep. But all of a sudden this dude comes up to me and tells me I'm not aloud do dance with a certain girl. I said "Whatever, I'm just dancing." For some reason he started to get angry. Maybe because he was really insecure about himself and he was intimidated by a guy dancing with his girlfriend who wasn't even close to her and never even thought about dancing with her. I continued to blow him off and he continued to get angrier about it. He said "You can dance with whoever but don't touch her." as he pointed to some girl. I said fine and attempted to dance some more. He said something again and wouldn't give it up. I thought about asking him to dance and see if he in fact wanted to dance with me but I'm sure that would have enraged him further. So then his friend came over and talked to me. And as far as I can remember, he was a reasonable guy and was on my side. My friend came over because we were going to leave and the first guy tried to push through him to get back to me again. What an idiot. So we left and went to get some pizza. And that pretty much ended the night. And that ends this. Let's go Cubs!

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They are all married and two are dads. Wow! Hanson rocks. I love Jeopardy. Too bad it comes on after I have to leave for trivia. This week in trivia there was a bit of a negative nancy on our team. She was also your typical arrogant Bostonian. Kind of brought the mood down a little but oh well. There is nothing you can do about that.
Anywho, a funny thing happened on my was home from trivia. Just as I left my team I was going to attempt to jump a thing sticking out of the ground. I ran up to it and I, as a horse would do, refused the jump. I made a split second decision based on the conditions. That's not the funny part. So I walked towards my appartment and, in a construction site, came to a street I needed to cross. I noticed that I had a great opportunity to cross due to the lack of vehicles. What I didn't notice was the chain just above ankle height. So as I started to pick up my pace to cross the street I hit the chain. I went down. It wasn't your normal trip though. It was if a rug had been pulled out from under me. My feet were swept away. As I caught myself I exclaimed, "Oh man!" I ended the fall in the lowered pushup position with my face looking towards the non-existant on-coming traffic. So I did a little push up, stood up, and kept walking. The really funny part is that I passed a relatively attractive young lady who was on her phone just before doing this. I think it goes without saying that I didn't look back after I got up. I laughed the rest of the way home. Good times. Face plant averted.