First off I would like to apologize to all of the people who were not able to come to the big in japan show on sunday. I was down there @ the goodlove bar answering the phone and it seemed like every call was from someone asking if the show was all ages. I felt really bad saying that it wasn't.
Second, I would like to thank everyone who was able to attend. We really appreciate it.
Well its been a little aver two weeks with not a drop of alcohol and man, having to hang out in a bar on sunday and not drink was bo-oring!! I already can't drink caffeine, I don't smoke, - find no solace in taking drugs so take alcohol out of the equation and you have someone who runs a lot, drinks a fair amount of decaf coffee add the first season of Battlestar Galactica and the only thing missing is me owning a comic book store and one of those bald guy poytails.......- yup pretty lame. I have been quite the recluse lately. Sometimes it seems life dictates a time out. This is one of those times. The only thing that was out of the ordinary this week was an incident that happened last weekend @ work. This extremely overweight woman and her semi toothless husband with an american bald eagle hand painted on the back of his jacket ( cue john ashcroft for the song) Ordered pounds of food, and ate so messily that their table looked like a food hand grenade had been thrown ate them. After the...ahem war.....I came back to their table to take their plates and I felt like a medic poking through the rubble of the once great city to find survivors. The woman was panting like she had just run a marathon....or won a pie eating contest. Between gasps she motion with her hands that she wasn't done yet, she was just taking a break. Her husband just sat stoically still, swilling corona and later I discovered that he was....flossing, at the table. I thoght I was going to throw up in my mouth. I was so nauseated that I was speechless.
Later, I was making coffee and I heard this deep raspy death rattle cough. Me and the other male server, dave looked at each other with that "did you hear that look" and then it happened again...and again...now it was turning head at the bar and it showed no signs of stopping. As I went around the corner I found our friends and the poor woman looked like she was having a fit. Jesus Christ, I thought, that womans going to die if I donlt give her
some water. When I dropped it off, she was still trying to eat between coughs! It was like that scene in the Great Outdoors with the old 96'er. People @ the bar were horrified and the husband just sat there cooly chugging his Corona and staring at his wife like nothing was wrong. I wondered if he even cared that his wife was going through what looked like some kind of exorcism, her shaking hands couldn't steady her fork and her eyes were all welled up with tears feom the whooping cough as she tried to squeeze in that last bite. I wanted to go up side that mans
head. Instead I just kept the h20 coming. At one point I wondered if I should go over and fan her with the menu while she carried on with her culinary orgy. But I didn't.
I finally was able to clear their plates, that's when I discovered the dental floss.....I donlt know about you but if you want to not eat just think of used dental floss buried in a plate of half eaten roasted eggplant. Yup I havenlt been able to eat since.............well its 3:00, I have an hour before work so that means I can squeeze in one more battlestar galactica....later.....mike